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Chapter 19
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The two angels reached Sodom in the evening, as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to greet them; and bowing down with his face to the ground,
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and then went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away; for she said to herself, “I cannot watch the child die.” As she sat opposite him, she wept aloud.
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The man then knelt and bowed down to the Lord,
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Then I knelt and bowed down to the Lord, blessing the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to obtain the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.
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May peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.”
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There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheaf and bowed down to it.”
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Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. “Look, I had another dream,” he said; “this time, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
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Joseph, as governor of the country, was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. When Joseph’s brothers came, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
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When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, while they bowed down before him to the ground.
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“Your servant our father is still alive and doing well,” they said, as they knelt and bowed down.
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Joseph removed them from his father’s knees and bowed down before him with his face to the ground.
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“You, Judah, shall your brothers praise —your hand on the neck of your enemies; the sons of your father shall bow down to you.
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The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had observed the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they knelt and bowed down.
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All these servants of yours will then come down to me and bow down before me, saying: Leave, you and all your followers! Then I will depart.” With that he left Pharaoh’s presence in hot anger.
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you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice for the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians, he delivered our houses.’” Then the people knelt and bowed down,
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Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. Having greeted each other, they went into the tent.
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you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;
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Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.
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Chapter 24
Ratification of the Covenant. Moses himself was told: Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You shall bow down at a distance.
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They have quickly turned aside from the way I commanded them, making for themselves a molten calf and bowing down to it, sacrificing to it and crying out, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”
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On seeing the column of cloud stand at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise and bow down at the entrance of their own tents.
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Moses at once knelt and bowed down to the ground.
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You shall not bow down to any other god, for the Lord—“Jealous” his name—is a jealous God.
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Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, so that he saw the angel of the Lord standing on the road with sword drawn; and he knelt and bowed down to the ground.
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These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices and bowed down to their god.