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Fall_Asleep_Listening_to_Genesis__Bedtime_Scripture_for_Deep_Sleep_[Holy_Bib · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter one. In the beginning, God created the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty.
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  Speaker 1: Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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  Speaker 2: And God said, let there be light. And there was light.
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  Speaker 1: God saw that the light was good, and he separated
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  Speaker 1: the light from the darkness. God called the light day,
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  Speaker 1: and the darkness he called night. And there was evening,
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  Speaker 1: and there was morning the first day, and God said, let
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  Speaker 1: there be a vault between the waters that separate water
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  Speaker 1: from water. So God made the vault and separated the
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  Speaker 1: water under the vault from the water above it.
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  Speaker 2: And it was so.
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  Speaker 1: God called the vault sky. And there was evening, and
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  Speaker 1: there was morning.
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  Speaker 2: The second day.
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  Speaker 1: And God said, let the water under the sky be
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  Speaker 1: gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And
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  Speaker 1: it was so, and God called the dry ground land,
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  Speaker 1: and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw
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  Speaker 1: that it was good. Then God said, let the land
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  Speaker 1: produce vegetation, seed bearing plants and trees on the land
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  Speaker 1: that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their
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  Speaker 1: various kinds.
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  Speaker 2: And it was so.
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  Speaker 1: The land produced vegetation, plants bearing seed, according to their kinds,
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  Speaker 1: and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to
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  Speaker 1: their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And
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  Speaker 1: there was evening, and there was morning the third day.
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  Speaker 1: And God said, let there be lights in the vault
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  Speaker 1: of the sky to separate the day from the night,
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  Speaker 1: and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times
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  Speaker 1: and days and years.
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  Speaker 2: And let them be lights in the vault of the
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  Speaker 2: sky to give light on the earth. Then it was so.
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  Speaker 1: God made two great lights, the greater light to govern
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  Speaker 1: the day and the lesser light to govern the night.
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  Speaker 1: He also made the stars. God set them in the
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  Speaker 1: vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: to govern the day and the night, and to separate
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  Speaker 1: light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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  Speaker 2: And there was evening, and there was morning the fourth day.
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  Speaker 1: And God said, let the water teem with living creatures,
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  Speaker 1: and let birds fly above the earth across the vault
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  Speaker 1: of the sky. So God created the great creatures of
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and every living thing with which the water
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  Speaker 1: teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds,
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  Speaker 1: and every winged bird according to its kind.
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  Speaker 2: And God saw that it was good.
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  Speaker 1: God blessed them and said, be fruitful and increase in number,
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  Speaker 1: and fill the water in the seas, and let the
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  Speaker 1: birds increase on the earth. And there was evening, and
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  Speaker 1: there was morning the fifth day, and God said, let
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  Speaker 1: the land produce living creatures according to their kinds, the
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  Speaker 1: live stock, the creatures that move along the ground, and
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  Speaker 1: the wild animals, each according to its kind.
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  Speaker 2: And it was so.
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  Speaker 1: God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the
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  Speaker 1: live stock according to their kinds, and all the creatures
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  Speaker 1: that move along the ground according to their kinds. And
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  Speaker 1: God saw that it was good. Then God said, let
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  Speaker 1: us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so
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  Speaker 1: that they may rule over the fish in the sea,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds the sky, over the livestock, and all
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  Speaker 1: the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move
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  Speaker 1: along the ground. So God created mankind in his own image,
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  Speaker 1: in the image of God. He created them male and female.
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  Speaker 2: He created them.
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  Speaker 1: God bless them and said to them, be fruitful and
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  Speaker 1: increase in number, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule
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  Speaker 1: over the fish and the sea, and the birds in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, and over every living creature that moves on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Then God said, I give you every seed
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  Speaker 1: bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and
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  Speaker 1: every tree that has fruit with seed in.
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  Speaker 2: It, they will be yours for food. And to all
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  Speaker 2: the beasts of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And all the birds in the sky, and all the
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  Speaker 1: creatures that move along the ground, everything that has.
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  Speaker 2: The breath of life in it, I give every green
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  Speaker 2: plant for food. And it was so.
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  Speaker 1: God saw all that he had made, and it was
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  Speaker 1: very good. And there is evening, and there was morning
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  Speaker 1: the sixth day, Genesis chapter two. Thus the heavens and
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  Speaker 1: the earth were completed in all their vast array. By
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  Speaker 1: the seventh day. God had finished the work he had
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  Speaker 1: been doing. So on the seventh day he rested from
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  Speaker 1: all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and
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  Speaker 1: made it holy, because on it he rested from all
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  Speaker 1: the work of creating.
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  Speaker 2: That he had done.
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  Speaker 1: This is the account of the heavens and the earth
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  Speaker 1: when they were created. When the Lord God made the
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  Speaker 1: earth and the heavens now, no shrub had yet appeared
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  Speaker 1: on the earth, and no plant had yet sprung up,
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and there was no one to work the ground. But
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  Speaker 1: streams came up from the earth and watered the whole
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  Speaker 1: surface of the ground. And the Lord God formed a
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  Speaker 1: man from the dust of the ground and breathed into
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  Speaker 1: his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became
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  Speaker 1: a living being. Now, the Lord God had planted a
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  Speaker 1: garden in the east in Eden, and there he put
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  Speaker 1: the man he had formed. The Lord God made all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that
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  Speaker 1: were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the garden, where the tree of life
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  Speaker 1: and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  Speaker 1: A river watering the garden flowed from Eden. From there
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  Speaker 1: it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the
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  Speaker 1: first is the Pishan. It winds through the entire land
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  Speaker 1: of Habbaalah, where there is gold. The gold of that
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  Speaker 1: land is good. Aromatic resin and onyx are also there.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the second river is the Gihan. It
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  Speaker 1: winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of
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  Speaker 1: the third river is the Tigris. It runs along the
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  Speaker 1: east side of Asher. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord God took.
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  Speaker 1: The man and put him in the garden of Eden
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  Speaker 1: to work it and take care of it. And the
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  Speaker 1: Lord God commanded the man, you are free to eat
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  Speaker 1: from any tree in the garden, but you must not
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  Speaker 1: eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  Speaker 1: for when you eat from it, you will certainly die.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord God said, it is not good for the
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  Speaker 1: man to be alone.
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  Speaker 2: I will make a helper suitable for him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Lord God had formed out of the ground
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  Speaker 1: all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: He brought them to the man to see what he
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  Speaker 1: would name them. And whatever the man called each living creature,
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  Speaker 1: that was its name.
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  Speaker 2: So the man gave names.
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  Speaker 1: To all the livestock, the birds in the sky, and
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  Speaker 1: all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper
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  Speaker 1: was found. Lord Lord God caused the man to fall
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  Speaker 1: into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he
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  Speaker 1: took one of the man's ribs and then closed up
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  Speaker 1: the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a
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  Speaker 1: woman from the rib he had taken out of the man,
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  Speaker 1: and he brought her to the man. The man said,
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  Speaker 1: this is now bone of my bones and flesh of
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  Speaker 1: my flesh. She shall be called woman, for she was
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  Speaker 1: taken out of man. That is why a man leaves
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  Speaker 1: his father and mother and is united to his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were
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  Speaker 1: both naked, and they felt no shame Genesis chapter three.
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  Speaker 1: Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the
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  Speaker 1: wild animals the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: God had made.
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  Speaker 1: He said to the woman, did God really say you
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  Speaker 1: must not eat from any tree in the garden. The
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  Speaker 1: woman said to the serpent, we may eat fruit from
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  Speaker 1: the trees in the garden.
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  Speaker 2: But God did say you must not.
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  Speaker 1: Eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the garden, and you must not touch it, or
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  Speaker 1: you will die. You will not certainly die, the serpent
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  Speaker 1: said to the woman, for God knows that when you
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  Speaker 1: eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you
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  Speaker 1: will be like God, knowing good and evil.
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  Speaker 2: When the woman saw.
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  Speaker 1: That the fruit of the tree was good for food
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  Speaker 1: and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: she took some and ate it. She also gave some
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  Speaker 1: to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
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  Speaker 1: Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and
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  Speaker 1: they realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves
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  Speaker 1: together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and
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  Speaker 1: his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as
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  Speaker 1: he was walking in the garden in the cool of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and they hid from the Lord God among
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  Speaker 1: the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called
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  Speaker 1: to the man, where are you? He answered, I heard
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  Speaker 1: you in the garden, and I was afraid because I
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  Speaker 1: was naked, so I hid. And he said, who told
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  Speaker 1: you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the
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  Speaker 1: tree that I commanded you not to eat from? The
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  Speaker 1: man said, the woman you put here with me. She
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  Speaker 1: gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is
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  Speaker 1: this you have done? The woman said, the serpent deceived
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  Speaker 1: me and I ate. So the Lord God said to
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  Speaker 1: the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you
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  Speaker 1: above all livestock and all wild animals. You will crawl
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  Speaker 1: on your belly and you will eat dust all the
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  Speaker 1: days of your life. And I will put enmity between
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  Speaker 1: you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.
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  Speaker 1: He will crush your head and you will strike his
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  Speaker 1: heel to the woman, He said, I will make your
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  Speaker 1: pains in child bearing very severe, with painful labor. You
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  Speaker 1: will give birth to children. Your desire will be for
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  Speaker 1: your husband, and he will.
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  Speaker 2: Rule over you.
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  Speaker 1: To Adam, he said, because you listened to your wife
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  Speaker 1: and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you,
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  Speaker 1: you must not eat from it. Cursed is the ground
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  Speaker 1: because of you, through painful toil.
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  Speaker 2: You will eat food.
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  Speaker 1: From it all the days of your life. It will
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  Speaker 1: produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat.
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  Speaker 1: The plants of.
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  Speaker 2: The field are the sweat of your brow.
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  Speaker 1: You will eat your food until you return to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: since from it you are taken. For dust you are,
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  Speaker 1: and to dust you will return. Adam named his wife
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  Speaker 1: e because she would become the mother of all the living.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and
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  Speaker 1: his wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said,
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  Speaker 1: the man has now become like one of us, knowing
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  Speaker 1: good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach
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  Speaker 1: out his hand and take also from the tree of
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  Speaker 1: life and eat and live forever. So the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: banished him from the garden of Eden to work the
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  Speaker 1: ground from which he had been taken. After he drove
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  Speaker 1: the man out, he placed on the east side of
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  Speaker 1: the garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing
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  Speaker 1: back and forth to guard the way to the Tree
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  Speaker 1: of life. Genesis chapter four. Adam made love to his
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  Speaker 1: wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.
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  Speaker 1: She said, with the help of the Lord, I have
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  Speaker 1: brought forth a man. Later she gave gave birth to
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  Speaker 1: his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks and Cain worked
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  Speaker 1: the soil. In the course of time, Cain brought some
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  Speaker 1: of the fruits of the soil as an offering to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and Abel also brought an offering fat portions
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  Speaker 1: from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on
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  Speaker 1: Cain and his offering he did not look with favor.
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  Speaker 1: So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Cain, why are you angry?
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  Speaker 1: Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right,
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  Speaker 1: will you not be accepted. But if you do not
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  Speaker 1: do what is right, sin is crouching at your door.
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  Speaker 1: It desires to have you, but you must rule over it.
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  Speaker 1: Now Cain said to his brother Abel, let's go out
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  Speaker 1: to the field. While they were in the field, Cain
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  Speaker 1: attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to Cain, where is your brother Abel? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: he replied, am I my brother's keeper? The Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: what have you done? Listen, Your brother's blood cries out
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  Speaker 1: to me from the ground. Now you are under a
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  Speaker 1: curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth
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  Speaker 1: to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you
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  Speaker 1: work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops
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  Speaker 1: for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Cain said to the Lord, my punishment is more than
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  Speaker 1: I can bear.
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  Speaker 2: To day.
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  Speaker 1: You are driving me from the land, and I will
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  Speaker 1: be hidden from your presence. I will be a restless
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  Speaker 1: wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord said to him, not so. Any one
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  Speaker 1: who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no
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  Speaker 1: one who found him would kill him. So Cain went
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  Speaker 1: out from the lord's presence and lived in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Nod, east of Eden. Cain made love to his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain
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  Speaker 1: was then building a city, and he named it after
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  Speaker 1: his son Enoch. To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad
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  Speaker 1: was the father of Mahujaiel, and Mahujaiel was the father
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  Speaker 1: of Mathushaiel, and Mathushaiel was the father of Lammak. Lammeik
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  Speaker 1: married two women, one named Ada and the other Zillah.
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  Speaker 1: Ada gave birth to Jabal. He was the father of
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  Speaker 1: those who live in tents and raise livestock. His brother's
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  Speaker 1: name was Jubal. He was the father of all who
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  Speaker 1: play stringed instruments and pipes. Zillah also had a son, Tubalkan,
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  Speaker 1: who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.
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  Speaker 1: Tubalkan's sister was Namah. Lammek said to his wives Atta
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  Speaker 1: and Zillah, listen to me, wives of Lammik, hear my words.
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  Speaker 1: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young
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  Speaker 1: man for injuring me. If Cain is avenged seven times,
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  Speaker 1: then Lammik seventy seven times. Adam made love to his
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  Speaker 1: wife again, and she gave birth to a son and
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  Speaker 1: named him Seth, saying God has granted me another child
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  Speaker 1: in place of Abel, since Cain killed him. Seth also
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  Speaker 1: had a son and he named him Enosh. At that
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  Speaker 1: time people began to call on the name of the Lord. Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: chapter five. This is the written account of Adam's family line.
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  Speaker 1: When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness
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  Speaker 1: of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them,
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  Speaker 1: and he named them mankind when they were created. When
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  Speaker 1: Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he had a
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  Speaker 1: son in his own likeness, in his own image, and
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  Speaker 1: he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Adam lived a total of nine hundred and thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: and then he died. When Seth had lived one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and five years, he became the father of Enosh. After
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  Speaker 1: he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: seven years and had other sons and daughters altogether. Seth
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  Speaker 1: lived a total of nine hundred twelve years, and then
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  Speaker 1: he died when Enosh had lived ninety years, he became
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  Speaker 1: the father of Keenon. After he became the father of Keenon,
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  Speaker 1: Enosh lived eight hundred fifteen years and had other sons
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  Speaker 1: and daughters altogether. Enosh lived a total of nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: five years and then he died when Keenan had lived
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  Speaker 1: seventy years. He became the father of Mahaliel. After he
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  Speaker 1: became the father of Mahaliel, Keenan lived eight hundred forty
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  Speaker 1: years and had other sons and daughters altogether. Keenan lived
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  Speaker 1: a total of nine hundred ten years and then he
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  Speaker 1: died when Mahalalel had lived sixty five years. He became
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  Speaker 1: the father of Jared. After he became the father of Jared,
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  Speaker 1: Mahalalel lived eight hundred thirty years and had other sons
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  Speaker 1: and daughters altogether. Mahalalel lived a total of eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: ninety five years and then he died when Jared had
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  Speaker 1: lived one hundred sixty two years. He became the father
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  Speaker 1: of Enoch. After he became the father of Enoch, Jared
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  Speaker 1: lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Jared lived a total of nine hundred sixty two years,
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  Speaker 1: and then he died when Enoch had lived sixty five years.
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  Speaker 1: He became the father of Methuselah. After he became the
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  Speaker 1: father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God three hundred
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  Speaker 1: years and had other sons and daughters altogether. Enoch lived
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  Speaker 1: a total of three hundred sixty five years. Enoch walked
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  Speaker 1: faithfully with God. Then he was no more because God
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  Speaker 1: took him away. When Methuselah had lived one hundred eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven years, he became the father of Lammik. After he
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  Speaker 1: became the father of Lammik, Methuselah lived seven hundred eighty
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  Speaker 1: two years and had other sons and daughters altogether. Mathuselah
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  Speaker 1: lived a total of nine hundred sixty nine years, and
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  Speaker 1: then he died. When Lammik had lived one hundred eighty
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  Speaker 1: two years, he had a son. He named him Noah
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  Speaker 1: and said he will comfort us in the labor and
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  Speaker 1: painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the
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  Speaker 1: Lord has cursed. After Noah was born, Lamik lived five
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  Speaker 1: hundred ninety five years and had other sons and daughters altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Lambik lived a total of seven hundred seventy seven years,
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  Speaker 1: and then he died. After Noah was five hundred years old,
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  Speaker 1: he became the father of shem Ham and Jayfeth Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter six. When human beings began to increase in number
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  Speaker 1: on the earth, and daughters were born to them. The
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  Speaker 1: sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: and they married any of them they chose. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said, my spirit will not contend with humans forever,
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  Speaker 1: for they are mortal. Their days will be one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty years. Then Nephilim were on the earth in
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  Speaker 1: those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God
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  Speaker 1: went to the daughters of humans and had children by them,
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  Speaker 1: they were the heroes of old.
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  Speaker 2: Men of renown.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human
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  Speaker 1: race had become on the earth, and that every inclination
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  Speaker 1: of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil
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  Speaker 1: all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made
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  Speaker 1: human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
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  Speaker 2: So the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Said, I will wipe from the face of the earth
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  Speaker 1: the human race I have created, and with them the animals,
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  Speaker 1: the birds, and the creatures that move along the ground,
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  Speaker 1: for I regret that I have made them. But Noah
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  Speaker 1: found favor in the eyes of the Lord. This is
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  Speaker 1: the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a
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  Speaker 1: righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and
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  Speaker 1: he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three sons, shem
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  Speaker 1: Ham and Jayfith. Now the earth was corrupt in God's
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  Speaker 1: sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt
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  Speaker 1: the earth had become, for all the people on earth
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  Speaker 1: had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, I
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  Speaker 1: am going to put an end to all people, for
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  Speaker 1: the earth is filled with violence because of them. I
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  Speaker 1: am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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  Speaker 1: So make yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms
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  Speaker 1: in it, and coat it with pitch inside and out.
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  Speaker 1: This is how you are to build it. The ark
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  Speaker 1: is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide,
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  Speaker 1: and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving
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  Speaker 1: below the roof and opening one cuban high all around.
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  Speaker 1: Put a door in the side of the ark, and
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  Speaker 1: make lower, middle, and upper decks. I am going to
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  Speaker 1: bring flood waters on the earth to destroy all life
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  Speaker 1: under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of
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  Speaker 1: life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I
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  Speaker 1: will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter
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  Speaker 1: the ark, You and your sons, and your wife and
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  Speaker 1: your son's wives with you. You are to bring into
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  Speaker 1: the ark two of all living creatures, mail and feet,
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  Speaker 1: to keep them alive.
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  Speaker 2: With you.
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  Speaker 1: Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal,
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  Speaker 1: and of every kind of creature that moves along the
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  Speaker 1: ground will come to you to be kept alive. You
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  Speaker 1: are to take every kind of food that is to
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  Speaker 1: be eaten and store it away as food for you
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  Speaker 1: and for them. Noah did everything just as God commanded
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  Speaker 1: him Genesis chapter seven. The Lord then said to Noah,
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  Speaker 1: go into the Ark, you and your whole family, because
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  Speaker 1: I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with
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  Speaker 1: you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a
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  Speaker 1: male and its mate, and one pair of every kind
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  Speaker 1: of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also
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  Speaker 1: seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female,
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  Speaker 1: to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven
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  Speaker 1: days from now, I will send rain on the earth
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  Speaker 1: for forty days in forty nights, and I will wipe from
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  Speaker 1: the face of the earth every living creature I have made.
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  Speaker 1: And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. Noah
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  Speaker 1: was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and Noah and his sons and his wife
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  Speaker 1: and his son's wives entered the Ark to escape the
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  Speaker 1: waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals,
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  Speaker 1: of birds, and of all creatures that move along the ground,
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  Speaker 1: male and female came to Noah and entered the Ark,
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  Speaker 1: as God had commanded Noah. And after the seven days,
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  Speaker 1: the floodwaters came on the earth. In the six hundredth
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  Speaker 1: year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the
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  Speaker 1: second month. On that day, all the springs of the
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  Speaker 1: Great Deep burst forth, and the flood gates of the
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  Speaker 1: heavens were opened, and.
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  Speaker 2: Rain fell on the earth. Forty days and forty nights.
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  Speaker 1: On that very day, Noah and his sons shem Ham
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  Speaker 1: and Jayfeth, together with his wife and the wives of
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  Speaker 1: his three sons, entered the Ark. They had with them
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  Speaker 1: every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according
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  Speaker 1: to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground
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  Speaker 1: according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind,
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  Speaker 1: everything with wings. Pairs of all creatures that have the
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  Speaker 1: breath of life in them came to Noah and entered
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  Speaker 1: the Ark. The animals going in were male and female
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  Speaker 1: of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.
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  Speaker 2: Then the Lord shut him in For forty days.
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  Speaker 1: The flood kept coming on the earth, and as the
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  Speaker 1: waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: the ark floated on the surface of the water. They
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  Speaker 1: rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mid
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  Speaker 1: mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose
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  Speaker 1: and covered the mountains to a depth of more than
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  Speaker 1: fifteen cubits. Every living thing that moved on land perished, birds,
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  Speaker 1: live stock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over
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  Speaker 1: the earth, in all mankind, everything on dry land that
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  Speaker 1: had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every
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  Speaker 1: living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out.
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  Speaker 1: People and animals, and the creatures that move along the
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  Speaker 1: ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only
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  Speaker 1: Noah was left and those with him in the Ark.
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  Speaker 1: The waters flooded the earth for one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: days Genesis chapter eight. But God remembered Noah and all
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  Speaker 1: the wild animals in the livestock that were in with
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  Speaker 1: him in the Ark, and he sent a wind over
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and the waters receded. Now, the springs of
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  Speaker 1: the Deep and the flood gates of the heavens had
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  Speaker 1: been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
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  Speaker 1: The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the one hundred and fifty days, the water had
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  Speaker 1: gone down, and on the seventh day of the seventh month,
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  Speaker 1: the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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  Speaker 1: The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and
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  Speaker 1: the first day of the tenth month the tops of
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  Speaker 1: the mountains became visible. After forty days, Noah opened a
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  Speaker 1: window he had made in the ark and sent out
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  Speaker 1: a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until
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  Speaker 1: the water had dried up from the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Then he sent out a dove.
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  Speaker 1: To see if the water had receded from the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to
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  Speaker 1: perch because there was water over the surface of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached
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  Speaker 1: out his hand and took the dove and brought it
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  Speaker 1: back to himself in the ark.
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  Speaker 2: He waited seven more days and again sent out the
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  Speaker 2: dove from the ark.
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  Speaker 1: When the dove returned to him in the evening. There
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  Speaker 1: in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then
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  Speaker 1: no one knew that the water had receded from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again,
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  Speaker 1: but this time it did not return to him. By
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  Speaker 1: the first day of the first month of Noah's six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and first year, the water had dried up from
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark
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  Speaker 1: and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
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  Speaker 1: By the twenty seventh day of the second.
