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Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can't run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

But his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman."

Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours."

But Sarah saw the son mocking—the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be concerned about the boy and your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

But I will also make a nation of the slave's son because he is your offspring."

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the water well that Abimelech's servants had seized.

Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, "My father." And he replied, "Here I am, my son." Isaac said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He replied, "Here I am."

but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac."

If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don't let my son go back there."

A meal was set before him, but he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I have to say." So Laban said, "Please speak."

but will go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

But I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman will not come back with me?'

But her brother and mother said, "Let the girl stay with us for about 10 days. Then she can go."

But he responded to them, "Do not delay me, since the Lord has made my journey a success. Send me away so that I may go to my master."

And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the Lord .

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.