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ShirleyE
highlighted Exodus 4:11 NLT
Then the LORD asked Moses, “Who makes a person’s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the LORD?
Apr 20
ShirleyE
highlighted Exodus 3:16 NLT
“Now go and call together all the elders of Israel. Tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me. He told me, “I have been watching closely, and I see how the Egyptians are treating you.
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Exodus 3:14 NLT
God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.”
Apr 19
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highlighted Exodus 1:11 NLT
So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Exodus 1:10 NLT
We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.”
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 49:29-33 NLT
Then Jacob instructed them, “Soon I will die and join my ancestors. Bury me with my father and grandfather in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite. This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a permanent burial site. There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah. It is the plot of land and the cave that my grandfather Abraham bought from the Hittites.” When Jacob had finished this charge to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and joined his ancestors in death.
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 48:7 NLT
“Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 49:4 NLT
But you are as unruly as a flood, and you will be first no longer. For you went to bed with my wife; you defiled my marriage couch.
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 35:22 NLT
While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 36:8 NLT
So Esau (also known as Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 35:18 NLT
Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named the baby Ben-oni (which means “son of my sorrow”). The baby’s father, however, called him Benjamin (which means “son of my right hand”).
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 35:15 NLT
And Jacob named the place Bethel (which means “house of God”), because God had spoken to him there.
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 34:30 NLT
Afterward Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have ruined me! You’ve made me stink among all the people of this land—among all the Canaanites and Perizzites. We are so few that they will join forces and crush us. I will be ruined, and my entire household will be wiped out!”
Apr 19
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 28:22 NLT
And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.”
Apr 17
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 28:19 NLT
He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz.
Apr 17
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 25:33 NLT
But Jacob said, “First you must swear that your birthright is mine.” So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the firstborn to his brother, Jacob.
Apr 17
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 25:28 NLT
Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Apr 17
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 25:25-27 NLT
The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau. Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born. As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home.
Apr 17
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 19:37-38 NLT
When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites. When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Ammonites.
Apr 11
ShirleyE
highlighted Genesis 16:4 NLT
So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt.
Apr 11