Now, son," Rebecca continued, "listen to me and do what I say.

His mother answered, "Let any curse against you fall on me, my son; just do as I say, and go and get the goats for me."

He found out that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Mesopotamia.

If you make fun of your father or despise your mother in her old age, you ought to be eaten by vultures or have your eyes picked out by wild ravens.

Jonadab's descendants have obeyed his command not to drink wine, and to this very day none of them drink any. But I have kept on speaking to you, and you have not obeyed me.

Peter and the other apostles answered, "We must obey God, not men.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there.

When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the LORD had told him to do; and Lot went with him.

Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

Jacob left Beersheba and started toward Haran.