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Genesis 29 – Jacob Marries Leah & Rachel, Jacob’s Children
Jacob met Rachel at a well near Haran. Rachel was a shepherdess and was watering her sheep. He saw her, came near rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of Laban (his mother’s brother). He kissed Rachel and wept aloud. Jacob told her he was her father’s kinsman – Rebekah’s son – she ran to tell her dad. Laban ran to meet him and embrace him and kissed him and brought him to his house. He…
Genesis 26 – Covenant with Abraham Reaffirmed with Isaac, Living as a Foreigner, Covenant with Philistines, Esau’s wives make life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah
There was a famine, and Isaac went to Abimelech (of the Philistines in Gerar). The LORD appeared and said not to go to Egypt, but stay in this land as a foreigner, He will be with him and bless him, confirming the oath he swore to Abrahm to make Isaac’s offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky. Further, that God will give Isaac’s offspring those lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by his…