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  Speaker 2: Month, the earth was completely dry.
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  Speaker 1: Then God said to Noah, come out of the ark,
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  Speaker 1: you and your wife, and your sons and their wives,
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  Speaker 1: bring out every kind of living creature that is with you,
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  Speaker 1: the birds, the animals, and all the creature that move
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  Speaker 1: along the ground, so.
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  Speaker 2: They can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and
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  Speaker 2: increase in number on it.
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  Speaker 1: So Noah came out together with his sons and his
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  Speaker 1: wife and his son's wives, all the animals, and all
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  Speaker 1: the creatures that move along the ground, and all the birds.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that moves on land came out of the ark,
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  Speaker 1: one kind after another. Then Noah built an altar to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and taking some of all the clean animals
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  Speaker 1: and clean birds. He sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, and said in his heart,
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  Speaker 1: never again will I curse the ground because of humans,
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  Speaker 1: even though every inclination of the human heart is evil
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  Speaker 1: from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living
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  Speaker 1: creatures as I have done. As long as the earth
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  Speaker 1: endures seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter,
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  Speaker 1: day and night will never cease Genesis chapter nine. Then
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  Speaker 1: God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, be
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  Speaker 1: fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The
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  Speaker 1: fear and dread of you will fall on all the
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  Speaker 1: beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and on all the fish in the sea. They are
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  Speaker 1: given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves about will.
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  Speaker 2: Be food for you.
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  Speaker 1: Just as I gave you the green plants, I now
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  Speaker 1: give you everything. But you must not eat meat that
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  Speaker 1: has its life blood still in it. And for your
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  Speaker 1: life blood I will surely demanded accounting. I will demand
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  Speaker 1: an accounting from every animal, and from each human being too.
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  Speaker 1: I will demand an accounting for the life of another
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  Speaker 1: human being. Whoever sheds human blood by humans, shall their
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  Speaker 1: blood be shed. For in the image of God has
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  Speaker 1: God made mankind as for you, be fruitful, and increase
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  Speaker 1: in number, multiply on the earth, and increase upon it.
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  Speaker 1: Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
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  Speaker 1: I now establish my covenant with you and with your
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  Speaker 1: descendants after you, and with every living creature that was
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  Speaker 1: with you, the birds, the live stock, and all the
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  Speaker 1: wild animals, all those that came out of the ark,
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  Speaker 1: with you, every living creature on earth, I will establish
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  Speaker 1: my covenant with you. Never again will all life be
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  Speaker 1: destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will
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  Speaker 1: there be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said,
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  Speaker 1: this is the sign of the covenant I'm making between
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  Speaker 1: me and you and every living creature with you, a
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  Speaker 1: covenant for all generations to come. I have set my
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  Speaker 1: rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign
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  Speaker 1: of the covenant between me and the Earth. Whenever I
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  Speaker 1: bring clouds over the Earth and the rainbow appears in
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  Speaker 1: the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and
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  Speaker 1: you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again,
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  Speaker 1: while the waters become a flood to destroy all earth.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see
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  Speaker 1: it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all
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  Speaker 1: living creatures of every kind on the earth. So God
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  Speaker 1: said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant
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  Speaker 1: I have established between me and.
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  Speaker 2: All life on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Noah who came out of the ark
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  Speaker 1: were Shem, Ham, and Jayfeth. Aam was the father of Canaan.
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  Speaker 1: These were the three sons of Noah, and from them
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  Speaker 1: came the people who were scattered over the whole earth. Noah,
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  Speaker 1: a man of the soil, prosed it to plant a vineyard.
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  Speaker 1: When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk
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  Speaker 1: and lay uncovered inside his tent. Pam, the father of Canaan,
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  Speaker 1: saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
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  Speaker 1: But Shem and Jayfeth took a garment and laid it
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  Speaker 1: across their shoulders. Then they walked in backward and covered
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  Speaker 1: their father's naked body. Their faces were turned the other
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  Speaker 1: way so that they would not see their father naked.
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  Speaker 1: When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what
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  Speaker 1: his youngest sons had done to him. He said, cursed
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  Speaker 1: be Canaan, the lowest of slaves, will he be to
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  Speaker 1: his brothers. He also said, Praise be to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Shem. May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
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  Speaker 1: May God extend Jafeth's territory. May Jfeth live in the
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  Speaker 1: tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Jyfeth.
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  Speaker 1: After the flood and Noah lived three hundred and fifty years,
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  Speaker 1: Noah lived a total of nine hundred and fifty years,
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  Speaker 1: and then he died.
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  Speaker 2: Genesis chapter ten.
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  Speaker 1: This is the account of Shem, Ham and Jafeth, Noah's sons,
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  Speaker 1: who themselves had sons after the flood. The sons of Jafeth, Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek,
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  Speaker 1: and Tiras. The sons of Gomer, ascanaz Rifath and Tagarma,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Javan, Elisha, Tarshish, the Kittites.
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  Speaker 2: And the Rhodonites.
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  Speaker 1: From these, the maritime peoples spread out into their territories
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  Speaker 1: by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Ham, Kush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan, the
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  Speaker 1: sons of Kush, Seba, Habalah, Sabta, Rama and and Saptica,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Ramah, Sheba and Didan.
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  Speaker 2: Kush was the father of Nimrod.
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  Speaker 1: Who became a mighty warrior on the earth. He was
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  Speaker 1: a mighty hunter before the Lord. That is why it
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  Speaker 1: is said like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk Acad
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  Speaker 1: and Kalnay and Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria,
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  Speaker 1: where he built ninevah Rahobath, Eir Kalah and Ressen, which
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  Speaker 1: is between Nineveh and Kalah, which is the great city Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtahites, Hathracites, Castlahites,
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  Speaker 1: from whom the Philistines came, and Calfturites. Canaan was the
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  Speaker 1: father of Sidon, his first born, and of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Gerghoshites, Hivites, Archites, Sinites, Ardites, Zamarites,
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  Speaker 1: and Hamathites. Later, the Canaanite clans scattered, and the borders
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  Speaker 1: of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gharar as far as Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: and then towards Sodom gomorrah Admah and Seboham as.
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  Speaker 2: Far As Lasha.
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  Speaker 1: These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages,
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  Speaker 1: and their territories and nations. Sons were also born to Shem,
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  Speaker 1: whose older brother was Jayfeth. Shem was the ancestor of
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  Speaker 1: all the sons of Eber. The sons of Shem elim
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  Speaker 1: Asher are Faxad, Lud and Arum. The sons of Arum,
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  Speaker 1: uz hull Gether and meshek Ur. Faxad was the father
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  Speaker 1: of Sheelah and Shelah, the father of Eber.
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  Speaker 2: Two sons were born to Eber. One was named.
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  Speaker 1: Peleg because in his name the earth was divided. His
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  Speaker 1: brother was named Jaktan. Jaktan was the father of Almadad, Sheeleth, Hazarma, Beth, Jerhah, Pidorum,
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  Speaker 1: uzal Dikhla, obal Abamayel, Sheba, Opir, Habalah, and Jobab All.
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  Speaker 1: These were sons of Joktun. The region where they lived
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  Speaker 1: stretched from Mesha toward Zephyr in the eastern hill country.
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  Speaker 1: These are the sons of Shem by their clans and
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  Speaker 1: languages and their territories and nations. These are the clans
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  Speaker 1: of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent within
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  Speaker 1: their nations. From these nations spread out over the earth
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  Speaker 1: after the flood Genesis chapter eleven. Now the whole world
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  Speaker 1: had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward,
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  Speaker 1: they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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  Speaker 2: They said to.
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  Speaker 1: Each other, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They
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  Speaker 1: used brick instead of stone and tar from Martyr. Then
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  Speaker 1: they said, come, let us build ourselves a city with
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  Speaker 1: a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we
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  Speaker 1: may make a name for ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord came down to see the city and
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  Speaker 1: the tower that people were building. The Lord said, if
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  Speaker 1: as one people speaking the same language, they have begun
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  Speaker 1: to do this, then nothing they planned to do will
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  Speaker 1: be impossible for them. Come let us go down and
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  Speaker 1: confuse their language so they will not understand each other.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and they stopped building the city. That is why it
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  Speaker 1: is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language
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  Speaker 1: of the whole world. From there, the Lord scattered them
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  Speaker 1: over the face of the whole earth. This is the
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  Speaker 1: account of Chem's family line. Two years after the flood,
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  Speaker 1: when Sheem was one hundred years old, he became the
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  Speaker 1: father of ar Faxad, and after he became the father
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  Speaker 1: of ar Faxad, Shem lived five hundred years and had
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  Speaker 1: other sons and daughters. When ur Faxad had lived thirty
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  Speaker 1: five years, he became the father of Sheella, and after
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  Speaker 1: he became the father of Shella. R Faxad lived four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and three years and had other sons and daughters.
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  Speaker 2: When Schella had.
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  Speaker 1: Lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber, and
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  Speaker 1: after he became the.
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  Speaker 2: Father of Eber.
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  Speaker 1: Sheella lived four hundred three years and had other sons
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  Speaker 1: and daughters. When Eber had lived thirty four years, he
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  Speaker 1: became the father of Peleg, and after he became the
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  Speaker 1: father of Peleg. Eber lived four hundred thirty years and
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  Speaker 1: had other sons and daughters. When Peleg had lived thirty years,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: he became the father of Reeu, and after he became
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the father of Reraeu. Peleg lived two hundred and nine
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  Speaker 1: years and had other sons and daughters. When Reyu had
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: lived thirty two years, he became the father of se Rug,
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  Speaker 1: and after he became the father of se Ug, Reyu
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  Speaker 1: lived two hundred seven years and had other sons and daughters.
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  Speaker 1: When se Rug had lived thirty years, he became the
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  Speaker 1: father of Nehor, and after he became the father of Nehor.
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  Speaker 1: Srug lived two hundred years and had other sons and daughters.
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  Speaker 1: When Nehor had lived twenty nine years, he became the
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  Speaker 1: father of Terah, and after he became the father of Tera.
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  Speaker 1: Nehor lived one hundred and nineteen years and had other
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters. After Tara had lived seventy years, he
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: became the father of Abram, Nehor, and Haran. This is
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the account of Tara's family line. Tara became the father
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: of Abram, Nehor, and Haran, and Haran became the father
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  Speaker 1: of Lot while his father Terah was still alive. Haran
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  Speaker 1: died in Er of the Chaldeans in the land of
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  Speaker 1: his birth. Abram and Nehor both married. The name of
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  Speaker 1: Abram's wife was SARAHI and the name of Neahor's wife
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  Speaker 1: was Milka. She was the daughter of Haron, the father
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  Speaker 1: of both Milka and Iska. Now Sarah was childless because
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  Speaker 1: she was not able to conceive. Tarah took his son Abram,
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  Speaker 1: his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter in
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  Speaker 1: law SARAHI, the wife of his son Abram, and together
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  Speaker 1: they set out from Er of the Chaldeans to go
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  Speaker 1: to Canaan. But when they came to Hern they settled there.
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  Speaker 1: Tarah lived two hundred and five years, and he died
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  Speaker 1: in Harn Genesis chapter twelve. The Lord had said to Abram,
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  Speaker 1: go from your country, your people, and your father's household
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  Speaker 1: to the land I will show you. I will make
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  Speaker 1: you into a great nation, and I will bless you.
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  Speaker 1: I will make your name great, and you will be
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and
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  Speaker 1: whoever curses you will curse, and all peoples on earth
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  Speaker 1: will be blessed through you.
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  Speaker 2: So Abram went as the Lord had told him, and
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  Speaker 2: Lot went with him.
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  Speaker 1: Abram was seventy five years old when he set out
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  Speaker 1: for Heron. He took his wife SARAHI, his nephew Lot,
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  Speaker 1: all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they
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  Speaker 1: had acquired in Heron, and they set out for the
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  Speaker 1: land of Canaan. And they arrived there Abram traveled through
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  Speaker 1: the land as far as the sight of the Great
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  Speaker 1: Tree of maray at Shechem. At that time, the Canaan
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  Speaker 1: knits were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram
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  Speaker 1: and said, to your offspring, I will give this land.
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  Speaker 1: So he built an altar there to the Lord who
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  Speaker 1: had appeared to him. From there, he went on toward
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  Speaker 1: the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with
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  Speaker 1: Bethel on the west and i on the east. There
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  Speaker 1: he built an altar to the Lord and called on
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord. Then Abram set out out
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  Speaker 1: and continued toward the Negev. Now there was a famine
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  Speaker 1: in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to
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  Speaker 1: live there for a while because the famine was severe.
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  Speaker 1: As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to
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  Speaker 1: his wife Sarah, I know what a beautiful woman you are.
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  Speaker 1: When the Egyptians see you, they will say this is
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  Speaker 1: his wife.
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  Speaker 2: Then they will kill me, but will let you live.
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  Speaker 1: Say you are my sister, so that I will be
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  Speaker 1: treated well for your sake, and my life will be
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  Speaker 1: spared because of you. When Abram came to Egypt, the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians saw that Sarah was a very beautiful woman, And
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  Speaker 1: when Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: and she was taken into his palace. He treated Abram
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  Speaker 1: well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle,
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  Speaker 1: male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
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  Speaker 1: But the lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his
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  Speaker 1: household because of abram wife Sarah. So Pharaoh summoned Abram,
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  Speaker 1: What have you done to me? He said, why didn't
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  Speaker 1: you tell.
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  Speaker 2: Me she was your wife? Why did you say she
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  Speaker 2: is my sister? So that I took her to be
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  Speaker 2: my wife? Now, then here is your wife, Take her
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  Speaker 2: and go.
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  Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and
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  Speaker 1: they sent him on his way with his wife and
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  Speaker 1: everything he had Genesis chapter thirteen. So Abram went up
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  Speaker 1: from Egypt to the Negev with his wife and everything
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  Speaker 1: he had, and lot went with him. Abram had become
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  Speaker 1: very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. From
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  Speaker 1: the Negev, he went from place to place until he
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  Speaker 1: came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and I
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  Speaker 1: where his tent had been earlier, and where he had
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  Speaker 1: first built an altar there Abram called on the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Now, Lot, who was moving about with Abram,
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  Speaker 1: also had flocks and herds and tents, but the land
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  Speaker 1: could not support them while they stayed together, for their
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  Speaker 1: possessions were so great that they were not able to
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  Speaker 1: stay together, and quarreling arose between Abram's herders and Lots.
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  Speaker 1: The Canaanites and Perizites were also living in the land
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  Speaker 1: at that time. So Abram said to Lot, let's not
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  Speaker 1: have any quarreling between you and me, or between your
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  Speaker 1: herders and mine, for we are close relatives. Is not
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  Speaker 1: the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you
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  Speaker 1: go to the left, I'll go to the right. If
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  Speaker 1: you go to the right, I'll go to the left.
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  Speaker 1: Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan towards Zor was well watered, like the garden
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Like the land of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So
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  Speaker 1: Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan
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  Speaker 1: and set out toward the east. The two men parted company.
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  Speaker 1: Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived
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  Speaker 1: among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents
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  Speaker 1: near Sodom. Now the people of Sodom were wicked and
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  Speaker 1: were sinning greatly against the Lord. The Lord said to Abram,
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  Speaker 1: after Lot had parted from him, look around from where
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  Speaker 1: you are, to the north and south, to.
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  Speaker 2: The east and west.
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  Speaker 1: All the land that you see, I will give to
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  Speaker 1: you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring
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  Speaker 1: like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone
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  Speaker 1: could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
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  Speaker 1: Go walk through the length and breadth of the land,
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  Speaker 1: for I am giving it to you. So Abram went
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  Speaker 1: to live near the great trees of Mamree at Hebron,
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  Speaker 1: where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord Genesis chapter fourteen. At the time when
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  Speaker 1: Amraphel was King of Shannar, Ariak king of Elisar, Kedar
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  Speaker 1: Loamar King of Ilam, and Tadal King of Goyam, these
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  Speaker 1: kings went to war against Behrah King of Sodom, Birshak
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  Speaker 1: king of Gomorrah, Shanab king of Admah, Shemeber King of Zeboyam,
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  Speaker 1: and the king.
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  Speaker 2: Of Bela, that is Zoar.
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  Speaker 1: All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim,
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  Speaker 1: that is, the Dead Sea Valley. For twelve years they
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  Speaker 1: had been subject to Ketto Layamar, but in the thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: year they rebelled. In the fourteenth year, Kedar Layamar and
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  Speaker 1: the kings allied with him went out and defeated the
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  Speaker 1: Rephaites in Ashtaroth Karnaim, the Zazites in Ham, the Emites
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  Speaker 1: and Chevey Kiriathaim, and the Hourites in the hill country
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  Speaker 1: of sir As far as el Paran near the desert.
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  Speaker 1: Then they turned back and went to n Mishpat that
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  Speaker 1: is Kadesh, and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the Amorites who were living in peziz
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  Speaker 1: On Tamar. Then the King of Sodom, the King of Gomorrah,
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  Speaker 1: the King of Admah, the King of Zebuyim, and the
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  Speaker 1: King of Belah that is Zoar marched out and drew
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  Speaker 1: up their battle lions in the Valley of Siddim against Cato, Laomar,
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  Speaker 1: King of Elam, Tadal, King of Goyam, Amraphel King of Shannar,
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  Speaker 1: and Ariak King of Elisar. Four kings against five. Now
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  Speaker 1: the valley of Sidim was full of tarpits, and when
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  Speaker 1: the kings of Sodom and Gomorah fled, some of the
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  Speaker 1: men fell into them, and the rest fled to the hills.
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  Speaker 1: The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and
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  Speaker 1: Gomorah and all their food.
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  Speaker 2: Then they went away.
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  Speaker 1: They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot in his possessions,
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  Speaker 1: since he was living in Sodom. A man who had
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  Speaker 1: escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now
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  Speaker 1: Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre, the Amorite,
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  Speaker 1: a brother of Eshkol, and Aner, all of whom were
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  Speaker 1: allied with Abram. When Abram heard that his relative had
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  Speaker 1: been taken captive, he called out the three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighteen trained men born in his household and went in
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  Speaker 1: pursuit as far as Dan. During the night, Abram divided
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  Speaker 1: his men to attack them, and he routed them, pursuing
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  Speaker 1: them as far as Hoba, north of Damascus. He recovered
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  Speaker 1: all the goods and brought back his relative Lot in
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  Speaker 1: his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
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  Speaker 1: After Abram returned from defeating kedor Laomar, and the king's
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  Speaker 1: allied with him. The King of Sodom came out to
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  Speaker 1: meet him in the valley of Cheveis, that is the
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  Speaker 1: king's valley. Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread
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  Speaker 1: and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and
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  Speaker 1: he blessed Abram, saying, blest be Abram by God Most High,
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  Speaker 1: creator of heaven and Earth, and praise be to God
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  Speaker 1: most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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  Speaker 1: The King of Sodom said to Abram, give me the
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  Speaker 1: people and keep the goods for yourself. But Abram said
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  Speaker 1: to the King of Sodom with raised hand, I have
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  Speaker 1: sworn an oath to the Lord God, Most High, creator
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  Speaker 1: of heaven and Earth, that I will accept nothing belonging
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  Speaker 1: to you, not even a thread or the strap of
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  Speaker 1: a sandal, so that you will never be able to
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  Speaker 1: say I made Abram rich. I will accept nothing but
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  Speaker 1: what my men have eaten. And let the share that
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  Speaker 1: belongs to the men who went with me to ayner
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  Speaker 1: Ishkol and Mamre let them have their share Genesis fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram
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  Speaker 1: in a vision. Do not be afraid, Abram. I am
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  Speaker 1: your shield, your very great reward. But Abram said, Sovereign Lord,
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  Speaker 1: what can you give me? Since I remain childless, and
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  Speaker 1: the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: And Abram said, you have given me no children, So
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  Speaker 1: a servant in my household will be my heir. Then
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to him. This man
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  Speaker 1: will not be your heir, but a son who is
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  Speaker 1: your own flesh and blood will be your heir. He
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  Speaker 1: took him outside and said, look up at the sky
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  Speaker 1: and count the stars.
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  Speaker 2: If indeed you can count them.
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  Speaker 1: Then he said to him, so shall your offspring be.
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  Speaker 1: Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him
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  Speaker 1: as righteousness. He also said to him, I am the
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  Speaker 1: Lord who brought you out of er of the Chaldeans
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  Speaker 1: to give you this land to take possession of it.
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  Speaker 1: But Abram's and said, Sovereign Lord, how can I know
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  Speaker 1: that I will gain possession of it? So the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to him, bring me a heifer, a goat, and
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  Speaker 1: a ram, each three years old, along with a dove
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  Speaker 1: and a young pigeon. Abram brought all these to him,
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  Speaker 1: cut them into and arranged the halves opposite each other.
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  Speaker 1: The birds, however, he did not cut in half. Then
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  Speaker 1: birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram
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  Speaker 1: drove them away.
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  Speaker 2: As the sun was setting, Abram fell into.
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  Speaker 1: A deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came
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  Speaker 1: over him. Then the Lord said to him, know for
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  Speaker 1: certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be
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  Speaker 1: strangers in a country not their own, and.
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  Speaker 2: That they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
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  Speaker 1: But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,
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  Speaker 1: and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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  Speaker 2: You, however, will go.
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  Speaker 1: To your ancestors in peace and be buried at a
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  Speaker 1: good old age. In the fourth generation, your descendants will
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  Speaker 1: come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has
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  Speaker 1: not yet reached its full measure. When the sun had
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: set and darkness had fallen, a smoking fire pot with
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
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  Speaker 2: On that day, the Lord made.
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  Speaker 1: A covenant with Abram and said, to your descendants, I
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  Speaker 1: give this land from the Wadi of Egypt to the
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  Speaker 1: Great River, the Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, Kennesites, Cadamonites, Hittites, Perizites, Raphaeites, Amorites, Cataanites, Gergoshites,
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  Speaker 1: and Jebusites. Genesis chapter sixteen. Now Sarah, Abram's wife, had
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  Speaker 1: borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian slave
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  Speaker 1: named Hagar. So she said to Abram, the Lord has
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  Speaker 1: kept me from having children. Go sleep with my slave.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed
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  Speaker 1: to what Sarah said. So, after Abram had been living
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  Speaker 1: in Canaan ten years, Saya I, his wife, took her
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian slave, Hagar, and gave her to her husband to
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  Speaker 1: be his wife. He slept with Hagar and she conceived.
