Quotes about Inquiry
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
— Genesis 18:9
Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”
— Genesis 20:10
Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
— Genesis 21:26
and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
— Genesis 21:29
“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
— Genesis 24:23
Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
— Genesis 24:47
“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
— Genesis 29:4
“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
— Genesis 29:6
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
— Genesis 37:15
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
— Genesis 38:21
So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
— Genesis 40:7
They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
— Genesis 43:7