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Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
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So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
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Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
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The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”
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So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.
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The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
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Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.
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He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.
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As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.
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But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.
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She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.
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When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
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But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
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So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also. They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph.
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Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.
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The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
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Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside.
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“When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.
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“‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
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“‘No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; they are to be put to death.
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A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
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So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.
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Joshua to Succeed Moses
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites.
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“‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.
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“‘Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.
