<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Be careful<n id="1" /> never to take my son back there!&#8221; Abraham told him.<n id="2" />

but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, &#8216;You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it,<n id="1" /> or else you will die.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

Then they said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens<n id="1" /> so that<n id="2" /> we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise<n id="3" /> we will be scattered<n id="4" /> across the face of the entire earth.&#8221;p>

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Be careful<n id="2" /> that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I left secretly because I was afraid!&#8221;<n id="1" /> Jacob replied to Laban. &#8220;I thought<n id="2" /> you might take your daughters away from me by force.<n id="3" />

Rescue me,<n id="1" /> I pray, from the hand<n id="2" /> of my brother Esau,<n id="3" /> for I am afraid he will come<n id="4" /> and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.<n id="5" />

Judah said, &#8220;Let her keep the things<n id="1" /> for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest.<n id="2" /> I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn&#8217;t find her.&#8221;p>

But Jacob did not send Joseph&#8217;s brother Benjamin with his brothers,<n id="1" /> for he said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What if some accident<n id="3" /> happens<n id="4" /> to him?&#8221;

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>

I will provide you with food<n id="1" /> there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor &#8211; you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.&#8221;&#8217;

And the <sc>Lordsc> God said, &#8220;Now<n id="1" /> that the man has become like one of us,<n id="2" /> knowing<n id="3" /> good and evil, he must not be allowed<n id="4" /> to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">At dawn<n id="1" /> the angels hurried Lot along, saying, &#8220;Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here,<n id="2" /> or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!&#8221;<n id="3" />

When they had brought them outside, they<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Run<n id="2" /> for your lives! Don&#8217;t look<n id="3" /> behind you or stop anywhere in the valley!<n id="4" /> Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!&#8221;p>

Your<n id="1" /> servant has found favor with you,<n id="2" /> and you have shown me great<n id="3" /> kindness<n id="4" /> by sparing<n id="5" /> my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because<n id="6" /> this disaster will overtake<n id="7" /> me and I&#8217;ll die.<n id="8" />

<p class="bodytext">When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, &#8220;She is my sister.&#8221;<n id="1" /> He was afraid to say, &#8220;She is my wife,&#8221; for he thought to himself,<n id="2" /> &#8220;The men of this place will kill me to get<n id="3" /> Rebekah because she is very beautiful.&#8221;p>

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, &#8220;She is really<n id="1" /> your wife! Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister&#8217;?&#8221; Isaac replied, &#8220;Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s house until Shelah my son grows up.&#8221; For he thought,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I don&#8217;t want him to die like his brothers.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Tamar went and lived in her father&#8217;s house.p>