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Now the whole earth had the same language and the same words.

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

Then food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have spoken my words." And he said, "Speak!"

Now it happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before Yahweh.

As 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 also, O my father!"

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

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

Now their words seemed good in the sight of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

Then his brothers said to him, "Are you really 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, saying, "The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to laugh at me;

Now it happened that 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 that he may get your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."

and bring your youngest brother to me, so your words may be proven true, 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 speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.

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

Thus it happened that when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Yet they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and 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 gives beautiful words.

Then Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I have never been a man of words, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your slave; for I am one with a hard mouth and a hard tongue."