'Getting' in the Bible

While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Abraham was now old, getting on in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

"Pharaoh's dreams are identical," Joseph replied. "God has told Pharaoh what he is getting ready to do.

So the message that I have for Pharaoh is that God is telling Pharaoh what he is getting ready to do.

And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed.