SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 Genesis 31:45-47 So, Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So, they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap. Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed. Before they parted […]
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 Genesis 31:22-24 On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled. Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be […]
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Genesis 31:20-21 Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away. So, he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead. To say that Jacob deceived Laban might not be the best of ways to describe what happened. It […]
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 Genesis 31:4-6 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock, and said to them, “I see your father’s countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. And you know that with all my might I have served your father.” There are two very […]
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 Genesis 31:3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.” Have you ever been in a situation — a job or a relationship — that wasn’t conducive to your health, physically or spiritually, but you felt trapped? You felt like you […]
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 Genesis 31:1-2 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this wealth.” And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and indeed it was not favorable toward him as before. Messiah said that those who have a “good eye” are full of […]
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 Genesis 30:29-30 So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the Lord has blessed you [l]since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?” These verses describe a […]
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 Genesis 30:25-27 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country. Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done […]
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 Genesis 30:22-24 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” So she called his name Joseph, and said, “The Lord shall add to me another son.” The name Joseph (Yosef in Hebrew) has a double meaning. It referred to the fact […]
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 Genesis 30:14-15 Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest 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 […]
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 Genesis 30:9-11 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife. And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah said, “A troop comes!” So she called his name Gad. As Jacob’s story continues, we see a principle developing that is accented with the birth […]
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 Genesis 30:1-2 Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!” And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” It is interesting […]
