Author: Through the Bible In a Year

Gen. 42:18 ¶ On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God: Gen. 42:19 if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households, Gen....

Gen. 41:17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile. Gen. 41:18 Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass. Gen. 41:19 Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such...

Gen. 39:1 ¶ Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. Gen. 39:2 The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house...

Gen. 37:1 ¶ Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan. Gen. 37:2 ¶ These are the generations of Jacob. ¶ Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph...

Gen. 35:1 ¶ God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” Gen. 35:2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are...

Gen. 32:13 ¶ So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau, Gen. 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, Gen. 32:15 thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female...

Gen. 31:17 ¶ So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels. Gen. 31:18 He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. Gen. 31:19 Laban...

Gen. 30:1 ¶ When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Gen. 30:2 Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”...

Gen. 28:1 ¶ Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. Gen. 28:2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. Gen. 28:3...

Gen. 26:17 ¶ So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. Gen. 26:18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names...