When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.

Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.”

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”

When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments.

“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments –

“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

So Moses said to them, “Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

They said, “Has the Lord only spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard it.

Balaam uttered his oracle, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:

the oracle of the one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, although falling flat on the ground with eyes open: