2	GEN 1:2	it was all watery. Water covered everything and that was all. There was no dry land yet, only water, and it was dark. It was dark just like a cave is dark inside at night. But the spirit of God was moving over the water.
59	GEN 3:3	but we can't eat the fruit from just one tree in the middle. God told us, ‘Don't eat the fruit of that tree and don't touch it.’ If we touch it we will die.”
85	GEN 4:5	But he rejected Cain and his offering of food. Cain became very angry and his face changed.
98	GEN 4:18	Later Cain's son Enoch had a son and he called him Irad. And Irad's son was called Mehujael. Then Mehujael had a son and he was called Methushael. Then Methushael had a son and he was called Lamech.
302	GEN 12:3	Some people will bless you, and so I will bless them. But if anyone curses you, I will curse them. I will bless all the nations just as I am blessing you today.’”
329	GEN 13:10	So Lot looked round and saw a big river valley called the Jordan, and it was very good land. The river went all the way to a place called Zoar. There was plenty of water and trees and other plants, just like the place that Yahweh made called Eden, and also like the land of Egypt. Lot wanted the land with the big Jordan valley for himself, so he went off to the east and the two men separated. Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, but Lot made his camp near the city of Sodom. The people of Sodom were wicked. They didn't obey Yahweh; they were always doing evil things. But Lot and his family stayed there, before Yahweh destroyed the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
335	GEN 13:16	And I will give you many descendants. They will be so many that no one will be able to count them. It would be just like trying to count all the bits of dirt in the ground!
374	GEN 15:13	Then Yahweh said to him, “You will live until you become an old man and you will just die without any trouble, and then they will bury you. When you die, your descendants will go to a different land and they will live there as strangers. Cruel people who belong to that country will take your descendants and make them work hard for them there. Your descendants will go on living in that place for 400 years, because I won't yet drive out the Amorite people belonging to this country. These Amorite people are wicked but they will become more wicked later and then I will punish them and drive them out. Then I will become angry with those cruel people in that different country, and your descendants will leave there and they will come back here. When they come out of that country they will bring many things, many animals and a lot of money with them. They will be very, very rich.”
411	GEN 17:13	“Don't circumcise just some of your men but circumcise them all. Then if you do that, it will be a sign that the covenant you and I have made together won't change but it will be forever.
450	GEN 18:25	You won't kill them all, the good and the bad. Surely not! You can't do that! You can't punish good people. You are the one who must judge everyone, and so you must do what is right.”
457	GEN 18:32	Abraham said, “Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak just once more. Maybe there will only be ten good people. Then what will you do?” Yahweh answered, “If there are ten good people I will not destroy the city.”
472	GEN 19:14	Then Lot went to the two men who were going to marry his daughters, and said, “Hurry up and get out of here, because Yahweh is going to destroy this place.” But they thought Lot was joking and they didn't take any notice.
478	GEN 19:20	Look! See that little town over there. It is not so far. Let me go there. You can see it is just a little place. If I go there I will be safe.”
606	GEN 24:14	I will speak to one of them and say, ‘Please put down your jar and let me have a drink.’ Maybe she will say, ‘Yes, drink. And then I will also bring water for your camels.’ If she says that to me, I want her to be the one you have already chosen for Isaac's wife. Then I will know that you have kept the promise you made to Abraham.”
607	GEN 24:15	While he was still praying a young girl called Rebecca arrived. She was carrying a water-jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel. Bethuel's father was Nahor, Abraham's younger brother, but his mother was Milcah.
608	GEN 24:16	She was a beautiful young girl who had never slept with a man. She went to the well and went down and filled the jar and came up again.
610	GEN 24:18	“Here you are, have a drink,” she said. She quickly put down her jar and held it for him while he drank.
612	GEN 24:20	She quickly emptied her jar into the stone drinking trough that was near the well so that people could give their animals water to drink. She ran to the well again and brought more water for his camels. She went on bringing water until all the camels had had enough to drink.
635	GEN 24:43	Look! I am standing here at the well. When a young girl comes here for water, I will say to her, May I have a drink from your jar?
637	GEN 24:45	“I was praying quietly, and while I was still praying Rebecca came with a water-jar on her shoulder. She went down to the well for water and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
638	GEN 24:46	She quickly put down her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will get water for your camels too.’ So I drank and she brought water for my camels.
645	GEN 24:53	Then he brought clothes and jewellery made of silver and gold and other precious things and gave them to Rebecca. And he gave expensive presents to her brother and her mother.
697	GEN 26:4	I will give you many descendants. They will be so many they will be like the stars you can see in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Different people will all say to me, ‘Bless us, just as you blessed Isaac.’
707	GEN 26:14	He had many sheep and cattle and many servants. And so the Philistine people became jealous of him.
722	GEN 26:29	that you and your people won't harm us. We didn't do you any harm. We were kind to you. We didn't fight, we just sent you and your people away from our area, and you went peacefully. Now we know that Yahweh has blessed you.”
737	GEN 27:9	Go and find two of our fat young goats. Bring them here to me, and I will cook them nicely, just as your father likes his meat.
742	GEN 27:14	So Jacob went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. And she cooked them just as Isaac liked.
755	GEN 27:27	Jacob moved closer to kiss him and his father smelled Esau's clothes that Jacob was wearing. And so he gave him his special blessing. He said, “My son, you smell very good, just as the earth that God made smells good.
766	GEN 27:38	Esau kept on asking and asking him. “Isn't there just one more special blessing? Isn't there also a word for me? Please give me a special word too.” And Esau was upset and began to cry.
778	GEN 28:4	May he bless you and your descendants just as he blessed Abraham before. And may you own this country that God first gave to Abraham, where you grew up and where you live today.”
788	GEN 28:14	Your descendants will be many like the dust of the earth. They will own this place and they will make their country bigger on all sides. I will bless all the nations just as I am blessing you now and I will bless your descendants later.
811	GEN 29:15	Laban said to Jacob, “You shouldn't work for me for nothing just because you are my nephew. How much money will I give you?”
832	GEN 30:1	Rachel was still unable to have any children, and so she became jealous of her sister Leah. She said to Jacob, “If you don't give me any children I will die.”
837	GEN 30:6	And Rachel said, “God has judged us and he is pleased with me. He has heard and answered me and given me a son.” So she named him Dan, because Dan means “he has judged.”
900	GEN 31:26	The next day Laban went to Jacob and said, “Why did you trick me and take my daughters just as people take women away in a war?
927	GEN 31:53	Abraham's God who is also the God of Nahor will judge between us.” Then Jacob promised to keep Laban's word and not change it. And when he made his promise he used the name of the God his father Isaac worshipped.
941	GEN 32:13	You promised me that you would do good for me and also that I would have many children. You told me that their children would go on having children until there are very many of them. They will be so many that no one will be able to count them, just as we can't count the grains of sand on the beach. So please don't forget your promise to me.”
954	GEN 32:26	When the man saw that Jacob didn't weaken, he hit him on the hip. And Jacob's hip was hurt and thrown out of joint.
997	GEN 34:16	We will give our daughters to you and you can give your daughters to us. We will stay here and join you as one people.
1030	GEN 35:18	But Rachel was dying. As she breathed her last breath she named him Benoni, because Benoni means “son of my sorrow.” But Jacob named him Benjamin, because Benjamin means “good will come to my son.”
1036	GEN 35:24	Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.
1095	GEN 37:11	His brothers were jealous of him but his father kept on thinking about the two dreams.
1145	GEN 38:25	They were taking her away to burn her, but on the way she sent the things to her father-in-law. And she sent him a message saying, “I am pregnant today, but just look at these two things. Who do you think they belong to? The man who made me pregnant gave them to me.”
1159	GEN 39:9	I am his servant but I am a master in his house just like him. He hasn't held on to anything of his except you, his wife. I don't want to do anything wrong and I won't sin against Yahweh.”
1176	GEN 40:3	But the king put them both in jail, because he didn't want them any more. And they stayed in the prison guard's house, in the same place where Joseph was already staying.
1177	GEN 40:4	The prison guard gave Joseph to them so that he could work for them. They spent a long time in jail.
1178	GEN 40:5	One night there in jail the two men each had a dream. They both had a dream on the same night but their dreams were different.
1184	GEN 40:11	I was holding the king's cup in my hand. So I picked the grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup and gave it to the king.”
1187	GEN 40:14	But when everything is going well for you, don't forget me. Speak to the king for me so that he will let me out of this jail too.
1188	GEN 40:15	Some bad people took me away from my country and my Hebrew people. And even here in Egypt I have done nothing wrong. They shouldn't have put me in this jail.”
1192	GEN 40:19	In three days the king will let you out of jail too. But they will cut your head off! Then the king will tell his soldiers to hang your body on a tree and the birds will eat your flesh.”
1193	GEN 40:20	Three days later the king asked all his officers to come to his house for a feast because it was his birthday. He let the two men out of jail and called them to him. They went and stood before him and his officers.
1206	GEN 41:10	You were angry with me and with your cook and you put us in jail. We stayed in the house of the officer who was in charge of the soldiers who looked after your palace.
1209	GEN 41:13	“Afterwards everything happened as the man had said. You let me out of jail and brought me into your house to work for you as I had done before. But you put your other servant to death.”
1210	GEN 41:14	Then the king sent some men to the jail and they brought Joseph out straight away. He shaved and changed his clothes and went to see the king.
1217	GEN 41:21	but they didn't get fat from eating them. They stayed just as thin as before. And then I woke up.
1224	GEN 41:28	Then Joseph said, “It is just as I told you, God has shown you in a dream what he is going to do later.
1239	GEN 41:43	He also gave him a carriage pulled by horses for him to ride in. It was a very good one just like the king's. The king spoke again to Joseph and said, “When you ride in the carriage, my servants will go along the road ahead of you and call out, ‘Move out of the way! Move back for the governor!’
1241	GEN 41:45	Then the king gave Joseph an Egyptian name, Zaphenath Paneah. And he gave him a wife called Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, who was a priest for the Egyptian people in a city called Heliopolis. Joseph was thirty years old when he began the work that the king gave him. For seven years plenty of food grew, just as Joseph had told the king. And Joseph left the king's palace and went everywhere all over Egypt.
1250	GEN 41:54	Then seven bad years came, just as Joseph had said. The food didn't grow any more and people in every other country were hungry, except in Egypt where there was food in the storehouses.
1254	GEN 42:1	There was only a little food in Canaan where Jacob and his family were living, and they were very hungry. When Jacob heard that there was plenty of food in Egypt, he said to his sons, “What are you doing just talking to each other? Go to Egypt. I have been told that there is food there. Go and buy some so that we won't starve to death.” Then Joseph's ten brothers went to Egypt with others to buy food. But their young brother Benjamin stayed at home. His father wouldn't let him go with the others because he loved Rachel's son so much and he was afraid something might happen to him.
1268	GEN 42:15	And I will keep thinking that until I know if you are telling me the truth. I will find out. I will put you in jail here, but one of you must go home and get your youngest brother. If you don't bring him here to me I will know that you came to spy on us. I will not let the rest of you go home until your youngest brother gets here. I am saying this to you today and I am using the king's name. He is the king of all Egypt and I am using his name to make my words strong.”
1270	GEN 42:17	Then he put them in jail for three days.
1272	GEN 42:19	I will let some of you go, but one of you must stay here in jail, so that I can find out if you are honest. You others can go home and take the food you have bought so that your families won't starve.
1274	GEN 42:21	Then they said to each other, “Yes, we have been in jail because we gave our brother to those people. We didn't listen to him when he was in trouble and calling out and asking us to help him. That is why we were put in jail.”
1277	GEN 42:24	Joseph was nearly crying, but he didn't want his brothers to see him cry and he went outside for a little while. When he was ready to speak again, he came back to them. He chose Simeon to be put in jail and told his servants to tie him up in front of his brothers.
1289	GEN 42:36	Jacob said, “Look what you have done! I will lose all my children. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone too. And now you want to take Benjamin away from me. You are making me suffer so much!”
1290	GEN 42:37	Reuben said to his father, “I will look after Benjamin. If I don't bring him back to you, you can kill my two sons. But I really will bring him back.”
1291	GEN 42:38	But Jacob said, “I cannot let my son Benjamin go with you, because his older brother is dead. He is the youngest and he is the only one left. I am an old man now. If anything happened to him on the way I would die. You will upset me and kill me in my old age.”
1295	GEN 43:4	If you send Benjamin with us then we can buy food.
1302	GEN 43:11	Jacob said, “If Benjamin doesn't go we won't have any food. So take him and go. Take some good things from our country so that you can give them to the governor, a little gum and a little wild honey and some sweet-smelling things and some nuts.
1304	GEN 43:13	Now go back quickly to the man and take Benjamin with you.
1305	GEN 43:14	I am praying to God that the man will have pity on you and let both Simeon and Benjamin come back with you. Maybe they won't come back, but if Benjamin doesn't go, we won't have any more food.”
1306	GEN 43:15	Then the brothers went back to Egypt with Benjamin. They took money as at first, but they took twice as much. They also took things from Canaan to give the governor. And so they set off. They kept on going until they reached Egypt. And they went to Joseph.
1307	GEN 43:16	Then Joseph saw them and Benjamin was with them. He called the servant in charge of the other workers in his house and said, “Take these people to my house. They will eat with me at midday. Kill a bullock and cook it and get some other food ready.”
