The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die.

Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

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

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up,” for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come to him.

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”

So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.