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Genesis · read by Robert Constable
43 verses, in order. Only the verses Robert read aloud are shown.
Genesis 12
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you."Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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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 · The God of Abraham
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And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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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 · The God of Abraham
Genesis 13
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to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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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 · The God of Abraham
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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you."Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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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 · The God of Abraham
Genesis 15
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After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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But Abram replied, "O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"Read from KJV · The God of Abraham
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 · The God of Isaac
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So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Read from KJV · The God of Isaac
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.Read from KJV · The God of Isaac
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.Read from KJV · The God of Isaac
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She added, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."Read from KJV · The God of Isaac
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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 · The God of Isaac
Genesis 25
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This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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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 · The God of Jacob
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When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.Read from NASB1995 · The God of Jacob
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The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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After this, his brother came out grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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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 · The God of Jacob
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Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
Genesis 26
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,Read from KJV · The God of Isaac
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because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."Read from KJV · The God of Isaac
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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 KJV · The God of Isaac
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and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."Read from KJV · The God of Isaac
Genesis 28
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So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, "Do not marry a Canaanite woman,"Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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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 · The God of Jacob
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And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.Read from KJV · The God of Jacob
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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 · The God of Jacob