Read the Bible in a Year - Day 4
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Welcome to Day 4 of Reading the Bible Through in a Year.
Today were reading Genesis 13 , Genesis 14, Genesis 15, Genesis 16 and Genesis 17.
Genesis Chapter 13
Genesis 13:1 Abram and Sarai took everything they owned and went to the Southern Desert. Lot went with them.
Genesis 13:2 Abram was very rich. He owned many cattle, sheep, and goats, and had a lot of silver and gold.
Genesis 13:3 Abram moved from place to place in the Southern Desert. And finally, he went north and set up his tents between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 13:4 where he had earlier camped and built an altar. There he worshiped the LORD.
Genesis 13:5 Lot, who was traveling with him, also had sheep, goats, and cattle, as well as his own family and slaves.
Genesis 13:6 At this time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the same area, and so there wasn’t enough pastureland left for Abram and Lot with all of their animals. Besides this, the men who took care of Abram’s animals and the ones who took care of Lot’s animals started quarreling.
Genesis 13:7 (SEE 13:6)
Genesis 13:8 Abram said to Lot, “We are close relatives. We shouldn’t argue, and our men shouldn’t be fighting one another.
Genesis 13:9 There is plenty of land for you to choose from. Let’s separate. If you go north, I’ll go south; if you go south, I’ll go north.”
Genesis 13:10 This happened before the LORD had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the LORD or the land of Egypt.
Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself, and as he started toward the east, he and Abram separated.
Genesis 13:12 Abram stayed in the land of Canaan. But Lot settled near the cities of the valley and put up his tents not far from Sodom,
Genesis 13:13 where the people were evil and sinned terribly against the LORD.
Genesis 13:14 After Abram and Lot had gone their separate ways, the LORD said to Abram: Look around to the north, south, east, and west.
Genesis 13:15 I will give you and your family all the land you can see. It will be theirs forever!
Genesis 13:16 I will give you more descendants than there are specks of dust on the earth, and someday it will be easier to count the specks of dust than to count your descendants.
Genesis 13:17 Now walk back and forth across the land, because I am giving it to you.
Genesis 13:18 Abram took down his tents and went to live near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar in honor of the LORD.
Genesis Chapter 14
Genesis 14:1 About this time, King Amraphel of Babylonia, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim
Genesis 14:2 attacked King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, also known as the city of Zoar.
Genesis 14:3 King Chedorlaomer and his allies had ruled these last five kings for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year the kings rebelled and came together in Siddim Valley, which is now covered by the southern part of the Dead Sea.
Genesis 14:4 (SEE 14:3)
Genesis 14:5 A year later King Chedorlaomer and his allies attacked and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, and the Emites in Shaveh-Kiriathaim.
Genesis 14:6 They also defeated the Horites in the hill country of Edom, as far as El-Paran, near the desert.
Genesis 14:7 They went back to the city of Enmishpat, better known as Kadesh. Then they captured all the land that belonged to the Amalekites, and they defeated the Amorites who were living in Hazazon-Tamar.
Genesis 14:8 At Siddim Valley, the armies of the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela fought the armies of King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Babylonia, and King Arioch of Ellasar. The valley
Genesis 14:9 (SEE 14:8)
Genesis 14:10 was full of tar pits, and when the troops from Sodom and Gomorrah started running away, some of them fell into the pits. Others escaped to the hill country.
Genesis 14:11 Their enemies took everything of value from Sodom and Gomorrah, including their food supplies.
Genesis 14:12 They also captured Abram’s nephew Lot, who lived in Sodom. They took him and his possessions and then left.
Genesis 14:13 At this time Abram the Hebrew was living near the oaks that belonged to Mamre the Amorite. Mamre and his brothers Eshcol and Aner were Abram’s friends. Someone who had escaped from the battle told Abram
Genesis 14:14 that his nephew Lot had been taken away. Three hundred eighteen of Abram’s servants were fighting men, so he took them and followed the enemy as far north as the city of Dan.
Genesis 14:15 That night, Abram divided up his troops, attacked from all sides, and won a great victory. But some of the enemy escaped to the town of Hobah north of Damascus,
Genesis 14:16 and Abram went after them. He brought back his nephew Lot, together with Lot’s possessions and the women and everyone else who had been captured.
Genesis 14:17 Abram returned after he had defeated King Chedorlaomer and the other kings. Then the king of Sodom went to meet Abram in Shaveh Valley, which is also known as King’s Valley.
Genesis 14:18 King Melchizedek of Salem was a priest of God Most High. He brought out some bread and wine
Genesis 14:19 and said to Abram: “I bless you in the name of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
Genesis 14:20 All praise belongs to God Most High for helping you defeat your enemies.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
Genesis 14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “All I want are my people. You can keep everything else.”
Genesis 14:22 Abram answered: The LORD God Most High made the heavens and the earth. And I have promised him
Genesis 14:23 that I won’t keep anything of yours, not even a sandal strap or a piece of thread. Then you can never say that you are the one who made me rich.
Genesis 14:24 Let my share be the food that my men have eaten. But Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre went with me, so give them their share of what we brought back.
Genesis Chapter 15
Genesis 15:1 Later the LORD spoke to Abram in a vision, “Abram, don’t be afraid! I will protect you and reward you greatly.”
