Wednesday 17th June 2020 – An Oppressed People Exodus 1: 8 – 14 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, ‘Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the … [Read more…]
Monday 15th June 2020 – Birth and Death Genesis 35: 16 – 26 Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had a difficult labour. When she was in her difficult labour, the midwife said to her, ‘Do not be afraid; for now you … [Read more…]
Sunday 14th June Psalms for All Seasons Psalm 1 TreesSuggested Tune Dix Tree of Wisdom, fruitful, green,flourishing beside the stream;spread your knowledge day and night;make your law my true delight.Fashion me, O Lord, to bestrong and splendid as a tree. Tree of Justice, ever bless;shade me with your righteousness.Teach me how to live your … [Read more…]
Saturday 13th June 2020 – The Rape of Dinah from Genesis 34 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the region. When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force. And … [Read more…]
Friday 12th June 2020 – Esau and Jacob 6 Genesis 33: 1-17 Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and … [Read more…]
Thursday 11th June 2020 – Wrestling with God Genesis 32: 22 – 32 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left … [Read more…]
Wednesday 10th June 2020 – Esau and Jacob 5 from Genesis 32 Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him; and when Jacob saw them he said, ‘This is God’s camp!’ So he called that place Mahanaim. Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the … [Read more…]
Monday 8th June 2020 – Jacob, Rachel and Leah from Genesis 29 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east. As he looked, he saw a well in the field and three flocks of sheep lying there beside it; for out of that well the flocks were … [Read more…]
Genesis 27: 41 – 45 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, ‘The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.’ But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she … [Read more…]
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite; and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, … [Read more…]