שָׁם (sham)

Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.

The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh…

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife.…

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who…

He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai…

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in…

He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between…

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are,…

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who…

The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will…

He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s…

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not…

He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I…

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I…

See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my…

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in…

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.…

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you,…

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a…

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound…

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the…

The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the…

Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.

Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who…

If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son…

the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold,…

Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water.

He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now…

He went up from there to Beersheba.

He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as…

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…

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as…

He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the…

He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they…

There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the…

I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among…

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land,…

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

He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

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

Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was…

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

Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as…

There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him…

About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

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

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there,…

He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted…

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may…

They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

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.

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your…

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great…

As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some…

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from…

There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of…

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and…