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Genesis 38:16-18
He turned to her by the way, and said,“ Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter- in- law. She said,“ What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”He said,“ I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said,“ Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”He said,“ What pledge will I give you?” She said,“ Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
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Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
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2 Samuel 20 20
Joab answered,“ Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
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Genesis 35:22
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
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Genesis 34:25-31
On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“ You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”They said,“ Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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Proverbs 22:1
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
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Joshua 22:22-29
“ The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh( don’t save us today),that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.“ If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying,‘ In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying,“ What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.“ Therefore we said,‘ Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come,‘ You have no portion in Yahweh.’“ Therefore we said,‘ It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say,“ Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’“ Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”
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2 Kings 8 13
Hazael said,“ But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered,“ Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”
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Genesis 37:18-32
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.They said to one another,“ Behold, this dreamer comes.Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say,‘ An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said,“ Let’s not take his life.”Reuben said to them,“ Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”— that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.He returned to his brothers, and said,“ The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said,“ We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”
