And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

Thou shalt not kill.

That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:

And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.

And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.

But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer–sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

So Job died, being old and full of days.

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

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.