Quotes About Father

“Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.

And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his fatherís journey.

So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

Joseph said to his brothers and to his fatherís household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ëMy brothers and my fatherís household from the land of Canaan have come to me.

by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.

The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

my father made me swear an oath when he said, ëI am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.í Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”

Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaohís household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

And if a woman in her fatherís house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.

They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young womanís father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

then the man who lay with her must pay the young womanís father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

ëCursed is he who sleeps with his fatherís wife, for he has violated his fatherís marriage bed.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”