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Genesis · read by Carter Conlon
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Genesis 1
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.Read from NASB1995 · Everything Is Servant to the Word of God
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And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.Read from NKJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters."Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear." And it was so.Read from ESV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth." And it was so.Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.Read from NKJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
Genesis 2
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Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.Read from KJV · Shall the Dust Praise Thee?
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Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."Read from KJV · The Basis of Faith Is Trust
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.Read from NKJV · Old Men Shall Dream Dreams
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So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man's ribs and closed up the area with flesh.Read from KJV · As Christ Love His Church
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And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.Read from KJV · As Christ Love His Church
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And the man said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for out of man she was taken."Read from NKJV · As Christ Love His Church
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And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.Read from NKJV · As Christ Love His Church
Genesis 3
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'"Read from NKJV · Steak and Snake
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The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"Read from NKJV · The Prophet From Judea
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"For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.Read from KJV · God Will Feed You in the Wilderness
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And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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"I heard Your voice in the garden," he replied, "and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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And the man answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.Read from NKJV · Are Your Feet Where They Should Be?
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And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."Read from NKJV · Israel's War is Your War
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To the woman He said: "I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Evangelistic Rally - Part 3
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Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Evangelistic Rally - Part 3
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."Read from NKJV · A Day When Many Walked Away From Jesus
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And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.Read from NKJV · Let's Talk About Sin
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Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.Read from KJV · Footsteps in the Hallway
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So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Evangelistic Rally - Part 3
Genesis 4
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Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.Read from KJV · The Last Day Return to Discernment - Part 2
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And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I do not know!" he answered. "Am I my brother's keeper?"Read from KJV · The Last Day Return to Discernment - Part 2
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"What have you done?" replied the LORD. "The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.Read from KJV · The Last Day Return to Discernment - Part 2
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But Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.Read from ESV · The Last Day Return to Discernment - Part 2
Genesis 6
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Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.Read from NKJV · The Battle that Rages for Your Mind (Video)
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And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Evangelistic Rally - Part 3
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So the LORD said, "I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them."Read from NKJV · The Battle that Rages for Your Mind (Video)
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Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.Read from NKJV · The Battle That Rages for Your Mind
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Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.Read from NKJV · The Gospel According to Noah
Genesis 7
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Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the groundRead from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.Read from NKJV · Get Ready, Jesus Is Coming
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So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.Read from KJV · That People Would Believe Noah
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.Read from NASB1995 · That People Would Believe Noah
Genesis 9
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.Read from KJV · My Hope When Love Has Gone Dry
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Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.Read from KJV · My Hope When Love Has Gone Dry
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When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,Read from KJV · My Hope When Love Has Gone Dry
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he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."Read from KJV · My Hope When Love Has Gone Dry
Genesis 12
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you."Read from NKJV · Prayer Meeting at Yale University
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So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.Read from NKJV · A Journey of Miracles
Genesis 13
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So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you."Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
Genesis 14
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They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer's army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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and he blessed Abram and said: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
Genesis 15
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After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."Read from KJV · Fear Not
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And the LORD said to him, "Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon."Read from NKJV · The Day That God Condemned The Law
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So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.Read from NKJV · The Day That God Condemned The Law
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And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.Read from NKJV · The Day That God Condemned The Law
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.Read from NKJV · The Day That God Condemned The Law
Genesis 17
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Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"Read from KJV · Forever Dwelling in the Presence of God
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And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"Read from KJV · Forever Dwelling in the Presence of God
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But God replied, "Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.Read from KJV · Forever Dwelling in the Presence of God
Genesis 18
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Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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"My lord," said Abraham, "if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside of Sodom
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"Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked. "There, in the tent," he replied.Read from KJV · The Manifested Presence of Jesus
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Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.Read from KJV · The Manifested Presence of Jesus
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And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.Read from KJV · The Manifested Presence of Jesus
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So she laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"Read from KJV · The Manifested Presence of Jesus
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Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son."Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?Read from KJV · The Christian Response to Sodom
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Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.Read from NKJV · Jesus, Help Me!
