Daily
Feast
(Tenth
Day)
Genesis 28:1 – 30:29
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
28
1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and
commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of
Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of
Laban, your mother’s brother. 3 May God
Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a
company of peoples, 4 and give you the
blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may
inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram
to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s
mother.
6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and
sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he
blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan;” 7 and that Jacob
obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t
please Isaac, his father. 9 So Esau went
to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the
daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went
toward Haran. 11 He came to a certain
place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the
stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to
sleep. 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway
set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God
were ascending and descending on it. 13
Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of
Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to
you and to your offspring. 14 Your
offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the
west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your
offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever
you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until
I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said,
“Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.” 17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this
place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took
the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and
poured oil on its top. 19 He called the
name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God
will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread
to eat, and clothing to put on, 21 so
that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
22 then this stone, which I have set up
for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely
give a tenth to you.”
29
1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to
the land of the children of the east. 2
He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep
lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on
the well’s mouth was large. 3 There all
the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and
watered the sheep, and put the stone back on the well’s mouth in its place.
4 Jacob said to them, “My relatives,
where are you from?”
They
said, “We are from Haran.”
5 He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son
of Nahor?”
They
said, “We know him.”
6 He said to them, “Is it well with him?”
They
said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”
7 He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of
the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and
feed them.”
8 They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks
are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we
will water the sheep.”
9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel
came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. 10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban,
his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went
near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of
Laban his mother’s brother. 11 Jacob
kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s
relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his
sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and
brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. 14 Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone
and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month. 15 Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my
relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your
wages be?”
16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the
elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was
beautiful in form and attractive. 18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel,
your younger daughter.”
19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to
you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They
seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my
days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
22 Laban gathered together all the men of the
place, and made a feast. 23 In the
evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to
her. 24 Laban gave Zilpah his servant to
his daughter Leah for a servant. 25 In
the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done
to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
26 Laban said, “It is not done so in our place,
to give the younger before the firstborn. 27
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for
the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”
28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave
him Rachel his daughter as wife. 29
Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her
servant. 30 He went in also to Rachel,
and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened
her womb, but Rachel was barren. 32 Leah
conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because
Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.” 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and
said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this
son also.” She named him Simeon. 34 She
conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be
joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was
called Levi. 35 She conceived again, and
bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him
Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
30
1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no
children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or
else I will die.”
2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he
said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to
her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.” 4
She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and
has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name
Dan. 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant,
conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. 8
Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and
have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing,
she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son. 11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him
Gad. 12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore
Jacob a second son. 13 Leah said, “Happy
am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and
found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel
said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
15
Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband?
Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”
Rachel
said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and
Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely
hired you with my son’s mandrakes.”
He
lay with her that night. 17 God listened
to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because
I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar. 19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to
Jacob. 20 Leah said, “God has endowed me
with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him
six sons.” She named him Zebulun. 21
Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to
her, and opened her womb. 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has
taken away my reproach.” 24 She named
him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to
Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I
have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have
served you.”
27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor
in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your
sake.” 28 He said, “Appoint me your
wages, and I will give it.”
29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have
served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
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