Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

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?”

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

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

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

“Your servant our father is well,” they replied. “He is still alive.” They bowed down in humility.

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, “What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?”

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.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

Tamar was told, “Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”