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'My child, avoid all loose conduct. Choose a wife of your father's stock. Do not take a foreign wife outside your father's tribe, because we are the children of the prophets. Remember Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our ancestors from the beginning. All of them took wives from their own kindred, and they were blessed in their children, and their race will inherit the earth. (Tobit 4, 12)
Remember how he treated Abraham, all the ordeals of Isaac, all that happened to Jacob in Syrian Mesopotamia while he kept the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. (Judith 8, 26)
which he concluded with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. (Psalms 105, 9)
Your renown is the splendour of your glory, I will ponder the story of your wonders. (Psalms 145, 5)
'May God prosper you, remembering his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants. (2 Maccabees 1, 2)
The story of Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, the purification of the great Temple, the dedication of the altar, (2 Maccabees 2, 19)
Let this be said simply by way of reminder; we must return to our story without more ado. (2 Maccabees 6, 17)
A coarse-grained person is like an indiscreet story endlessly retold by the ignorant. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 19)
To Isaac too, for the sake of Abraham his father, he assured (Ecclesiasticus 44, 22)
why, then I shall reject the descendants of Jacob and of David my servant and cease to choose rulers from his descendants for the heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! For I shall bring back their captives and take pity on them." ' (Jeremiah 33, 26)
Then I shall bring them back to the country which I promised on oath to their ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and make them masters in it. I shall make their numbers grow; they will not dwindle again. (Baruch 2, 34)
do not withdraw your favour from us, for the sake of Abraham, your friend, of Isaac, your servant, and of Israel, your holy one, (Daniel 3, 35)