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  Speaker 1: When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise
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  Speaker 1: her mistress. Then Saya I said to Abram, you are
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my
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  Speaker 1: slave in your arms, and now that she knows she
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  Speaker 1: is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between
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  Speaker 1: you and me. Your slave is in your hands. Abram said,
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  Speaker 1: do with her whatever you think is best. Then Saya
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  Speaker 1: II mistreated Hagar, so she fled from her. The Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: It was the spring that is beside the road of shore,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, Hagar, slave of Sarah, where have you
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  Speaker 1: come from and where are you going? I'm running away
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  Speaker 1: from my mistress Sarah. She answered. Then the Angel of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord told her, go back to your mistress and
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  Speaker 1: submit to her. The angel added, I will increase your
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  Speaker 1: descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.
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  Speaker 1: The Angel of the Lord also said to her, you
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  Speaker 1: are now pregnant, and you will give birth to a son.
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  Speaker 1: You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard
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  Speaker 1: your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man.
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  Speaker 1: His hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him,
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  Speaker 1: and he will live in hostility toward.
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  Speaker 2: All his brothers.
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  Speaker 1: She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her.
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  Speaker 1: You are the god who sees me. For she said,
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  Speaker 1: I have now seen the one who sees me. That
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  Speaker 1: is why the well was called beer La high Roi.
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  Speaker 1: It is still there between Gadesh and Baret. So Hagar
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  Speaker 1: bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: to the son.
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  Speaker 2: She had born.
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  Speaker 1: Abram was eighty six years old when Hagar bore him
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  Speaker 1: Ishmael Genesis chapter seventeen. When Abram was ninety nine years old,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord appeared to him and said, I am God Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: Walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will
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  Speaker 1: make my covenant between me and you, and will greatly
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  Speaker 1: increase your numbers. Abram fell face down, and God said
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  Speaker 1: to him, as for me, this is my covenant with you.
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  Speaker 1: You will be the father of many nations. No longer
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  Speaker 1: will you be called Abram. Your name will be Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: for I have made you a father of many nations.
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  Speaker 1: I will make you very fruitful. I will make nations
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  Speaker 1: of you, and kings will come from you. I will
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  Speaker 1: establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you,
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  Speaker 1: and your descendants after you, for the generations to come
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  Speaker 1: to be your God and the God of your descendants
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  Speaker 1: after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now
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  Speaker 1: reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting
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  Speaker 1: possession to you and your descendants after you, and I
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  Speaker 1: will be their God. Then God said to Abraham, as
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  Speaker 1: for you, you must keep my covenant you and your
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  Speaker 1: descendants after you, for the generations to come. This is
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  Speaker 1: my covenant with you and your descendants after you. The
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  Speaker 1: covenant you are to keep. Every male among you shall
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  Speaker 1: be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will
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  Speaker 1: be a sign of the covenant between me and you
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  Speaker 1: for the generations to come.
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  Speaker 2: Every male among you who is eight days old.
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  Speaker 1: Must be circumcised, including those born in your household or
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  Speaker 1: bought with money from a foreigner. Those who are not
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  Speaker 1: your offspring, whether born in your household or bought with
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  Speaker 1: your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your
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  Speaker 1: flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male
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  Speaker 1: who has not been circumcised in the flesh will be
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  Speaker 1: cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.
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  Speaker 1: God also said to Abraham, as for Sarah, your wife,
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  Speaker 1: you are no longer to call her SARAHI her name
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  Speaker 1: will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely
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  Speaker 1: give you a son by her. I will bless her
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  Speaker 1: so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings
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  Speaker 1: of peoples will come from her. Abraham fell face down.
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  Speaker 1: He laughed and said to himself, will a son be
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  Speaker 1: born to a man a hundred years old, will Sarah
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  Speaker 1: bear a child at the age of ninety And Abraham
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  Speaker 1: said to God, if only Ishmael might live under your blessing.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Then God said, yes.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: But your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and
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  Speaker 1: you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant
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  Speaker 1: with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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  Speaker 1: And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will
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  Speaker 1: surely bless him. I will make him fruitful and will
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  Speaker 1: greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of
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  Speaker 1: twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
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  Speaker 1: But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah
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  Speaker 1: will bear to you by this time next year.
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  Speaker 2: When he had finished speaking.
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  Speaker 1: With Abraham, God went up from him. On that very day,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in
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  Speaker 1: his household, or bought with his money every male in
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: his household, and circumcised them as.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: God told him.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham was ninety nine years old when he was circumcised,
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  Speaker 1: and his son Ishmael was thirteen. Abraham and his son
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day, and every
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  Speaker 1: male in Abraham's household, including those born in his household
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  Speaker 1: or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him. Genesis
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: chapter eighteen. The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: trees of Mamre. While he was sitting at the entrance
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: to his tent in the heat of the day. Abraham
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent
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  Speaker 1: to meet them, and bowed low to the ground. He said,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I have found favor in your eyes, my Lord. Do
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: and then you may all wash your feet and rest
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: under this tree. Let me give you something to eat
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: so you can be refreshed, and then go on your way.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: Now that you have come to your servant, very well,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: they answered, do as you say.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: So Abraham hurried into the tent.
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  Speaker 1: To Sarah quick He said, if three seas of the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: finest flower and knead it and bake some bread. Then
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: he ran to the herd and selected a choice tender
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: prepare it. He then brought some curds and milk, and
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the calf that had been prepared and set these before them.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Where is your wife, Sarah? They asked him. There in
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: the tent, he said. Then one of them said, I
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: will surely return to you about this time next year,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: and Sarah, your wife, will have a son. Now, Sarah
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: behind him. Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Sarah was past the age of child bearing.
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  Speaker 2: So Sarah laughed.
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  Speaker 1: To herself as she thought, after I am worn and
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: my lord is old, Will I now have this pleasure?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Abraham, why did Sarah laugh
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: and say? Will I really have a child now that
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: I am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord?
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  Speaker 1: I will return to you at the appointed time next year,
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  Speaker 1: and Sarah will have a son. Sarah was afraid, so
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: she lied and said I did not laugh, But he said, yes,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: you did laugh. When the men got up to leave,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: they looked down towards Sodom, and Abraham walked along with
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: them to see them.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: On their way.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham when
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will.
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  Speaker 2: Be blessed through him, for I.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Have chosen him so that he will direct his children
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: and his household after him to keep the way of
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: the Lord by doing what is right, just so that
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: promised him. Then the Lord said, the outcry against Sodom
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: and Gomorah is so great, and their sin so grievous,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: that I will go down and see if what they
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: have done is as bad as the outcry that has
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: reached me.
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  Speaker 2: If not, I will know.
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  Speaker 1: The men turned away and went towards Sodom, but Abraham
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: remained standing before the Lord. Then Abraham approached him and said,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: if there are fifty righteous people in the city, will
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: you really sweep it away and not spare the place
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Far be it from you to do such a thing,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: and the wicked alike, Far be it from you.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Will not the judge of all the earth do right?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: The Lord said, If I find ffyft de righteous people
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  Speaker 1: in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: place for their sake. Then Abraham spoke again, now that
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: though I am nothing but dust and ashes, What if
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: the number of the righteous is five less than fifty?
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  Speaker 2: Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?
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  Speaker 1: If I find forty five there, he said, I will
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: not destroy it. Once again, he spoke to him, What
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: if only forty are found there? He said, for the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: sake of forty, I will not do it. Then he said,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: may the Lord not be angry, but let me speak.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: What if only thirty can be found there? He answered,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: I will not do it if I find thirty there.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham said, now that I have been so bold as
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: be found there? He said, for the sake of twenty,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: I will not destroy it. Then he said, may the
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: What if only ten can be found there? He answered,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: for the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: and Abraham returned home. Genesis chapter nineteen, The two angels
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: in the gateway of the city. When he saw them.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: He got up to meet them and bowed down with
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: his face to the ground. My lords, he said, please
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: feet and spend the night, and then go on your
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: way early in the morning. No, they answered, we will
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: spend the night in the square. But he insisted so
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: strongly that they did go with.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Him and entered his house.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: the men from every part of the city of Sodom,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: both young and old, surrounded the house. They called to Lot,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: where are the men who came to you tonight. Bring
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: them out to us so that we can have sex
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: with them. Lot went outside to meet them and shut
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: the door behind him and said, no, my friends, don't
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: have never slept with a man. Let me bring them
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: out to you, and you can do what you like
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: with them. But don't do anything to these men, for
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: they have come under the protection.
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  Speaker 2: Of my roof. Get out of our way, they replied.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: wants to play. The judge will treat.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: You worse than them.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: break down the door, but the men inside reached out
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: They then struck the men who were at the door
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: of the house, young and old, with blindness, so that
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: they could not find the door. The two men said
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  Speaker 1: to Lot, do you have anyone else here, sons in law,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: belongs to you. Get them out of here, because we
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Lord against its people is so great that he has
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: sent us to destroy it. So Lot went out and
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: spoke to his sons in law, who were pledged to
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: marry his daughters. He said, hurry and get out of
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: But his sons in law thought he was joking.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: With the coming of dawn, the angels urged a Lot, saying, hurry,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: take your wife and your two daughters who are here,
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  Speaker 1: or you will be swept away when the city is punished.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: When he has the men grasped his hand and the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: hands of his wife and his two daughters, and led
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: them safely out of the city, for the Lord was
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: one of them said, flee for your lives. Don't look back,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: and don't stop anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: or you will be swept away. But Lot said to them, no,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: my lords, please, Your servant has found favor in your eyes,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: my life.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: But I can't flee to the mountains.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: This disaster will overtake me and I'll die. Look, here
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: is a town near enough to run to, and it
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  Speaker 1: is small. Let me flee to it. It is very small,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: isn't it. Then my life will be spared.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: He said to him, very well, I will grant you
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: this request to I will not overthrow the town you
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: speak of, but flee there quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Because I cannot do anything until you reach it. That
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  Speaker 1: is why the town was called Zoar. By the time
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord rained down, burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: From the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: in the cities, and also the vegetation in the land.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: of salt. Early the next morning, Abraham got up and
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: He looked down towards Sodom and Gomorah, toward all the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: from the land, like smoke from a furnace. So when
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: the cities where Lot had lived. Lot and his two
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  Speaker 1: daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: daughters lived in a cave. One day, the older daughter
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  Speaker 1: said to the younger, our father is old, and there
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  Speaker 1: is no man around here to give us children, as
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: is the custom all over the earth. Let's get our
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: father to drink wine and then sleep with him and
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: preserve our family line through our father. That night, they
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: went in and slept with him. He was not aware
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: of it when she lay down or when she got up.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: The next day, the older daughter said to the younger
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  Speaker 1: last night, I slept with my father. Let's get him
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  Speaker 1: to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: sleep with him, so we can preserve our family line
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: through our father. So they got their father to drink
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: And slept with him. Again.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: He was not aware of it when she lay down
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: or when she got up. So both of Lot's daughters
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  Speaker 1: became pregnant by their father. The older daughter had a son,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: and she named him Moab. He is the father of
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son,
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  Speaker 1: and she named him ben Ami. He is the father
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  Speaker 1: of the Ammonites of today. Genesis chapter twenty. Now Abraham
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: moved on from there into the region of the Negev
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: and lived between Kadesh and Schuur.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: For a while.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: He stayed in Gharar, and there Abraham said of his
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: wife Sarah, she is my sister. Then Abimelech, king of Garar,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: sent for Sarah and took her, but God came to
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: a bimelech in a dream one night and said to him,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: you are as good as dead because of the woman
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: you have taken. She is a married woman. Now a
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: bimelek had not gone near her, so he said, Lord,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: will you destroy an innocent nation? Did he not say
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: to me she is my sister? And didn't she also
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: say he is my brother. I have done this with
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: a clear conscience and clean hands. Then God said to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: him in the dream, yes, I know you did this
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: from sinning against me. That is why I did not
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: let you touch her. Now return the man's wife, for
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: he is a prophet, and.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: He will pray for you, and you will live.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: But if you do not return her, you may be
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: sure that you and all who belonged to you will die.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, a bimelech summoned all his officials,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: and when he told them all that had happened, they
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: were very much afraid. Then a Bimelech called Abraham in
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: and said, what have you done to us?
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: How have I wronged you? That you have brought such
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: great guilt upon me.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: And my kingdom. You have done things to me that
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: should never be done. And Abimelek asked Abraham, what was
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: your reason for doing this? Abraham replied, I said to myself,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: there is surely no fear of God in this place,
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  Speaker 1: and they will kill me because of my wife. Besides,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: she really is my sister, the daughter of my father,
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  Speaker 1: though not of my mother. And she became my wife.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: And when God had me wander from my father's household,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: I said to her, this is how you can show
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: your love to me. Everywhere we go say of me,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: he is my brother. Then a Bimelech brought sheep and cattle,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: And he returned Sarah, his wife, to him, and Abimelech said,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: my land is before you live wherever you like. To Sarah,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: he said, I am giving your brother a thousand shekels
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: of silver. This is to cover the offense against you.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Before all who are with you, you are come completely vindicated.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed a Bimelek,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: his wife and his female slaves so they could have
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: children again. For the Lord had kept all the women
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: in a Bimelech's household from conceiving because of Abraham's wife,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Sarah Genesis chapter twenty one. Now the Lord was gracious
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: bore a son to Abraham and his old age at
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: the very time God had promised him.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: Abraham gave the.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: God commanded him. Abraham was one hundred years old when
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, God
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: will laugh with me. And she added, who would have
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children?
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: The child grew and was weaned, And on the day
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Isaac was weaned, Abraham held a great feast. But Sarah
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had born
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: to Abraham was mocking, and she said to Abraham, get
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: rid of that slave woman and her son, for that
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: son Isaac. The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: his son.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave. Woman.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. I will make
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: the son of the slave into a nation, also because.
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  Speaker 2: He is your offspring.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, Abraham took some food and a
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: them on her shoulders, and then sent her off with
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: the boy. She went on her way and wandered in
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: the desert of Beersheba. When the water in the skin
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: was gone.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: She put the boy under one of the bushes.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: Then she went off and sat down about a bow
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: shot away, for she thought, I cannot watch the boy die.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: And as she sat there, she began to sob. God
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: heard the boy crying, and the Angel of God called
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: to Hagar from heaven and said to her, what is
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: the matter, Hagar, Do not be afraid. God has heard
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: the boy crying as he lies there.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: Lift the boy up and take him by.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: The hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Then God opened her eyes and she saw a.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: Well of water. So she went and filled the skin
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: with water and.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: Gave the boy a drink. God was with the boy
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: as he grew up. He lived in the desert and
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: became an archer. While he was living in the desert
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: At that time, Abimelech and Faikal, the commander of his forces,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: said to Abraham, God is with you in everything you do. Now,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: swear to me here before God that you will not
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: deal falsely with me, or my children or my descendants.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: Show to me and the country where you now reside
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: as a foreigner, the same kindness I have shown to you.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: Abraham said, I swear it. Then Abraham complained to a
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: Bimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: But Abimelech said, I don't know who has done this.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: You did not tell me, and I heard about it
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: only to day. So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: gave them to a Bimelech, and the two men made
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: a treaty.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Abraham set apart seven.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: You lambs from the flock, and Abimelech asked Abraham, what
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: is the meaning of these seven you lambs? You have
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: set apart by themselves elves. He replied, accept these seven
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: this well. So that place was called Beersheba because the
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: two men swore an oath. There After the treaty had
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Faikol, the commander of
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  Speaker 1: his forces, returned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham
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  Speaker 1: planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called
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  Speaker 1: on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God. And
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  Speaker 1: Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a
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  Speaker 1: long time Genesis chapter twenty two. Some time later, God
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  Speaker 1: tested Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: He said to.
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  Speaker 1: Him, Abraham, here I am, he replied. Then God said,
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  Speaker 1: take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and.
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  Speaker 2: Go to the region of Mariah. Sacrif him. There as
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  Speaker 2: a burnt offering on a mountain. I will show you.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, Abraham got up and loaded his donkey.
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  Speaker 1: He took with him two of his servants and his
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  Speaker 1: son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the
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  Speaker 1: burnt offering, he set out for the place God had.
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  Speaker 2: Told him about.
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  Speaker 1: On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the
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  Speaker 1: place in the distance. He said to his servants, stay
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  Speaker 1: here with the donkey, while I and the boy go
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  Speaker 1: over there. We will worship, and then we will come
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  Speaker 1: back to you. Abraham took the wood for the burnt
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  Speaker 1: offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he
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  Speaker 1: himself carried the fire.
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  Speaker 2: And the knife.
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  Speaker 1: As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke
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  Speaker 1: up and said to his father Abraham, Father, yes, my son,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham replied, the fire and wood are here. Isaac said,
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  Speaker 1: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering. Abraham answered,
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  Speaker 1: God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering,
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  Speaker 1: my son. When they reached the place God had told
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  Speaker 1: him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the
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  Speaker 1: wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid
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  Speaker 1: him on the altar on top of the wood. Then
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  Speaker 1: he reached out his hand and took the knife to
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: slay his son. But the Angel of the Lord called
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  Speaker 1: out to him from heaven, Abraham, Abraham, here I am,
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  Speaker 1: he replied, Do not lay a hand on the boy.
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  Speaker 1: He said, do not do anything to him. Now I
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  Speaker 1: know that you fear God, because you have not withheld
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  Speaker 1: from me your son, your only son. Abraham looked up,
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  Speaker 1: and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught
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  Speaker 1: by its horns. He went over and took the ram
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  Speaker 1: and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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  Speaker 1: So Abraham called that place the Lord will provide, And.
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  Speaker 2: To this day it is said, on the mountain of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord it will be provided.
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  Speaker 1: The Angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven
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  Speaker 1: a second time, and said, I swear by myself, declares
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  Speaker 1: the Lord that because you have done this and have
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  Speaker 1: not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely
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  Speaker 1: bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the
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  Speaker 1: stars in the sky and as the sand on the
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  Speaker 1: sea shore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities
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  Speaker 1: of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on
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  Speaker 1: earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me. Then
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together
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  Speaker 1: for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Bersheba. Some time later,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham was told, Milka is also a mother. She has
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  Speaker 1: born sons to your brother nahor Uzz the first born
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  Speaker 1: Buzz his brother Hemuel, the father of Aram, kesse Hasso,
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  Speaker 1: pil Dash, jid Laugh, and Bethuel. Bethule became the father
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  Speaker 1: of Rebecca. Milka bore these eight sons to Abraham's brother Nehor.
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  Speaker 1: His concubine, whose name was Ruma, also had sons Taba, Gaham, Tayhash,
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  Speaker 1: and Maka Genesis chapter twenty three. Sarah lived to be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven years old. She died at
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  Speaker 1: kiriath Arba, that is, hebron in the land of Canaan.
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  Speaker 2: And Abraham went to.
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  Speaker 1: Mourn Sarah and to weep over her. Then Abraham rose
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  Speaker 1: from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I am a foreigner and stranger among you.
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  Speaker 1: Sell me some property for a burial site here so
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  Speaker 1: I can bury my dead. The Hittites replied to Abraham, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: listen to us. If you are a mighty prince among us,
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  Speaker 1: bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None
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  Speaker 1: of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.
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  Speaker 1: Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of
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  Speaker 1: the land, the Hittites.
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  Speaker 2: He said to them, if.
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  Speaker 1: You are willing to let me bury my dead, then
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  Speaker 1: listen to me and intercede with Ephron, son of Zohar
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  Speaker 1: on my behalf, so he will sell me the cave
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  Speaker 1: of Makpela, which belongs to him and is at the
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  Speaker 1: end of his field. Ask him to sell it to
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  Speaker 1: me for the full price as a burial sight among you.
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  Speaker 1: Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people, and he
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  Speaker 1: replied to Abraham and the hearing of all the Hittites
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  Speaker 1: who had come to the gate of his city. No,
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  Speaker 1: my lord, he said, listen to me. I give you
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  Speaker 1: the field, and I give you the cave that is
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  Speaker 1: in it. I give it to you in the presence
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: of my people. Bury your dead again. Abraham bowed down
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  Speaker 1: before the people of the land, and he said to
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  Speaker 1: Ephron in their hearing, listen to me, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: I will pay the price of the field. Accept it
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  Speaker 1: from me, so I can bury my dead there. Ephrin
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  Speaker 1: answered Abraham, listen to me, my lord. The land is
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  Speaker 1: worth four hundred shekels of silver.
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  Speaker 2: But what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham agreed to Ephron's terms and wighed out for him
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  Speaker 1: the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites.
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  Speaker 1: Four hundred shekels of silver according to the weight current
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: among the merchants. So Ephron's Field and Mackpella near Mamre,
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  Speaker 1: both the field and the cave in it, and all
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: the trees within the borders of the field, was deeded
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  Speaker 1: to Abraham as his property in the presence of all
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  Speaker 1: the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city. Afterward,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the
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  Speaker 1: field of Machpela near Mamre, which is Hebron in the
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  Speaker 1: land of Canaan. So the field and the cave in
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: burial sight Genesis chapter twenty four. Abraham was now very old,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord had blessed him in every way. He
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  Speaker 1: said to the senior servant in his household, the one
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  Speaker 1: in charge of all, that he had.
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  Speaker 2: Put your hand under my thigh.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to swear by the Lord, the God
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven and the God of Earth, that you will
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  Speaker 1: not get a wife from my son from the daughters
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  Speaker 1: of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: go to my country and my own relatives and get
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: a wife from my son Isaac.
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  Speaker 2: The servant asked.
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  Speaker 1: Him, what if the woman is unwilling to come back
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  Speaker 1: with me to this land, shall I take your son
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  Speaker 1: back to the country you came from. Make sure that
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  Speaker 1: you do not take my son back there. Abraham said
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of heaven, who brought me out
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  Speaker 1: of my father's household and my native land, and who
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying to
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: your offspring, I will give this land. He will send
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  Speaker 1: his angel before you so that you can get a
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  Speaker 1: wife from my son from there. If the woman is
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: unwilling to come back with you, then you will be
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: released from this oath of mine. Only do not take
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  Speaker 1: my son back there. So the servant put his hand
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  Speaker 1: under the thigh of his master Abraham, and swore an
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: oath to him concerning this matter. Then the servant left,
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  Speaker 1: taking with him ten of his master's camels, loaded with
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: all kinds of good things.
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  Speaker 2: From his master.
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  Speaker 1: He set out for Aram Naharaim and made his way
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  Speaker 1: to the town of Nahor. He had the camels kneel
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: down near the well outside the town. It was toward
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  Speaker 1: evening the time the women go out to draw water,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: and he prayed, Lord God of my master Abraham, make
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  Speaker 1: me successful today and show kindness to my master Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: See I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. May
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  Speaker 1: it be that when I say to a young woman,
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  Speaker 1: please let down your jar that I may have a drink,
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  Speaker 1: and she says, drink, and I'll water your camels too.
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  Speaker 1: Let her be the one you have chosen for your servant, Isaac.
