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So from the ground Adonai , God, formed every wild animal and every bird that flies in the air, and he brought them to the person to see what he would call them. Whatever the person would call each living creature, that was to be its name.

(A: v, S: iv) Adonai , God, said, "See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, to prevent his putting out his hand and taking also from the tree of life, eating, and living forever — "

Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water had gone from the surface of the ground.

Shem and Yefet took a cloak, put it over both their shoulders, and, walking backward, went in and covered their naked father. Their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father lying there shamefully exposed.

Adonai came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

Adonai said, "Look, the people are united, they all have a single language, and see what they're starting to do! At this rate, nothing they set out to accomplish will be impossible for them!

so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,' and kill me but keep you alive.

All the land you see I will give to you and your descendants forever,

The men set out from there and looked over toward S'dom, and Avraham went with them to see them on their way.

that I will now go down and see whether their deeds warrant the outcry that has reached me; if not, I will know."

Yitz'chak spoke to Avraham his father: "My father?" He answered, "Here I am, my son." He said, "I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

Avraham called the place Adonai Yir'eh [ Adonai will see (to it), Adonai provides] — as it is said to this day, "On the mountain Adonai is seen."

Avraham said to him, "See to it that you don't bring my son back there.

They said, "We will call the girl and see what she says."

In the course of time, after Yitz'chak had grown old and his eyes dim, so that he couldn't see, he called ‘Esav his older son and said to him, "My son?" and he answered, "Here I am."

He approached and kissed him. Yitz'chak smelled his clothes and blessed Ya‘akov with these words: "See, my son smells like a field which Adonai has blessed.

Le'ah conceived and gave birth to a son, whom she named Re'uven [see, a son!], for she said, "It is because Adonai has seen how humiliated I have been, but now my husband will love me."

Then he set the rods he had peeled upright in the watering troughs, so that the animals would see them when they came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,

Whenever the hardier animals came into heat, Ya‘akov would set up the rods in the watering troughs; so that the animals would see them and conceive in front of them;

He said to them, "I see by the way your father looks that he feels differently toward me than before; but the God of my father has been with me.