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When We Listen – January 21, 2025 – Genesis 28:1-5
Read with Me Genesis 28:1-5 (HCSB) Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: “Don’t take a wife from the Canaanite women. Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother....
When We Listen – January 14, 2025 – Genesis 27:42-46
Read with Me Genesis 27:42-46 (HCSB)B When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you. So now, my son, listen to me. Flee at...
When We Listen – January 9, 2025 – Genesis 27:30-41
Read with Me Genesis 27:30-41 (HCSB) As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt. He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his...
When We Listen – January 8, 2025 – Genesis 27:14-29
Read with Me Genesis 27:14-29 (HCSB) So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved. Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and had her younger son Jacob...
When We Listen – January 7, 2025 – Genesis 27:1-13
Read with Me Genesis 27:1-13 (HCSB) When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he answered, “Here I am.” He said, “Look, I am old and do not know the day of my death. Take your...
When We Listen – January 2, 2025 – Genesis 26:23-35
Read with Me Genesis 26:23-35 (HCSB) From there he went up to Beer-sheba, and the LORD appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of My servant...
When We Listen – January 1, 2024 – Genesis 26:12-22
Read with Me Genesis 26:12-22 (HCSB) Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times what was sown. The LORD blessed him, and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy. He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and...
When We Listen – December 31, 2024 – Genesis 26:7-11
Read with Me Genesis 26:7-11 (HCSB) When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.” When Isaac had been...
When We Listen – December 30, 2024 – Genesis 26:1-6
Read with Me Genesis 26:1-6 (HCSB) There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar. The LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Live in...
When We Listen – December 26, 2024 – Genesis 25:27-34
Read with Me Genesis 25:27-34 (HCSB) When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home. Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. Once when Jacob was cooking a stew,...