If you do well, will your face not be cheerful? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked sinners against the Lord.

But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Abram also said, “Since You have given me no son, one who has been born in my house is my heir.”

and I will bring a piece of bread, so that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant.” And they said, “So do as you have said.”

since Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

And the Lord said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

He said, “Do not reach out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

And he said, “Come in, blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside, since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?”

However, he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away so that I may go to my master.”

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, since she is beautiful.”

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

Then Jacob became angry and argued with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since my men are few in number, they will band together against me and attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household!”

And Judah recognized them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.

There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil, and sin against God?”

But he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears of grain, full and good, came up on a single stalk;

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you are.

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now justice for his blood is required.”

and the one left me, and I said, “Surely he is torn to pieces,” and I have not seen him since.

So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since our father’s life is so attached to the boy’s life—