Category: Genesis

10 Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. 11 And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold, there…

1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.” 2 And he said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. 3 Now then, take…

5 because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” Setting the Scene for Genesis 26:5 In Genesis chapter 26, we find Isaac, the son of Abraham, in the land of Gerar during a time of famine. Isaac, like his father before him, is faced with the challenge…

8 Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. Setting the Scene for Genesis 25:8 In Genesis chapter 25, we find ourselves in the midst of a poignant scene where Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, has passed away…

7 The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from…

1 Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. Setting the Scene for Genesis 23:1 In Genesis chapter 23, we find Abraham mourning the death of his beloved wife, Sarah. The scene is set in the land of Canaan, where Abraham and Sarah had been living as foreigners. The couple…

1 After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall…

21 And when the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance. Setting the Scene for Genesis 12:21 In Genesis chapter 12,…

17 And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. Setting the Scene for Genesis 21:17 In Genesis chapter 21, we find the story…

23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And…