Quotes About Community

“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.

So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.

“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her fatherís sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”

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

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”

and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.

You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”

We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:

“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.

But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”

All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.