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Genesis · read by Chuck Smith
778 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 ESV · (Through the Bible) Nehemiah 8-13
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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 · (Through the Bible) 2 Corinthians 3-4
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And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.Read from ESV · (The Word for Today) Isaiah 11:5 - Part 2
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And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.Read from NKJV · The Creation of the World Part 2
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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 NKJV · The Creation of the World Part 2
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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 · The Creation of the Firmament
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So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.Read from KJV · The Creation of the Firmament
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God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:1-18
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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 NKJV · The Creation of the Firmament
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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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind." And it was so.Read from NKJV · The Creation of the Firmament
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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 NKJV · The Creation of the Firmament
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.Read from NKJV · Creation of Man Part 1
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 1:19-31
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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 ESV · Creation of Man Part 1
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God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."Read from NKJV · Creation of Man Part 1
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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 NKJV · Creation of Man 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 NKJV · Creation of Man Part 1
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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 NKJV · Creation of Man Part 1
Genesis 2
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.Read from NKJV · Creation of Man Part 1
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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 NKJV · Creation of Man Part 1
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 NKJV · Creation of Man Part 2
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.Read from NKJV · Creation of Man Part 2
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Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.Read from NKJV · Creation of Man Part 1
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,Read from NKJV · Creation of Man Part 2
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · Creation of Man Part 2
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.Read from NKJV · Creation of Man Part 2
Genesis 3
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'"Read from NKJV · Temptation
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The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,Read from NKJV · Temptation
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but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"Read from NKJV · Temptation
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"For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."Read from NKJV · Temptation
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When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.Read from NKJV · Temptation
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And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.Read from NKJV · Temptation
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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But the LORD God called out to the man, "Where are you?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 2-3
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I do not know!" he answered. "Am I my brother's keeper?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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But Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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Then Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
Genesis 5
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Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them "man."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 4-5
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Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 NKJV · How God Saved the Godly
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.Read from NKJV · How God Saved the Godly
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.Read from NKJV · How God Saved the Godly
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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 NKJV · How God Saved the Godly
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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 NKJV · How God Saved the Godly
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Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
Genesis 7
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and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 6-7
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the arkRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
Genesis 9
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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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"Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."Read from NKJV · The Curse on Canaan
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 8-9
Genesis 10
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The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.Read from NKJV · The Curse on Canaan
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From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.Read from NKJV · The Curse on Canaan
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.Read from NKJV · The Curse on Canaan
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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 NKJV · The Curse on Canaan
Genesis 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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
Genesis 12
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I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Read from NKJV · The Deed to the Land
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you."Read from NKJV · The Deed to the Land
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So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
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Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring. " So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
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The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 10-12
Genesis 13
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So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.Read from NKJV · The Deed to the Land
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you."Read from NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
Genesis 14
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.Read from NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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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 NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.Read from NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.Read from NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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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 NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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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 NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High —Read from NKJV · Appropriation by Faith
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and he blessed Abram and said: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from NASB1995 · Appropriation by Faith
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and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 13-14
Genesis 15
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 1
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So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 1
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And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 1
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 1
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But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 1
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You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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"Hagar, servant of Sarai," he said, "where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I am running away from my mistress Sarai," she replied.Read from NASB1995 · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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So the angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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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 NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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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 NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: "You are the God who sees me, " for she said, "Here I have seen the One who sees me!"Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
Genesis 17
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When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.Read from NKJV · Abram's Concern of Having No Children Part 2
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I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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"As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.Read from NKJV · Abram, Abraham, and the Almighty God
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 NKJV · Abram, Abraham, and the Almighty God
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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 NKJV · Abram, Abraham, and the Almighty God
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.Read from ESV · Circumcision
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"Read from ESV · Abram, Abraham, and the Almighty God
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But God replied, "Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
Genesis 18
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Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.Read from ESV · Circumcision
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread."Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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"Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked. "There, in the tent," he replied.Read from NASB1995 · Circumcision
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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So she laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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And the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really bear a child when I am old?'Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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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 NKJV · Circumcision
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised."Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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Abraham stepped forward and said, "Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?Read from NKJV · Circumcision
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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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 · Circumcision
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 15-18
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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.Read from NKJV · Circumcision
Genesis 19