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  Speaker 1: By this I will know that you have shown kindness
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  Speaker 1: to my master. Before he had finished praying, Rebecca came
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: daughter of Bethuel, son of Milkah, who was the wife
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: of Abraham's brother Nahor. The woman was very beautiful, a virgin.
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  Speaker 1: No man had ever slept with her. She went down
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  Speaker 1: to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
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  Speaker 1: The servant hurried to meet her and said, please give
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: me a little water from your jar. Drink, my lord,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands
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  Speaker 1: and gave him a drink. After she had given him
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: a drink, she said, out draw water for your camels too,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: until they have enough to drink. So she quickly emptied
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: her jar into the trough, ran back to the well
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: to draw more water, and drew enough for all his
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: camels without saying a word. The man watched her closely
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: to learn whether or not the Lord had made his
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: journey successful. When the camels had finished drinking, the man
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  Speaker 1: took out a gold nose ring weighing a becca, and
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels. Then he asked, whose
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: daughter are you? Please tell me is there room in
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: your father's house for us to spend the night? She
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  Speaker 1: answered him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son
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  Speaker 1: that Milka bore Tonahor, And she added, we have plenty
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: of straw and fodder, as well as room for you
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  Speaker 1: to spend the night. Then the man bowed down and
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: worshiped the Lord, saying, praise be to the Lord, that
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: Lord has led me on the journey to the house
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  Speaker 1: of my master's relatives. The young woman ran and told
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  Speaker 1: her mother's household about these things. Now Rebecca had a
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  Speaker 1: brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man
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  Speaker 1: at the spring. As soon as he had seen the
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  Speaker 1: nose ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: had heard Rebecca tell what the man said to her,
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  Speaker 1: he went out to the man and found him standing
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: by the camels near the spring. Come you, who are
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: blessed by the Lord, He said, why are you standing
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: out here? I have prepared the house in a place
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: for the camels. So the man went to the house,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: for the camels, and water for him and his men
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  Speaker 1: to wash their feet. Then food was set before him,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: but he said, I will not eat until I have
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  Speaker 1: told you what I have to say. Then tell us
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: Laban said so, he said, I am Abraham's servant. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy.
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  Speaker 1: He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold,
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  Speaker 1: male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. My master's wife,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah has borne him a son in her old age,
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  Speaker 1: and he has given him everything he owns. And my
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: master made me swear an oath and said, you must
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: not get a wife for my son from the daughters
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, But go
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: to my father's family and to my own clan and
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: get a wife for my son. Then I asked my master,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: what if the woman will not come back with me?
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: He replied the Lord before whom I have walked faithfully,
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  Speaker 1: We'll send his angel with you and make your journey
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  Speaker 1: a success, so that you can get a wife from
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  Speaker 1: my son, from my own clan and from my father's family.
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  Speaker 2: You will be released from my oath.
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  Speaker 1: If when you go to my clan they refuse to
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: give her to you, then you will be released from
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: my oath.
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  Speaker 2: When I came to.
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  Speaker 1: The spring today, I said, Lord God of my master Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: if you will please grant success to the journey on
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  Speaker 1: which I have come. See I am standing beside this spring.
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  Speaker 1: If a young woman comes out to draw water, and
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  Speaker 1: I say to her, please let me drink a little
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  Speaker 1: water from your jar. And if she says to me,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: drink and I'll draw water for your camels too, let
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  Speaker 1: her be the one the Lord has chosen for my
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: master's son. Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebecca
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  Speaker 1: came out with her jar on her shoulder. She went
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: down to the spring and drew water, and I said
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: to her, please give me a drink. She quickly lowered
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: her jar from her shoulder and said, drink, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: water your camels too. So I drank, and she watered
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  Speaker 1: the camels.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: Also. I asked her, whose daughter are you? She said,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: the daughter of Bethule, son of Nahor, whom milk A
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  Speaker 2: bore to him.
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  Speaker 1: Then I put the ring in her nose and the
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  Speaker 1: bracelets on her arms, and I bowed down and worshiped
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: the Lord. I praised the Lord, the god of my
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  Speaker 1: master Abraham, who had led me on the right road
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master,
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  Speaker 1: tell me, and if not, tell me, so I may
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: know which way to turn. Laban and Bethule answered, this
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: is from the Lord. We can say nothing to you
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  Speaker 1: one way or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Here is Rebecca.
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  Speaker 1: Take her and go and let her become the wife
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  Speaker 1: of your master's son, as the Lord has directed. When
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  Speaker 1: Abraham's servant heard what they said, he bowed down to
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  Speaker 1: the ground before the Lord. Then the servant brought out
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  Speaker 1: gold and silver jewelry, and articles of clothing, and gave
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  Speaker 1: them to Rebecca. He also gave costly gifts to her
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  Speaker 1: brother and to her mother. Then he and the men
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  Speaker 1: who were with him ate and drank and spent the
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: night there. When they got up the next morning, he said,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: send me on my way to my master. But her
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  Speaker 1: brother and her mother replied, let the young woman remain
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  Speaker 1: with us ten days or so, then you may go.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: But he said to them, do not detain me. Now
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord has granted success to my journey. Send
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  Speaker 1: me on my way so I may go to my master.
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  Speaker 1: Then they said, let's call the young woman and ask
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: her about it. So they called Rebecca and asked her,
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  Speaker 1: will you go with this man? I will go, she said.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: So they sent their sister Rebecca on her way, along
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  Speaker 1: with her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men. And
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: they blessed Rebecca and said to her, our sister, may
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  Speaker 1: you increase to thousands upon thousands, May your offspring possess
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  Speaker 1: the cities of their enemies. Then Rebecca and her attendants
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  Speaker 1: got ready and mounted the camels and went back with
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  Speaker 1: the man. So the servant took Rebecca and left. Now
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: Isaac had come from beer lehigh Roy, for he was
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: living in the Negev. He went out to the field
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  Speaker 1: one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he
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  Speaker 1: saw camels approaching.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: Rebecca also looked up and saw Isaac.
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  Speaker 1: She got down from her camel and asked the servant,
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: who is that man in the field coming to meet us?
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: He is my master, the servant answered, so she took
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: her veil and covered herself. Then the servant told Isaac
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  Speaker 1: all he had done. Isaac brought her into the tent
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebecca. So she
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  Speaker 1: became his wife, and he loved her, and Isaac was
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: comforted after his mother's death. Genesis chapter twenty five, Abraham
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  Speaker 1: had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore
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  Speaker 1: him Zimron, Jackshan, mi Dan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuwa. Jakshan
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  Speaker 1: was the father of Sheba and Didan. The descendants of
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  Speaker 1: Dedan were the Asherites, the Letushites, and the Leumites. The
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  Speaker 1: sons of Midian were Epha, ephr, hannok, Abida, and Elda.
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  Speaker 1: All these were descendants of Ketterah. Abraham left everything he
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  Speaker 1: owned to Isaac, but while he was still living, he
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  Speaker 1: gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent
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  Speaker 1: them away from his son Isaac to the land of
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  Speaker 1: the east. Abraham lived one hundred and seventy five years.
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  Speaker 1: Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: old age, an old man and full of years, and
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: he was gathered to his people. His sons Isaac and
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  Speaker 1: Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpela near Mamre,
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  Speaker 1: in the field of Ephrin, son of Nehor, the head Tite,
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  Speaker 1: the field Abraham had bought from the Hitdtites. There Abraham
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  Speaker 1: was buried with his wife Sarah. After Abraham's death, God
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  Speaker 1: blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near ber Lehiroi.
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  Speaker 1: This is the account of the family line of Abraham's
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  Speaker 1: son Ishmael, whom Sarah's slave Hagar the Egyptian bore to Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed
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  Speaker 1: in the order of their birth. Nabaioth, the first born
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  Speaker 1: of Ishmael, kedar adbel Mibsom, Mishmah, Dumah, Masa, Hadad, Timah,
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  Speaker 1: Jaytournyphish and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael, and
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  Speaker 1: these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according
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  Speaker 1: to their settlements and camps. Ishmael lived one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven years. He breathed his last and died, and
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  Speaker 1: he was gathered to his people. His descendants settled in
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  Speaker 1: the area from the Havilah to shore near the eastern
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  Speaker 1: border of Egypt as you go toward Ashore, and they
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  Speaker 1: lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them.
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  Speaker 1: This is the account of the family line of Abraham's
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  Speaker 1: son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Isaac
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  Speaker 1: was forty years old when he married Rebecca, daughter of
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  Speaker 1: Bethuel the Aramian from Padan Aram and sister of Laban
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  Speaker 1: the Aramian. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his
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  Speaker 1: prayer and his wife, Rebecca, became pregnant. The babies jostled
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  Speaker 1: each other within her, and she said, why is this
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  Speaker 1: happening to me?
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  Speaker 2: So she went to inquire of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The lords said to her, two nations are in your womb,
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  Speaker 1: and two peoples from within you will be separated. One
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  Speaker 1: people will be stronger than the other, and the older
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  Speaker 1: will serve the younger. When the time came for her
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  Speaker 1: to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
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  Speaker 1: The first to come out was red, and his whole
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  Speaker 1: body was like a hairy garment.
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  Speaker 2: So they named him Esau.
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  Speaker 1: After this, his brother came out with his hand grasping
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  Speaker 1: Esau's heel, so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty
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  Speaker 1: years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. The boys
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  Speaker 1: grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man
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  Speaker 1: of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay
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  Speaker 1: at home among the tents. Isaac, who had a taste
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  Speaker 1: for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebecca loved Jacob. Once,
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  Speaker 1: when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from
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  Speaker 1: the open country. Famished, he said to Jacob, quick, let
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  Speaker 1: me have some of that red stew. I'm famished. That
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  Speaker 1: is why he was also called Edom. Jacob replied, first,
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  Speaker 1: sell me your birthright. Look I'm about to die. Esau said,
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  Speaker 1: what good is the birthright to me? But Jacob said,
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  Speaker 1: swear to me first, so he swore an oath to him,
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  Speaker 1: selling his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some
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  Speaker 1: bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and
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  Speaker 1: then got.
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  Speaker 2: Up and left. So Esau despised his.
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  Speaker 1: Birthright Genesis chapter twenty six. Now there was a famine
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  Speaker 1: in the land besides the previous famine in Abraham's time,
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  Speaker 1: and Isaac went to a Bimelech, king of the Philistines,
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  Speaker 1: in Gharar. The lord appeared to Isaac and said, do
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  Speaker 1: not go down to Egypt. Live in the land where
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  Speaker 1: I tell you to live. Stay in this land for
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: a while, and I will be with you and will
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  Speaker 1: bless you, for to you and your descendants, I will
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  Speaker 1: give all these lands and will confirm the oath I
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  Speaker 1: swore to your father, Abraham. I will make your descendants
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  Speaker 1: as numerous as the stars in the sky, and will
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  Speaker 1: give them all these lands. And through your offspring, all
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  Speaker 1: nations on earth will be blessed. Because Abraham obeyed me
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  Speaker 1: and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands,
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  Speaker 1: my decrees, and my instructions. So Isaac stayed in Gharar.
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  Speaker 1: When the men of that place asked him about his wife,
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  Speaker 1: he said, she is my sister.
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  Speaker 2: Because he was afraid to say she is my wife,
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  Speaker 2: he thought.
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  Speaker 1: The men of this place might kill me on account
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  Speaker 1: of Rebecca, because she is beautiful. When Isaac had been
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  Speaker 1: there a long time, a Bimelech, king of the Philistines,
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  Speaker 1: looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his
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  Speaker 1: wife Rebecca. So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, she is
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  Speaker 1: really your wife.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you say she is my sister?
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  Speaker 1: Isaac answered him because I thought I might lose my
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  Speaker 1: life on account of her.
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  Speaker 2: Then Abimelech said, what is this you have done to us?
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  Speaker 1: One of the men might well have slept with your wife,
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  Speaker 1: and you would have brought guilt upon us. So a
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  Speaker 1: Bimelek gave orders to all the people anyone who harms
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  Speaker 1: this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac planted crops in that land, and the same year
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  Speaker 1: reaped one hundredfold. Because the lord blessed him, the man
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  Speaker 1: became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he
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  Speaker 1: became very wealthy. He had so many flocks and herds
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: and servants that the Philistines envied him so all the
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  Speaker 1: wells that his father's servant had dug in the time
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: of his father Abraham. The Philissines stopped up, filling them
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  Speaker 1: with earth. Then Abimelech said to Isaac, move away from us.
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  Speaker 1: You have become too powerful for us. So Isaac moved
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  Speaker 1: away from there and encamped in the valley of Garar,
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  Speaker 1: where he settled. Isaac reopened the wells that had been
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  Speaker 1: dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the
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  Speaker 1: Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave
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  Speaker 1: them the same names his father had given them. Isaac's
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  Speaker 1: servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of
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  Speaker 1: fresh water there. But the herders of Garar quarreled with
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  Speaker 1: those of Isaac and said the water is ours. So
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  Speaker 1: he named the well Essek because they disputed with him.
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  Speaker 1: Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that
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  Speaker 1: one also, so he named it Sitna. He moved on
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  Speaker 1: from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled
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  Speaker 1: over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, now the Lord
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  Speaker 1: has given us room, and we will flourish in the land.
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  Speaker 1: From there he went up to Beersheba. That night the
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  Speaker 1: Lord appeared to him and said, I am the God
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  Speaker 1: of your father Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be afraid, for I am with you.
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  Speaker 1: I will bless you and will increase the number of
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  Speaker 1: your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham. Isaac
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  Speaker 1: built an altar there and called on the name of
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: the Lord. There he pitched his tent, and there his
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: servants dug a well. Meanwhile, Abimelech had come to him
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  Speaker 1: from Gharar with Ahisath, his personal adviser, and Fikal, the
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  Speaker 1: commander of his forces. Isaac asked them, why have you
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: come to me, since you were hostile to me and
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: sent me away. They answered, we saw clearly that the
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: Lord was with you, so we said there ought to
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: be a sworn agreement between us between us and you.
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  Speaker 1: Let us make a treaty with you, that you will
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  Speaker 1: do us no harm, just as we did not harm you,
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  Speaker 1: but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully,
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  Speaker 1: and now you are blessed by the Lord. Isaac then
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, the men swore an oath to
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  Speaker 1: each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: they went away peacefully. That day, Isaac's servants came and
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: told him about the well they had dug.
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  Speaker 2: They said, we've found water.
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  Speaker 1: He called it Sheba, and to this day the name
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: of the town has been Beer Sheba. When Esau was
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: forty years old, he married Judith, daughter of Beri the Hittite,
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  Speaker 1: and also base Math, daughter of Elon the Hittite. They
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebecca Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty seven. When Isaac was old and his eyes
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: were so weak that he could no longer see, he
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: called for Esau, his older son, and said to him,
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  Speaker 1: my son, here I am. He answered, Isaac said, I
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  Speaker 1: am now an old man and don't know the day
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: of my death. Now, then get your equipment, your quiver
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  Speaker 1: and bow, and go out to the open country to
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: hunt some wild game for me. Prepare me the kind
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  Speaker 1: of tasty food I like, and bring it to me
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  Speaker 1: to eat, so that I may give you my blessing
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  Speaker 1: before I die.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: Rebecca was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: When Esau left for the open country to hunt game
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: and bring it back, Rebeccah said to her son Jacob, look,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, bring
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat,
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  Speaker 1: so that I may give you my blessing in the
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: presence of the Lord before I die. Now, my son,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: listen carefully and do what I tell you. Go out
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  Speaker 1: to the flock and bring me two choice young goats,
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  Speaker 1: so I can prepare some tasty food for your fother,
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  Speaker 1: just the way he likes it. Then take it to
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  Speaker 1: your father to eat, so that he may give you
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: his blessing before he dies. Jacob said to Rebecca his mother,
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  Speaker 1: but my brother Esau is a hairy man, while I
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: have smooth skin. What if my father touches me, I
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: would appear to be tricking him and would bring down
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: a curse on myself rather than a blessing. His mother
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: said to him, my son, let the curse fall on me.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: Just do what I say. Go and get them for me.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: So he went and got them and brought them to
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  Speaker 1: his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the
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  Speaker 1: way his father liked it. Then Rebecca took the best
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: clothes of Esau, her older son, which she had in
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: the house, and put them on her younger son, Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: She also covered his hands in the smooth part of
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: his neck with the goat skins. Then she handed to
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: had made. He went to his father and said, my father, yes,
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  Speaker 1: my son, he answered, who is it? Jacob said to
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  Speaker 1: his father, I am Esau, you're first born. I have
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: done as you told me. Please sit up and eat
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: some of my game, so that you may give me
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: your blessing. Isaac asked his son, how did you find
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: it so quickly? My son, the Lord your God gave
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: me success, he replied. Then Isaac said to Jacob, come
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: near so I can touch you, my son, to know
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: whether you really are my son Esau or not. Jacob
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: the voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: are the hands of Esau. He did not recognize him,
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: So he proceeded to bless him. Are you really my son, Esau,
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  Speaker 1: he asked, I am, he replied. Then he said, my son,
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  Speaker 1: bring me some of your game to eat so that
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: I may give you my blessing. Jacob brought it to
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  Speaker 1: him and he ate, and he brought some wine and
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: he drank. Then his father Isaac said to him, come here,
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: my son, and kiss me so he went to him
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: he blessed him and said, Ah, the smell of my
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: son is like the smell of a field that the
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: Lord has blessed. May God give you Heaven's due and
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: Earth's richness, an abundance of grain and new wine. May
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: nations serve you, and people's bow down to you. Be
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: Lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: mother bow down to you. May those who curse you
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: be cursed, in those who bless you be blessed. After
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: father's presence, his brother came in from hunting. He too,
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: Then he said to him, my father, please sit up
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  Speaker 1: and eat some of my game, so that you may
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: give me your blessing. His father, Isaac asked him, who
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: are you? I am your son? He answered, you're first
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: born Esau. Isaac trembled violently and said, who was it
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: then that hunted game and brought it to me? I
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: ate it just before you came, And I blessed.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: Him, And indeed he will be blessed.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: a loud and bitter cry and said to his father,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: bless me me to my father, but he said, your
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: brother came deceitfully and took your blessing. Esau said, isn't
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time taken
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: advantage of me. He took my birthright, and now he's
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: taking my blessing. Then he asked, haven't you reserved any
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: blessing for me? Isaac answered Esau, I have made him
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  Speaker 1: lord over you, and have made all his relatives his servants,
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  Speaker 1: and I have sustained him with grain and new wine.
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  Speaker 1: So what can I possibly do for you, my son?
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: Esau said to his father, do you have only one blessing?
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: My father? Bless me? To my father.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: Then Esau wept aloud. His father, Isaac answered him, your
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  Speaker 1: dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: the dew of heaven above. You will live by the sword,
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  Speaker 1: and you will serve your brother.
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  Speaker 2: But when you grow.
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  Speaker 1: Restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.
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  Speaker 1: Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing
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  Speaker 1: his father had given him. He said to himself, the
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: days of mourning for my father are near. Then I
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: will kill my brother Jacob. When Rebecca was told what
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: her older son Esau had said, she sent for her
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: younger son Jacob and said to him, your brother Esau
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: is planning to avenge himself by killing you. Now, then,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: my son, do what I say. Flee at once to
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: my brother Laban and Hran. Stay with him for a
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: while until your brother's fury subsides. When your brother is
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: no longer angry with you and forgets what you did
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: to him, I'll send word for you to come back
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: from there. Why should I lose both of you in
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: one day. Then Rebecca said to Isaac, I'm disgusted with
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  Speaker 1: living because of these Hittite women.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: If Jacob takes a wife.
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  Speaker 1: From among the women of this land, from Hittite women
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: like these, my life will not be worth living Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty eight. So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: Then he commanded him, do not marry a Canaanite woman.
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  Speaker 1: So at once to padan Aram, to the house of
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: your mother's father, Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. May
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  Speaker 1: God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: your numbers until you become a community of peoples. May
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: He give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: so that you may take possession of the land where
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: to Abraham. Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: he went to Padan Aram, to Laban, son of Bethule
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: the Aramian, the brother of Rebecca, who is the mother
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: of Jacob and Esau. Now, Esau learned that Isaac had
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: blessed Jacob and had sent him to pat Aram to
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: he commanded him do not marry a Canaanite woman, and
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: gone to padan Aram. Esau then realized how displeasing the
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: Canaanite women were to his father Isaac, so he went
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nobiawath and
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: daughter of Ishmael, son of Abraham, in addition to the
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: wives he already had. Jacob left Beersheba and set out
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: for Haran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: for the night because the sun had set. Taking one
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: of the stones there, he put it under his head
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: were ascending.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 2: And descending on it.
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  Speaker 1: There above it stood the Lord, and he said, I
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and.
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  Speaker 2: The God of Isaac.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: I will give you and your descendants the land on
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: dust of the earth, and you will spread out to
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: the west and to the east, to the north and
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: through you and your offspring. I am with you and
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: will watch over you wherever you go, and I will
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: bring you back to this land. I will not leave
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: you until I have done what I have promised you.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: When Jacob awoke.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: From his sleep, he thought, surely the Lord is in
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: this place, and I was not aware of it. He
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: was afraid and said, how awesome is this place. This
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: is none other than the House of God.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: This is the gate of Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone he had
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  Speaker 1: placed under his head and set it up as a
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  Speaker 1: pillar and poured oil on top of it. He called
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  Speaker 1: that place Bethel, though the city used to be called LUs.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jacob made a vow, saying, if God will be
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  Speaker 1: with me and will watch over me on this journey
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  Speaker 1: i am taking, and will give me food to eat
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: and clothes to wear, so that I returned safely to
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  Speaker 1: my father's household, then the Lord will be my God,
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  Speaker 1: and this stone that I have set up as a
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  Speaker 1: pillar will be God's house. And of all that you
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  Speaker 1: give me, I will give you a tenth Genesis, chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine. Then Jacob continued on his journey and came
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  Speaker 1: to the land of the Eastern peoples. There he saw
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  Speaker 1: a well in the open country with three flocks of
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  Speaker 1: sheep lying near it. Because the flocks were watered from
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: that well, the stone over the mouth of the well
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: shepherds would roll away the stone from the well's mouth
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  Speaker 1: and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone
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  Speaker 1: to its place over the mouth of the well. Jacob
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: asked the shepherds. My brothers, where are you from. We're
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  Speaker 1: from Hauran, they replied. He said to them, do you
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  Speaker 1: know Laban, Nehor's grandson. Yes, we know him, they answered.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jacob asked them, is he well? Yes he is,
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: they said, and here comes his daughter, Rachel with the sheep. Look,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: he said, the sun is still high. It is not
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  Speaker 1: time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep
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  Speaker 1: and take them back to pasture. We can't, they replied
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  Speaker 1: until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: been rolled away from the mouth of the well, then
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: we will water the sheep. While he was still talking
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: with them, Rachel came with her father's.
