Daily
Feast
(Seventh
Day)
Genesis 21:3 – 24:10
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
21
3 Abraham called his son who was born to him,
whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4 Abraham
circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded
him. 5 Abraham was one hundred years old
when his son, Isaac, was born to him. 6
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with
me.” 7 She said, “Who would have said to
Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old
age.”
8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a
great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham,
mocking. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham,
“Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be
heir with my son, Isaac.”
11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s
sight on account of his son. 12 God said
to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and
because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice.
For your offspring will be named through Isaac. 13 I will also make a nation of the son of the
servant, because he is your child.” 14
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of
water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the
child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of
Beersheba. 15 The water in the container
was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good
way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of
the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 17 God heard the voice of the boy.
The
angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles
you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he
is. 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold
him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived
in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer. 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His
mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the
captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you
do. 23 Now, therefore, swear to me here
by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my
son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do
to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
24 Abraham said, “I will swear.” 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a
water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. 26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done
this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them
to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. 28
Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these
seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe
lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
31 Therefore he called that place
Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba.
Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into
the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham
planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of
Yahweh, the Everlasting God. 34 Abraham
lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
22
1 After these things, God tested Abraham, and
said to him, “Abraham!”
He
said, “Here I am.”
2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son,
Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt
offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
3 Abraham rose early in the morning, and
saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son.
He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of
which God had told him. 4 On the third
day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. 5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here
with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come
back to you.” 6 Abraham took the wood of
the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire
and the knife. They both went together. 7
Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?”
He
said, “Here I am, my son.”
He
said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?”
8 Abraham said, “God will provide himself the
lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together. 9 They came to the place which God had told him
of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his
son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. 10
Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky,
and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
He
said, “Here I am.”
12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or
do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not
withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went
and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 Abraham called the name of that place
“Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it
will be provided.”
15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second
time out of the sky, 16 and said, “ ‘I
have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have
not withheld your son, your only son, 17
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring
greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the
seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed
by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and
they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
20 After these things, Abraham was told,
“Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the
father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo,
Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 23
Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor,
Abraham’s brother. 24 His concubine,
whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
23
1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years.
This was the length of Sarah’s life. 2
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and
spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner
living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may
bury my dead out of my sight.”
5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying
to him, 6 “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead
in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your
dead.”
7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the
people of the land, to the children of Heth. 8
He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead
out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah,
which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell
it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”
10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the
children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the
children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying, 11
“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in
it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your
dead.”
12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people
of the land. 13 He spoke to Ephron in
the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear
me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my
dead there.”
14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15
“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of
silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed
to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth,
four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
17 So the field of Ephron, which was in
Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all
the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
18 to Abraham for a possession in the
presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his
city. 19 After this, Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is,
Hebron), in the land of Canaan. 20 The
field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of
Heth as a possession for a burial place.
24
1 Abraham was old, and well advanced in age.
Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. 2
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all
that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh. 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of
heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my
relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman
isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the
land you came from?”
6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t
bring my son there again. 7 Yahweh, the
God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my
birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to
your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for
my son from there. 8 If the woman isn’t
willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you
shall not bring my son there again.”
9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of
Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. 10 The servant took ten of his master’s camels,
and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He
arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Sixth Day <--> Eighth Day
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