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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"Please, my brothers," he pleaded, "don't do such a wicked thing!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 19-20
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
Genesis 22
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Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered.Read from KJV · Faith That Works
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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 · Faith That Works
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So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.Read from KJV · Abraham's Unique Test
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"Stay here with the donkey," Abraham told his servants. "The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
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Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.Read from KJV · Faith That Works
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Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" "Here I am, my son," he replied. "The fire and the wood are here," said Isaac, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"Read from NASB1995 · Abraham's Unique Test
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Abraham answered, "God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two walked on together.Read from KJV · Faith That Works
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When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.Read from KJV · Faith That Works
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.Read from NASB1995 · Abraham's Unique Test
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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 ESV · Abraham's Unique Test
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"Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him," said the angel, "for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me."Read from NKJV · Abraham's Unique Test
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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 · Faith That Works
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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 · Faith That Works
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
Genesis 23
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 21-23
Genesis 24
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By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, "Place your hand under my thigh,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father's house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there."Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.Read from ESV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor's hometown in Aram-naharaim.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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"O LORD, God of my master Abraham," he prayed, "please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who responds, 'Drink, and I will water your camels as well'—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master."Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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So the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please let me have a little water from your jar."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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After she had given him a drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink."Read from ESV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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She replied, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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Then she added, "We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night."Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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saying, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master's relatives."Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 1
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The girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and heard Rebekah's words, "The man said this to me," he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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"The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 ESV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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My master made me swear an oath and said, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.'Read from ESV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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Then I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not come back with me?'Read from ESV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.'Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, 'Please let me drink a little water from your jar,'Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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and she replies, 'Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,' may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master's son.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She replied, 'The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, "Send me on my way to my master."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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So they said, "We will call the girl and ask her opinion."Read from NKJV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camelRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.Read from ESV · Finding a Bride for Isaac Part 2
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
Genesis 25
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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and He declared to her: "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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 ESV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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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 NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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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 NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, "She is my sister." For he was afraid to say, "She is my wife," since he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful."Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So she is really your wife! How could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought I might die on account of her."Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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"What is this you have done to us?" asked Abimelech. "One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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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 NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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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 NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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Then Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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"Why have you come to me?" Isaac asked them. "You hated me and sent me away."Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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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 NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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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 NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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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 ESV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 24-26
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When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.Read from NKJV · Jacob Stealing the Birthright
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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"Look," said Isaac, "I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing."Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?"Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.Read from ESV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Again he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he replied, "I am."Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come near and kiss me, my son."Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father's presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, "My father, sit up and eat of your son's game, so that you may bless me."Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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But his father Isaac replied, "Who are you?" "I am Esau, your firstborn son," he answered.Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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But Isaac replied, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."Read from NKJV · Esau Lost His Birthright
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · Matthew 1-4
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 27-28
Genesis 29
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Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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"Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?" Jacob asked. "We know him," they replied.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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But they replied, "We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Then Laban declared, "You are indeed my own flesh and blood." After Jacob had stayed with him a month,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
Genesis 30
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When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. "Give me children, or I will die!" she said to Jacob.Read from NKJV · Daniel 5-6
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son." So she named him Dan.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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And Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.Read from NASB1995 · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Then Rachel said, "In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won." So she named him Naphtali.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Then Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Leah said, "How happy I am! For the women call me happy." So she named him Asher.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband." So she named him Issachar.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,Read from ESV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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and she conceived and gave birth to a son. "God has taken away my shame," she said.Read from ESV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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She named him Joseph, and said, "May the LORD add to me another son."Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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And he added, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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"Agreed," said Laban. "Let it be as you have said."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Love for Rachael
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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You know that I have served your father with all my strength.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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In that dream the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
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May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 29-31
Genesis 32
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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You are also to say, 'Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.'" For he thought, "I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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Meanwhile, Shechem's father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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"We cannot do such a thing," they said. "To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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The young man, who was the most respected of all his father's household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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But they replied, "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
