Abraham had taken ¹  another ²  wife, named Keturah.

But Isaac ¹  replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away ²  your blessing.”

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, ¹  and the two of them walked on together.

Then Moses took ¹  his wife and sons ²  and put them on a donkey and headed back ³  to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

Judah acquired ¹  a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar.

¹ A man from the household ²  of Levi married ³  a woman who was a descendant of Levi. ⁴ 

So Moses took the staff from before the Lord, just as he commanded him.

King Solomon sent for Hiram ¹  of Tyre. ² 

The Lord God took the man and placed ¹  him in the orchard in ²  Eden to care for it and to maintain it. ³ 

Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty. ¹ 

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter ¹  his son.

So he went and got the goats ¹  and brought them to his mother. She ²  prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

In the evening he brought his daughter Leah ¹  to Jacob, ²  and Jacob ³  had marital relations with her. ⁴ 

Jacob ¹  stayed there that night. Then he sent ²  as a gift ³  to his brother Esau

He took six hundred select ¹  chariots, and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, ²  and officers ³  on all of them.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar. ¹ 

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,