AUGUST 22, 2020 Genesis 28:10-11 Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. […]
AUGUST 21, 2020 Genesis 28:6-9 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,” and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his […]
AUGUST 20, 2020 Genesis 28:1-2 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.” Having received the […]
AUGUST 19, 2020 Genesis 27:42-43 And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Surely your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother […]
AUGUST 18, 2020 Genesis 27:41-43 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” Like Cain before him, Esau was motivated to kill his brother out of […]
AUGUST 17, 2020 Genesis 27:39-40 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: “Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above. By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you become restless, that you shall break […]
AUGUST 16, 2020 Genesis 27:38 And Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me—me also, O my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Remember how Esau responded to the invitation to sell Jacob the birthright? Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?” (Gen. 25:32). […]
AUGUST 15, 2020 Genesis 27:36 And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!” Do you notice what is wrong in the statement? Do you notice what Esua did in this statement to his father? While it […]
AUGUST 14, 2020 Genesis 27:29 “Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you!” Whether Isaac thought he was blessing Esau or not is a mystery but, nevertheless, it would seem that […]
AUGUST 13, 2020 Genesis 27:22-23 So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him. Isaac was obviously suspicious. In the text, he indicated […]
