Genesis 2:3
2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
Genesis 3:10
3:10 The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Genesis 10:25
10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
Genesis 12:10
The Promised Blessing Jeopardized
12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.
Genesis 12:13
12:13 So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”
Genesis 17:5
17:5 No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 19:13
19:13 because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it.”
Genesis 20:18
20:18 For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 22:16
22:16 and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the Lord, ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 22:18
22:18 Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
Genesis 25:21
25:21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
Genesis 26:5
26:5 All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Genesis 26:12
26:12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.
Genesis 27:20
27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied.
Genesis 27:23
27:23 He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
Genesis 29:15
29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Genesis 29:20
29:20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
Genesis 30:18
30:18 Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.
Genesis 30:20
30:20 Then Leah said, “God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
Genesis 31:30-31
31:30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
31:31 “I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.
Genesis 31:49
31:49 It was also called Mizpah because he said, “May the Lord watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.
Genesis 32:28
32:28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
Genesis 34:13
34:13 Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.
Genesis 35:7
35:7 He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
Genesis 37:3
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.
Genesis 41:31-32
41:31 The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.
41:32 The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.
Genesis 41:39
41:39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!
Genesis 41:49
41:49 Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.
Genesis 45:3
45:3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.
Genesis 45:5
45:5 Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!