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When We Listen – March 6, 2026 – Genesis 49:13-18
Read with Me Genesis 49:13-18 (HCSB) Zebulun will live by the seashore and will be a harbor for ships, and his territory will be next to Sidon. Issachar is a strong donkey lying down between the saddlebags. He saw that his resting place was good and that the land was...
When We Listen – March 4, 2026 – Genesis 49:8-12
Read with Me Genesis 49:8-12 (HCSB) Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you. Judah is a young lion — my son, you return from the kill. He crouches; he lies down like a lion or a...
When We Listen – March 3, 2026 – Genesis 49:5-7
Read with Me Genesis 49:5-7 (HCSB) Simeon and Levi are brothers; their knives are vicious weapons. May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For in their anger they kill men, and on a whim they hamstring oxen. Their anger is cursed, for it is...
When We Listen – February 26, 2026 – Genesis 49:1-4
Read with Me Genesis 49:1-4 (HCSB) Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come. Come together and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel: Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength...
When We Listen – February 25, 2026 – Genesis 48:8-22
Read with Me Genesis 48:8-22 (HCSB) When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?” “They are the sons God has given me here,” Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.” Now Israel’s eyes were failing because...
When We Listen – February 23, 2026 – Genesis 48:1-7
Read with Me Genesis 48:1-7 (HCSB) Some time after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is weaker.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed. Jacob...
When We Listen – February 19, 2026 – Genesis 47:27-31
Read with Me Genesis 47:27-31 (HCSB) Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous. Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years, and his life span was 147 years. When the time drew...
When We Listen – February 17, 2026 – Genesis 47:18-26
Read with Me Genesis 47:18-26 (HCSB): When that year was over, they came the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our lord that the money is gone and that all our livestock belongs to our lord. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our...
When We Listen – February 16, 2026 – Genesis 47:13-17
Read with Me Genesis 47:13-17 (HCSB) But there was no food in that entire region, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted by the famine. Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of...
When We Listen – February 11, 2026 – Genesis 47:1-12
Read with Me Genesis 47:1-12 (HCSB) So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their sheep and cattle and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen.” He took five of his brothers and presented...