Living Room Study

Genesis 32

“Then Jacob said, ‘God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, “Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,” I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant.  Indeed, I crossed [...]

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Genesis 31

“Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: ‘Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built his wealth from what belonged to our father.’  And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same.  Then the Lord said to him, ‘Go back to the land of [...]

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Genesis 30

“Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, ‘Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children from you?’  The she said, ‘Here is my slave Bilhah.  Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.’”  Genesis 30:2-3

There was an obvious difference between the [...]

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Genesis 28

“And he dreamed: a stairway to heaven was set on the ground with its top reaching to Heaven, and God’s angels were ascending and descending upon it.  The Lord was standing there beside him, saying, ‘I Am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac.  I will give you [...]

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Genesis 27

“Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, ‘Listen!  I heard you father talking to Esau…’”  Genesis 27:5-6

“Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, ‘Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, [...]

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Genesis 26

“Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died.  He gave them the same names his father had given them.  Moreover, Isaac’s slaves dug in the valley and found a well of living (spring) water there.  But [...]

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Genesis 25

“Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.  He said to Jacob, ‘Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.’  That is why he was also named Edom. (Hebrew: Reddish)  Jacob replied, ‘First, sell me your birthright.’”  Genesis 25: 29-30

I believe Abraham to be a man [...]

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Genesis 24

“The servant said to him, ‘Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land?  Should I have your son go back to the land he came from?’  Abraham answered him, ‘Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.  The Lord, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father’s [...]

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Genesis 23

“Abraham bowed down to the people of the land and said to Ephron in the presence of the people of the land, ‘Please listen to me.  Let me pay the price of the field.  Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.’  Ephron answered Abraham and said to him, ‘My lord, [...]

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Genesis 21

“The Lord came to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised.  Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.  Abraham named his son who was born to him – the one Sarah bore [...]

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