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highlighted Psalms 15:1 NLT
Who may worship in your sanctuary, LORD? Who may enter your presence on your holy hill?
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 29:35 NLT
Once again Leah became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She named him Judah, for she said, “Now I will praise the LORD!” And then she stopped having children.
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 29:32 NLT
So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has noticed my misery, and now my husband will love me.”
Jan 18
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highlighted Genesis 29:34 NLT
Then she became pregnant a third time and gave birth to another son. He was named Levi, for she said, “Surely this time my husband will feel affection for me, since I have given him three sons!”
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 29:33 NLT
She soon became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She named him Simeon, for she said, “The LORD heard that I was unloved and has given me another son.”
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 29:31 NLT
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 29:28 NLT
So Jacob agreed to work seven more years. A week after Jacob had married Leah, Laban gave him Rachel, too.
Jan 18
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highlighted Genesis 29:27 NLT
“But wait until the bridal week is over; then we’ll give you Rachel, too—provided you promise to work another seven years for me.”
Jan 18
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highlighted Genesis 29:22-26 NLT
So Laban invited everyone in the neighborhood and prepared a wedding feast. But that night, when it was dark, Laban took Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her. (Laban had given Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid.) But when Jacob woke up in the morning—it was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob raged at Laban. “I worked seven years for Rachel! Why have you tricked me?” “It’s not our custom here to marry off a younger daughter ahead of the firstborn,” Laban replied.
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 29:19 NLT
“Agreed!” Laban replied. “I’d rather give her to you than to anyone else. Stay and work with me.”
Jan 18
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highlighted Genesis 29:18 NLT
Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, “I’ll work for you for seven years if you’ll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife.”
Jan 18
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highlighted Genesis 29:11-12 NLT
Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and he wept aloud. He explained to Rachel that he was her cousin on her father’s side—the son of her aunt Rebekah. So Rachel quickly ran and told her father, Laban.
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 29:9 NLT
Jacob was still talking with them when Rachel arrived with her father’s flock, for she was a shepherd.
Jan 18
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highlighted Genesis 28:20-22 NLT
Then Jacob made this vow: “If God will indeed be with me and protect me on this journey, and if he will provide me with food and clothing, and if I return safely to my father’s home, then the LORD will certainly be my God. And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.”
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 28:18-19 NLT
The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it. He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz.
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 28:12-15 NLT
As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway. At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, “I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.”
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 28:9 NLT
So Esau visited his uncle Ishmael’s family and married one of Ishmael’s daughters, in addition to the wives he already had. His new wife’s name was Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son.
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 28:8 NLT
It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.
Jan 18
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highlighted Genesis 28:5 NLT
So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
Jan 18
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 28:3-4 NLT
May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations! May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”
Jan 18