Reading 1 - Gen 39 Why did Joseph have to suffer? "Meanwhile, the lesson of Joseph's life is unmistakable. It is... that God works when...

Reading 1 - Gen 38 There is an intended, and striking parallel, and contrast, between this chapter and the next. Where the elder brother,...

Reading 1 - Gen 37 "Joseph was innocent and excellent, but Joseph was young and untried, and God had a great purpose with him that...

Reading 1 - Gen 36:1-3 "This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom)" (Gen 36:1). He is called Edom (which signifies "red") here (and...

Reading 1 - Gen 35:18 "As she [Rachel] breathed her last -- for she was dying -- she named her son Ben-Oni. [Ben-Oni means son of my...

Reading 1 - Gen 32:30,31 "So Jacob called the place Peniel [face of God] saying, 'It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life...

Reading 1 - Gen 31 "Jacob found himself being treated with the duplicity that he manifested in the matter of the family blessing granted...

Reading 1 - Gen 30:29,30 "Jacob said to him [Laban]... 'The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the LORD has blessed...

Reading 1 - Gen 28 "He [Jacob] had a dream in which he saw a stairway [or ladder] resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven,...

Reading 1 - Gen 27 "God's purpose succeeds, in spite of human weaknesses. The characters in this narrative are the four members of the...

Reading 1 - Gen 25:11 "After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi" (Gen 25:11). The Hebrew name...

Reading 1 - Gen 24:63 "He went out to the field one evening to meditate" (Gen 24:63). In the field we have a study richly furnished with...

Reading 1 - Gen 22 "Some time later God tested Abraham" (Gen 22:1). "Tested" is "tempted" in AV, and "try" in RV and Heb 11:8,17. See Jam...

Reading 1 - Gen 21:9,10 "But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, and she said to Abraham,...

Reading 1 - Gen 19:26 "But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt" (Gen 19:26). One should remember Lot's wife (Luk...

Reading 1 - Gen 17; 18 "The work of the Elohim in the life of Abram draws him nearer to the great moment of his life: the expression of...

Reading 1 - Gen 15:15 "He took him outside and said, 'Look up at the heavens and count the stars -- if indeed you can count them.' Then...

Reading 1 - Gen 13:8 "So Abram said to Lot, 'Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we...

Reading 1 - Gen 11; 12 "These are two chapters which reveal the contrast between darkness (Gen 11) and light (Gen 12); between the power...

Reading 1 - Gen 9:13 " I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth" (Gen 9:13)....