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Genesis · read by Chuck Missler
916 verses, in order. Only the verses Chuck read aloud are shown.
Genesis 1
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #01 Ch. 1:1 Intro. - Universal Beginnings
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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 · Genesis #01 Ch. 1:1 Intro. - Universal Beginnings
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And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.Read from ESV · Genesis #03 Ch. 1:3-19 Let Light Be
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And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.Read from NKJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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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 · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters."Read from NKJV · Genesis #03 Ch. 1:3-19 Let Light Be
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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 · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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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 KJV · Genesis #03 Ch. 1:3-19 Let Light Be
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God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering of waters He called "seas." And God saw that it was good.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.Read from KJV · Genesis #03 Ch. 1:3-19 Let Light Be
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.Read from KJV · Genesis #03 Ch. 1:3-19 Let Light Be
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And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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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 · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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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 · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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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 · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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And God said, "Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky."Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it."Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.Read from KJV · Esther #5 Macrocodes in Esther Part 1
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And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
Genesis 2
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.Read from ESV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.Read from ESV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.Read from KJV · Genesis #04 Ch. 1:19-2:3 Life After It's Own Kind
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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 · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.Read from NKJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.Read from KJV · Esther #5 Macrocodes in Esther Part 1
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Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:Read from KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.Read from KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.Read from KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.Read from KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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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 · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,Read from KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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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 · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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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 · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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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 · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.Read from KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.Read from NKJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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 KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,Read from KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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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 KJV · Genesis #05 Ch. 2:4-3:6
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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 KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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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 KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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"Who told you that you were naked?" asked the LORD God. "Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"Read from KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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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 KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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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 KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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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 · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.Read from KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 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 KJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.Read from NKJV · Jude #6 - Cain, Balaam and Korah
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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 · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
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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 NKJV · Genesis #06 Ch. 3
Genesis 4
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And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man," she said.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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Later she gave birth to Cain's brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.Read from KJV · Jude #6 - Cain, Balaam and Korah
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So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it."Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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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 · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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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 · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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But Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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"Not so!" replied the LORD. "If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold." And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
Genesis 5
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And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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And after he had become the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · Jude #7 - Enoch
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Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.Read from ESV · Jude #7 - Enoch
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When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.Read from NKJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
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After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Read from NKJV · Genesis #07 Ch. 4-5
Genesis 6
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Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,Read from KJV · Genesis #08 Ch. 6:1-14
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the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years."Read from KJV · Genesis #08 Ch. 6:1-14
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.Read from KJV · Genesis #08 Ch. 6:1-14
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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 KJV · Genesis #08 Ch. 6:1-14
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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 · Genesis #08 Ch. 6:1-14
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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 KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.Read from KJV · Genesis #08 Ch. 6:1-14
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And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Read from NKJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.Read from NKJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.Read from KJV · Genesis #08 Ch. 6:1-14
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Then God said to Noah, "The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals."Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.Read from NKJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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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 · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
Genesis 8
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The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the arkRead from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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In Noah's six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.Read from ESV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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"Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
Genesis 9
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Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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"Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth."Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.Read from KJV · Genesis #09 Ch. 6:15-9:19 Noah's Ark - a New Beginning
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But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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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 · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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He also declared: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant."Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
Genesis 10
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The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,Read from NKJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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All these are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
Genesis 11
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Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.Read from NKJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.Read from NKJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #10 Ch. 9:20-11
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And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.Read from ESV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared."Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!"Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
Genesis 13
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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 · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.Read from NKJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
Genesis 14
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The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea ).Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and arrayed themselves for battle in the Valley of SiddimRead from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.Read from KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.Read from KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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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 · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.Read from KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High —Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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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 · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself."Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion."Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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 · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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Abram continued, "Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir."Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, "This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir."Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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And the LORD took him outside and said, "Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able." Then He told him, "So shall your offspring be."Read from KJV · Genesis #11 Ch. Mazzaroth - Testimony of the Stars
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Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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The LORD also told him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."Read from KJV · Genesis #13 Ch. 14-15 Contrast of Abraham and Lot
Genesis 16
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Now Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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So Sarai said to Abram, "Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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So the angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Then the angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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The angel of the LORD proceeded: "Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
Genesis 17
