Look! You are driving me off the land<n id="1" /> today, and I must hide from your presence.<n id="2" /> I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.&#8221;

But the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;All right then,<n id="1" /> if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then the <sc>Lordsc> put a special mark<n id="3" /> on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> replied, &#8220;If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.&#8221;p>

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy<n id="1" /> the whole city because five are lacking?&#8221;<n id="2" /> He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Abraham<n id="1" /> spoke to him again,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What if forty are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not do it for the sake of the forty.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Abraham<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Finally Abraham<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.&#8221;p>

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest,<n id="1" /> with blindness. The men outside<n id="2" /> wore themselves out trying to find the door.

<p class="bodytext">That day Isaac&#8217;s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. &#8220;We&#8217;ve found water,&#8221; they reported.<n id="1" />

But Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How in the world<n id="1" /> did you find it so quickly,<n id="2" /> my son?&#8221; &#8220;Because the <sc>Lordsc> your God brought it to me,&#8221;<n id="3" /> he replied.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So Laban entered Jacob&#8217;s tent, and Leah&#8217;s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols.<n id="1" /> Then he left Leah&#8217;s tent and entered Rachel&#8217;s.<n id="2" />

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel&#8217;s saddle<n id="1" /> and sat on them.)<n id="2" /> Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.<n id="3" />

When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you?<n id="1" /> Set it here before my relatives and yours,<n id="2" /> and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!<n id="3" />p>

I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent<n id="1" /> this message<n id="2" /> to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Esau<n id="1" /> then asked, &#8220;What did you intend<n id="2" /> by sending all these herds to meet me?&#8221;<n id="3" /> Jacob<n id="4" /> replied, &#8220;To find favor in your sight, my lord.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Esau said, &#8220;Let me leave some of my men with you.&#8221;<n id="1" /> &#8220;Why do that?&#8221; Jacob replied.<n id="2" /> &#8220;My lord has already been kind enough to me.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Shechem said to Dinah&#8217;s<n id="1" /> father and brothers, &#8220;Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me<n id="2" /> I&#8217;ll give.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs<n id="1" /> in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).p>

The man said, &#8220;They left this area,<n id="1" /> for I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8221; So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.p>

Then they brought the special tunic to their father<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;We found this. Determine now whether it is your son&#8217;s tunic or not.&#8221;p>