Lexicon :: Strong's G1437 - ean

The LORD God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

“If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

“Understand that I am bringing a flood ​— ​floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

“However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions.

“What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people who are in it?

The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

“suppose the fifty righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five? ”

He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

“So when God had me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me, ‘He’s my brother.’ ”

Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you want.”[fn]

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed[fn] about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac,

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

“If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”

“Then you will be free from my oath if you go to my family and they do not give her to you ​— ​you will be free from my oath.’

You will live by your sword,

and you will serve your brother.

But when you rebel,[fn]

you will break his yoke from your neck.

“Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be with me and watch over me during this journey I’m making, if he provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,

“This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.”

Laban asked, “What should I give you? ”

And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

“In the future when you come to check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me. If I have any female goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not black, they will be considered stolen.”

“If he said, ‘The spotted sheep will be your wages,’ then all the sheep were born spotted. If he said, ‘The streaked sheep will be your wages,’ then all the sheep were born streaked.

“If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

“This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.

He thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”

And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? ’

Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing flocks and herds. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.

Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor,[fn] and I’ll give you whatever you say.

“We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.

“But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me? ”

When the whole land of Egypt was stricken with famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

“This is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Then Reuben said to his father, “You can kill my two sons if I don’t bring him back to you. Put him in my care,[fn] and I will return him to you.”

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’

“But if you will not send him, we will not go, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’ ”

“I will be responsible for him. You can hold me personally accountable![fn] If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, I will be guilty before you forever.

Joseph commanded his steward, “Fill the men’s bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver at the top of his bag.

“But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’

“If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’

“Your servant became accountable to my father for the boy, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will always bear the guilt for sinning against you, my father.’

“When Pharaoh addresses you and asks, ‘What is your occupation? ’

“Children born to you after them will be yours and will be recorded under the names of their brothers with regard to their inheritance.