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For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised."Read from KJV · The Christian Response to Sodom
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Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out."Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.Read from KJV · Calling Down Fire
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Abraham stepped forward and said, "Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?Read from NKJV · If Sodom Had Miracles
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What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?Read from NKJV · Jesus, Help Me!
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Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?"Read from NKJV · Jesus, Help Me!
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So the LORD replied, "If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place."Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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Then Abraham answered, "Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?" He replied, "If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it."Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, "Suppose forty are found there?" He answered, "On account of the forty, I will not do it."Read from NKJV · A Prayer Meeting Outside Of Sodom (Video)
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Then Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?" He replied, "If I find thirty there, I will not do it."Read from NKJV · If Sodom Had Miracles
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And Abraham said, "Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?" He answered, "On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it."Read from NKJV · If Sodom Had Miracles
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Finally, Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?" And He answered, "On account of the ten, I will not destroy it."Read from NKJV · Jesus, Help Me!
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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.Read from NKJV · Jesus, Help Me!
Genesis 19
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Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,Read from KJV · The Christian Response to Sodom
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Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!"Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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"Please, my brothers," he pleaded, "don't do such a wicked thing!Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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Then the two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,Read from KJV · The Christian Response to Sodom
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because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it."Read from KJV · The Christian Response to Sodom
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But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD's compassion for them.Read from NKJV · Perversion At The Schoolhouse Door
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As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved."Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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"Very well," he answered, "I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line."Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father's line."Read from KJV · Escape to the Mountain
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Thus both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.Read from KJV · May the Lord Give You a Full Reward
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The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.Read from KJV · May the Lord Give You a Full Reward
Genesis 21
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And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.Read from NASB1995 · Get Ready to Laugh With God
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.Read from NASB1995 · Get Ready to Laugh With God
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.Read from NASB1995 · Get Ready to Laugh With God
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Then Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me."Read from NKJV · Get Ready to Laugh With God
Genesis 22
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"Take your son," God said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."Read from KJV · Forever Dwelling in the Presence of God
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And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."Read from KJV · Digging Up the Old Wells of Abraham
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saying, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,Read from KJV · Forever Dwelling in the Presence of God
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I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.Read from KJV · Forever Dwelling in the Presence of God
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And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."Read from NASB1995 · America And Its Children Need Deliverance (Video)
Genesis 24
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By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, "Place your hand under my thigh,Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Abraham replied, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father's house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.Read from ESV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor's hometown in Aram-naharaim.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.Read from NKJV · 'Yes Lord' Is a Prayer
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"O LORD, God of my master Abraham," he prayed, "please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.Read from NKJV · 'Yes Lord' Is a Prayer
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Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.Read from NKJV · 'Yes Lord' Is a Prayer
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Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who responds, 'Drink, and I will water your camels as well'—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.Read from NKJV · 'Yes Lord' Is a Prayer
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So the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please let me have a little water from your jar."Read from NKJV · 'Yes Lord' Is a Prayer
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"Drink, my lord," she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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After she had given him a drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink."Read from ESV · 'Yes Lord' Is a Prayer
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And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.Read from NKJV · 'Yes Lord' Is a Prayer
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And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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She replied, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Then she added, "We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Laban and Bethuel answered, "This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master's son, just as the LORD has decreed."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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So they said, "We will call the girl and ask her opinion."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies."Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
Genesis 26
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Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham's time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.Read from NKJV · Digging Up the Old Wells of Abraham
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,Read from KJV · Digging Up the Old Wells of Abraham
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because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."Read from ESV · Digging Up the Old Wells of Abraham
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So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Pastors and Leaders
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Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us."Read from KJV · Digging Up the Old Wells of Abraham
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So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Pastors and Leaders
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Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Pastors and Leaders
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Then Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.Read from KJV · Digging Up the Old Wells of Abraham
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But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.Read from KJV · Digging Up the Old Wells of Abraham
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Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Pastors and Leaders
