²⁸ They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” And they ^(A)bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.

⁷ Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, ^(A)my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and ^(B)bowed down to my sheaf.”

²⁶ When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and ^(A)bowed down to him to the ground.

¹⁷ Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.

¹⁶ Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, “What do you desire?”

⁴ When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, ^(A)she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, ^(B)“Save me, O king.”

² And on the third day, behold, ^(A)a man came from Saul's camp, ^(B)with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, ^(C)he fell to the ground and paid homage.

⁷ Moses ^(A)went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and ^(B)kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

⁹ Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” ¹⁰ But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and ^(A)your mother and your brothers indeed come ^(B)to bow ourselves to the ground before you?”