Category: Genesis

1 These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). 2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 3 and these are the children of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. 4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau,…

7 The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing must not be done. Setting the Scene for Genesis 34:7 In…

1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants. 2 And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last.…

22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 24 And Jacob…

32 Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. Setting the Scene for Genesis 31:32 In Genesis chapter 31, we find Jacob, the son of Isaac,…

26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you. Setting the Scene for Genesis 30:26 In Genesis chapter 30, we find Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, in a tense situation with his…

6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he…

20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. 22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now,…

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is…

32 And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.” Setting the Scene for Genesis 29:32 In Genesis 29:32, we find ourselves in the midst of a complex and emotional scene involving Jacob,…