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He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
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And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
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Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.” “Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”
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Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
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Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
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“My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
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Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
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Ephron answered Abraham,
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She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milkah bore to Nahor.”
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Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the Lord; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.
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and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
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Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
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So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
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They answered, “We saw clearly that the Lord was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you
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that you will do us no harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the Lord.”
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.
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He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
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His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
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Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
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His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.
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He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?” “Yes, we know him,” they answered.
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The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’
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Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
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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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The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
