The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

The man did just as Joseph said; he brought the men into Joseph’s house.

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

The warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care. He was in charge of whatever they were doing.

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, “Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan.

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house.

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.