to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

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?”

I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are. I will speak about you to my father. When I find out what the problem is, I will let you know.”

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”

“If a young woman who is still living in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.

I will fasten him like a peg into a solid place; he will bring honor and respect to his father’s family.

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

“Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”