Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."

and the pillar Mizpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.

and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart;

"`Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

And if you be unwilling to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."