Genesis 3:22
22Then the Lord God said, a“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand band take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”Genesis 11:4
4Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower cwith its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”Genesis 33:1-2
Jacob Meets Esau
1And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, dEsau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants. 2And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.Genesis 42:38
38But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for ehis brother is dead, and he is the only one left. fIf harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, gyou would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”Genesis 43:14
14May hGod Almighty ▼▼Hebrew El Shaddai
jgrant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, kif I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.” Genesis 43:29
29And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, lhis mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, mof whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!”Genesis 44:20-22
20And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, nand a young brother, othe child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ 21Then you said to your servants, p‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, qhis father would die.’Genesis 44:27-34
27Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me rtwo sons. 28One left me, and I said, s“Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since. 29If you ttake this one also from me, uand harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’30“Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life, 31as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. 32For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, v‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ 33Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. 34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”
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