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When We Listen – June 30, 2025 – Genesis 36:9-19
Read with Me Genesis 36:9=19 (HCSB) These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir. These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath. The sons of Eliphaz were Teman,...
When We Listen – June 26, 2026 – Genesis 36:1-8
Read with Me Genesis 36:1-8 These are the family records of Esau (that is, Edom). Esau took his wives from the Canaanite women: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite, and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and...
When We Listen – Genesis 35:21-29 – June 23, 2025
Read with Me Genesis 35:21-29 (HCSB) Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had 12 sons: Leah’s sons...
When We Listen – June 11, 2025 – Genesis 35:16-20
Read with Me Genesis 35:16-20 (HCSB) They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.”...
When We Listen – June 9, 2025 – Genesis 35:9-15
Read with Me Genesis 35:9-15 (HCSB) God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. God said to him: Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel. So He named him Israel. God also said to him:...
When We Listen – May 20, 2025 – Genesis 35:1-8
Read with Me Genesis 35:1-8 (HCSB) God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign...
When We Listen – March 14, 2025 – Genesis 34:25-31
Read with Me Genesis 34:25-31 (HCSB) On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their...
When We Listen – May 13, 2025 – Genesis 34:18-24
Read with Me Genesis 34:18-24 (HCSB) Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house. So Hamor and his son Shechem...
When We Listen – May 12, 2025 – Genesis 34:13-17
Read with Me Genesis 34:13-17 (HCSB) But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah. “We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us. We will...
When We Listen – May 8, 2025 – Genesis 34:1-12
Read with Me Genesis 34:1-12 (HCSB) Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area. When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her. He became infatuated with Dinah,...