Daily
Feast
(Twelfth
Day)
Genesis 32:18 – 35:20
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
32
18 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant,
Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’
” 19 He commanded also the second, and
the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak
to Esau, when you find him. 20 You shall
say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’ ” For, he
said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I
will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
21 So the present passed over before him, and he
himself stayed that night in the camp.
22 He rose up that night, and took his two
wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of
the Jabbok. 23 He took them, and sent
them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. 24 Jacob was left alone,
and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. 25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against
him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was
strained as he wrestled. 26 The man said,
“Let me go, for the day breaks.”
Jacob
said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
27 He said to him, “What is your name?”
He
said, “Jacob”.
28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called
Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have
prevailed.”
29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”
He
said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.
30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel;
for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel,
and he limped because of his thigh. 32
Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is
on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s
thigh in the sinew of the hip.
33
1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and,
behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children
between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. 2
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children
after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. 3
He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on
his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 5
He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said,
“Who are these with you?”
He
said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6 Then the servants came near with their
children, and they bowed themselves. 7
Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them,
Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this
company which I met?”
Jacob
said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let
that which you have be yours.”
10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found
favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen
your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you,
because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged
him, and he took it.
12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s
go, and I will go before you.”
13 Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the
children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young,
and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Please let my lord pass over before his
servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that
are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord
to Seir.”
15 Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of
the people who are with me.”
He
said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built
himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the
place is called Succoth.
18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem,
which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped
before the city. 19 He bought the parcel
of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor,
Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money. 20 He erected an altar there, and called it El
Elohe Israel.
34
1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to
Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the
prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of
Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying,
“Get me this young lady as a wife.”
5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah,
his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his
peace until they came. 6 Hamor the
father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when
they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had
done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to
be done. 8 Hamor talked with them,
saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her
to him as a wife. 9 Make marriages with
us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be
before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
11 Shechem said to her father and to her
brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will
give. 12 Ask me a great amount for a
dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a
wife.”
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor
his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their
sister, 14 and said to them, “We can’t
do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a
reproach to us. 15 Only on this
condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of
you be circumcised, 16 then will we give
our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell
with you, and we will become one people. 17
But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take
our sister, and we will be gone.”
18
Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing,
because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the
house of his father. 20 Hamor and
Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of
their city, saying, 21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live
in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them.
Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
22 Only on this condition will the men
consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is
circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23
Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be
ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
24 All who went out of the gate of his city
listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all
who went out of the gate of his city. 25
On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and
Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city,
and killed all the males. 26 They killed
Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of
Shechem’s house, and went away. 27
Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had
defiled their sister. 28 They took their
flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was
in the field, 29 and all their wealth.
They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder
everything that was in the house. 30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to
the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few
in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I
will be destroyed, I and my house.”
31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as
with a prostitute?”
35
1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel,
and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled
from the face of Esau your brother.”
2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all
who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify
yourselves, and change your garments. 3
Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who
answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I
went.”
4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which
were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them
under the oak which was by Shechem. 5
They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around
them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which
is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 He built an altar there, and called the place
El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face
of his brother. 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s
nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was
called Allon Bacuth.
9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came
from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. 10
God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any
more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel. 11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be
fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and
kings will come out of your body. 12 The
land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your
offspring after you I will give the land.”
13 God went up from him in the place where he
spoke with him. 14 Jacob set up a pillar
in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink
offering on it, and poured oil on it. 15
Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still
some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
17 When she was in hard labor, the
midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she
named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin. 19 Rachel died, and was buried on the way to
Ephrath (also called Bethlehem). 20
Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s
grave to this day.
Eleventh Day <--> Thirteenth Day
 Genesis 32:18 – 35:20){kind=link}