Daily
Feast
(Eleventh
Day)
Genesis 30:30 – 32:17
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
The First Book of Moses
Genesis
30
30 For it was little which you had before I
came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I
turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
31
Laban said, “What shall I give you?”
Jacob
said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will
again feed your flock and keep it. 32 I
will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and
spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled
among the goats. This will be my hire. 33
So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come
concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and
spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will
be considered stolen.”
34 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to
your word.”
35 That day, he removed the male goats that were
streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted,
every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and
gave them into the hand of his sons. 36
He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the
rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar,
almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear
which was in the rods. 38 He set the
rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the
flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink. 39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the
flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces
of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put
his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock. 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived,
Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs,
that they might conceive among the rods; 42
but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler
were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43
The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and
male servants, and camels and donkeys.
31
1 Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying,
“Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this
wealth from that which was our father’s.” 2
Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward
him as before. 3 Yahweh said to Jacob,
“Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with
you.”
4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the
field to his flock, 5 and said to them,
“I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as
before; but the God of my father has been with me. 6 You know that I have served your father with
all of my strength. 7 Your father has
deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt
me. 8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be
your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will
be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked. 9 Thus God has taken away
your father’s livestock, and given them to me. 10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes,
and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were
streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 11 The
angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ 12 He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold,
all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and
grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you. 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a
pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and
return to the land of your birth.’ ”
14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet
any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? 15 Aren’t we
considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our
money. 16 For all the riches which God
has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever
God has said to you, do.”
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his
wives on the camels, 18 and he took away
all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the
livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the
land of Canaan. 19 Now Laban had gone to
shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he
didn’t tell him that he was running away. 21
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and
set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob
had fled. 23 He took his relatives with
him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of
Gilead. 24 God came to Laban the Syrian
in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to
Jacob either good or bad.”
25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had
pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the
mountain of Gilead. 26 Laban said to
Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my
daughters like captives of the sword? 27
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I
might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with
harp; 28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my
sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. 29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you,
but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you
don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’ 30
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s
house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid,
for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’ 32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not
live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For
Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s
tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He
went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent. 34 Now Rachel had
taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt
around all the tent, but didn’t find them. 35
She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up
before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the
teraphim.
36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob
answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued
me? 37 Now that you have felt around in
all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here
before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
38
“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have
not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn’t
bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by
day or stolen by night. 40 This was my
situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my
sleep fled from my eyes. 41 These twenty
years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two
daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten
times. 42 Unless the God of my father,
the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you
would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my
hands, and rebuked you last night.”
43 Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my
daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that
you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their
children whom they have borne? 44 Now
come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and
you.”
45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a
pillar. 46 Jacob said to his relatives,
“Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but
Jacob called it Galeed. 48 Laban said,
“This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
49 and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh
watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take
wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness
between me and you.” 51 Laban said to
Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
52 May this heap be a witness, and the
pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you
will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the
God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his
father, Isaac. 54 Jacob offered a
sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate
bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. 55 Early in the morning, Laban
rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban
departed and returned to his place.
32
1
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s
army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to
Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. 4 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you
shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived
as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male
servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find
favor in your sight.’ ” 6 The messengers
returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet
you, and four hundred men are with him.” 7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people
who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two
companies. 8 He said, “If Esau comes to
the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham,
and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country,
and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’ 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the
loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant;
for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two
companies. 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of
Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the
children. 12 You said, ‘I will surely do
you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be
counted because there are so many.’ ”
13 He stayed there that night, and took from
that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male
goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels and their colts,
forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 16 He delivered them into the hands of his
servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me,
and put a space between herd and herd.” 17
He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you,
and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these
before you?’
Tenth Day <--> Twelfth Day
 Genesis 30:30 – 32:17){kind=link}