He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;My father, get up<n id="2" /> and eat some of your son&#8217;s wild game. Then you can bless me.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">When Esau heard<n id="1" /> his father&#8217;s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly.<n id="2" /> He said to his father, &#8220;Bless me too, my father!&#8221;

Esau said to his father, &#8220;Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!&#8221;<n id="1" /> Then Esau wept loudly.<n id="2" />p>

Ham, the father of Canaan,<n id="1" /> saw his father&#8217;s nakedness<n id="2" /> and told his two brothers who were outside.

Come, let&#8217;s make our father drunk with wine<n id="1" /> so we can have sexual relations<n id="2" /> with him and preserve<n id="3" /> our family line through our father.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He went to his father and said, &#8220;My father!&#8221; Isaac<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;Here I am. Which are you, my son?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">In this way both of Lot&#8217;s daughters became pregnant by their father.

<p class="bodytext">So that night they made their father drunk with wine,<n id="1" /> and the older daughter<n id="2" /> came and had sexual relations with her father.<n id="3" /> But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.<n id="4" />

Isaac said to his father Abraham,<n id="1" /> &#8220;My father?&#8221; &#8220;What is it,<n id="2" /> my son?&#8221; he replied. &#8220;Here is the fire and the wood,&#8221; Isaac said,<n id="3" /> &#8220;but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?&#8221;

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up<n id="1" /> all the wells that his father&#8217;s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.p>

When Jacob explained<n id="1" /> to Rachel that he was a relative of her father<n id="2" /> and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

There he said to them, &#8220;I can tell that your father&#8217;s attitude toward me has changed,<n id="1" /> but the God of my father has been with me.

May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor,<n id="1" /> the gods of their father, judge between us.&#8221; Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob prayed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O <sc>Lordsc>, you said<n id="2" /> to me, &#8216;Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.&#8217;<n id="3" />

We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father.<n id="1" /> One is no longer alive,<n id="2" /> and the youngest is with our father at this time<n id="3" /> in the land of Canaan.&#8217;p>

We said to my lord, &#8216;We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old.<n id="1" /> The boy&#8217;s<n id="2" /> brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother&#8217;s sons left,<n id="3" /> and his father loves him.&#8217;p>

We said to my lord, &#8216;The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father<n id="1" /> will die.&#8217;<n id="2" />

Indeed,<n id="1" /> your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, &#8216;If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.&#8217;p>

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn&#8217;t bear to see<n id="1" /> my father&#8217;s pain.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

So tell<n id="1" /> my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>