In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied.

“Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He replied, “Here I am!”

Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham replied.

Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father?” “What is it, my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau replied.

Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.” “I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,