Talált 1265 Eredmények: Father Of The Nation
This is his family history. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flocks with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought his father bad reports about them. (Genesis 37, 2)
When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, they hated him so much that they would not even greet him. (Genesis 37, 4)
When he also told it to his father, his father reproved him. "What is the meaning of this dream of yours?" he asked. "Can it be that I and your mother and your brothers are to come and bow to the ground before you?" (Genesis 37, 10)
So his brothers were wrought up against him but his father pondered the matter. (Genesis 37, 11)
One day, when his brothers had gone to pasture their father's flocks at Shechem, (Genesis 37, 12)
Instead of shedding blood," he continued, "just throw him into that cistern there in the desert; but don't kill him outright." His purpose was to rescue him from their hands and restore him to his father. (Genesis 37, 22)
Then they sent someone to bring the long tunic to their father, with the message: "We found this. See whether it is your son's tunic or not." (Genesis 37, 32)
Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, he refused all consolation, saying, "No, I will go down mourning to my son in the nether world." Thus did his father lament him. (Genesis 37, 35)
Thereupon Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Stay as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"--for he feared that Shelah also might die like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father's house. (Genesis 38, 11)
When Tamar was told that her father-in-law was on his way up to Timnah to shear his sheep, (Genesis 38, 13)
But as they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "It is by the man to whom these things belong that I am with child. Please verify," she added, "whose seal and cord and whose staff these are." (Genesis 38, 25)
Before the famine years set in, Joseph became the father of two sons, borne to him by Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis. (Genesis 41, 50)
