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When We Listen – March 18, 2025 – Genesis 30:25-36
Read with Me Genesis 30:25-36 (HCSB) After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland. Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you.” But...
When We Listen – March 17, 2025 – Genesis 30:22-24
Read with Me Genesis 30:22-24 (HCSB) Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb. She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my shame.” She named him Joseph: “May the LORD add another son to me.” Listen with Me After many years...
When We Listen – March 13, 2025 – Genesis 30:9-21
Read with Me Genesis 30:9-21 (HCSB) When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” and she named him Gad. When Leah’s slave...
Today’s Scripture – March 11, 2025 – Genesis 30:1-8
Read with Me Genesis 30:1-8 (HCSB) When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!” she said to Jacob. Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children from...
When We Listen – March 6, 2025 – Genesis 29:31-35
Read with Me Genesis 29:31-35 (HCSB) When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive. Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love...
When We Listen – March 3, 2025 – Genesis 29:21-30
Read with Me Genesis 29:21-30 (HCSB) Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed. I want to sleep with her.” So Laban invited all the men of the place to a feast. That evening, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept...
When We Listen – February 24, 2025 – Genesis 29:14b-20
Read with Me Genesis 23:14b-20 (HCSB) After Jacob had stayed with him a month, Laban said to him, “Just because you’re my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.” Now Laban had two daughters: the older was named Leah, and the...
When We Listen – February 19, 2025 – Genesis 29:9-14a
Read with Me Genesis 29:9-14a (HCSB) While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep, he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and...
When We Listen – February 18, 2025 – Genesis 29:1-8
Read with Me Genesis 29:1-8 (HCSB) Jacob resumed his journey and went to the eastern country. He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. A large stone covered the opening of the...
When We Listen – February 3, 2025 – Genesis 28:18-22
Read with Me Genesis 28:18-22 (HCSB) Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it and named the place Bethel, though previously the city was named Luz. Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be...