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Genesis 3:8

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:10

And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it…

Genesis 4:23

Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 14:14

When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 16:2

And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16:11

And the angel of the LORD said to her, “Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 18:10

The LORD said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.”

Genesis 21:12

But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Genesis 21:26

Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”

Genesis 22:18

and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

Genesis 23:6

“Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.”

Genesis 23:8

And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,

Genesis 23:11

“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

Genesis 23:13

And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”

Genesis 23:15

“My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

Genesis 23:16

Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

Genesis 24:30

As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

Genesis 24:52

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.

Genesis 26:5

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Genesis 27:5

Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,

Genesis 27:6

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,

Genesis 27:8

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.

Genesis 27:13

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”

Genesis 27:34

As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

Genesis 27:43

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

Genesis 29:13

As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

Genesis 29:33

She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon.

Genesis 30:6

Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

Genesis 30:17

And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

Genesis 31:1

Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.”

Genesis 34:5

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

Genesis 34:7

The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing…

Genesis 34:17

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.”

Genesis 34:24

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

Genesis 35:22

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 37:6

He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed:

Genesis 37:17

And the man said, “They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

Genesis 37:21

But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”

Genesis 37:27

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.

Genesis 39:10

And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.

Genesis 39:15

And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.”

Genesis 39:19

As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.

Genesis 41:15

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

Genesis 42:2

And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.”

Genesis 42:21

Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

Genesis 42:23

They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.

Genesis 43:25

they prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

Genesis 45:2

And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.

Genesis 45:16

When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.

Genesis 49:2

“Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.