1314	GEN 43:23	But he said to them, “Never mind, don't be afraid. God must have put that money there for you, the God you and your father worship. Yes, I took that money the other time for the food.” Then he went to the jail and he took Simeon out and brought him to his brothers.
1320	GEN 43:29	Joseph looked around and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son. He said, “So this is your youngest brother, the one you were telling me about.” Then he said to Benjamin, “God bless you.”
1321	GEN 43:30	Joseph was so full of feelings when he saw Benjamin that he was nearly in tears. He left suddenly and went to his room and cried there.
1324	GEN 43:33	The brothers were sitting near Joseph facing him. They had been told how to sit, with Reuben sitting down first because he was the oldest, then Simeon and all the others and last of all Benjamin the youngest. They were seated properly, the eldest first right through to the youngest. When they saw this they were very surprised.
1325	GEN 43:34	Joseph gave the food to his servants and they carried it to his brothers. But Joseph gave a lot more food to Benjamin. He had five times as much food. Then they ate and drank until they were all drunk.
1337	GEN 44:12	The servant searched very carefully. He began by looking in the oldest one's bag. That was Reuben's. Then he looked in the next brother's bag and in the next. He kept on looking until he found the cup in the bag of the youngest brother Benjamin.
1341	GEN 44:16	Judah answered, “There is nothing we can say to you. God has shown you our sin and we can't show you that we are good people. So all of us are now your servants, not just the one who took the cup, but all of us.”
1343	GEN 44:18	Then Judah went up close to Joseph and said, “Please let me just speak to you. Don't be angry with me. You are like the king who rules all Egypt.
1367	GEN 45:8	It was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me the governor and I am in charge of all the officers here. I also rule the whole country of Egypt, just as the king does.
1371	GEN 45:12	Then Joseph said to them, “All of you, and you too, Benjamin, can see that I really am your brother Joseph.
1373	GEN 45:14	Joseph hugged Benjamin and began to cry, and Benjamin cried too.
1381	GEN 45:22	He also gave each of them new clothes to wear, but he gave Benjamin five lots of clothing and 300 silver coins.
1406	GEN 46:19	Jacob's wife Rachel had two sons, Joseph and Benjamin.
1408	GEN 46:21	Benjamin's ten sons went to Egypt with him. Their names were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.
1416	GEN 46:29	And Joseph got in his carriage and went to Goshen to meet his father. When Joseph arrived where his family was, he jumped down from his carriage and ran and hugged his father and cried. He cried and cried until at last he could stop crying.
1424	GEN 47:3	The king said to them, “What work do you do?” They answered, “We are shepherds just as our ancestors were.
1472	GEN 48:20	Jacob gave the two boys another blessing and said, “When the Israelite people bless each other they will use your names. They will say, ‘May God bless you today, just as he blessed Ephraim and Manasseh long ago.’” When Jacob said that, he was putting Ephraim before Manasseh.
1490	GEN 49:16	Then Jacob spoke to his son Dan and said, “Dan, you will be a judge, deciding if your people are good or bad. But your people are also Israelite people.
1491	GEN 49:17	But you will be waiting on the road, just like a snake that hides in the grass and bites the horse's heel, so that if anyone is riding on the horse he will fall on his back to the ground.”
1501	GEN 49:27	Then Jacob spoke to his youngest son Benjamin and said, “You are like a dangerous wild dog. It kills other animals and eats them. You go in the morning to fight and you kill people and you grab their things. And when the sun sets you and your people share those things.”
24967	LUK 1:5	Years ago, while Herod was king of Judea, there were many priests. They were all in groups named after the priests of long ago. Some were from Abijah's family, and there was one man called Zechariah who belonged to that group. His wife was Elizabeth, and her father was also a priest.
24970	LUK 1:8	One day Zechariah was working in the temple. All the priests worked there but they took turns. First some of them worked and then others, and now the men from Abijah's family took their turn to work there. They had different kinds of work to do. Every day one of them burnt something like gum so that sweet-smelling smoke would rise from it as it burnt. He did this because long ago God had told the priests to do it for him. When they chose the man for that job, first of all they wrote all their names down on paper in any order. Then they took turns according to the list. And now it was Zechariah's turn and he burnt the gum in the building that only the priests went into and no one else.
24978	LUK 1:16	“He will teach people about the Lord their God. And when they hear him many of the people of Israel will stop doing wrong and do what is right. They will obey the Lord their God, just as their ancestors did long ago.