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I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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"As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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God also said to Abraham, "You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her."Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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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 · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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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 · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham's household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
Genesis 18
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant's way. After that, you may continue on your way." "Yes," they replied, "you may do as you have said."Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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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 · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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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 · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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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 NKJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, "I did not laugh." "No," replied the LORD, "but you did laugh."Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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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 ESV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.Read from KJV · Genesis #14 Ch. 16-18 Test of Abraham
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Abraham stepped forward and said, "Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?Read from KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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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 KJV · Genesis #12 Ch. 12-13 the Call of Abraham
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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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and said, "My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way." "No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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"Please, my brothers," he pleaded, "don't do such a wicked thing!Read from KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. "Get up," he said. "Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.Read from KJV · Jude #4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.Read from NKJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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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 · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
Genesis 20
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Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, "Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Didn't Abraham tell me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Abraham replied, "I thought to myself, 'Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.'Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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So when God had me journey from my father's house, I said to Sarah, 'This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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And Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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And he said to Sarah, "See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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for on account of Abraham's wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech's household.Read from ESV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
Genesis 21
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Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Read from ESV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Then Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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She added, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."Read from NKJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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and she said to Abraham, "Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!"Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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But I will also make a nation of the slave woman's son, because he is your offspring."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.Read from ESV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, "What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · Genesis #15 Ch. 19-21 Sodom an Gomorrah
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 · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
Genesis 23
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"I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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"Listen to us, sir. You are God's chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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"If you are willing for me to bury my dead," he said to them, "listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalfRead from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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"No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the landRead from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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and said to Ephron in their presence, "If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded overRead from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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to Abraham's possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 NKJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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She replied, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor."Read from ESV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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The girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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"Come, you who are blessed by the LORD," said Laban. "Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say." So Laban said, "Please speak."Read from NKJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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"I am Abraham's servant," he replied.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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My master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Then I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not come back with me?'Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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And he told me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father's house.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will water your camels as well.' So I drank, and she also watered the camels.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere."Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Laban and Bethuel answered, "This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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But her brother and mother said, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go."Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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But he replied, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master."Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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So they said, "We will call the girl and ask her opinion."Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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They called Rebekah and asked her, "Will you go with this man?" "I will go," she replied.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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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 KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.Read from KJV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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and asked the servant, "Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?" "It is my master," the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.Read from ESV · Genesis #16 Ch. 22 & 24 Resurrection of Isaac
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And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother's death.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
Genesis 25
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Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Ishmael's descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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"Look," said Esau, "I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?"Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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"Swear to me first," Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
Genesis 26
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The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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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 · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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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 · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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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 · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Then Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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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 · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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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 · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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"We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you," they replied. "We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with youRead from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD."Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
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On that same day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We have found water!" they told him.Read from KJV · Genesis #17 Ch. 23-26 a Prophecy to Rebekah
Genesis 27
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," Esau replied.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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"Look," said Isaac, "I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."Read from NKJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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'Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.Read from NKJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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So Jacob went to his father and said, "My father." "Here I am!" he answered. "Which one are you, my son?"Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Again he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he replied, "I am."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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"Serve me," said Isaac, "and let me eat some of my son's game, so that I may bless you." Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come near and kiss me, my son."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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When Esau heard his father's words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me too, O my father!"Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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But Isaac replied, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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But Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?"Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?"Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
Genesis 28
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So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. "Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women," he commanded.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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"Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, "Do not marry a Canaanite woman,"Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 ESV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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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 · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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so that I may return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
Genesis 29
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Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.Read from ESV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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"Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?" Jacob asked. "We know him," they replied.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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"Is he well?" Jacob inquired. "Yes," they answered, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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"Look," said Jacob, "it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother's brother Laban, with Laban's sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.Read from NKJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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He told Rachel that he was Rebekah's son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Laban said to him, "Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Laban replied, "Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Finally Jacob said to Laban, "Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her."Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.Read from NKJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.Read from NKJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.Read from KJV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.Read from ESV · Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution
