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Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Pay attention to my words, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me!

Now all the earth used the same language and the same words.

When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, saying, "This is what the man said to me," he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the LORD.

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, me as well, my father!"

Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent word and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, "Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth."

Now their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

Then his brothers said to him, "Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

Then she spoke to him with these words: "The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make fun of me;

Now when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," his anger burned.

"Send one of you and have him get your brother, while you remain confined, so that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, you are certainly spies!"

and bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified, and you will not die." And they did so.

So he overtook them and spoke these words to them.

And they said to him, "Why does my lord say such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

So he said, "Now let it indeed be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, but the rest of you shall be considered innocent."

So Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What words can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found."

"So it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of their father Jacob revived.

"Naphtali is a doe let loose; He utters beautiful words.