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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...
When We Listen – January 30, 2025 – Genesis 28:10-17
Read with Me Genesis 28:10-17 (HCSB) Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place. And he...
When We Listen – January 29, 2025 – Genesis 28:6-9
Read with Me Genesis 28:6-9 (HCSB) Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.” And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to...