Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt

46 So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to (A)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices (B)to the God of his father Isaac.

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42 (A)If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the (B)Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. (C)God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and (D)rebuked you last night.”

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13 And behold, (A)the Lord stood above it[a] and said, (B)“I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. (C)The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:13 Or beside him

Jacob's Dream

10 Jacob left (A)Beersheba and went toward (B)Haran.

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22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,[a] saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

23 From there he went up to Beersheba. 24 And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, (A)“I am the God of Abraham your father. (B)Fear not, for (C)I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.” 25 So he (D)built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 26:22 Rehoboth means broad places, or room

33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and (A)called there on the name of the Lord, (B)the Everlasting God.

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31 Therefore (A)that place was called Beersheba,[a] because there both of them swore an oath.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:31 Beersheba means well of seven or well of the oath

14 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of (A)Beersheba.

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Now therefore take (A)seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and (B)offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall (C)pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

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And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and (A)consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and (B)offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and (C)cursed[a] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:5 The Hebrew word bless is used euphemistically for curse in 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9

20 And all Israel (A)from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the Lord.

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and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,[a] because (A)there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:7 El-bethel means God of Bethel

Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God (A)who answers me in the day of my distress and (B)has been with me wherever I have gone.”

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20 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:20 El-Elohe-Israel means God, the God of Israel

53 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the (A)Fear of his father Isaac,

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13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

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From there he moved to the hill country on the east of (A)Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

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God's Covenant with Noah

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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and Abel also brought of (A)the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord (B)had regard for Abel and his offering,

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