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He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, "At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Pastors and Leaders
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and that night the LORD appeared to him 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 descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Pastors and Leaders
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So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Pastors and Leaders
Genesis 27
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Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me."Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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But Isaac asked his son, "How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?" "Because the LORD your God brought it to me," he replied.Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?"Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.Read from ESV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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Again he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he replied, "I am."Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come near and kiss me, my son."Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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But Isaac replied, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."Read from NKJV · Escaping the Yoke of the Swindler
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So Esau declared, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing." Then he asked, "Haven't you saved a blessing for me?"Read from NKJV · Escaping the Yoke of the Swindler
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Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.Read from NKJV · Escaping the Yoke of the Swindler
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His father Isaac answered him: "Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.Read from NKJV · Escaping the Yoke of the Swindler
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You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck."Read from NKJV · Escaping the Yoke of the Swindler
Genesis 28
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On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.Read from KJV · The Dreadful Places of Blessing
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And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down the ladder.Read from KJV · Judging Angels
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And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.Read from KJV · Judging Angels
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.Read from KJV · The Dreadful Places of Blessing
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Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."Read from KJV · Pouring Oil on Your Pillow
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When Jacob woke up, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it."Read from KJV · The Dreadful Places of Blessing
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And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!"Read from KJV · Judging Angels
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Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,Read from KJV · Pouring Oil on Your Pillow
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and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.Read from ESV · Judging Angels
Genesis 32
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Then Jacob declared, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, 'Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,'Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Read from KJV · The Dreadful Places of Blessing
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When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob's hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
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So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, "Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared."Read from NKJV · The Dreadful Places of Blessing
Genesis 33
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Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir."Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 2: The God-Touched Life
Genesis 37
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When Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.Read from KJV · Don't Lose Heart in Your Time of Testing
Genesis 42
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So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · Money, Mules and Travel
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They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.Read from KJV · Passing Through the Gates of Betrayal
Genesis 43
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Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.Read from KJV · Passing Through the Gates of Betrayal
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Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, "Serve the meal."Read from KJV · Passing Through the Gates of Betrayal
Genesis 45
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Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, "Send everyone away from me!" So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.Read from KJV · Starving the Work of Christ
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But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh's household soon heard of it.Read from KJV · Passing Through the Gates of Betrayal
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Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.Read from KJV · Passing Through the Gates of Betrayal
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And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.Read from KJV · Passing Through the Gates of Betrayal
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God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.Read from KJV · Starving the Work of Christ
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Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · Starving the Work of Christ
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Now return quickly to my father and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.Read from KJV · Starving the Work of Christ
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You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.Read from KJV · Starving the Work of Christ
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And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.'Read from KJV · Starving the Work of Christ
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Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.Read from NKJV · Starving the Work of Christ
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.Read from NKJV · The Right Cry at the Right Throne
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Then bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.'Read from NKJV · The Right Cry at the Right Throne
Genesis 47
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the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock."Read from NKJV · The Right Cry at the Right Throne
Genesis 49
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Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down to you.Read from KJV · The Last Days Image of Christ
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Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?Read from KJV · The Last Days Image of Christ
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The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.Read from KJV · The Congregation of the Dead
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His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.Read from KJV · The Last Days Image of Christ
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Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.Read from NKJV · It All Began With a Thirsty Woman
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The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.Read from NKJV · It All Began With a Thirsty Woman
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Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,Read from NKJV · It All Began With a Thirsty Woman (Video)
Genesis 50
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Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh's household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—Read from KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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along with all of Joseph's household, and his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.Read from KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.Read from KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.Read from KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians." Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.Read from KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.Read from KJV · The Day That Jesus Left His Friends