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  Speaker 2: Sheep, for she was a shepherd.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: When Jacob saw Rachel, daughter of his uncle Laban, and
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. He
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: had told Rachel that he was a relative of her
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  Speaker 1: father and a son of Rebecca, so she ran and
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: told her father. As soon as Laban heard the news
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: about Jacob, his sister's son, he hurried to meet him.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: He embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: Then Laban said to him.
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  Speaker 2: You are my own flesh and blood.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: Laban said to him, just because you are a relative
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: me what your wages should be. Now Laban had two daughters.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the older was Leah, and the name
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: of the younger was Rachel. Leah had weak eyes, but
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Jacob was
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: in love with Rachel and said, I'll work for you
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: seven years in return for your younger daughter, Rachel. Laban said,
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  Speaker 1: it's better that I give her to you than to.
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  Speaker 2: Some other man. Stay here with me.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: seemed like only a few days to him because of
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: his love for her. Then Jacob said to Laban.
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  Speaker 2: Give me my wife.
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  Speaker 1: My time is completed, and I want to make love
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  Speaker 1: to her. So Laban brought together all the people of
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: the place and gave a feast. But when evening came,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob made love to her, and Laban gave his
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  Speaker 1: servant Zilpa to his daughter as her attendant. When morning came,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: there was Leah. So Jacob said to Laban, what is
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: didn't I. Why have you deceived me? Laban replied, it
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  Speaker 1: is not our custom here to give the younger daughter
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  Speaker 1: in marriage before the older one. Finish this daughter's bridal week,
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  Speaker 1: and then we will give you the younger one also
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: in return for another seven years of work, and Jacob
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: Laban gave him his daughter Rachel, to be his wife.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: her attendant.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 2: Jacob made love to.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: his love for Leah, and he worked for Laban another
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: seven years.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 2: When the Lord.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: Saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: but Rachel remained childless. Leah became pregnant and gave birth
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said,
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: it is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: my husband will love me. Now she conceived again, and
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: when she gave birth to his son, she said, because
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: the Lord has heard that I am not loved, he
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: gave me this one too. She named him Simeon. Again
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son,
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: she said, now at last, my husband will become attached
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: to me, because I have borne him three sons. So
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: he was named Levi. She conceived again, and when she
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: gave birth to a son, she said, this time I
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: will praise the Lord, so she named him Judah. Then
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: she stopped having children Genesis chapter thirty. When Rachel saw
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: jealous of her sister, so she said to Jacob, give
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: me children or I'll die. Jacob became angry with her
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: and said, am I in the place of God who
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: has kept you from having children? Then she said, here
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: is Bilha, my servant. Sleep with her, so that she
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: can bear children for me, and I too can build
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: a family through her. So she gave him her servant
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  Speaker 1: Bilh as a wife. Jacob slept with her, and she
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: became pregnant and bore him a son. Then Rachel said
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: God has vindicated me. He has listened to my plea
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  Speaker 1: and given me a son. Because of this, she named
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: him Dan. Rachel's servant Bilha conceived again and bore Jacob
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: a second son. Then Rachel said, I have had a
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: great struggle with my sister and I have won, so
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: she named him Naftali. When Leah saw that she had
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: her to Jacob as a wife. Leah's servant Zilpah boor
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: Jacob a son. Then Leah said, what a good fortune,
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: so she named him gad Lea's servant Zilpah bore Jacob
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: a second son. Then Leah said, how happy I am.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: The women will call me happy, so she named him Asher.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: found some man drake plants, which he brought to his mother, Leah.
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 2: Rachel said to Leah, please give me some.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: Of your son's man drakes. But she said to her,
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: you take my son's man drakes too?
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 2: Very well?
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: Rachel said he can sleep with you tonight in return
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: for your son's man Drakes. So when Jacob came in
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: You must sleep with me, she said, I have hired
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: you with my son's man, Drakes.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 2: So he slept with her that night.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: Jacob a fifth son. Then Leah said, God has rewarded
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: me for giving my servant to my husband, so she
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: named him Issachar. Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: sixth son. Then Leah said, God has presented me with
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: a precious gift. This time, my husband will treat me
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: with honor because I have borne him six sons. So
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: she named him Zebulen. Some time later, she gave birth
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: to a daughter and named her Dina. Then God remembered Rachel.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: He listened to her and enabled her to conceive. She
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and said,
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  Speaker 1: God has taken away my disgrace. She named him Joseph,
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: and said, may the Lord add to me another son.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: send me on my way so I can go back
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  Speaker 1: to my own homeland. Give me my wives and children
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: for whom I have served you, and I will be
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: on my way. You know how much work I've done
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: for you, But Laban said to him, if I have
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: He added, Name your wages, and I will pay them.
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 2: Jacob said to him.
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  Speaker 1: You know how I have worked for you, and how
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: your livestock has fared under my care. The little you
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: has blessed.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 2: You wherever I have been. But now, when may I
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 2: do something for my own household? What shall I give you?
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 2: He asked.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: Don't give me anything, Jacob replied, but if you will
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: do this one thing for me, I will go on
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: tending your flocks and watching over them. Let me go
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: through all your flocks today and remove from them every
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: speckled or spotted sheep, every dark colored lamb, and every
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages, and
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: my honesty will testify for me in the future. Whenever
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: you check on the wages you have paid me. Any
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted,
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: or any lamb that is not dark colored, will be
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: considered stolen.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 2: Agreed, said Laban. Let it be as you have said.
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: That same day he removed all the male goats that
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: female goats, all that had white on them, and all
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: the dark colored lambs, and he placed them in the
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: care of his sons. Then he put a three day
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: the rest of Laban's flocks. Jacob, however, took fresh cut
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and made white
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: white inner wood of the branches. Then he placed the
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: peeled branches and all the watering troughs so that they
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: would be directly in front of the flocks when they
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: came to drink, they made it in front of the branches,
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: and they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves,
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: but made the rest face the streaked and dark colored
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals.
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: the branches in the troughs in front of the animals,
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: so they would mate near the branches. But if the
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: animals were weak, he would not place them there. So
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: the weak animals went to Laban, and the strong ones
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: to Jacob. In this way, the men grew exceedingly prosperous
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants,
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: and camels and donkeys Genesis chapter thirty one. Jacob heard
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken everything our
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: father owned, and has gained all this wealth.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 2: From what belonged to our father.
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: And Jacob noticed that Laban's attitude toward him was not
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: what it had been. Then the Lord said to Jacob,
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: go back to the land of your fathers and to
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: your relatives, and I will be with you. So Jacob
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: the fields.
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 2: Where his flocks were. He said to them, I see
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 2: that your father's attitude toward me is not what it
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 2: was before.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: But the God of my father has been with me.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: You know that I've worked for your father with all
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: my strength. Yet your father has cheated me by changing
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: to harm me. If he said the speckled ones will
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: be your wages, then all the flocks gave birth to
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: speckled young. And if he said the streaked ones will
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: be your wages, then all the flocks bore streaked young.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: So God has taken away your father's livestock and has
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: given them to me in breeding season. I once had
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: a dream in which I looked up and saw that
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled,
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: or spotted. The Angel of God said to me in
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: the dream Jacob. I answered, here I am, And he said,
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: look up and see that all the male goats mating
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 2: For I have seen all that Laban has been doing
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar,
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: and where you made a vow to me. Now leave
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: this land at once and go back to your native land.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 2: Then Rachel and.
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: Leah replied, do we still have any share in the
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: inheritance of our father's estate?
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: Does he not regard us as foreigners?
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: Not only has he sold us, but he has used
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: up what was paid for us. Surely, all the wealth
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: that God took away from our father belongs to us
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: and our children. So do whatever God has told you.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels,
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: with all the goods he had accumulated in padan Aram
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: her father's household Gods. Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: by not telling him he was running away. So he
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River and
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: headed for the hill country of Gilead. On the third day,
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: Laban was told that Jacob had fled, taking his relatives
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: with him. He pursued Jacob for seven days and caught
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 2: Then God came to Laban the.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: Aramean in a dream at night and said to him,
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: or bad. Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: his relatives camped there too.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 2: Then Laban said to Jacob, what have you done. You've
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: deceived me, and you've carried off my daughters like captives
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: in war. Why did you run off secretly and deceive me.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 2: Why didn't you tell me.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: So I could send you away with joy and singing
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: to the music of timbrels and harps. You didn't even
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 2: You have done a foolish thing. I have the power
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 2: to harm you. But last night the god of your
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 2: father said to me, be careful not to say anything
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 2: to Jacob, either good or bad.
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: Now you have gone off because you longed to return
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: to your father's household. But why did you steal my gods?
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: Jacob answered Laban. I was afraid because I thought you
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: would take your daughters away from me by force. But
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: if you find anyone who has your gods, that person
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: shall not live in the presence of our relatives. See
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me,
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: and if so, take it now.
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 2: Jacob did not know that Rachel.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: Had stolen the gods, so Laban went into Jacob's tent,
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: out of Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent. Now Rachel
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: had taken the household gods and put them inside her
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: camel's saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: everything in the tent but found nothing. Rachel said to
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: her father, don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: stand up in your presence.
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 2: I'm having my period.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: So he searched but could not find the household gods.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. What is
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: my crime, he asked, Laban, How have I wronged you
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: that you humped me down. Now that you have searched
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: through all my goods, what have you found that belongs
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: to your household? Put it here in front of your
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: of us.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 2: I have been with you.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: For twenty years now, your sheep and goats have not miscarried,
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. I did
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: not bring you animals torn by wild beasts. I bore
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: the loss myself, and you demanded payment from me for
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: whatever was stolen by day or night. This was my situation.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. It was
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: like this for the twenty years I was in your household.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: I worked for you, fourteen years for your two daughters,
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  Speaker 1: and six years for your flocks, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Changed my wages ten times.
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  Speaker 1: If the God of my father, the God of Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: and the fear of Isaac, had not been with me,
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  Speaker 1: you would surely have sent me away empty handed. But
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  Speaker 1: God has seen my hardship in the toil of my hands.
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  Speaker 2: And last night he rebuked you.
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  Speaker 1: Laban answered, Jacob, the women are my daughters, the children
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  Speaker 1: are my children, and.
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  Speaker 2: The flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine.
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  Speaker 1: Yet what can I do today about these daughters of
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  Speaker 1: mine or about the children they have borne. Come now,
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  Speaker 1: let's make a covenant, you and I, and let it
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  Speaker 1: serve as a witness between us. So Jacob took a
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  Speaker 1: stone and set it up as a pillar. He said
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  Speaker 1: to his relatives, gather some stones. So they took stones
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  Speaker 1: and piled them in a heap, and they ate there
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  Speaker 1: by the heap Laban called it jeeger Sayhadutha, and Jacob
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  Speaker 1: called it ghalid. Laban said, this heap is a witness
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  Speaker 1: between you and me today.
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  Speaker 2: That is why it was called ghalid.
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  Speaker 1: It was also called misbah because he said, may the
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  Speaker 1: Lord keep watch between you and me when we are
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  Speaker 1: away from each other. If you mistreat my daughters, or
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  Speaker 1: if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though
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  Speaker 1: no one is with us, remember.
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  Speaker 2: That God is a witness between you and me.
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  Speaker 1: Laban also said to Jacob, here is this heap, and
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  Speaker 1: here is this pillar I have set up between you
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  Speaker 1: and me. This heap is a witness, and this pillar
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  Speaker 1: is a witness.
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  Speaker 2: That I will not go.
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  Speaker 1: Past this heap to your side to harm you, and
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  Speaker 1: that you will not go past this heap and pillar
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  Speaker 1: to my side to harm me. May the God of
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  Speaker 1: Abraham and the God of neahor the God of their
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  Speaker 1: Father judge between us. So Jacob took an oath in
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: the name of the fear of his father Isaac. He
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  Speaker 1: offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited
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  Speaker 1: his relatives.
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  Speaker 2: To a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the
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  Speaker 2: night there.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, Laban kissed his grandchildren and his
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  Speaker 1: daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter thirty two. Jacob also went on his way,
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  Speaker 1: and the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw them,
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: he said, this is the camp of God, so he
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  Speaker 1: named that place Mahanaim. Jacob sent messengers ahead of him
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  Speaker 1: to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the
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  Speaker 1: country of Edom. He instructed them, this is what you
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  Speaker 1: are to say to my lord Esau. Your servant, Jacob says,
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  Speaker 1: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there
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  Speaker 1: until now. I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats,
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  Speaker 1: male and female servants. Now I am sending this message
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  Speaker 1: to my lord that I may find favor in your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, we went
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  Speaker 1: to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to
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  Speaker 1: meet you, and four hundred men are with him. In
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: great fear and distress, Jacob divided the people who were
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  Speaker 1: with him into two groups. And the flocks and herds
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  Speaker 1: and camels as well. He thought, if Esau comes and
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  Speaker 1: attacks one group, the group that has left may escape.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jacob prayed, Oh, God of my father Abraham, God
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  Speaker 1: of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me,
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  Speaker 1: go back to your country and your.
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  Speaker 2: Relatives, and I will make you prosper.
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  Speaker 1: I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you
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  Speaker 1: have shown, your servant. I had only my staff when
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
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  Speaker 1: Save me, I pray from the hand of my brother Esau,
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  Speaker 1: for I am afraid he will come and attack me,
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  Speaker 1: and also the mothers with their children. But you have said,
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  Speaker 1: I will surely make you prosper, and will make your
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  Speaker 1: descendants like the sand of.
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  Speaker 2: The sea, which cannot be counted. He spent the night.
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  Speaker 1: There, and from what he had with him, he selected
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  Speaker 1: a gift for his brother Esau. Two hundred female goats
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  Speaker 1: and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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  Speaker 1: thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
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  Speaker 2: He put him in the care of his servants.
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  Speaker 1: Each heard by itself and said to his servants, go
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  Speaker 1: ahead of me and keep some space between the herds.
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  Speaker 1: He instructed the one in the lead, when my brother
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  Speaker 1: Esau meets you and asks who do you belong to?
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  Speaker 2: And where are you going?
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  Speaker 1: And who owns all these animals in front of you,
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  Speaker 1: then you are to say they belong to your servant Jacob.
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  Speaker 2: They are a gift sent.
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  Speaker 1: To my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.
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  Speaker 1: He also instructed the second, the third, and all the
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  Speaker 1: others who followed the herds, you are to say the
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  Speaker 1: same thing to Esau when you meet him, and be
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  Speaker 1: sure to say your servant Jacob is coming behind us.
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  Speaker 1: For he thought, I will pacify him with these gifts.
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  Speaker 1: I am sending on ahead. Later when I see him,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps he will receive me. So Jacob's gifts went on
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  Speaker 1: ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: the camp. That night, Jacob got up and took his
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  Speaker 1: two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons
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  Speaker 1: and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had
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  Speaker 1: sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.
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  Speaker 2: So Jacob was left.
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  Speaker 1: Alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When
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  Speaker 1: the man saw that he could not overpower him, he
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  Speaker 1: touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip
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  Speaker 1: was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
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  Speaker 2: Then the man said.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go, for it is daybreak, but Jacob replied,
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  Speaker 1: I will not let you go unless you bless me.
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  Speaker 2: The man asked him, what is your name? Jacob? He answered.
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  Speaker 2: Then the man said, your name will.
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  Speaker 1: No longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled
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  Speaker 1: with God and with humans and have overcome. Jacob said,
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: please tell me your name, but he replied, why do
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  Speaker 1: you ask my name?
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  Speaker 2: Then he blessed him.
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  Speaker 1: There So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying it is
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  Speaker 1: because I saw God face to face, and yet my
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  Speaker 1: life was spared. The sun rose above him as he
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  Speaker 1: passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, to this day, the Israelites do not eat.
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  Speaker 1: The tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because
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  Speaker 1: the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter thirty three. Jacob looked up and there was
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  Speaker 1: Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he divided
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  Speaker 1: the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: He put the female servants and their children in front,
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: the rear. He himself on ahead and bowed down to
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  Speaker 1: the ground seven times as he approached his brother. But
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  Speaker 1: Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him. He threw
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  Speaker 1: his arms around his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
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  Speaker 1: Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children.
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  Speaker 2: Who are these with you? He asked.
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: Jacob answered, they are the children God has graciously given
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: your servant. Then the female servants and their children approached
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: and bowed down. Next, Leah and her children came and
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: they too bowed down. Esau asked, what's the meaning of
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: all these flocks and herds? I met to find favor
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: in your eyes, my lord, he said, But Esau said.
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  Speaker 2: I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have
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  Speaker 2: for yourself. No, please, said Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this
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  Speaker 1: gift from me, For to see your face is like
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  Speaker 1: seeing the face of God. Now that you have received
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  Speaker 1: me favorably, please accept the present that was brought to you,
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  Speaker 1: for God has been gracious to me and I have
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  Speaker 1: all I need. And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: Then Esau said, let us be on our way. I'll
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  Speaker 1: accompany you. But Jacob said to him, my lord knows
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  Speaker 1: that the children are tender, and that I must care
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young.
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  Speaker 1: If they are driven hard just one day, all the
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  Speaker 1: animals will die. So let my lord go on ahead
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: of his servant while I move along slowly at the
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: pace of the flocks and herds before me, and the
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: pace of the children, until I come to my lord
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: and seer. Esau said, then let me leave some of
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: my men with you.
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 2: But why do this, Jacob asked, Just let me find
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  Speaker 2: favor in the eyes of my lord. So that day
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  Speaker 2: Esau started on his way back to syr.
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: Jacob, however, went to Succoth, where he built a place
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  Speaker 1: for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: why the place is called Sukeeth. After Jacob came from
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: padan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem
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  Speaker 1: and Canaan and camped within sight of the city. For
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: of Haymoor, the father of shechm the plot of ground
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  Speaker 1: where he pitched his tent. There he set up an
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  Speaker 1: altar and called it l Laway Israel Genesis, chapter thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: Now Dina, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went
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  Speaker 1: out to visit the women of the land.
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  Speaker 2: When Shechem, son of Hamor, the Hivite, the ruler of
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 2: that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 2: His heart was drawn to Dina, daughter of Jacob. He
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 2: loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her, and
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 2: Shechem said to his father Hamore, get me this girl
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 2: as my wife. When Jacob heard that his daughter Dina
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 2: had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 2: his livestock, so he did nothing about.
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: It until they came home. Then Shechem's father, Hamoor, went
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: out to talk with Jacob. Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: in from the fields. As soon as they heard what
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: had happened. They were shocked and furious because Shechem had
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: done an outrageous thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter,
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: a thing that should not be done. But Hamour said
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  Speaker 1: to them, my son Shechem has his heart set on
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: your daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Please give her to him as his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Mary with us, give us your daughters, and take
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  Speaker 1: our daughters for yourselves. You can settle among us. The
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  Speaker 1: land is open to you. Live in it, aid in it,
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  Speaker 1: and acquire property in it. Then Shechem said to Dina's
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  Speaker 1: father and brothers, let me find favor in your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and I will give you whatever you ask. Make the
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  Speaker 1: price for the bride and the gift I am to
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  Speaker 1: bring as great as you like, and I'll pay whatever
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  Speaker 1: you ask me.
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  Speaker 2: Only give me the young woman as my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Because their sister Dina had been defiled, Jacob's sons replied deceitfully.
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: As they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamour. They
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  Speaker 1: said to them, we can't do such a thing. We
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  Speaker 1: can't give our sister to a man who is not circumcised.
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  Speaker 2: That would be a disgrace to us. We will enter
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  Speaker 2: into an agreement with you on one condition only, that
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  Speaker 2: you become like us by circumcising all your males. Then
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 2: we will give you our daughters and take your daughters
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 2: for ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Will settle among you and become one people with you,
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  Speaker 1: But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we'll
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  Speaker 1: take our sister and go. Their proposal seemed good to
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  Speaker 1: Homore and his son Shechem. The young man, who was
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  Speaker 1: the most honored of all his father's family, lost no
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  Speaker 1: time in doing what they said, because he was delighted
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: with Jacob's daughter. So Hamor and his son Shechem went
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  Speaker 1: to the gate of their city to speak to the
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: men of their city. These men are friendly toward us,
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  Speaker 1: they said. Let them live in our land and trade
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  Speaker 1: in it. The land has plenty of room for them.
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  Speaker 1: We can marry their daughters, and they can marry ours.
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  Speaker 1: But the men will agree to live with us as
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  Speaker 1: one people only on the condition that our males be
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  Speaker 1: circumcised as they themselves are. Won't their live stock, their property,
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  Speaker 1: and all their other animals become ours. So let us
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  Speaker 1: agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.
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  Speaker 1: All the men who went out of the city gate
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  Speaker 1: agreed with Hamour and his son Shechem, and every male
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  Speaker 1: in the city was circumcised. Three days later, while all
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  Speaker 1: of them were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons,
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  Speaker 1: Simeon and Levi, Dina's brothers took their swords and attacked
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  Speaker 1: the unsuspecting city, killing every male. They put Hamor and
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  Speaker 1: his son Shechem to the sword and took Dina from
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  Speaker 1: Shechem's house and left. The sons of Jacob came upon
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  Speaker 1: the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: had been defiled. They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys,
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  Speaker 1: and everything else of theirs in the city and out
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  Speaker 1: in the fields. They carried off all their wealth and
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: all their women and children, taking us plunder everything in
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: the houses. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, you
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  Speaker 1: have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: the Canaanites and Perizites, the people living in this land.
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  Speaker 1: We are few in number, and if they joined forces
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  Speaker 1: against me and attack me, I and my household will
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed. But they replied, should he have treated our
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  Speaker 1: sister like a prostitute Genesis chapter thirty five. Then God
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  Speaker 1: said to Jacob, go up to Bethel and settle there
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  Speaker 1: and build an altar there to God who appeared to
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  Speaker 1: you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau. So
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: Jacob said to his household and to all who were
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  Speaker 1: with him. Get rid of the foreign gods you have
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. Then come,
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: let us go up to Bethel, or I will build
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: an altar to God, who answered me in the day
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 1: of my distress, and who has been with.
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 2: Me wherever I have gone.
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had,
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: and their rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: under the oak at Shechem. Then they set out, and
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: the terror of God fell on the towns all around them,
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: so that no one pursued them. Jacob and all the
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: people with him came to Luz, that is Bethel and
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: the land of Canaan. There he built an altar, and
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: he called the place El Bethel, because it was there
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  Speaker 1: that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: from his brother now Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: buried under the yoke outside Bethel, so it was named
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  Speaker 1: Alan Bakuth.
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 2: After Jacob returned.
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: From Padan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 2: God said to him, your.
