'Living' in the Bible

And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

He commanded them, saying, “This is what to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says this, “I have been living temporarily with Laban, and have stayed there until now;

And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had 12 sons:

And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).

These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

Then she bore yet another son and named him Shelah. Judah was living in Kezib when she bore him.

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.

But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”

We were 12 brothers, sons of the same father. One is no longer living, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?

And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him.

"So when I go back to your servant, my father, and the young man isn't with us, since he's constantly living life focused on his son,

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence.

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:

And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it.

And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.

And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.

And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.