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Rejoice: Read: 37 1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhahand the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought    their father a… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: 35 1Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Betheland settle there, and build an altar there to God,who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: 34: 1Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite,the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her. 3 His heart was drawn to Dinahdaughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: This chapter is super disappointing. Jacob deceives his father to take Esau’s brith right even though he has already rightfully received it in the soup incident. He, with the help of his mother, dress him up to fool dying Isaac who had terrible sight at this point. Then he entered his father’s tent… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: 26: 1Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. I want to remind you about the name Abimelek. I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but this is likely a title and not a name. Many scholars feel… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: Genesis 24 is all about Abraham sending a servant back to his people to get a wife for Isaac. That situation panned out very favorably and Isaac received a wife: Rebekah. Genesis 25 opens with Abraham passing away and then moves to Isaac asking the Lord for a child was well. He and… Read More »

  Genesis 22: 1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” 3 Early… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: I am going to be preaching on Genesis 22 this coming week 🙂 so we will skip it and keep moving! So let’s read chapter 23: 23 1Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old. 2 She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: 21 1Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.4 When his son Isaac was eight… Read More »