אָדוֹן (a.don)

and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can…

“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold…

“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of…

“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury…

The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He…

He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says,…

She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth…

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male…

Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose…

I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my…

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right…

Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or…

Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”

They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said,…

He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.”…

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He…

Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young,…

Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that…

Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the…

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has…

She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his…

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was…

After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers…

and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a…

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then…

With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity…

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t…

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

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,…

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his…

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and…

Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt.…

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our…

They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”