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And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, "The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well." So she named him Simeon.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
Genesis 30
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Then she said, "Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.Read from NASB1995 · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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And Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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When Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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But Leah replied, "Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son's mandrakes as well?" "Very well," said Rachel, "he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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"God has given me a good gift," she said. "This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." And she named him Zebulun.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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and she conceived and gave birth to a son. "God has taken away my shame," she said.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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But Laban replied, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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And he added, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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"What can I give you?" Laban asked. "You do not need to give me anything," Jacob replied. "If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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"Agreed," said Laban. "Let it be as you have said."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban's flocks.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban's flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban's animals.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
Genesis 31
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Now Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying, "Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father's expense."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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and he told them, "I can see from your father's countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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You know that I have served your father with all my strength.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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If he said, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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In that dream the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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'Look up,' he said, 'and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.'"Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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And Rachel and Leah replied, "Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father's house?Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Now you have gone off because you long for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?"Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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"I was afraid," Jacob answered, "for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So Laban went into Jacob's tent, then Leah's tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Now Rachel had taken Laban's household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Rachel said to her father, "Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period." So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. "What is my crime?" he said. "For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But Laban answered Jacob, "These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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and he said to his relatives, "Gather some stones." So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then Laban declared, "This mound is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore the place was called Galeed.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Laban also said to Jacob, "Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
Genesis 32
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Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.Read from ESV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God." So he named that place Mahanaim.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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He instructed them, "You are to say to my master Esau, 'Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But You have said, 'I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.'"Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, "Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So Jacob's gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.Read from NKJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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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 KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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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 KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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And Jacob requested, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed Jacob there.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was struck near that tendon.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
Genesis 33
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Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" Jacob answered, "These are the children God has graciously given your servant."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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"What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?" asked Esau. "To find favor in your sight, my lord," Jacob answered.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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"I already have plenty, my brother," Esau replied. "Keep what belongs to you."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But Jacob insisted, "No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need." So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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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 KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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"Let me leave some of my people with you," Esau said. But Jacob replied, "Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
Genesis 34
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When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Meanwhile, Shechem's father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.Read from ESV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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When Jacob's sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter—a thing that should not be done.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!"Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.Read from NKJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:Read from NKJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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"These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Jacob's other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
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Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed."Read from KJV · Genesis #20 Ch. 31-34 Wrestling to the End of Self
Genesis 35
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So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob's sons.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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And God said to him, "Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel. " So God named him Israel.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.Read from NKJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you are having another son."Read from KJV · Genesis #19 Ch. 29:31 - Ch. 31:14 the Sons of Israel
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Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.Read from ESV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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And the sons of Leah's maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.Read from NASB1995 · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
Genesis 36
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For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
Genesis 37
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This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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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 · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine."Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. "Look," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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Some time later, Joseph's brothers had gone to pasture their father's flocks near Shechem.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then Israel told him, "Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me." So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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a man found him wandering in the field and asked, "What are you looking for?"Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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"I am looking for my brothers," Joseph replied. "Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?"Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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Now Joseph's brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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"Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!"Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. "Let us not take his life," he said.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh." And they agreed.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
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Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.Read from KJV · Genesis #21 Ch. 35-37 Joseph, the Dreamer
Genesis 38
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There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother."Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He may die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, "Come now, let me sleep with you." "What will you give me for sleeping with you?" she inquired.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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"I will send you a young goat from my flock," Judah answered. But she replied, "Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it."Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow's garments again.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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So Hirah returned to Judah and said, "I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, 'No shrine prostitute has been here.'"Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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About three months later, Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant." "Bring her out!" Judah replied. "Let her be burned to death!"Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: "I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong." And she added, "Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?"Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. "This one came out first," she announced.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, "You have broken out first!" So he was named Perez.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
Genesis 39
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And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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When his master saw that the LORD was with him and made him prosper in all he did,Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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From the time that he put Joseph in charge of his household and all he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's household on account of him. The LORD's blessing was on everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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and after some time his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, "Sleep with me."Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Although Potiphar's wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, "Sleep with me!" But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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So Potiphar's wife kept Joseph's cloak beside her until his master came home.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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Then she told him the same story: "The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," he burned with anger.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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So Joseph's master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king's prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph's care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
Genesis 40
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Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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both of these men—the Egyptian king's cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: "In my dream there was a vine before me,Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.Read from ESV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
Genesis 41
