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• Genesis 12:11  (Genesis 12)

  When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,

• Genesis 18:10  (Genesis 18)

  The Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

• Genesis 18:14  (Genesis 18)

  Is anything too hard1 for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”

  Footnotes

  [1] 18:14 Or wonderful

• Genesis 18:17  (Genesis 18)

  The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

• Genesis 19:13  (Genesis 19)

  For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

• Genesis 19:14  (Genesis 19)

  So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

• Genesis 21:16  (Genesis 21)

  Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.

• Genesis 21:25  (Genesis 21)

  When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,

• Genesis 24:28  (Genesis 24)

  Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.

• Genesis 25:32  (Genesis 25)

  Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”

• Genesis 26:7  (Genesis 26)

  When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance.

• Genesis 26:32  (Genesis 26)

  That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.”

• Genesis 27:42  (Genesis 27)

  But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

• Genesis 29:13  (Genesis 29)

  As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

• Genesis 31:34  (Genesis 31)

  Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

• Genesis 38:24  (Genesis 38)

  About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral.1 Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.”2 And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

  Footnotes

  [1] 38:24 Or has committed prostitution
  [2] 38:24 Or by prostitution

• Genesis 39:6  (Genesis 39)

  So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.

  Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

• Genesis 39:8  (Genesis 39)

  But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.

• Genesis 41:13  (Genesis 41)

  And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged.”

• Genesis 41:25  (Genesis 41)

  Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

• Genesis 41:28  (Genesis 41)

  It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

• Genesis 41:32  (Genesis 41)

  And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.

• Genesis 41:42  (Genesis 41)

  Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

• Genesis 43:7  (Genesis 43)

  They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

• Genesis 43:27  (Genesis 43)

  And he inquired about their welfare and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”

• Genesis 48:21  (Genesis 48)

  Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

• Genesis 50:5  (Genesis 50)

  ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’”

• Genesis 50:20  (Genesis 50)

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people1 should be kept alive, as they are today.

  Footnotes

  [1] 50:20 Or a numerous people

• Genesis 50:24  (Genesis 50)

  And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”