Discovery Box| (0.85367744510978) | Gen 46:26 |
| <p class="bodytext">All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)<n id="1" /> |
| (0.85367744510978) | Gen 46:27 |
| Counting the two sons<n id="1" /> of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.85367744510978) | Gen 48:3 |
| Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God<n id="1" /> appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. |
| (0.85367744510978) | Gen 49:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you<n id="1" /> what will happen to you in the future.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.85367744510978) | Gen 49:24 |
| <p class="poetry">But his bow will remain steady,p> <p class="poetry">and his hands<n id="1" /> will be skillful;p> <p class="poetry">because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">because of<n id="2" /> the Shepherd, the Rock<n id="3" /> of Israel,p> |
| (0.85367744510978) | Gen 49:33 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went<n id="1" /> to his people.p> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 27:19 |
| Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up<n id="1" /> and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 27:36 |
| Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him!<n id="1" /> He has tripped me up<n id="2" /> two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”p> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 27:46 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed<n id="1" /> because of these daughters of Heth.<n id="2" /> If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 28:6 |
| <p class="bodytext">Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there.<n id="1" /> As he blessed him,<n id="2" /> Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 28:20 |
| Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food<n id="1" /> to eat and clothing to wear, |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 29:13 |
| When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob<n id="1" /> told Laban how he was related to him.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 30:1 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she<n id="1" /> became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children<n id="2" /> or I’ll die!” |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 30:16 |
| When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep<n id="1" /> with me because I have paid for your services<n id="2" /> with my son’s mandrakes.” So he had marital relations<n id="3" /> with her that night. |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 30:31 |
| <p class="bodytext">So Laban asked,<n id="1" /> “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,”<n id="2" /> Jacob replied,<n id="3" /> “but if you agree to this one condition,<n id="4" /> I will continue to care for<n id="5" /> your flocks and protect them: |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 30:40 |
| Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face<n id="1" /> the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks. |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 31:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining,<n id="1" /> “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich<n id="2" /> at our father’s expense!”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 31:29 |
| I have<n id="1" /> the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful<n id="2" /> that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’<n id="3" /> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 31:32 |
| Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death!<n id="1" /> In the presence of our relatives<n id="2" /> identify whatever is yours and take it.”<n id="3" /> (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.81147964071856) | Gen 31:43 |
| <p class="bodytext">Laban replied<n id="1" /> to Jacob, “These women<n id="2" /> are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren,<n id="3" /> and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today<n id="4" /> or the children to whom they have given birth? |
