‘I asked her, “Whose daughter are you?”

‘She said, “The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.”

‘Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms,

Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.

Then they said, ‘Let’s call the young woman and ask her about it.’

They said, “Let us call the young woman and ask her.”

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, ‘She is my sister,’ because he was afraid to say, ‘She is my wife.’ He thought, ‘The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.’

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.

Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, ‘Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.’ So he was named Levi.

Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

He instructed the one in the lead: ‘When my brother Esau meets you and asks, “Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?”

He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’

Jacob said, ‘Please tell me your name.’

But he replied, ‘Why do you ask my name?’ Then he blessed him there.

Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.

a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, ‘What are you looking for?’

And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”

He asked the men who lived there, ‘Where is the shrine-prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?’

‘There hasn’t been any shrine-​prostitute here,’ they said.

And he asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim at the roadside?” And they said, “No cult prostitute has been here.”

So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, ‘Why do you look so sad today?’

So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?”

They replied, ‘The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. “Is your father still living?” he asked us. “Do you have another brother?” We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, “Bring your brother down here”?’

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’?”

He asked them how they were, and then he said, ‘How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?’

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

My lord asked his servants, “Do you have a father or a brother?”

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

Every woman is to ask her neighbour and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.’

but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbours for articles of silver and gold.’

Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.”

The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.

The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.

The Lord had made the Egyptians favourably disposed towards the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

‘In days to come when your son asks you, “What does this mean?” say to him, “With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

‘If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbour and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.

“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.

‘If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.

And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting – all the work at the tent – and no one else may come near where you are.

They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.

He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will obtain decisions for him by enquiring of the Urim before the Lord. At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.’

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.”

Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.

In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?’

“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“And now, Israel what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God to walk in all his ways to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

then you must enquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you,

then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,

Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice.

and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.

This is how it is to be done: every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for cancelling debts has been proclaimed.

And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed.

For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.

For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

Rather, be open-handed and freely lend them whatever they need.

but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,

For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire any more, or we will die.’

just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’

When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbour, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.

“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.

Stay outside and let the neighbour to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Remember the days of old;
consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.

Remember the days of old;
consider the years of many generations;
ask your father, and he will show you,
your elders, and they will tell you.

to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, “What do these stones mean?”

that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’

He said to the Israelites, ‘In the future when your descendants ask their parents, “What do these stones mean?”

And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’

The Israelites sampled their provisions but did not enquire of the Lord.

So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the Lord.

One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, ‘What can I do for you?’

When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

as the Lord had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for – Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.

By command of the Lord they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, ‘Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?’

After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the Lord “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, ‘What can I do for you?’

When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

‘Stand in the doorway of the tent,’ he told her. ‘If someone comes and asks you, “Is anyone in there?” say “No.”’

And he said to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.’”

He asked for water, and she gave him milk;
in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.

He asked for water and she gave him milk;
she brought him curds in a noble’s bowl.

He caught a young man of Sukkoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Sukkoth, the elders of the town.

And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.

And he said, ‘I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.’ (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)

And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels’ necks.

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

Then the woman went to her husband and told him, ‘A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name.

Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,

He replied, ‘Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding. ’

And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”

Then they said to him, ‘Please enquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.’

And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”

So they turned in there and went to the house of the young Levite at Micah’s place and greeted him.

And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.

The Israelites went up to Bethel and enquired of God. They said, ‘Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjaminites?’

The Lord replied, ‘Judah shall go first.’

The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, “Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?” And the Lord said, “Judah shall go up first.”

The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they enquired of the Lord. They said, ‘Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjaminites, our fellow Israelites?’

The Lord answered, ‘Go up against them.’

And the people of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until the evening. And they inquired of the Lord, “Shall we again draw near to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?” And the Lord said, “Go up against them.”

And the Israelites enquired of the Lord. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,

And the people of Israel inquired of the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

Eli answered, ‘Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.’

Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.”

So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, ‘Because I asked the Lord for him.’

And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”

I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.