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>

To his father he sent the following:<n id="1" /> ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father&#8217;s journey.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father&#8217;s household, according to the number of their little children.p>

Joseph said to his father, &#8220;Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.&#8221;p>

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If anyone<n id="2" /> curses his father and mother<n id="3" /> he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.<n id="4" />

If a man has sexual intercourse with his father&#8217;s wife, he has exposed his father&#8217;s nakedness.<n id="1" /> Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.<n id="2" />

Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession<n id="1" /> among the relatives<n id="2" /> of our father.&#8221;p>

&#8220;The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim.<n id="1" /> You must indeed<n id="2" /> give them possession of an inheritance among their father&#8217;s relatives, and you must transfer<n id="3" /> the inheritance of their father to them.