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Genesis (Old Testament)
32:29 - And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

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Judges (Old Testament)
13:18 - And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

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Genesis (Old Testament)
4:1 - And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

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Exodus (Old Testament)
20:7 - Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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Genesis (Old Testament)
32:1 - And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
32:2 - And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
32:3 - And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
32:5 - And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
32:6 - And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
32:7 - Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
32:8 - And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
32:9 - And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
32:10 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
32:11 - Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
32:12 - And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
32:13 - And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
32:14 - Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
32:15 - Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
32:16 - And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
32:17 - And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
32:18 - Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
32:19 - And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
32:20 - And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
32:21 - So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
32:22 - And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
32:23 - And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
32:24 - And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
32:25 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
32:26 - And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
32:27 - And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
32:28 - And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
32:29 - And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
32:30 - And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
32:31 - And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32:32 - Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

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Genesis (Old Testament)
27:1 - And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
27:2 - And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
27:3 - Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
27:4 - And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
27:5 - And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
27:6 - And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
27:7 - Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
27:8 - Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
27:9 - Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
27:10 - And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
27:11 - And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
27:12 - My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
27:13 - And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
27:14 - And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savory meat, such as his father loved.
27:15 - And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
27:16 - And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
27:17 - And she gave the savory meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
27:18 - And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
27:19 - And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
27:20 - And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.
27:21 - And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
27:22 - And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
27:23 - And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
27:24 - And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
27:25 - And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
27:26 - And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
27:27 - And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
27:28 - Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
27:29 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
27:30 - And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
27:31 - And he also had made savory meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
27:32 - And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
27:33 - And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
27:34 - And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
27:35 - And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
27:36 - And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
27:37 - And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
27:38 - And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
27:39 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
27:40 - And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
27:41 - And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
27:42 - And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
27:43 - Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
27:44 - And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
27:45 - Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
27:46 - And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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Genesis (Old Testament)
1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 - And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
1:6 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
1:7 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
1:8 - And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
1:9 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
1:10 - And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
1:11 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
1:12 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:13 - And the evening and the morning were the third day.
1:14 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
1:15 - And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
1:16 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
1:17 - And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
1:18 - And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
1:19 - And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
1:20 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
1:21 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:22 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
1:23 - And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
1:24 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
1:25 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 - And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1:30 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
1:31 - And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Judges (Old Testament)
13:1 - And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
13:2 - And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
13:3 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
13:4 - Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
13:5 - For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
13:6 - Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
13:7 - But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
13:8 - Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
13:9 - And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.
13:10 - And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
13:11 - And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
13:12 - And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
13:13 - And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
13:14 - She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
13:15 - And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
13:16 - And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
13:17 - And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honor?
13:18 - And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
13:19 - So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
13:20 - For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
13:21 - But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
13:22 - And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
13:23 - But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
13:24 - And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
13:25 - And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Exodus (Old Testament)
20:1 - And God spake all these words, saying,
20:2 - I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
20:3 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
20:4 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
20:5 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
20:6 - And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
20:7 - Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
20:8 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 - Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
20:10 - But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
20:11 - For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
20:12 - Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
20:13 - Thou shalt not kill.
20:14 - Thou shalt not commit adultery.
20:15 - Thou shalt not steal.
20:16 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
20:17 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
20:18 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
20:19 - And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
20:20 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
20:21 - And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
20:22 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
20:23 - Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
20:24 - An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
20:25 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
20:26 - Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

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Genesis (Old Testament)
4:1 - And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
4:2 - And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
4:3 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4:4 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
4:5 - But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
4:6 - And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
4:7 - If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
4:8 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
4:9 - And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 - And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
4:11 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
4:12 - When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
4:13 - And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
4:14 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
4:15 - And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
4:16 - And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
4:17 - And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
4:18 - And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
4:19 - And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
4:20 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
4:21 - And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
4:22 - And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
4:23 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
4:24 - If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
4:25 - And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
4:26 - And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

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