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So he drove the man out, and he placed at the east of the garden of ‘Eden the k'ruvim and a flaming sword which turned in every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

So ‘Esav went to Yishma‘el and took, in addition to the wives he already had, Machalat the daughter of Yishma‘el Avraham's son, the sister of N'vayot, to be his wife. Haftarah Tol'dot: Mal'akhi (Malachi) 1:1–2:7 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Tol'dot: Romans 9:6–16; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:20; 12:14–17 Ya‘akov went out from Be'er-Sheva and traveled toward Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed the night there, because the sun had set. He took a stone from the place, put it under his head and lay down there to sleep. He dreamt that there before him was a ladder resting on the ground with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of Adonai were going up and down on it. Then suddenly Adonai was standing there next to him; and he said, "I am Adonai , the God of Avraham your [grand]father and the God of Yitz'chak. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth. You will expand to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. By you and your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed. Look, I am with you. I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back into this land, because I won't leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Ya‘akov awoke from his sleep and said, "Truly, Adonai is in this place — and I didn't know it!" Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!" Ya‘akov got up early in the morning, took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a standing-stone, poured olive oil on its top and named the place Beit-El [house of God]; but the town had originally been called Luz. Ya‘akov took this vow: "If God will be with me and will guard me on this road that I am traveling, giving me bread to eat and clothes to wear, so that I return to my father's house in peace, then Adonai will be my God; and this stone, which I have set up as a standing-stone, will be God's house; and of everything you give me, I will faithfully return one-tenth to you."

Look, I am with you. I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back into this land, because I won't leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Ya‘akov took this vow: "If God will be with me and will guard me on this road that I am traveling, giving me bread to eat and clothes to wear,

In Egypt the Midyanim sold Yosef to Potifar, one of Pharaoh's officials, a captain of the guard.

(v) Yosef was brought down to Egypt, and Potifar, an officer of Pharaoh's and captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Yishma‘elim who had brought him there.

So he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, in the same place where Yosef was kept.

The captain of the guard charged Yosef to be with them, and he became their attendant while they remained in prison.

Pharaoh was angry with his officials and put me in the prison of the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

There was with us a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guard; and we told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us — he interpreted each man's dream individually.

(vi) "I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.

They put him under guard until Adonai would tell them what to do.

Guard yourself against allowing your heart to entertain the mean-spirited thought that because the seventh year, the year of sh'mittah is at hand, you would be stingy toward your needy brother and not give him anything; for then he may cry out to Adonai against you, and it will be your sin.

"When you are in camp, at war with your enemies, you are to guard yourself against anything bad.

Y'hoshua said, "Roll big stones to the mouth of the cave, and put men there to guard them.

Gid‘on and the hundred men with him arrived at the edge of the camp a little before midnight, just after they had changed the guard. They blew the shofars and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

He will guard the steps of his faithful, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. For it is not by strength that a person prevails —

So the men of Kiryat-Ye‘arim came and brought back the ark of Adonai . They took it to the home of Avinadav on the hill and appointed his son El‘azar to guard the ark of Adonai .

David left his equipment in charge of the equipment guard, ran to the troops, went to his brothers and asked if they were well.

David answered Sha'ul, "Your servant used to guard his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear would come and grab a lamb from the flock,