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Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
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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.”
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He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
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And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly.
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
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So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
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Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”
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So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
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Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”
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The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
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Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.
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Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go.”
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They said, “Let us call the young woman and ask her.”
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Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way.
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Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
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And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
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Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”
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And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father's house.
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He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—”
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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.
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And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her.”
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A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
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And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.’