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  Speaker 1: Name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: Your name will be Israel. So he named him Israel,
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  Speaker 1: and God said to him, I am God Almighty, be
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community
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  Speaker 1: of nations will come from you, and kings will be
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: among your descendants. The land I gave to Abraham and
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  Speaker 1: Isaac I also give to you, and I will give
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  Speaker 1: this land to your descendants after you. Then God went
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: up from him at the place where he had talked
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar at the
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 1: place where God had talked with him, and he poured
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: out a drink offering on it. He also poured oil
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: on it. Then Jacob called the place where God had
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: talked with him Bethel. Then they moved on from Bethel.
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: While there were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachael began
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  Speaker 1: to give birth and had great difficulty. And as she
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her,
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: don't despair, for you have another son. As she breathed
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  Speaker 1: her last for she was dying. She named her son
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: ben Oni, but his father named him Benjamin.
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 2: So Rachael died and was buried on the way to Ephrath,
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 2: that is Bethlehem.
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: Over her tomb, Jacob set up a pillar and to
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb. Israel moved on
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. While Israel
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: with his father's concubine, Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: Jacob had twelve sons, the sons of Leah Rubin the
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. The
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Rachel's
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: servant bilh Dan and Nephtali. The sons of Leah's servant Zilpah,
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  Speaker 1: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: were born to him in padan Aram.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob came home.
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  Speaker 1: To his father, Isaac and Mamra near kyriath Arba, that is, Hebron,
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  Speaker 1: where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. Isaac lived one hundred
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: and eighty years. Then he breathed his last and died.
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: Was gathered to his people, old and full of years,
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. Genesis chapter
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: thirty six. This is the account of the family line
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: of Esau, that is Edam. Esau took his wives from
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: the women of Canaan Ada daughter of Elon the Hittite,
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: and a Holy Bama, daughter of Anah and granddaughter of
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 1: Zibeon the Heivite. Also base Math, daughter of Ishmael and
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: sister of nobaiowath Adah Bor Eliphaz to Esau, base Math,
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: Bore Ruel, and a Holy Bama Bore Jayush, Jalam and Korah.
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: These were the sons of Esau who were born to
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: him in Canaan. Esau took his wives and sons and
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: daughters and all the members of his household, as well
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: as his livestock and all his other animals and all
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: the goods he had acquired in Canaan and moved to
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: a land some distance from his brother Jacob. Their possessions
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: were too great for them to remain together. The land
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: where they were staying could not support them both because
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: of their livestock. So Esau, that is Edom settled in
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: the hill country of Sir. This is the account of
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: the family line of Esau, the father of the Edomites
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: in the hill country of Sir. These are the names
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 1: of Esau's sons. Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: and Rayuel, the son of.
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 2: Esau's wife base Math.
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: The sons of Eliphas, taman Omar, Zepho, Gattum, and Kenas.
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  Speaker 1: Esau's son Eliphas also had a concubine named Timna, who.
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 2: Bore him Amelek.
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 1: These were grandsons of Esau's wife Adah. The sons of Rayuel, Nahath, Zarah,
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: Shamah and Miza. These were grandsons of Esau's wife base Math.
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: The sons of esa Iyesau's wife a Holy Bama, daughter
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau. Jayush,
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: Jalam and Korra. These were the chiefs among Esau's descendants.
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau, Chiefs teman Omar, Zepho, Kena's, Korra, Gatam,
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: and Amelek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz and Edom.
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: They were grandsons of Adah.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 2: The sons of Esau's.
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: Son Rayuel, Chiefs Nahath, Zarah, Shamah, and Miza. These were
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: the chiefs descended from Rayuel and Edom. They were grandsons
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: of Esau's wife base Math. The sons of Esau's wife,
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: a Holy Bama, chiefs Jayush, Jalam and Korra. These were
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: the chiefs descended from Esau's wife, a Holy Bama daughter
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: of Anah. These were the sons of Esau, that is
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 1: Edam and the These were their chiefs. These were the
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: sons of Sir, the Horite who were living in the
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: region Lowton, Shobal, Zibion, Annah, DeShone, Azair and Diishon. These
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: sons of Sir and Edom were Horite chiefs. The sons
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: of lo Tan, Hori and Homam Timnah was Lotan's sister.
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: The sons of Shobal, Alvan, Manahath Ebal, Sheepho and Onam.
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: The sons of Zibion, Aiah and Anna. This is the
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: Anna who discovered the hot springs in the desert while
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibion. The
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: children of Annah, Deshon and a Holy Bama daughter of Anah.
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: The sons of Deshon, hemdan Eshbon, Ishrn and Kern. The
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: sons of Azir, bil Han, Zavan and Akhan. The sons
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: of Dishan, Uz and Aaran. These were the Horite chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dijon, Azair,
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 1: and Diishan. These were the Horite chiefs according to their
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: divisions in the land of Sir. These were the kings
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned. Belah,
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: son of Beor, became king of Edom. His city was
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: named din Haba. When Belah died, Jobab, son of Zarah
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: from Bozrah, succeeded.
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 2: Him as king.
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: When Jobab died, Hasham from the land of the Tamanites,
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: succeeded him as king. When Hasham died, Hadad, son of Bedad,
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: as king. His city was named Avith. When Hadad died,
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: Somla from Masrekah succeeded him as king. When Samlah died,
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: Shahoul from Rehoboth on the River succeeded him as king.
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: When Shahoul died, baal Hanan, son of Akbor, succeeded him
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: as king. When baal Hanan, son of Akbor died, Hadad
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: succeeded him as king. His daughter was named Pao, and
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: his wife's name was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, The daughter
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: of me Zahab. These were the chiefs descended from Esau
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: by name according to their clans and regions. Timnah, Alva,
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: jatheth A, Holy bamah Allah, Pinon, Haynaz Tamen, Mibzar, Magdiel,
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: their settlements in the land they occupied. This is the
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: family line of Esau, the father of the Edomites. Genesis,
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: chapter thirty seven. Jacob lived in the land where his
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: father had stayed, the land of Canaan. This is the
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: account of Jacob's family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen,
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: he brought their father a bad report about them. Now
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 1: because he had been born to him in his old age,
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 1: and he made an ornate robe for him.
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 2: When his brothers saw that their.
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: Father loved him more than any of them, they hated
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: him and could not speak a.
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 2: Kind word to him.
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: his brothers, they hated him. All the more, he said
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: to them, listen to this dream I had. We were
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: binding sheaves of grain out in the field, when suddenly
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: around mine and bowed down to it. His brothers said
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: to him, do you intend to reign over us? Will
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: you actually rule us? And they hated him all the
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: more because of his dream and what he had said.
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: Then he had another dream, and he told it to
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: his brothers. Listen, he said, I had another dream, and
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: bowing down to me. When he told his father, as
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said,
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 1: what is this dream you had? Will your mother and
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: I and your brothers actually come and bow down to
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: the ground before you.
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 2: His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 2: the matter in mind.
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 1: Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: near Shekem, and Israel said to Joseph, as you know
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: your brothers are grazing the flocks near Skem, Come, I
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: am going to send you to them. Very well, he replied.
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 2: So he said to him, go and see if all
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 2: is well.
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 1: With your brothers. And with the flocks and bring word
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: back to me. Then he he sent him off from
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: the valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shakem, a
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him,
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: what are you looking for. He replied, I'm looking for
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: their flocks? They have moved on from here. The man answered,
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: I heard them say, let's go to Dothan. So Joseph
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. But
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 1: they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them,
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: they plotted to kill him.
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 2: Here comes that dreamer.
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: They said to each other, Come now, let's kill him
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: and throw him into one of these cisterns, and say
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: comes of his dreams. When Reuben heard this, he tried
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: to rescue him from their hands. Let's not take his life.
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: He said, don't shed any blood, throw him into this
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: cistern here in the wilderness, and don't lay a hand
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: on him. Reuben said this to rescue him from them
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: and take him back to his father.
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 2: So, when Joseph came to his brothers. They stripped him
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 2: of his robe, the.
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: Ornate robe he was wearing, and they took him and
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty, there
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: was no water in it. As they sat down to
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm,
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: and myrrh, and they were on their.
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 2: Way to take them down to Egypt.
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: Judas said to his brothers, what will we gain if
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: we kill our brother and cover up his blood.
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 2: Come, let's sell.
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: Him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him.
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: After all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: His brothers agreed, so, when the Midianite merchants came by,
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites,
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: who took him to Egypt. When Reuben returned to the
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: his clothes. He went to his brothers and said, the
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: boy isn't there.
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 2: Where can I turn now?
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: Then they got Joseph's robe slaughtered a goat and dipped
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: the robe in the blood. They took the ornate robe
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: back to their father and said, we found this. Examine
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: it to see whether it is your son's robe. He
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: recognized it and said, it is my son's robe. Some
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: ferocious animal has defoured him. Joseph has surely been torn
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 1: to pieces. Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: and mourned for his son.
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 2: Many days.
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 1: All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: he refused to be comforted. No, he said, I will
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: continue to mourn until I joined my son in the grave.
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 2: So his father wept for him.
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard Genesis chapter
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: thirty eight. At that time, Judah left his brothers and
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: went down to stay with the man of a dullam
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: named Hirah. There, Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: man named Shua. He married her and made love to her.
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: She became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 1: was named Er. She conceived again and gave birth to
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 1: a son and named him Onon. She gave birth to
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 1: still another son and named him Sheila. It was at
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 1: Kezib that she gave birth to him.
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 2: Judah got a.
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: Wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 1: But Er Judas first born, was wicked in the lord's sight,
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: so the lord put him to death. Then Judas said
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: to Onon, sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill your
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 1: duty to her as a brother in law to raise
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: up offspring for your brother. But Onah Yah knew that
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: the child would not be his, so whenever he slept
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: with his brother's wife, he spilled his seamen on the
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. What
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 1: he did was wicked in the lord's sight, so the
• 2:43:14
  Speaker 1: lord put him to death.
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 2: Also. Judah then said to.
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: His daughter in law, Tamar, live as a widow in
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: your father's household until my son Sheila grows up, for
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: he thought he may die too, just like his brother's.
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: So Tamar went to live in her father's household. After
• 2:43:33
  Speaker 1: a long time, Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died.
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: to Tymna to the men who were shearing his sheep,
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: and his friend Hirah the Adelamite, went with him. When
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: Tamar was told, your father in law is on his
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: way to Tymna to shear his sheep, she took off
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 1: her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself,
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: and then sat down at the entrance of Naim, which
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: is on the road to Timna. For she saw that
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: though Sheila had now grown up, she had not been
• 2:44:08
  Speaker 1: given to him as his wife. When Judas saw her,
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: her face, not realizing that she was his daughter in law.
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: He went over to her by the roadside and said,
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: come now, let me sleep with you. And what will
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 1: you give me to sleep with you? She asked, I'll
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: send you a young goat from my flock. He said,
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: will you give me something as a pledge until you
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 1: send it? She asked, He said, what pledge? Should I
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: give you? Your seal and its cord and the staff
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: in your hand? She answered, so He gave them to
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: After she left, she took off her veil and put
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: on her widow's clothes again.
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Judas sent the young goat by.
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 1: His friend the Adelamite, in order to get his pledge
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 1: back from the woman, but he did not find her.
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: He asked the men who lived there, where is the
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: shrine prostitute who was beside the road at an Aim.
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here, they said. So
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: he went back to Judah and said, I didn't find her. Besides,
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: the men who lived there said there hasn't been any
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 1: shrine prostitute here. Then Judas said, let her keep what
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 1: she has or we will become a laughing stock. After all,
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: I did send her this young goat, but you didn't
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: find her. About three months later, Judah was told, your
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 1: daughter in law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 1: a result, she is now pregnant. Judas said, bring her
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: out and have her burn to death. As she was
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 1: being brought out, she sent a message to her father
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: in law. I am pregnant by the man who owns these,
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: she said, and she added, see if you recognize whose
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: seal and cord and staff these are. Judah recognized them
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 1: and said she is more righteous than I, since I
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 1: wouldn't give her to my son Sheila, and he did
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 1: not sleep with her again. When the time came for
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: As she was giving birth, one of them put out
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: his hand. So the midwife took a scarlet thread and
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: tied it on his wrist and said, this one came
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 1: out first. But when he drew back his hand, his
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: brother came out, and she said, so this is how
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: you have broken out, and he was named Perez. Then
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 1: his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist,
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: came out, and he was named Zarah. Genesis chapter thirty nine.
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials. The captain of
• 2:46:56
  Speaker 1: the guard, brought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: him there. The Lord was with Joseph, so that he prospered,
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: When his master saw that the Lord was with him,
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 1: and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did,
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 1: Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant.
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 1: Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 1: entrusted to his care everything he owned from the time
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 1: he put him in charge of his household, and of
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 1: all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of
• 2:47:29
  Speaker 1: the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and
• 2:47:37
  Speaker 1: in the field. So Potiphar left everything he had in
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: Joseph's care. With Joseph in charge, he did not concern
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: himself with anything except the food he ate.
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 2: Now, Joseph was well built.
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: And handsome, And after a while his master's wife took
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 1: notice of Joseph and said, come to bed with.
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 2: Me, But he refused me.
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: In charge, he told her, my master does not concern
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: himself with anything in the house. Everything he owns he
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: has entrusted to my care. No one is greater in
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: from me except you, because you are his wife. How
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: then could I do such a wicked thing and sin
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 1: against God? And though she spoke to Joseph day after day,
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: he refused to go to bed with her or even.
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 2: Be with her.
• 2:48:32
  Speaker 1: One day he went into the house to attend to
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 2: She caught him by his cloak and said, come to
• 2:48:41
  Speaker 2: bed with me, But he left his cloak.
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: In her hand and ran out of the house. When
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: she saw that he had left his cloak in her
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: hand and he ran out of the house, she called
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: her household servants.
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 2: Look.
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 1: She said to them, this Hebrew has been brought to
• 2:48:57
  Speaker 1: us to make sport of us. He came in here
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: to see sleep with me, but I screamed. When he
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: me and ran out of the house. She kept his
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 1: cloak beside her until his master came home. Then she
• 2:49:13
  Speaker 1: told him this story, that Hebrew slave you brought us
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: came to me to make sport of me. But as
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: beside me and ran out of the house. When his
• 2:49:25
  Speaker 1: master heard the story, his wife told him saying, this
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 1: is how your slave treated me.
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 2: He burned with anger.
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: Joseph's master took him and put him in prison the
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 1: place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: was there in prison, the lord was with him. He
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 1: showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 1: of the prison warden. So the warden put Joseph in
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 1: charge of all those held in the prison, and he
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: was made responsible for all that was done there. The
• 2:49:56
  Speaker 1: warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care. The
• 2:50:00
  Speaker 1: Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: he did. Genesis chapter forty. Sometime later, the cup bearer
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: and the baker of the King of Egypt offended their master,
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: the King of Egypt. Pharaoh, was angry with his two officials,
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 1: the chief cup bearer and the chief baker, and put
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: them in custody in the house of the Captain of
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: the Guard and the same prison where Joseph was confined.
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 1: The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: he attended them after they had been in custody for
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: some time. Each of the two men, the cup bearer
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 1: and the baker of the King of Egypt, who were
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: being held in prison, had a dream the same night,
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 1: and each dream had a meaning of its own. When
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: they were dejected, so he asked Pharaoh's officials, who were
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: in custody with him in his master's house.
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 2: Why do you look so sad today.
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: We both had dreams, they answered, but there is no
• 2:51:01
  Speaker 1: one to interpret them. Then Joseph said to them, do
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: not interpretations belong to God. Tell me your dreams. So
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: the chief cup bearer told Joseph his dream. He said
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: to him, in my dream, I saw a vine in
• 2:51:17
  Speaker 1: front of me, and on the vine were three branches.
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: As soon as it butted, it blossomed, and its clusters
• 2:51:24
  Speaker 1: ripened into grapes. Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and
• 2:51:31
  Speaker 1: put the cup.
• 2:51:31
  Speaker 2: In his hand.
• 2:51:34
  Speaker 1: This is what it means, Joseph said to him. The
• 2:51:37
  Speaker 1: three branches are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will
• 2:51:41
  Speaker 1: lift up your head and restore you to your position,
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: as you used to do when you were his cup bearer.
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: But when all goes well for you, remember me and
• 2:51:54
  Speaker 1: show me kindness. Mention me to Pharaoh, and get me
• 2:51:57
  Speaker 1: out of this prison. I was forcibly carried off from
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon. When
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation,
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: he said to Joseph, I too had a dream. On
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: my head were three baskets of bread, and the top
• 2:52:18
  Speaker 1: basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh. But
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: the birds were eating them out of the basket on
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: my head. This is what it means, Joseph said, The
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 1: three baskets are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 1: lift off your head and impale your body on a pole,
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: and the birds will eat away your flesh. Now, the
• 2:52:41
  Speaker 1: third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast
• 2:52:44
  Speaker 1: for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 1: the chief cup bearer and the chief baker in the
• 2:52:49
  Speaker 1: presence of his officials. He restored the chief cup bearer
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 1: to his position, so that he once again put the
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: cup into Pharaoh's hand. But he impaled the chief baker,
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: just as Joseph had said to them and his interpretation.
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph. He forgot him.
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter forty one. When two full years had passed,
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh had a dream. He was standing by the nile,
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 1: when out of the river. There came up seven cows,
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. After them,
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: the nile and stood beside those on the river bank.
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 1: And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 1: the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. He
• 2:53:47
  Speaker 1: fell asleep again and had a second dream. Seven heads
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.
• 2:53:55
  Speaker 1: After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: scorched by the east wind.
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 2: The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy.
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 1: Full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up. It had been a dream.
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: In the morning, his mind was troubled, so he sent
• 2:54:13
  Speaker 1: for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: for him. Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, to day,
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: I am reminded of my shortcomings. Pharaoh was once again
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: chief baker in the house of the Captain of the Guard.
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: Each of us had a dream the same night, and
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: each dream had a meaning of its own. Now a
• 2:54:40
  Speaker 1: young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 1: Captain of the Guard. We told him our dreams, and
• 2:54:46
  Speaker 1: he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 1: of his dream, and things turned out exactly as he
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: interpreted them to us. I was restored to my position,
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 1: and the other man was impaled. So Pharaoh sent for Joseph,
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 1: and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he
• 2:55:06
  Speaker 1: had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh said to Joseph, I had a dream, and no
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: one can interpret it. But I have heard it said
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 1: of you that when you hear a dream, you can
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 1: interpret it. I cannot do it. Joseph replied to Pharaoh.
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 1: But God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires. Then,
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh said to Joseph, in my dream, I was standing
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: on the bank of the Nile, when out of the
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 1: river there came up seven cows, fat in sleek, and
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 1: they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: came up, scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 1: never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.
• 2:55:53
  Speaker 2: The lean, ugly.
• 2:55:54
  Speaker 1: Cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first,
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: But even after they ate them, no one could tell
• 2:56:01
  Speaker 1: that they had done so.
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 2: They looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 2: up in my dream.
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 1: I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing
• 2:56:13
  Speaker 1: on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads sprouted,
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: withered and thin, and scorched by the east wind. The
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads.
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: I told this to the magicians, but none of them
• 2:56:26
  Speaker 1: could explain it to me. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: the dreams of Pharaoh are.
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 2: One and the same.
• 2:56:35
  Speaker 1: God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: good heads of grain are seven years. It is one
• 2:56:46
  Speaker 1: and the same dream. The seven lean, ugly cows that
• 2:56:49
  Speaker 1: came up afterward are seven years, and so are the
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 1: seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind.
• 2:56:56
  Speaker 1: They are seven years of famine. It is good, as
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: I said to Pharaoh, God has shown Pharaoh what he
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: is about to do. Seven years of great abundance are
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 1: coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: The abundance in the land will not be remembered because
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: the famine that follows it will be so severe. The
• 2:57:25
  Speaker 1: reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms
• 2:57:28
  Speaker 1: is that the matter has been firmly decided by God,
• 2:57:31
  Speaker 1: and God will.
• 2:57:32
  Speaker 2: Do it soon.
• 2:57:35
  Speaker 1: And now, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise
• 2:57:38
  Speaker 1: man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt.
• 2:57:40
  Speaker 1: Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a
• 2:57:43
  Speaker 1: fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: of abundance. They should collect all the food of these
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 1: good years that are coming and store up the grain
• 2:57:52
  Speaker 1: under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: cities for food. This food should be held in reserve
• 2:57:59
  Speaker 1: for the country to be used during the seven years
• 2:58:01
  Speaker 1: of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: country may not be ruined by the famine. The plan
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 1: seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials, So
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh asked them, can we find any one like this man,
• 2:58:17
  Speaker 1: one in whom is the spirit of God. Then Pharaoh
• 2:58:20
  Speaker 1: said to Joseph, since God has made all this known
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 1: to you, there is no one so discerning and wise
• 2:58:27
  Speaker 1: as you, you should be in charge of my palace,
• 2:58:30
  Speaker 1: and all my people are to submit to your orders
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: only with respect.
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 2: To the throne. While I be greater than you.
• 2:58:39
  Speaker 1: So Pharaoh said to Joseph, I hereby put you in
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 1: charge of the whole land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh took
• 2:58:46
  Speaker 1: his sinnet ring from his finger and put it on
• 2:58:50
  Speaker 1: Joseph's finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 1: and put a gold chain around his neck. He had
• 2:58:57
  Speaker 1: him ride in a chariot as his second in and
• 2:59:01
  Speaker 1: people shouted before him make way. Thus he put him
• 2:59:05
  Speaker 1: in charge of the whole land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, but without your word,
• 2:59:15
  Speaker 1: no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.
• 2:59:19
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zephonath Penea, and gave him Asnath,
• 2:59:24
  Speaker 1: daughter of Potifarah, priest of Ann, to be his wife,
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: and Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt. Joseph was
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh,
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: King of Egypt, and Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 1: and traveled throughout Egypt. During the seven years of abundance,
• 2:59:43
  Speaker 1: the land produced plentifully. Joseph collected all the food produced
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored
• 2:59:50
  Speaker 1: it in the cities. In each city he put the
• 2:59:53
  Speaker 1: food grown in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea.
• 3:00:00
  Speaker 1: It was so much that he stopped keeping records because
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: it was beyond measure. Before the years of famine came,
• 3:00:08
  Speaker 1: two sons were born to Joseph by Asnath, daughter of
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 1: potifera priest of Ann. Joseph named his first born Manassa
• 3:00:16
  Speaker 1: and said, it is because God has made me forget
• 3:00:19
  Speaker 1: all my trouble and all my father's household. The second
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: son he named Ephraim, and said, it is because God
• 3:00:27
  Speaker 1: has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.
• 3:00:31
  Speaker 2: The seven years of abundance.
• 3:00:32
  Speaker 1: In Egypt came to an end, and the seven years
• 3:00:35
  Speaker 1: of famine began. Just as Joseph had said, there was
• 3:00:39
  Speaker 1: famine in all the other lands, but in the whole
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 1: land of Egypt there was food. When all Egypt began
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: to feel the famine, the people cry to Pharaoh for food.
