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highlighted Genesis 35:2-20 ESV
And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he called his name Israel.And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you."Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for you have another son."And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
Jan 17
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 32:32 ESV
Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.
Jan 15
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 32:1-28 ESV
I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau,two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove."He instructed the first, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?'then you shall say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.'"He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.and you shall say, 'Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."And when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's camp!" So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, 'I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now.I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'"And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him."Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,thinking, "If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape."And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,'
Jan 15
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 31:18 ESV
He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
Jan 15
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 31:1-7 ESV
Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock wasand said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.You know that I have served your father with all my strength,yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.
Jan 14
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 30:3-42 ESV
Then Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.And Leah said, "Good fortune has come!" so she called his name Gad.Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.And Leah said, "Happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband." So she called his name Issachar.And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun.Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add to me another son!"As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you."But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.Name your wages, and I will give it."Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."Laban said, "Good! Let it be as you have said."But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.And he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flock.Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her."And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban's flock.Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks,but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." So she called his name Naphtali.When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Jan 14
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 29:16-35 ESV
Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me."So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed."So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years."Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me."She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi.And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing.
Jan 14
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 28:13-15 ESV
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
Jan 14
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 28:12 ESV
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Jan 14
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 28:8-9 ESV
So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Jan 13
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 28:1-2 ESV
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
Jan 13
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 27:41-46 ESV
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haranand stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away—until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?"Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
Jan 13
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highlighted Genesis 27:36 ESV
Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
Jan 13
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 26:22 ESV
And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
Jan 13
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highlighted Genesis 26:6-11 ESV
Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."So Isaac settled in Gerar.When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
Jan 13
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 25:33 ESV
Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Jan 13
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 25:32 ESV
Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"
Jan 13
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 25:23-27 ESV
And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger." When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
Jan 13
Writingkaren
highlighted Genesis 25:20 ESV
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
Jan 13