To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them and give them rest, and I will once again console those who mourn.

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

“My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved wife as firstborn and give him the double portion of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power – to him should go the right of the firstborn.

They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, supplied him with a house and food and even assigned him some land.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

“God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.