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highlighted Genesis 29:22-26 NLT

So Laban invited everyone in the neighborhood and prepared a wedding feast.

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highlighted Genesis 29:19 NLT

“Agreed!” Laban replied. “I’d rather give her to you than to anyone else. Stay and work with me.”

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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.”

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highlighted Genesis 29:11-12 NLT

Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and he wept aloud.

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highlighted Genesis 29:9 NLT

Jacob was still talking with them when Rachel arrived with her father’s flock, for she was a shepherd.

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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,

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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.

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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.

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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.

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highlighted Genesis 28:8 NLT

It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.

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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.

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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!

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highlighted Genesis 28:1-2 NLT

So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.

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finished reading Job 1, Job 2, Job 3, Job 4, Job 5 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil....

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highlighted Job 5:27 NLT

“We have studied life and found all this to be true. Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself.”

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highlighted Job 5:8-13 NLT

“If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him.

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finished reading 1 Corinthians 3:23 in Spurgeon's Morning Devotions:

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's....

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 3:21 NLT

So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you—

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 NLT

Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 3:15 NLT

But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.

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