Genesis 15:2 But Abram answered, “LORD All-Powerful, you have given me everything I could ask for, except children. And when I die, Eliezer of Damascus will get all I own.
Genesis 15:3 You have not given me any children, and this servant of mine will inherit everything.”
Genesis 15:4 The LORD replied, “No, he won’t! You will have a son of your own, and everything you have will be his.”
Genesis 15:5 Then the LORD took Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That’s how many descendants you will have.”
Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD was pleased with him.
Genesis 15:7 The LORD said to Abram, “I brought you here from Ur in Chaldea, and I gave you this land.”
Genesis 15:8 Abram asked, “LORD God, how can I know the land will be mine?”
Genesis 15:9 Then the LORD told him, “Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 15:10 Abram obeyed the LORD. Then he cut the animals in half and laid the two halves of each animal opposite each other on the ground. But he did not cut the doves and pigeons in half.
Genesis 15:11 And when birds came down to eat the animals, Abram chased them away.
Genesis 15:12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and everything became dark and frightening.
Genesis 15:13 Then the LORD said: Abram, you will live to an old age and die in peace. But I solemnly promise that your descendants will live as foreigners in a land that doesn’t belong to them. They will be forced into slavery and abused for four hundred years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions.
Genesis 15:14 (SEE 15:13)
Genesis 15:15 (SEE 15:13)
Genesis 15:16 Four generations later, your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.
Genesis 15:17 Sometime after sunset, when it was very dark, a smoking cooking pot and a flaming fire went between the two halves of each animal.
Genesis 15:18 At that time the LORD made an agreement with Abram and told him: I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.
Genesis 15:19 They will possess the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Genesis 15:20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites,
Genesis 15:21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Genesis Chapter 16
Genesis 16:1 Abram’s wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,
Genesis 16:2 and Sarai said to Abram, “The LORD has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine.” Abram agreed,
Genesis 16:3 and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years.
Genesis 16:4 Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and was hateful to Sarai.
Genesis 16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “It’s all your fault! I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant. You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the LORD for this.”
Genesis 16:6 Abram said, “All right! She’s your slave, and you can do whatever you want with her.” But Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.
Genesis 16:7 Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur. While she was there, the angel of the LORD came to her
Genesis 16:8 and asked, “Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She answered, “I’m running away from Sarai, my owner.”
Genesis 16:9 The angel said, “Go back to Sarai and be her slave.
Genesis 16:10 I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And later I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all.
Genesis 16:11 (SEE 16:10)
Genesis 16:12 But your son will live far from his relatives; he will be like a wild donkey, fighting everyone, and everyone fighting him.”
Genesis 16:13 Hagar thought, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?” So from then on she called him, “The God Who Sees Me.”
Genesis 16:14 That’s why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered, “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”
Genesis 16:15 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.
Genesis 16:16 (SEE 16:15)
Genesis Chapter 17
Genesis 17:1 Abram was ninety-nine years old when the LORD appeared to him again and said, “I am God All-Powerful. If you obey me and always do right,
Genesis 17:2 I will keep my solemn promise to you and give you more descendants than can be counted.”
Genesis 17:3 Abram bowed with his face to the ground, and God said:
Genesis 17:4 I promise that you will be the father of many nations. That’s why I now change your name from Abram to Abraham.
Genesis 17:5 (SEE 17:4)
Genesis 17:6 I will give you a lot of descendants, and in the future they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.
Genesis 17:7 I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God.
Genesis 17:8 I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:9 Abraham, you and all future members of your family must promise to obey me.
Genesis 17:10 As the sign that you are keeping this promise, you must circumcise every man and boy in your family.
Genesis 17:11 (SEE 17:10)
Genesis 17:12 From now on, your family must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old. You must even circumcise any man or boy you have as a slave, both those born in your homes and those you buy from foreigners. This will be a sign that my promise to you will last forever.
Genesis 17:13 (SEE 17:12)
Genesis 17:14 Any man who isn’t circumcised hasn’t kept his promise to me and cannot be one of my people.
Genesis 17:15 Abraham, your wife’s name will now be Sarah instead of Sarai.
Genesis 17:16 I will bless her, and you will have a son by her. She will become the mother of nations, and some of her descendants will even be kings.
Genesis 17:17 Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, “I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?” So he started laughing.
Genesis 17:18 Then he asked God, “Why not let Ishmael inherit what you have promised me?”
Genesis 17:19 But God answered: No! You and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac, and I will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.
Genesis 17:20 I have heard what you asked me to do for Ishmael, and so I will also bless him with many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make his family a great nation.
Genesis 17:21 But your son Isaac will be born about this time next year, and the promise I am making to you and your family will be for him and his descendants forever.
Genesis 17:22 God finished speaking to Abraham and then left.
Genesis 17:23 On that same day Abraham obeyed God by circumcising Ishmael. Abraham was also circumcised, and so were all other men and boys in his household, including his servants and slaves. He was ninety-nine years old at the time, and his son Ishmael was thirteen.
Genesis 17:24 (SEE 17:23)
Genesis 17:25 (SEE 17:23)
Genesis 17:26 (SEE 17:23)
Genesis 17:27 (SEE 17:23)
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