Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring.
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.
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