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Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
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Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.
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Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
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Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land
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Then the man bowed down and worshiped the Lord,
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and I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.
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When Abraham’s servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.
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Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
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May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
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That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons.
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Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
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He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
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Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down.
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Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.
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We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
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Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
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When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
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Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
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When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.
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They replied, “Your servant our father is still alive and well.” And they bowed down, prostrating themselves before him.
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So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.
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Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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And to you I give one more ridge of land than to your brothers, the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
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“Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.
