(23:1) ¹  A man may not marry ²  his father’s former ³  wife and in this way dishonor his father. ⁴ 

David was going back and forth ¹  from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

Saul retained David ¹  on that day and did not allow him to return to his father’s house.

But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!

Look, our fathers died violently ¹  and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off ²  because of this.

Listen, children, ²  to a father’s instruction, ³  and pay attention so that ⁴  you may gain ⁵  discernment.

A wise son accepts ¹  his father’s discipline, ²  but a scoffer ³  does not listen to rebuke.

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; ¹  whoever fathers a wise child ²  will have joy in him.

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; ¹  they violate women during their menstrual period within you. ² 

The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. ¹  Indeed, ²  he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. ³ 

Now the Lord said ¹  to Abram, ²  “Go out ³  from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you. ⁴ 

What’s more, ¹  she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. ¹  “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up ¹  all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left ¹  his father’s ²  presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. ³ 

When Esau heard ¹  his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. ²  He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, ¹  “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich ²  at our father’s expense!” ³ 

The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers ¹  and to your relatives. I will be with you.” ² 

There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, ¹  but the God of my father has been with me.

Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance ¹  in our father’s house?