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After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I recall my failures.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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One night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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"I myself cannot do it," Joseph replied, "but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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So Pharaoh asked them, "Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?"Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's household."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."Read from NKJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you."Read from KJV · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
Genesis 42
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"Look," he added, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "I am afraid that harm might befall him."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"Not so, my lord," they replied. "Your servants have come to buy food.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"No," he told them. "You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But they answered, "Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then Joseph declared, "Just as I said, you are spies!Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then they said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."Read from KJV · Genesis #22 Ch. 37-39 Joseph, the Faithful Servant
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And Reuben responded, "Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But we told him, 'We are honest men, not spies.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.'Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, 'This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.'"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Their father Jacob said to them, "You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
Genesis 43
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If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"Why did you bring this trouble upon me?" Israel asked. "Why did you tell the man you had another brother?"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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They replied, "The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, 'Bring your brother here'?"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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And Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, "Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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The man did as Joseph had commanded and took the brothers to Joseph's house.Read from NKJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph's house. "We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time," they said. "They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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So they approached Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"Please, sir," they said, "we really did come down here the first time to buy food.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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And the steward took the men into Joseph's house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided food for their donkeys.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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He asked if they were well, and then he asked, "How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?" Then he declared, "May God be gracious to you, my son."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, "Serve the meal."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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They were seated before Joseph in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
Genesis 44
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Then Joseph instructed his steward: "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one's silver in the mouth of his sack.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain." So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, "Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"Why does my lord say these things?" they asked. "Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"As you say," replied the steward. "But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph's house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"What is this deed you have done?" Joseph declared. "Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But Joseph replied, "Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then Judah approached Joseph and said, "Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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And we answered, 'We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.'Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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So we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.'Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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But you said to your servants, 'Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then our father said, 'Go back and buy us some food.'Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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And your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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When one of them was gone, I said: "Surely he has been torn to pieces." And I have not seen him since.Read from NASB1995 · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy's life,Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father, saying, 'If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.'Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Now please let your servant stay here as my lord's slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him."Read from NKJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
Genesis 45
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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 · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come near me." And they did so. "I am Joseph, your brother," he said, "the one you sold into Egypt!Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 · Genesis #23 Ch. 40-41 Joseph Glorified
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For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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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 KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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So the sons of Israel did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he also gave them provisions for their journey.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way!"Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"Joseph is still alive," they said, "and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!" But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
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"Enough!" declared Israel. "My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die."Read from KJV · Genesis #24 Ch. 42-45 the Revelation of Joseph
Genesis 46
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And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: "Jacob, Jacob!" He said. "Here I am," replied Jacob.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.Read from NASB1995 · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Jacob took with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.Read from ESV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacob's family arrived in the land of Goshen,Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then Israel said to Joseph, "Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!"Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.'Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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When Pharaoh summons you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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you are to say, 'Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
Genesis 47
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So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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And he chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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"What is your occupation?" Pharaoh asked Joseph's brothers. "Your servants are shepherds," they replied, "both we and our fathers."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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"How many years have you lived?" Pharaoh asked.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father's household with food for their families.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh's palace.Read from NASB1995 · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!"Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. Throughout that year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's,Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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However, he did not acquire the priests' portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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"You have saved our lives," they said. "We have found favor in our lord's eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests' land does not belong to Pharaoh.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Now the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them." Joseph answered, "I will do as you have requested."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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"Swear to me," Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
Genesis 48
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Some time later Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed meRead from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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and told me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, "Who are these?"Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Joseph said to his father, "They are the sons God has given me in this place." So Jacob said, "Please bring them to me, that I may bless them."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Now Israel's eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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"I never expected to see your face again," Israel said to Joseph, "but now God has let me see your children as well."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then Joseph removed his sons from his father's knees and bowed facedown.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand—and brought them close to him.Read from ESV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh's head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.Read from NKJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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"Not so, my father!" Joseph said. "This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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But his father refused. "I know, my son, I know!" he said. "He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So that day Jacob blessed them and said: "By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'" So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then Israel said to Joseph, "Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
Genesis 49
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Then Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father's bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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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 · Genesis #11 Ch. Mazzaroth - Testimony of the Stars
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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 · Genesis #11 Ch. Mazzaroth - Testimony of the Stars
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He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Asher's food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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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 · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder."Read from KJV · Genesis #26 Ch. 49 Israel's Prophecy
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Then Jacob instructed them, "I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
Genesis 50
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Then Joseph fell upon his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh thatRead from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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my father made me swear an oath when he said, 'I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.' Now let me go and bury my father, and then return."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Pharaoh replied, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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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 · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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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 · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So Jacob's sons did as he had charged them.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Before he died, your father commanded,Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.' So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." When their message came to him, Joseph wept.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, "We are your slaves!"Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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But Joseph replied, "Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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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 · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Now Joseph and his father's household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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He saw Ephraim's sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph's knees.Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, "God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place."Read from KJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith
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So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.Read from NKJV · Genesis #25 Ch. 46-48 & 50 Jacob's & Joseph's Faith