'Sent' in the Bible

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it."

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham's servant and his men.

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.

Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman."

So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

If the God of my father -- the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears -- had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night."

Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.'"

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

then you must say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.'"

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

So Jacob said to him, "Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word." So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.

While they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law: "I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong." Then she said, "Identify the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong."

When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father's journey.

Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them, "As you travel don't be overcome with fear."

But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob's spirit revived.

Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave these instructions before he died: