Today we begin Genesis Chapter 29. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. After Jacob’s spiritual encounter with God, he is now a changed man. The circumstances haven’t changed. He is still all alone and on the run with nothing but the shirt on his back. However, the […]

“And 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 raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: And this stone, which I […]

The story of Jacob is a reminder that God keeps His promises to us in spite of our failures and sometimes lack of faith. As a result of lying and scheming to get his birthright and blessing, Jacob is now on the run. Yet God appears to him to reassure him and let him know […]

“Jacob got up early in the morning, took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a standing-stone, poured olive oil on its top and named the place Beit-El; but the town had originally been called Luz.”–Genesis 28:18-19 In order to escape the wrath of his brother, Jacob all alone hightails it out […]

 “Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.“-Genesis 28:8-9 I really feel sorry for Esau. I mean he just can’t seem to do anything right. He sells […]