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 2: Then Pharaoh told all the.
• 3:00:51
  Speaker 1: Egyptians go to Joseph and do what he tells you.
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 1: When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph
• 3:00:59
  Speaker 1: open the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: the famine was severe throughout Egypt, and all the world
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the
• 3:01:10
  Speaker 1: famine was severe everywhere. Genesis chapter forty two. When Jacob
• 3:01:20
  Speaker 1: learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: his sons, why do you just keep looking at each other?
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 2: He continued, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt.
• 3:01:30
  Speaker 1: Go down there and buy some for us, so that
• 3:01:33
  Speaker 1: we may live and not die. Then ten of Joseph's
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 1: brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt, but Jacob
• 3:01:41
  Speaker 1: did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, because
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: he was afraid that harm might come to him. So
• 3:01:49
  Speaker 1: Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain,
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 1: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.
• 3:01:54
  Speaker 2: Also.
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 1: Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: who sold grain.
• 3:01:59
  Speaker 2: To all its peace.
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 1: So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him
• 3:02:04
  Speaker 1: with their faces to the ground, as soon as Joseph
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to
• 3:02:12
  Speaker 1: be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. Where do
• 3:02:16
  Speaker 1: you come from, he asked, from the land of Canaan.
• 3:02:20
  Speaker 1: They replied, to buy food. Although Joseph recognized his brothers,
• 3:02:26
  Speaker 1: they did not recognize him. Then he remembered his dreams
• 3:02:30
  Speaker 1: about them and said to them, you are spies. You
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 1: have come to see where our land is unprotected. No,
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: my lord, they answered, your servants have come to buy food.
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 1: We are all the sons of one man. Your servants
• 3:02:46
  Speaker 1: are honest men, not spies. No, he said to them,
• 3:02:51
  Speaker 1: you have come to see where our land is unprotected.
• 3:02:54
  Speaker 1: But they replied, your servants were twelve brothers, the sons
• 3:02:59
  Speaker 1: of one man who lives in the land of Canaan.
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 1: The youngest is now with our father, and one is
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 1: no more. Joseph said to them, it is just as
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 1: I told you. You are spies, and this is how
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 1: you will be tested. As surely as Pharaoh lives. You
• 3:03:17
  Speaker 1: will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 1: Send one of your number to get your brother. The
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: rest of you will be kept in prison, so that
• 3:03:26
  Speaker 1: your words may be tested to see if you are
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: as Pharaoh lives, you are spies. And he put them
• 3:03:36
  Speaker 1: all in custody for three days. On the third day,
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 1: Joseph said to them, do this and you will live,
• 3:03:45
  Speaker 1: for I fear God. If you are honest men, let
• 3:03:50
  Speaker 1: one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the
• 3:03:52
  Speaker 1: rest of you go and take grain back for your
• 3:03:54
  Speaker 1: starving households. But you must bring your youngest brother to me.
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 1: Your words may be verified and that you may not die.
• 3:04:04
  Speaker 1: This they proceeded to do. They said to one another,
• 3:04:09
  Speaker 1: surely we are being punished because of our brother. We
• 3:04:12
  Speaker 1: saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us
• 3:04:14
  Speaker 1: for his life, but we would not listen. That's why
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: this distress has come on us. Reuben replied, didn't I
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 1: tell you not to sin against the boy, but you
• 3:04:27
  Speaker 1: wouldn't listen. Now we must give an accounting for his blood.
• 3:04:32
  Speaker 1: They did not realize that Joseph could understand them since
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 1: he was using an interpreter. He turned away from them
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 1: and began to weep, but then came back and spoke
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: to them again.
• 3:04:44
  Speaker 2: He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.
• 3:04:48
  Speaker 1: Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 1: put each man's silver back in his sack, and to
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: give them provisions for their journey. After this was done
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: for them, they loaded their grain on the donkeys and left.
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: At the place where they stopped for the night, one
• 3:05:04
  Speaker 1: of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey,
• 3:05:07
  Speaker 1: and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.
• 3:05:11
  Speaker 1: My silver has been returned, he said to his brothers,
• 3:05:15
  Speaker 1: here it is in my sack. Their hearts sank, and
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 1: they turned to each other, trembling, and said, what is this.
• 3:05:23
  Speaker 2: That God has done to us?
• 3:05:25
  Speaker 1: When they came to their father Jacob in the land
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 1: of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.
• 3:05:31
  Speaker 1: They said, the man who was lord over the land
• 3:05:34
  Speaker 1: spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we
• 3:05:37
  Speaker 1: were spying on the land. But we said to him,
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: we are honest men. We are not spies. We were
• 3:05:44
  Speaker 1: twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more,
• 3:05:47
  Speaker 1: and the youngest is now with our father and Canaan.
• 3:05:51
  Speaker 1: Then the man who was lord over the land said
• 3:05:52
  Speaker 1: to us, this is how I will know whether you
• 3:05:55
  Speaker 1: are honest. Men, leave one of your brothers here with me,
• 3:05:58
  Speaker 1: and take food for your starving households, and go. But
• 3:06:02
  Speaker 1: bring your youngest brother to me so I will know
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: that you are not spies, but honest men. Then I
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: will give your brother back to you, and you can
• 3:06:10
  Speaker 1: trade in the land. As they were emptying their sacks,
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver.
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 1: When they and their father saw the money pouches, they
• 3:06:20
  Speaker 1: were frightened. Their father, Jacob said to them, you have
• 3:06:24
  Speaker 1: deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more, and
• 3:06:28
  Speaker 1: Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin.
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 2: Everything is against me.
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: Then Reuben said to his father, you may put both
• 3:06:38
  Speaker 1: of my sons to death if I do not bring
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: him back to you and.
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  Speaker 2: Trust him to my care, and I will bring him back.
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  Speaker 1: But Jacob said, my son will not go down there
• 3:06:51
  Speaker 1: with you. His brother is dead, and he is the
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 1: only one left. If harm comes to him on the
• 3:06:57
  Speaker 1: journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head
• 3:07:00
  Speaker 1: down to the grave in sorrow Genesis, chapter forty three.
• 3:07:09
  Speaker 1: Now the famine was still severe in the land, so
• 3:07:12
  Speaker 1: when they had eaten all the grain they had brought
• 3:07:14
  Speaker 1: from Egypt. Their father said to them, go back and
• 3:07:17
  Speaker 1: buy us a little more food. But Judas said to him,
• 3:07:22
  Speaker 1: the man warned us solemnly, you will not see my
• 3:07:25
  Speaker 1: face again unless your brother is with you. If you
• 3:07:29
  Speaker 1: will send our brother along with us, we will go
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 1: down and buy food for you. But if you will
• 3:07:34
  Speaker 1: not send him, we will not go down. Because the
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 1: man said to us, you will not see my face
• 3:07:41
  Speaker 1: again unless your brother is with you. Israel asked, why
• 3:07:46
  Speaker 1: did you bring this trouble on me by telling the
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 1: man you had another brother, they said. The man questioned
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 1: us closely about ourselves and our family. Is your father
• 3:07:56
  Speaker 1: still living? He asked us, Do you have another brother?
• 3:08:00
  Speaker 1: We simply answered his questions. How are we to know?
• 3:08:03
  Speaker 1: He would say, bring your brother down here. Then Judas
• 3:08:08
  Speaker 1: said to Israel his father, send the boy along with me,
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 1: and we will go at once, so.
• 3:08:14
  Speaker 2: That we and you and our children may live and
• 3:08:16
  Speaker 2: not die. I myself will guarantee his safety. You can
• 3:08:20
  Speaker 2: hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 2: bring him back to you and set him here before you,
• 3:08:28
  Speaker 2: I will bear the blame before you all my life.
• 3:08:31
  Speaker 2: As it is.
• 3:08:32
  Speaker 1: If we had not delayed, we could have gone and
• 3:08:35
  Speaker 1: returned twice. Then their father Israel said to them, if
• 3:08:40
  Speaker 1: it must be, then do this. Put some of the
• 3:08:44
  Speaker 1: best products of the land in your bags, and take
• 3:08:47
  Speaker 1: them down to the man as a gift.
• 3:08:49
  Speaker 2: A little balm and a little honey.
• 3:08:51
  Speaker 1: Some spices and mur some pistachio nuts and almonds. Take
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 1: double the amount of silver with you, for you must
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: return this silver that was put back into.
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 2: The mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.
• 3:09:05
  Speaker 1: Take your brother also, and go back to the man
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 1: at once. And may God Almighty grant you mercy before
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: the man, so that he will let your other brother
• 3:09:15
  Speaker 1: and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if
• 3:09:20
  Speaker 1: I am bereaved, i am bereaved. So the men took
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 1: the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also.
• 3:09:29
  Speaker 1: They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph.
• 3:09:33
  Speaker 1: When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 1: steward of his house, take these men to my house,
• 3:09:40
  Speaker 1: slaughter an animal, and prepare a meal.
• 3:09:43
  Speaker 2: They are to eat with me at noon.
• 3:09:46
  Speaker 1: The man did as Joseph told him and took the men.
• 3:09:49
  Speaker 2: To Joseph's house.
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 1: Now the men were frightened when they were taken to
• 3:09:54
  Speaker 1: his house. They thought we were brought here because of
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 1: the silver that was put back into our sacks the
• 3:10:00
  Speaker 1: first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us,
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 1: and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys. So
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 1: they went up to Joseph's steward and spoke to him
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: at the entrance to the house. We beg your pardon,
• 3:10:13
  Speaker 1: our lord, they said. We came down here the first
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 1: time to buy food. But at the place where we
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 1: stopped for the night, we opened our sacks and each
• 3:10:21
  Speaker 1: of us found his silver, the exact weight, in the
• 3:10:25
  Speaker 1: mouth of his sack.
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 2: So we have brought it back with us. We have
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 2: also brought additional silver with us to buy food. We
• 3:10:33
  Speaker 2: don't know who put our silver in our sacks.
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  Speaker 1: It's all right, he said, don't be afraid. Your god,
• 3:10:41
  Speaker 1: the god of your father, has given you treasure in
• 3:10:44
  Speaker 1: your sacks. I received your silver. Then he brought Simeon
• 3:10:49
  Speaker 1: out to them. The steward took the men into Joseph's house,
• 3:10:54
  Speaker 1: gave them water to wash their feet, and provided fodder
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 1: for their donkeys. They prepared their gifts for Joseph's arrival
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 1: at noon, because they heard they were to eat there.
• 3:11:05
  Speaker 1: When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts
• 3:11:08
  Speaker 1: they had brought into the house, and they bowed before him.
• 3:11:11
  Speaker 2: To the ground. He asked them how they were, and
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 2: then he said, how is your aged father you told
• 3:11:18
  Speaker 2: me about. Is he still living? They replied, your servant,
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 2: our father is still alive and well, and they bowed down,
• 3:11:28
  Speaker 2: prostrating themselves before him. As he looked about and saw
• 3:11:32
  Speaker 2: his brother, Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, is
• 3:11:37
  Speaker 2: this your younger brother, the one you told me about?
• 3:11:40
  Speaker 2: And he said, God be gracious to you, my son.
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 1: Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: out and looked for a place to weep. He went
• 3:11:51
  Speaker 1: into his private room and wept there. After he had
• 3:11:56
  Speaker 1: washed his face, he came out, and, controlling himself, said,
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 1: serve the food. They served him by himself, the brothers
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 1: by themselves, and the Egyptians who wait with him by themselves,
• 3:12:09
  Speaker 1: because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, for that is
• 3:12:12
  Speaker 1: detestable to Egyptians. The men had been seated before him
• 3:12:16
  Speaker 1: in the order of their ages, from the first born
• 3:12:19
  Speaker 1: to the youngest, and they looked at each other in astonishment.
• 3:12:23
  Speaker 1: When portions were served to them from Joseph's table. Benjamin's
• 3:12:27
  Speaker 1: portion was five times as much as any one else's,
• 3:12:31
  Speaker 1: so they feasted and drank freely with him.
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 2: Genesis chapter forty four.
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  Speaker 1: Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house.
• 3:12:46
  Speaker 1: Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they
• 3:12:48
  Speaker 1: can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth
• 3:12:51
  Speaker 1: of his sack. Then put my cup, the silver one
• 3:12:54
  Speaker 1: in the mouth of the youngest one sack, along with
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 1: the silver for his grain. And he did as Joseph said.
• 3:13:03
  Speaker 1: As morning dawned, the men were sent on their way
• 3:13:05
  Speaker 1: with their donkeys. They had not gone far from the
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: city when Joseph said to his steward, go after those
• 3:13:12
  Speaker 1: men at once, and when you catch up with them,
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 1: say to them, why have you repaid good with evil?
• 3:13:18
  Speaker 1: Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: uses for divination. This is a wicked thing you have done.
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: When he caught up with them, he repeated these words
• 3:13:28
  Speaker 1: to them, But they said to him, why does my
• 3:13:32
  Speaker 1: lord say such things? Far be it from your servants
• 3:13:35
  Speaker 1: to do anything like that. We even brought back to
• 3:13:39
  Speaker 1: you from the land of Canaan. The silver we found
• 3:13:41
  Speaker 1: inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we
• 3:13:44
  Speaker 1: steal silver or gold from your master's house. If any
• 3:13:48
  Speaker 1: of your servants has found a habit, he will die,
• 3:13:51
  Speaker 1: and the rest of us will become my lord's slaves.
• 3:13:54
  Speaker 1: Very well, then he said, let it be as you say.
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: Whoever is found to have it will become my slave.
• 3:14:02
  Speaker 1: The rest of you will be free from blame. Each
• 3:14:06
  Speaker 1: of them quickly lowered his sack to the ground and
• 3:14:08
  Speaker 1: opened it. Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 1: the oldest and ending with the youngest, And the cup
• 3:14:15
  Speaker 1: was found and Benjamin's sack. At this they tore their clothes.
• 3:14:20
  Speaker 1: Then they all loaded their donkeys and returned to the city.
• 3:14:24
  Speaker 1: Joseph was still in the house when Judah and his
• 3:14:26
  Speaker 1: brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground
• 3:14:30
  Speaker 1: before him.
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 2: Joseph said to them, what is this you have done?
• 3:14:36
  Speaker 2: Don't you know that a man like me can find
• 3:14:38
  Speaker 2: things out by divination? What can we say to my lord?
• 3:14:43
  Speaker 2: Judah replied, what can we say? How can we prove
• 3:14:46
  Speaker 2: our innocence? God has uncovered your servant's guilt. We are
• 3:14:51
  Speaker 2: now my lord's slaves, we ourselves and the one who
• 3:14:55
  Speaker 2: was found to have the cup.
• 3:14:57
  Speaker 1: But Joseph said, far be it from me to do
• 3:15:00
  Speaker 1: such a thing. Only the man who has found to
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 1: have the cup will become my slave. The rest of
• 3:15:05
  Speaker 1: you go back to your father in peace. Then Judah
• 3:15:09
  Speaker 1: went up to him and said, pardon your servant, my lord,
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 1: let me speak a word to my lord. Do not
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: be angry with your servant, though you are equal to
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh himself. My lord asked his servants, do you have
• 3:15:24
  Speaker 1: a father or a brother? And we answered, we have
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: an aged father, and there is a young son born
• 3:15:29
  Speaker 1: to him in his old age. His brother is dead,
• 3:15:34
  Speaker 1: and he is the only one of his mother's sons left,
• 3:15:36
  Speaker 1: and his father loves him. Then you said to your servants,
• 3:15:40
  Speaker 1: bring him down to me so I can see him
• 3:15:42
  Speaker 1: for myself. And we said to my lord, the boy
• 3:15:46
  Speaker 1: cannot leave his father. If he leaves him, his father
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: will die. But you told your servants unless your youngest
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 1: brother comes down with you, you will not see my
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: face again. When we went back to your servant, my father,
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 1: we told him what my lord had said. Then our
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: father said go back and buy a little more food.
• 3:16:08
  Speaker 1: But we said, we cannot go down. Only if our
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 1: youngest brother is with us, will we go. We cannot
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 1: see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.
• 3:16:18
  Speaker 1: Your servant, my father said to us, you know that
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 1: my wife bore me two sons. One of them went
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: away from me, and I said, he has surely been
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: torn to pieces, and I have not seen him since.
• 3:16:30
  Speaker 1: If you take this one from me too, and harm
• 3:16:33
  Speaker 1: comes to him, you will bring my gray head down
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 1: to the grave and misery. So now, if the boy
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 1: is not with us when I go back to your servant,
• 3:16:42
  Speaker 1: my father, and if my father, whose life is closely
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 1: bound up with the boy's life, sees that the boy
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 1: isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the
• 3:16:52
  Speaker 1: gray head of our father down to the grave and sorrow.
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 1: Your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father. I said,
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 1: if I do not bring him back to you, I
• 3:17:04
  Speaker 1: will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life. Now,
• 3:17:09
  Speaker 1: then please let your servant remain here as my lord's
• 3:17:13
  Speaker 1: slave in place of the boy, and let the boy
• 3:17:15
  Speaker 1: return with his brothers. How can I go back to
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: my father if the boy is not with me. No,
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: do not let me see the misery that would.
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 2: Come on my father. Genesis chapter forty five.
• 3:17:34
  Speaker 1: Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants,
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: and he cried out, have everyone leave my presence.
• 3:17:43
  Speaker 2: So there was no one with Joseph. When he made
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 2: himself known to his.
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: Brothers, and he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him,
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: and Pharaoh's household heard about it. Joseph said to his brothers,
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 1: I am Joseph.
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 2: Is my father still living? But his brothers were not
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 2: able to answer him because they were terrified at his presence.
• 3:18:10
  Speaker 1: Then Joseph said to his brothers, come close to me.
• 3:18:14
  Speaker 1: When they had done so, he said, I am your brother, Joseph,
• 3:18:19
  Speaker 1: the one you sold into Egypt. And now do not
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves for
• 3:18:29
  Speaker 1: selling me here, because it was to save lives.
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 2: That God sent me ahead of you.
• 3:18:35
  Speaker 1: For two years now there has been famine in the land,
• 3:18:38
  Speaker 1: and for the next five years there will be no
• 3:18:41
  Speaker 1: plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you
• 3:18:44
  Speaker 1: to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 1: save your lives by a great deliverance. So then it
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: was not you who sent me here, but God. He
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 1: made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his higher household,
• 3:19:00
  Speaker 1: and ruler of all Egypt. Now hurry back to my
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 1: father and say to him, this is what your son,
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 1: Joseph says.
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 2: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 2: to me, don't delay. You shall live in the region
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 2: of Goshen and be near me. You, your children and grandchildren,
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 2: your flocks and herds, and all you have.
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: I will provide for you there, because five years of
• 3:19:27
  Speaker 1: famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 1: and all who belong to you will become destitute. You
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin,
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 1: that it is really I who am speaking to you.
• 3:19:43
  Speaker 1: Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 1: Egypt and about everything you have seen, and bring my
• 3:19:50
  Speaker 1: father down here quickly. Then he threw his arms around
• 3:19:54
  Speaker 1: his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping.
• 3:20:00
  Speaker 1: He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward,
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 1: his brothers talked with him. When the news reached Pharaoh's
• 3:20:09
  Speaker 1: palace that Joseph's brothers had come Pharaoh and all his
• 3:20:13
  Speaker 1: officials were pleased.
• 3:20:15
  Speaker 2: Pharaoh said to Joseph.
• 3:20:17
  Speaker 1: Tell your brothers, do this, load your animals and return
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: to the land of Canaan, and bring your father and
• 3:20:24
  Speaker 1: your families back to me. I will give you the
• 3:20:27
  Speaker 1: best of the land of Egypt, and you can enjoy
• 3:20:30
  Speaker 1: the fat of the land. You are also directed to
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 1: tell them, do this, take some carts from Egypt for
• 3:20:38
  Speaker 1: your children and your wives, and get your father and come.
• 3:20:42
  Speaker 1: Never mind about your belongings.
• 3:20:44
  Speaker 2: Because the best of all Egypt will be yours. So
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 2: the sons of Israel did this.
• 3:20:51
  Speaker 1: Joseph gave them carts as Pharaoh had commanded, and he
• 3:20:55
  Speaker 1: also gave them provisions for their journey. To each of
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 1: them he gave new clothing. But to Benjamin he gave
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: And this is what he sent to his father, ten
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions
• 3:21:17
  Speaker 1: for his journey. Then he sent his brothers away, and
• 3:21:21
  Speaker 1: as they were leaving, he said to them.
• 3:21:23
  Speaker 2: Don't quarrel on the way.
• 3:21:26
  Speaker 1: So they went up out of Egypt and came to
• 3:21:28
  Speaker 1: their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. They told
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 1: him Joseph is still alive. In fact, he is the
• 3:21:37
  Speaker 1: ruler of all Egypt. Jacob was stunned. He did not
• 3:21:42
  Speaker 1: believe them. And when they told him everything Joseph had
• 3:21:46
  Speaker 1: said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph
• 3:21:48
  Speaker 1: had sent to carry him back the spirit of.
• 3:21:52
  Speaker 2: Their father, Jacob revived. And Israel said, I'm convinced my son.
• 3:21:58
  Speaker 1: Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him
• 3:22:02
  Speaker 1: before I die Genesis chapter forty six. So Israel set
• 3:22:12
  Speaker 1: out with all that was his, and when he reached Bersheba,
• 3:22:16
  Speaker 1: he offered sacrifices to the god of his father Isaac.
• 3:22:20
  Speaker 1: And God spoke to Israel in a dream at night
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 1: and said Jacob, Jacob, here I am, He replied, I
• 3:22:30
  Speaker 1: am God, the God of your father. He said, do
• 3:22:34
  Speaker 1: not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I
• 3:22:36
  Speaker 1: will make you into a great nation there. I will
• 3:22:40
  Speaker 1: go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely
• 3:22:42
  Speaker 1: bring you back again, and Joseph's own hand will close
• 3:22:47
  Speaker 1: your eyes. Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 1: their father Jacob and their children and their wives in
• 3:22:55
  Speaker 1: the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. So
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: Kep and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 1: them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.
• 3:23:07
  Speaker 1: Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons,
• 3:23:10
  Speaker 1: and his daughters and granddaughters, all his offspring.
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 2: These are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob
• 3:23:17
  Speaker 2: and his descendants who went to Egypt.
• 3:23:22
  Speaker 1: Reuben, the first born of Jacob. The sons of Reuben, Hannok, Palu, Hesron,
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 1: and Karmai. The sons of Simeon, Jemuel, Jamon, Ohad, Jaquin, Zohar,
• 3:23:37
  Speaker 1: and Shahul, the son of a Canaanite woman. The sons
• 3:23:41
  Speaker 1: of Levi, Gershan, Kohath, and Mauri. The sons of Judah,
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 1: er Onon, Shilah, Perez and Zarah but er and Onon
• 3:23:54
  Speaker 1: had died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez,
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 1: Hasron and Hammel. The sons of Isakar, Tola, Pua, Joshab
• 3:24:06
  Speaker 1: and Shimron. The sons of Zebulun, Zared, Elon and Jaliel.
