One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsfolk. Continue reading →
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you act as midwives to the Hebrew Continue reading →
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 Continue reading →
It happened at that time that Judah … saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her. She conceived Continue reading →
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 Continue reading →
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 Continue reading →
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, Continue reading →
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 Continue reading →
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 Continue reading →