My lover thrust his hand through the hole, and my feelings were stirred for him.

The sovereign master decreed judgment on Jacob, and it fell on Israel.

When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

He will extend his power against other lands; the land of Egypt will not escape.

So I will set Hazael’s house on fire; fire will consume Ben Hadad’s fortresses.

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

But he said to them, “Don’t detain me – the Lord has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.