You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father&#8217;s daughter or your mother&#8217;s daughter,<n id="1" /> whether she is born in the same household or born outside it;<n id="2" /> you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them.<n id="3" />

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans,<n id="1" /> while his father Terah was still alive.<n id="2" />

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives<n id="1" /> to find<n id="2" /> a wife for my son Isaac.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Jacob, &#8220;Return to the land of your fathers<n id="1" /> and to your relatives. I will be with you.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Any children that you father<n id="1" /> after them will be yours; they will be listed<n id="2" /> under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.<n id="3" />

You must not have sexual intercourse with the daughter of your father&#8217;s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have intercourse with her.<n id="1" />

But Hobab<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.&#8221;

<t /><p class="poetry">Now the <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="1" /> to Abram,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Go out<n id="3" /> from your country, your relatives, and your father&#8217;s householdp> <p class="poetry">to the land that I will show you.<n id="4" />p>

<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" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage,<n id="1" /> for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.<n id="2" />

For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Do not weep for the king who was killed.p> <p class="poetry">Do not grieve for him.p> <p class="poetry">But weep mournfully for the king who has gone into exile.p> <p class="poetry">For he will never return to see his native land again.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will make many stumble.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They will say, &#8216;Get up!p> <p class="poetry">Let&#8217;s go back to our own people.p> <p class="poetry">Let&#8217;s go back to our homelandsp> <p class="poetry">because the enemy is coming to destroy us.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

and say, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water;<n id="1" /> you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.<n id="2" />

wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians<n id="1" /> whose native land is Chaldea.

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of heaven, who took me from my father&#8217;s house and the land of my relatives,<n id="1" /> promised me with a solemn oath,<n id="2" /> &#8216;To your descendants I will give this land.&#8217; He will send his angel<n id="3" /> before you so that you may find<n id="4" /> a wife for my son from there.

I am the God of Bethel,<n id="1" /> where you anointed<n id="2" /> the sacred stone and made a vow to me.<n id="3" /> Now leave this land immediately<n id="4" /> and return to your native land.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">They replied, &#8220;The man questioned us<n id="1" /> thoroughly<n id="2" /> about ourselves and our family, saying, &#8216;Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?&#8217;<n id="3" /> So we answered him in this way.<n id="4" /> How could we possibly know<n id="5" /> that he would say,<n id="6" /> &#8216;Bring your brother down&#8217;?&#8221;p>

Boaz replied to her,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have been given a full report of<n id="2" /> all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband &#8211; how you left<n id="3" /> your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.<n id="4" />