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Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
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From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
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He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
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for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.
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He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
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Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
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Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
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Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
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Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
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Dinah and the Shechemites
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.
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They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
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Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite—
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The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,
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“Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
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Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.
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“When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”
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The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
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Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
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“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
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The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.
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Pharaoh said, “The Lord be with you—if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.
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Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”
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Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”
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On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
