6 Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. 17 And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.” I bet that didn’t help with…
Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods…
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. All of them at once? How many were there? I suppose that’s not important since the total number is not mentioned. 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that…
First thing’s first. As we have seen now, angels definitely don’t look like winged creatures with harps. Glad we got that out of the way. That image is something else entirely. *** As we have seen in the past few chapters, Jacob traveled to a lot of different places. Here’s…
Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. 3 He himself…