Genesis 43:28
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28 They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads and did obeisance.(A)
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Genesis 37:7
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7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright; then your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”(A)
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Genesis 43:26
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26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present that they had carried into the house and bowed to the ground before him.(A)
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2 Chronicles 24:17
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17 Now after the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king listened to them.
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1 Kings 1:16
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16 Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance to the king, and the king said, “What do you wish?”
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2 Samuel 14:4
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4 When the woman of Tekoa came[a] to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance and said, “Help, O king!”(A)
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2 Samuel 1:2
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2 On the third day, a man came from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance.(A)
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Exodus 18:7
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7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed down and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent.(A)
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Genesis 37:9-10
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9 He had another dream and told it to his brothers, saying, “Look, I have had another dream: 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 kind of dream is this that you have had? Shall we indeed come, I and your mother and your brothers, and bow to the ground before you?”(A)
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