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Bible Reading for January 10
Genesis Chapter 30
1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her
sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God's
stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon
my knees, that I may also have children by her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath
given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I
have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave
her Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she
called his name Asher.
14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the
field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give
me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
15 And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that thou hast taken my
husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said,
Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet
him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my
son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth
son.
18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to
my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
20 And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good dowry; now will my husband
dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name
Zebulun.
21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my
reproach:
24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another
son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto
Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
26 Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me
go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes,
[tarry: for] I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for
thy sake.
28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it].
29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy
cattle was with me.
30 For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and it is [now]
increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming:
and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me
any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy
flock:
32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the
speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the
spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come
for my hire before thy face: every one that [is] not speckled and spotted
among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with
me.
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and
all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had
[some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into
the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the
rest of Laban's flocks.
37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree;
and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which [was] in the
rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in
the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive
when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle
ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward
the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own
flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that
Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they
might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were
Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants,
and menservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis Chapter 31
1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all
that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our father's hath he gotten
all this glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it [was] not toward
him as before.
3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to
thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it [is] not toward
me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God
suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare
speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare
all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up
mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the
cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying], Jacob: And I said,
Here [am] I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon
the cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that
Laban doeth unto thee.
13 I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where
thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return
unto the land of thy kindred.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is there] yet any portion
or inheritance for us in our father's house?
15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite
devoured also our money.
16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that [is] ours,
and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten,
the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to
Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that
[were] her father's.
20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not
that he fled.
21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river,
and set his face [toward] the mount Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days'
journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him,
Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and
Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away
unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives [taken] with the
sword?
27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst
not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with
tabret, and with harp?
28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now
done foolishly in [so] doing.
29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father
spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.
30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst
after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said,
Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our
brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me, and take [it] to thee. For
Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two
maidservants' tents; but he found [them] not. Then went he out of Leah's tent,
and entered into Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and
sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found [them] not.
35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise
up before thee; for the custom of women [is] upon me. And he searched, but
found not the images.
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to
Laban, What [is] my trespass? what [is] my sin, that thou hast so hotly
pursued after me?
37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy
household stuff? set [it] here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they
may judge betwixt us both.
38 This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats
have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
39 That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of
it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether] stolen by day, or stolen by
night.
40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night;
and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years
for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my
wages ten times.
42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had
been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine
affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight.
43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my
daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my
cattle, and all that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto
these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be
for a witness between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and
made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day.
Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are
absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] wives
beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and
thee.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which
I have cast betwixt me and thee;
52 This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness, that I will not
pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and
this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge
betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat
bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his
daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
Genesis Chapter 32
1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and he called the
name of that place Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of
Seir, the country of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy
servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until
now:
5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau,
and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that
[was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other
company which is left shall escape.
9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the
LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I
will deal well with thee:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth,
which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this
Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of
Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and] the mother with
the children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand
of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his
hand a present for Esau his brother;
14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty
rams,
15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she
asses, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by
themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space
betwixt drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee,
and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose
[are] these before thee?
18 Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob's; it [is] a present sent
unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us.
19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the
droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said,
I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will
see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the
company.
22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the
breaking of the day.
25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of
his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled
with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let
thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a
prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he
said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him
there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to
face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his
thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew which shrank, which
[is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the
hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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