Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.”

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.”

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.”

that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.”

As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,

but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”

My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,

but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.’

But he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.

Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.

Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.”

Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,

Jacob Sent to Laban

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.

Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”

Esau Marries an Ishmaelite

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,”

But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.”

Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.”

Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.”

“These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.

But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her.

Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years.

Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.

And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man.

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’

and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’

And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.