Genesis 27:1

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.

Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!” He said, “Here I am.”

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’

They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,