אָח (ach)

Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his…

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.

I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of…

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name…

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom…

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for…

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.

They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother…

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his…

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other…

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will…

He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the…

When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me.…

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of…

After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of…

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

Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

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

The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave…

Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old…

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from…

Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.…

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau…

He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have…

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will…

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of…

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him,…

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—

until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you…

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of…

Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and…

Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”

When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob…

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your…

He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in…

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For…

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my…

Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night…

He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will…

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword,…

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you…

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the…

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his…

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his…

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak…

Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the…

He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and…

He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you…

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said…

He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.”…

He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”

The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and…

They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His…

He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up…

Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the…

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown…

As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?”…

Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and…

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He…

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest…

By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes…

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is…

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of…

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul,…

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned…

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of…

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…

Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will…

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along…

Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is…

If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;

but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is…

Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still…

Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am…

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of…

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and…

Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

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,…

You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s…

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

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go…

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were…

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you…

Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My…

Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all…

From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we,…

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in…

Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in…

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their…

Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their…

His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great.…

Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword…

“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down…

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient…

all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds,…

Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried…

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully…

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to…

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land…