And sons were also born to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father.

and Koz, who was the father of Anub, Hazzobebah, and the clans of Aharhel the son of Harum.

and Moza was the father of Binea. His son was Rephaiah, whose son was Eleasah, whose son was Azel.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

Shaharaim fathered sons in Moab after he divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

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.

but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.

the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)

So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.