Quotes About Unity

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one anotherís speech.”

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abrahamís son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.

So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

And Jacob did just that. He finished the weekís celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.