• 3:24:14
  Speaker 1: These were the sons Leo Boor to Jacob in padan Aram,
• 3:24:18
  Speaker 1: besides his daughter Dina. These sons and daughters of his
• 3:24:22
  Speaker 1: were thirty three in all, the sons of Goad Zephon, Hagai, Shunai, Esbon, Eira, Arodai,
• 3:24:32
  Speaker 1: and Arelai. The sons of asher imnah Ishva, Ishvai and Beyah.
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 1: Their sister was Sarah. The sons of Beyah, Heber and Malkiel.
• 3:24:49
  Speaker 1: These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom
• 3:24:52
  Speaker 1: Laban had given to his daughter Leah. Sixteen in all,
• 3:24:56
  Speaker 1: the sons of Jacob's wife Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin. In Egypt,
• 3:25:02
  Speaker 1: Manassa and Fraim were born to Joseph by Asnath, daughter
• 3:25:08
  Speaker 1: of Patafarah, priest of An. The sons of Benjamin, Belah,
• 3:25:14
  Speaker 1: bekher Ash, bel Jerah, Naman Ehai, Rash, Mupimhapim.
• 3:25:22
  Speaker 2: And Ard.
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 1: These were the sons of Rachel who were born to
• 3:25:26
  Speaker 1: Jacob fourteen in all, the son of Dan Hashim, the
• 3:25:32
  Speaker 1: sons of Nephtali, Jaziel, Gunai, Jesi and Sheilim. These were
• 3:25:39
  Speaker 1: the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had
• 3:25:42
  Speaker 1: given to his daughter Rachel. Seven In all, all, those
• 3:25:47
  Speaker 1: who went to Egypt with Jacob, those who were his
• 3:25:49
  Speaker 1: direct descendants, not counting his son's wives, numbered sixty six persons,
• 3:25:55
  Speaker 1: with the two sons who had been born to Joseph
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 1: in Egypt. The members of Jacob's family which went to
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 1: Egypt or seventy in all. Now Jacob sent Judah ahead
• 3:26:06
  Speaker 1: of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When
• 3:26:09
  Speaker 1: they arrived in the region of Goshen, Joseph had his
• 3:26:12
  Speaker 1: chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his
• 3:26:15
  Speaker 1: father Israel.
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 2: As soon as.
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his
• 3:26:22
  Speaker 1: father and wept for a long time. Israel said to Joseph,
• 3:26:29
  Speaker 1: now I am ready to die, since I have seen
• 3:26:32
  Speaker 1: for myself.
• 3:26:34
  Speaker 2: That you are still alive.
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  Speaker 1: Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household,
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: I will go up and speak to Pharaoh, and will
• 3:26:42
  Speaker 1: say to him, my brothers and my father's household, who
• 3:26:45
  Speaker 1: were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
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  Speaker 2: The men are shepherds.
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  Speaker 1: They tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: and herds and everything they own. When Pharaoh calls you
• 3:26:55
  Speaker 1: in and asks what is your occupation, you should answer,
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 1: your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just
• 3:27:02
  Speaker 1: as our fathers did. Then you will be allowed to
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are
• 3:27:08
  Speaker 1: detestable to the Egyptians. Genesis chapter forty seven. Joseph went
• 3:27:18
  Speaker 1: and told Pharaoh, my father and brothers, with their flocks
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: and herds and everything they own, have come from the
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 1: land of Canaan and are now in Goshen. He chose
• 3:27:28
  Speaker 1: five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh. Pharaoh
• 3:27:32
  Speaker 1: asked the brothers, what is your occupation. Your servants are shepherds,
• 3:27:38
  Speaker 1: they replied to Pharaoh, just as our fathers were.
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 2: I also said to him, we have.
• 3:27:43
  Speaker 1: Come to live here for a while because the feminists
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 1: severe in Canaan, and your servants flocks have no pasture.
• 3:27:51
  Speaker 1: So now please let your servants settle in Goshen. Pharaoh
• 3:27:55
  Speaker 1: said to Joseph, your father and your brothers have come
• 3:27:58
  Speaker 1: to you, and the land of Egypt is before you.
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  Speaker 1: Settle your father and your brothers in the best part
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 1: of the land. Let them live in Goshen, and if
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 1: you know of any among them with special ability, put
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  Speaker 1: them in charge of my own livestock. Then Joseph brought
• 3:28:16
  Speaker 1: his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After
• 3:28:20
  Speaker 1: Jacob blessed Pharaoh, Pharaoh asked him how old are you,
• 3:28:25
  Speaker 1: And Jacob said to Pharaoh, the years of my pilgrimage
• 3:28:29
  Speaker 1: are one hundred and thirty. My years have been few
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 1: and difficult, and they do not equal the years of
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 1: the pilgrimage of my father's. Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: went out from his presence. So Joseph settled his father
• 3:28:44
  Speaker 1: and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 1: the best part of the land, the district of Ramsey's,
• 3:28:50
  Speaker 1: as Pharaoh directed. Joseph also provided his father and his
• 3:28:55
  Speaker 1: brothers and all his father's household with food according to
• 3:28:58
  Speaker 1: the number.
• 3:28:59
  Speaker 2: Of their children.
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  Speaker 1: There was no food, however, and the whole region because
• 3:29:04
  Speaker 1: the famine was severe. Both Egypt and Canaan wasted away
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 1: because of the famine. Joseph collected all the money that
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 1: was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 1: for the grain they were buying, and he brought it
• 3:29:16
  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh's palace. When the money of the people of
• 3:29:20
  Speaker 1: Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came.
• 3:29:23
  Speaker 2: To Joseph and said, give us food. Why should we
• 3:29:27
  Speaker 2: die before your eyes?
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 1: Our money is all gone. Then bring your live stock,
• 3:29:33
  Speaker 1: said Joseph, I will sell you food in exchange for
• 3:29:36
  Speaker 1: your livestock, since your money is gone. So they brought
• 3:29:40
  Speaker 1: their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in
• 3:29:43
  Speaker 1: exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 1: and donkeys.
• 3:29:48
  Speaker 2: And he brought them through.
• 3:29:49
  Speaker 1: That year with food and exchange for all their livestock.
• 3:29:53
  Speaker 1: When that year was over, they came to him the
• 3:29:56
  Speaker 1: following year and said, we cannot hide from our lord
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 1: the fact that since our money is gone and our
• 3:30:02
  Speaker 1: livestock belongs to you, there is nothing else for our
• 3:30:05
  Speaker 1: Lord except our bodies and our land.
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  Speaker 2: Why should we perish before your eyes? We and our
• 3:30:12
  Speaker 2: land as well.
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  Speaker 1: By us and our land in exchange for food, and
• 3:30:18
  Speaker 1: we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Give us seed so that we may live and not die,
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 1: and that the land may not become desolate. So Joseph
• 3:30:29
  Speaker 1: bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians
• 3:30:33
  Speaker 1: one and all sold their fields because the famine was
• 3:30:36
  Speaker 1: too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh's and Joseph
• 3:30:40
  Speaker 1: reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: to the other. However, he did not buy the land
• 3:30:49
  Speaker 1: of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from
• 3:30:52
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them.
• 3:30:56
  Speaker 2: That is why they did not sell their land.
• 3:31:00
  Speaker 1: Joseph said to the people, now that I have bought
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: you and your land to day for Pharaoh. Here is
• 3:31:07
  Speaker 1: seed for you, so you can plant the ground. But
• 3:31:10
  Speaker 1: when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it
• 3:31:13
  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh. The other four fifths you may keep as
• 3:31:16
  Speaker 1: seed for the fields, and as food for yourselves and
• 3:31:19
  Speaker 1: your households and your children. You have saved our lives,
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 1: they said, may we find favor in the eyes of
• 3:31:28
  Speaker 1: our lord. We will be in bondage to Pharaoh. So
• 3:31:32
  Speaker 1: Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt,
• 3:31:36
  Speaker 1: still in force today, that a fifth of the produce
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 1: belongs to Pharaoh. It was only the land of the
• 3:31:41
  Speaker 1: priests that did not become pharaohs. Now, the Israelites settled
• 3:31:46
  Speaker 1: in Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property
• 3:31:49
  Speaker 1: there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number. Jacob
• 3:31:54
  Speaker 1: lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his
• 3:31:57
  Speaker 1: life were one hundred and forty seven. When the time
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 1: drew near for Israel to die, he called for his
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 1: son Joseph and said to him, if I have found
• 3:32:07
  Speaker 1: favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh
• 3:32:11
  Speaker 1: and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness.
• 3:32:16
  Speaker 1: Do not bury me in Egypt, but when I rest
• 3:32:19
  Speaker 1: with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 1: me where they are buried. I will do as you say,
• 3:32:27
  Speaker 1: he said. Swear to me, he said. Then Joseph swore
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: to him, and Israel worshiped as he leaned on the
• 3:32:37
  Speaker 1: top of his staff Genesis chapter forty eight. Some time later,
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 1: Joseph was told, your father is ill, so he took
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: his two sons, Manasseh and Ephrium along with him.
• 3:32:55
  Speaker 2: When Jacob was told.
• 3:32:57
  Speaker 1: Your son Joseph has come to you, Israel rallied his
• 3:33:02
  Speaker 1: strength and sat up on the bed. Jacob said to Joseph,
• 3:33:08
  Speaker 1: God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land
• 3:33:11
  Speaker 1: of Canaan, and there he blessed me and said to me,
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers.
• 3:33:18
  Speaker 2: I will make you.
• 3:33:19
  Speaker 1: A community of peoples, and I will give this land
• 3:33:22
  Speaker 1: as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you. Now,
• 3:33:28
  Speaker 1: then your two sons born to you in Egypt before
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 1: I came to you here, will be reckoned as mine.
• 3:33:34
  Speaker 1: Ephrium and Manassa will be mine, just as Reuben and
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: Simon are mine. Any children born to you after them
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 1: will be yours. In the territory they inherit, they will
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 1: be reckoned under the names of their brothers. As I
• 3:33:52
  Speaker 1: was returning from Padden to my sorrow, Rachel died in
• 3:33:55
  Speaker 1: the land of Canaan while we were still on the way,
• 3:33:59
  Speaker 1: a little distance from Frath. So I buried her there
• 3:34:03
  Speaker 1: beside the road to Frath, that is Bethlehem. When Israel
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 1: saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, who are these.
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 2: There?
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 1: The sons God has given me here, Joseph said to
• 3:34:18
  Speaker 1: his father. Then Israel said, bring them to me, so
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 1: I may bless them. Now, Israel's eyes were failing because
• 3:34:30
  Speaker 1: of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph
• 3:34:34
  Speaker 1: brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: them and embraced them. Israel said to Joseph, I never
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: expected to see her face again, and now God has
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 1: allowed me to see your children too. Then Joseph removed
• 3:34:54
  Speaker 1: them from Israel's knees and bowed down with his face
• 3:34:58
  Speaker 1: to the ground.
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 2: And Joseph took both of them.
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 1: Ephrium on his right toward Israel's left hand, and Manassa
• 3:35:07
  Speaker 1: on his left, toward Israel's right hand, and brought them
• 3:35:11
  Speaker 1: close to him. But Israel reached out his right hand
• 3:35:17
  Speaker 1: and put it on Ephrium's head, though he was the younger,
• 3:35:23
  Speaker 1: and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on
• 3:35:27
  Speaker 1: Manassa's head, even though Manassa was the first born. Then
• 3:35:34
  Speaker 1: he blessed Joseph and said, may the God before whom
• 3:35:38
  Speaker 1: my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who
• 3:35:43
  Speaker 1: has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
• 3:35:47
  Speaker 1: the Angel who has delivered me from all harm, May
• 3:35:51
  Speaker 1: he bless these boys.
• 3:35:53
  Speaker 2: May they be.
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: Called by my name in the names of my fathers
• 3:35:57
  Speaker 1: Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly.
• 3:36:02
  Speaker 2: On the earth.
• 3:36:05
  Speaker 1: When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on
• 3:36:08
  Speaker 1: Ephrium's head. He was displeased, so he took hold of
• 3:36:13
  Speaker 1: his father's hand to move it from Ephrium's head to
• 3:36:16
  Speaker 1: Manassa's head. Joseph said to him, no, my father, this
• 3:36:23
  Speaker 1: one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.
• 3:36:30
  Speaker 1: But his father refused and said, I know, my son,
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: I know, he too will become a people, and he
• 3:36:40
  Speaker 1: too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 1: greater than he, and his descendants shall become a group
• 3:36:50
  Speaker 1: of nations. He blessed them that day and said, in
• 3:36:56
  Speaker 1: your name, will Israel pronounce this blessing. May God make
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 1: you like Ephrium and Manassa. So I put Ephrium ahead
• 3:37:07
  Speaker 1: of Manassa. Then Israel said to Joseph, I am about
• 3:37:13
  Speaker 1: to die, but God will be with you and take
• 3:37:17
  Speaker 1: you back to the land of your fathers.
• 3:37:21
  Speaker 2: Into you.
• 3:37:21
  Speaker 1: I give one more ridge of land than to your brothers,
• 3:37:26
  Speaker 1: the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword
• 3:37:29
  Speaker 1: and my bow Genesis chapter forty nine. Then Jacob called
• 3:37:38
  Speaker 1: for his sons and said, gather around, so I can
• 3:37:42
  Speaker 1: tell you what will happen to you in days to Come.
• 3:37:45
  Speaker 1: Assemble and listen sons of Jacob, Listen to your father Israel. Reuben,
• 3:37:51
  Speaker 1: you are my first born, my might, the first sign
• 3:37:54
  Speaker 1: of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power, Turbulent
• 3:37:59
  Speaker 1: as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you
• 3:38:02
  Speaker 1: went up onto your father's bed, onto my couch, and
• 3:38:06
  Speaker 1: defiled it. Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are
• 3:38:11
  Speaker 1: weapons of violence.
• 3:38:13
  Speaker 2: Let me not enter their counsel. Let me not join
• 3:38:15
  Speaker 2: their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger,
• 3:38:18
  Speaker 2: and hamstrung oxen as they pleased. Cursed by their.
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: Anger so fierce, and their fury so cruel, I will
• 3:38:26
  Speaker 1: scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel. Judah,
• 3:38:31
  Speaker 1: your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on
• 3:38:34
  Speaker 1: the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow
• 3:38:37
  Speaker 1: down to you. You are a lion's cub, Judah, you
• 3:38:41
  Speaker 1: return from the prey my son, like a lion. He
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 1: crouches and lies down like a lioness who dares to
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 1: rouse him. The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor
• 3:38:52
  Speaker 1: the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to
• 3:38:56
  Speaker 1: whom it belongs shall come, and the obedience of the
• 3:39:00
  Speaker 1: nations shall be his. He will tether his donkey to
• 3:39:03
  Speaker 1: a vine, his colt to the choiciest branch. He will
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 1: wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood
• 3:39:09
  Speaker 1: of grapes. His eyes will be darker than wine, his
• 3:39:13
  Speaker 1: teeth whiter than milk. Zebulin will live by the seashore
• 3:39:18
  Speaker 1: and become a haven for ships. His border will extend
• 3:39:21
  Speaker 1: towards Seidon Isakar is a raw boned donkey lying down among.
• 3:39:26
  Speaker 2: The sheep pens.
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: When he sees how good is his resting place and
• 3:39:30
  Speaker 1: how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder
• 3:39:34
  Speaker 1: to the burden and submit to forced labor. Dan will
• 3:39:39
  Speaker 1: provide justice for his people as one of the tribes
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 1: of Israel.
• 3:39:43
  Speaker 2: Dan will be a snake by.
• 3:39:44
  Speaker 1: The roadside, a viper along the path that bites the
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 1: horse's heels so that it's rider tumbles backward.
• 3:39:52
  Speaker 2: I look for your deliverance. Lord Goad.
• 3:39:55
  Speaker 1: Will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he
• 3:39:57
  Speaker 1: will attack them at their heels. Asher's food will be rich.
• 3:40:01
  Speaker 1: He will provide delicacies fit for a king. Naftali is
• 3:40:05
  Speaker 1: a doze set free that bears beautiful fawns. Joseph is
• 3:40:10
  Speaker 1: a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine, nearest spring, whose branches
• 3:40:13
  Speaker 1: climb over a wall with bitterness. Archers attacked him. They
• 3:40:18
  Speaker 1: shot at him with hostility, but his bow remained steady,
• 3:40:21
  Speaker 1: his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of
• 3:40:25
  Speaker 1: the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the
• 3:40:27
  Speaker 1: Rock of Israel, because of your Father's God, who helps you,
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 1: Because of the Almighty, who blesses you with the blessings
• 3:40:35
  Speaker 1: of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below,
• 3:40:38
  Speaker 1: blessings of the breast and womb. Your Father's blessings are
• 3:40:43
  Speaker 1: greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty.
• 3:40:46
  Speaker 2: Of the age old hills.
• 3:40:49
  Speaker 1: Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on
• 3:40:52
  Speaker 1: the brow of the Prince. Among his brothers, Benjamin is
• 3:40:56
  Speaker 1: a ravenous wolf. In the morning, he devours the prey.
• 3:41:00
  Speaker 1: In the evening he divides the plunder. All these are
• 3:41:04
  Speaker 1: the twelve tribes of Israel. And this is what their
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 1: father said to them when he blessed them, giving each
• 3:41:10
  Speaker 1: the blessing appropriate to him. Then he gave them these instructions.
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 1: I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury
• 3:41:19
  Speaker 1: me with my fathers in the cave and the field
• 3:41:22
  Speaker 1: of Ephron the Hittite. The cave in the field of
• 3:41:25
  Speaker 1: Machpela near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought, along with
• 3:41:30
  Speaker 1: the field as a burial place for Ephron the Hittite.
• 3:41:34
  Speaker 1: There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. There, Isaac
• 3:41:38
  Speaker 1: and his wife Rebecca were buried, and there I buried Leah.
• 3:41:43
  Speaker 1: The field and the cave in it were bought from
• 3:41:46
  Speaker 1: the Hittites. When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons,
• 3:41:52
  Speaker 1: he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last,
• 3:41:56
  Speaker 1: and was gathered to his people. Genesis, chapter fifty. Joseph
• 3:42:05
  Speaker 1: threw himself on his father and wept over.
• 3:42:08
  Speaker 2: Him and kissed him.
• 3:42:10
  Speaker 1: Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm
• 3:42:13
  Speaker 1: his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, taking a
• 3:42:17
  Speaker 1: full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming,
• 3:42:22
  Speaker 1: and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. When the
• 3:42:26
  Speaker 1: days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court,
• 3:42:30
  Speaker 1: if I have found favor in your eyes, speak to
• 3:42:33
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh for me. Tell him my father made me swear
• 3:42:37
  Speaker 1: an oath and said, I am about to die, bury
• 3:42:41
  Speaker 1: me in the tomb I dug for myself in the
• 3:42:43
  Speaker 1: land of Canaan. Now let me go up and bury
• 3:42:46
  Speaker 1: my father. Then I will return. Pharaoh said, go up
• 3:42:52
  Speaker 1: and bury your father, as he made you swear to
• 3:42:55
  Speaker 1: do so.
• 3:42:57
  Speaker 2: Joseph went up to bury his father.
• 3:42:59
  Speaker 1: All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him, the dignitaries of his court,
• 3:43:03
  Speaker 1: and all the dignitaries of Egypt. Besides all the members
• 3:43:06
  Speaker 1: of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to
• 3:43:09
  Speaker 1: his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and
• 3:43:13
  Speaker 1: herds were left in Goshen. Chariots and horsemen also went
• 3:43:18
  Speaker 1: up with him. It was a very large company. When
• 3:43:22
  Speaker 1: they reached the threshing floor of a toad near the Jordan,
• 3:43:26
  Speaker 1: they lamented loudly and bitterly, and there Joseph observed a
• 3:43:31
  Speaker 1: seven day period of mourning for his father. When the
• 3:43:34
  Speaker 1: Canaanites who lived there saw the morning at the threshing
• 3:43:37
  Speaker 1: floor of a toad, they said, the Egyptians are holding
• 3:43:41
  Speaker 1: a solemn ceremony of mourning. That is why that place
• 3:43:44
  Speaker 1: near the Jordan is called Abel. Misraim, so Jacob's sons
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: did as he had commanded them. They carried him to
• 3:43:53
  Speaker 1: the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave
• 3:43:55
  Speaker 1: in the field of Machpela near Mamre, which Abraham had
• 3:44:00
  Speaker 1: bought along with the field as a burial place from
• 3:44:02
  Speaker 1: Ephron the Hittite. After burying his father, Joseph returned to
• 3:44:07
  Speaker 1: Egypt together with his brothers and all the others who
• 3:44:10
  Speaker 1: had gone with him to bury his father. When Joseph's
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 1: brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, what
• 3:44:18
  Speaker 1: if Joseph houlds a grudge against us and pays us
• 3:44:21
  Speaker 1: back for all the wrongs we did to him. So
• 3:44:24
  Speaker 1: they sent word to Joseph saying, your father left these
• 3:44:28
  Speaker 1: instructions before he died. This is what you are to
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 1: say to Joseph. I ask you to forgive your brothers
• 3:44:35
  Speaker 1: the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you
• 3:44:37
  Speaker 1: so badly. Now, please forgive the sins of the servants
• 3:44:41
  Speaker 1: of the God of your father.
• 3:44:43
  Speaker 2: When their message came to him, Joseph wept. His brothers
• 3:44:49
  Speaker 2: then came and threw themselves down before him. We are
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 2: your slaves.
• 3:44:54
  Speaker 1: They said that Joseph said to them, don't be afraid,
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  Speaker 1: and I in the place of God. You intended to
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  Speaker 1: harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
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  Speaker 1: So then don't be afraid. I will provide for you
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  Speaker 1: and your children. And he reassured them and spoke kindly
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  Speaker 1: to them. Joseph stayed in Egypt along with all his
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  Speaker 1: father's family. He lived one hundred and ten years and
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  Speaker 1: saw the third generation of Ephraim's children. Also, the children
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  Speaker 1: of Makhir, son of Manassah, were placed at birth on
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's knees. Then Joseph said to his brothers, I am
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  Speaker 1: about to die, but God will surely come to your
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  Speaker 1: aid and take you up out of this land to
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  Speaker 1: the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: and Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said,
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  Speaker 1: God will surely come to your aid, and then you
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  Speaker 1: must carry my bones up from this place. So Joseph
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  Speaker 1: died at the age of one hundred and ten, and
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  Speaker 1: after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt.