Bible in one year 4/6/2022 Genesis Chapter 26-30
By Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce
Christian Arts Ministries:Biblical
precepts & Gospel; Pastoral ministry & counseling
Chapter 26 Isaac and Abimelech
1 And there was a
famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2 And the LORD
appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I
shall tell thee of:
3 Sojourn in this
land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy
seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I
sware unto Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy
seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these
countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham
obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in
Gerar:
7 And the men of the
place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to
say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for
Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass,
when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines
looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah
his wife.
9 And Abimelech called
Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She
is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said,
What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien
with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech
charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall
surely be put to death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in
that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed
him.
13 And the man waxed
great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 For he had
possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and
the Philistines envied him.
15 For all the wells
which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the
Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said
unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17 And Isaac departed
thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged
again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his
father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he
called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19 And Isaac's
servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20 And the herdmen of
Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called
the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
21 And they digged another
well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22 And he removed from
thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called
the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us,
and we shall be fruitful in the land.
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24 And the LORD appeared
unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father:
fear
not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
25 And he builded an
altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there:
and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went
to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief
captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said unto
them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from
you?
28 And they said, We
saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an
oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with
thee;
29 That thou wilt do
us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing
but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the
LORD.
30 And he made them a
feast, and they did eat and drink.
31 And they rose up
betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and
they departed from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass
the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well
which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
33 And he called it
Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
34 And Esau was forty
years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and
Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a grief
of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Chapter 27 The Blessing of
Jacob by deception
1 And it came to pass, that when
Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau
his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here
am I.
2 And he said, Behold now, I am old,
I know not the day of my death:
3 Now therefore take, I pray thee,
thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some
venison;
4 And make me savoury meat, such as
I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before
I die.
5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake
to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring
it.
6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her
son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me
savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice according to that which I command thee.
9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me
from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for
thy father, such as he loveth:
10 And thou shalt bring it to thy
father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his
mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
12 My father peradventure will feel
me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me,
and not a blessing.
13 And his mother said unto him,
Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
14 And he went, and fetched, and
brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his
father loved.
15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment
of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon
Jacob her younger son:
16 And she put the skins of the kids
of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
17 And she gave the savoury meat and
the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
18 And he came unto his father, and
said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
19 And Jacob said unto his father, I
am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray
thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
20 And Isaac said unto his son, How
is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD
thy God brought it to me.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come
near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son
Esau or not.
22 And Jacob went near
unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice,
but the hands are the hands of Esau.
23 And he discerned him
not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed
him.
24 And he said, Art thou
my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
25 And he said, Bring it
near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee.
And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he
drank.
26 And his father Isaac
said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
27 And he came near, and
kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
28 Therefore God give thee
of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and
wine:
29 Let people serve thee,
and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's
sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he
that blesseth thee.
30 And it came to pass, as soon as
Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from
the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his
hunting.
31 And he also had made savoury
meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father
arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
32 And Isaac his father said unto
him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
33 And Isaac trembled very
exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it
me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and
he shall be blessed.
34 And when Esau heard the words of
his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his
father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
35 And he said, Thy brother came
with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
36 And he said, Is not he rightly
named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my
birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast
thou not reserved a blessing for me?
37 And Isaac answered and said unto
Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to
him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I
do now unto thee, my son?
38 And Esau said unto his father,
Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And
Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
39 And Isaac his father
answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the
earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
40 And by thy sword shalt
thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou
shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
41 And Esau hated Jacob
because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his
heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my
brother Jacob.
42 And these words of Esau her elder
son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and
said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort
himself, purposing to kill thee.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
44 And tarry with him a few days,
until thy brother's fury turn away;
45 Until thy brother's anger turn
away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will
send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in
one day?
46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am
weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what
good shall my life do me?
Chapter 28 Jacob’s flight
to Paddan Aram (Mesopotamia) and dream at Bethel
1 And Isaac called Jacob, and
blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of
the daughters of Canaan.
2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the
house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the
daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and
make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of
people;
4 And give thee the blessing of
Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land
wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he
went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of
Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
6 When Esau saw that Isaac had
blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence;
and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife of the daughters of Canaan;
7 And that Jacob obeyed his father
and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
8 And Esau seeing that the daughters
of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and
took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's
son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10 And Jacob went out from
Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
11 And he lighted upon a certain
place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the
stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place
to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder
set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels
of God ascending and descending on it.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above
it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac:
the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust
of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to
the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families
of the earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and
will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into
this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee of.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep,
and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is
the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the
morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for
a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that
place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If
God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me
bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 So that I come again to my
father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set
for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will
surely give the tenth unto thee.
Chapter 29 Jacob and the
Daughters of Laban; Jacob meets Rachel and marries Leah and Rachel
1 Then Jacob went on his journey,
and came into the land of the people of the east.
2 And he looked, and behold a well
in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of
that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
3 And thither were all the flocks
gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the
sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
4 And Jacob said unto them, My
brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
5 And he said unto them, Know ye
Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
6 And he said unto them, Is he well?
And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the
sheep.
7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high
day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye
the sheep, and go and feed them.
8 And they said, We cannot, until
all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the
well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
9 And while he yet spake with them,
Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.
10 And it came to pass, when Jacob
saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban
his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the
well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and
lifted up his voice, and wept.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was
her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her
father.
13 And it came to pass, when Laban
heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and
embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban
all these things.
14 And Laban said to him, Surely
thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
15 And Laban said unto Jacob,
Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell
me, what shall thy wages be?
16 And Laban had two daughters: the
name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel
was beautiful and well favoured.
18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said,
I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
19 And Laban said, It is better that
I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
20 And Jacob served seven years for
Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give
me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
22 And Laban gathered together all
the men of the place, and made a feast.
23 And it came to pass in the
evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in
unto her.
24 And Laban gave unto his daughter
Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
25 And it came to pass, that in the
morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done
unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou
beguiled me?
26 And Laban said, It must not be so
done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give
thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other
years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled
her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his
daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
30 And he went in also unto Rachel,
and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other
years.
31 And when the LORD saw that Leah
was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
32 And Leah conceived, and bare a
son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked
upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
33 And she conceived again, and bare
a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath
therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
34 And she conceived again, and bare
a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I
have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
35 And she conceived again, and bare
a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name
Judah; and left bearing.
Chapter 30 Jacob begets
children, and bargains with Laban
1 And when Rachel saw that she bare
Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled
against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee
the fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, Behold my maid
Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have
children by her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her
handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare
Jacob a son.
6 And Rachel said, God hath judged
me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she
his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived
again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said, With great
wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called
his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left
bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob
a son.
11 And Leah said, A troop cometh:
and she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob
a second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for
the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14 And Reuben went in the days of
wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his
mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
15 And she said unto her, Is it a
small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my
son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to
night for thy son's mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came out of the field
in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto
me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her
that night.
17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and
she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
18 And Leah said, God hath given me
my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and
bare Jacob the sixth son.
20 And Leah said, God hath endued me
with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him
six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
21 And afterwards she bare a
daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and
God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bare a
son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
24 And she called his name Joseph;
and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel
had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto
mine own place, and to my country.
26 Give me my wives and my children,
for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I
have done thee.
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray
thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by
experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
28 And he said, Appoint me thy
wages, and I will give it.
29 And he said unto him, Thou
knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
30 For it was little which thou
hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD
hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own
house also?
31 And he said, What shall I give
thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this
thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.
32 I will pass through all thy flock
to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the
brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and
of such shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer
for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every
one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the
sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would
it might be according to thy word.
35 And he removed that day the he
goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were
speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the
brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days' journey
betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
37 And Jacob took him rods of green
poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them,
and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had
pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before
the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob did separate the lambs,
and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in
the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not
unto Laban's cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever
the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of
the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble,
he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43 And the man increased
exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and
camels, and asses.
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