Genesis 35
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Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."Read from NKJV · Abram, Abraham, and the Almighty God
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.Read from NASB1995 · Jacob Moves to Bethel
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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 NKJV · Abram, Abraham, and the Almighty God
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you."Read from NKJV · Abram, Abraham, and the Almighty God
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Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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The sons of Rachel's maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
Genesis 36
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Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
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When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 32-36
Genesis 37
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Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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"Do you intend to reign over us?" his brothers asked. "Will you actually rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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Some time later, Joseph's brothers had gone to pasture their father's flocks near Shechem.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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a man found him wandering in the field and asked, "What are you looking for?"Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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"They have moved on from here," the man answered. "I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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Then they took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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His father recognized it and said, "It is my son's robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
Genesis 39
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
Genesis 40
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Some time later, the king's cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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Joseph replied, "This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
Genesis 41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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Pharaoh also told Joseph, "I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt."Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph's finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, "Bow the knee!" So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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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 ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
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When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 39-41
Genesis 42
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So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. "Where have you come from?" he asked. "From the land of Canaan," they replied. "We are here to buy food."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 37-38
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As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
Genesis 43
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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Take your brother as well, and return to the man at once.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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So they approached Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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"Your servant our father is well," they answered. "He is still alive." And they bowed down to honor him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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When the portions were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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At daybreak, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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"What can we say to my lord?" Judah replied. "How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord's slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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My lord asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.'Read from ESV · Judah's Plea
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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Then our father said, 'Go back and buy us some food.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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But we answered, 'We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.'Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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And your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.Read from ESV · Judah's Plea
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NASB1995 · Judah's Plea
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sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 · Judah's Plea
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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 ESV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.Read from NASB1995 · Judah's Plea
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Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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When the news reached Pharaoh's house that Joseph's brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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You are also directed to tell them: 'Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father's journey.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.Read from NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 NKJV · Judah's Plea
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 42-45
Genesis 46
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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 NKJV · God Encourages Jacob
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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 NKJV · God Encourages Jacob
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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 NKJV · God Encourages Jacob
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When Pharaoh summons you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'Read from ESV · God Encourages Jacob
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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 NKJV · God Encourages Jacob
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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Now that your father and brothers have come to you,Read from NKJV · God Encourages Jacob
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Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Read from NKJV · God Encourages Jacob
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, "We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.Read from NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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Then Joseph said to the people, "Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.Read from NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,Read from NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
Genesis 48
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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 ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.Read from NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, "Who are these?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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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 ESV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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Then Joseph removed his sons from his father's knees and bowed facedown.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Then he blessed Joseph and said: "May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, he was displeased and took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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"Not so, my father!" Joseph said. "This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow."Read from NKJV · Jacob Before Pharaoh
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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.Read from NKJV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.Read from ESV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down to you.Read from NKJV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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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 NKJV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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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 NKJV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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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 NKJV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.Read from ESV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.Read from NKJV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.Read from ESV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.Read from NKJV · Jacob Calls His Sons Together
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Asher's food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Last Words
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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 KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Last Words
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These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.Read from NKJV · Jacob's Last Words
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Last Words
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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 NKJV · Jacob's Last Words
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There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.Read from NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
Genesis 50
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Then Joseph fell upon his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.Read from NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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Pharaoh replied, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do."Read from NASB1995 · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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along with all of Joseph's household, and his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.Read from NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him."Read from NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Before he died, your father commanded,Read from NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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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 NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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But Joseph replied, "Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?Read from NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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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 NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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Now Joseph and his father's household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.Read from NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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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 NKJV · (Through the Bible) Genesis 47-50
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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 NKJV · The Death and Burial of Jacob
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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 · The Death and Burial of Jacob