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Genesis 35

Genesis 35:1 And God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you had escaped from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “throw away the foreign gods that you are keeping and purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Genesis 35:3 Then we must get up and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my stress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Genesis 35:4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak tree that was near Shechem.

Genesis 35:5 And as they set out, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not attack the sons of Jacob.

Genesis 35:6 And Jacob arrived at Luz (also known as Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,

Genesis 35:7 so he built an altar there and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he had escaped from his brother.

Genesis 35:8 And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So, he called its name Allon-bacuth.

Genesis 35:9 Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-Aram, and blessed him.

Genesis 35:10 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; but your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel will be your name.” So, he called his name Israel.

Genesis 35:11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings will come out of your own loins.

Genesis 35:12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your seed after you.”

Genesis 35:13 Then God ascended from him in the place where he had spoken with him.

Genesis 35:14 And Jacob set up a memorial in the place where he had spoken with him, a memorial of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

Genesis 35:15 So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Genesis 35:16 Then they traveled from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.

Genesis 35:17 And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, because you have another son.”

Genesis 35:18 And her throat was giving out (because she was dying), so she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:19 So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (also known as Bethlehem),

Genesis 35:20 and Jacob set up a monument over her tomb. It is the monument of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.

Genesis 35:21 Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

Genesis 35:22 While Israel was still living in that land, Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s slave): Dan and Naphtali.

Genesis 35:26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s slave): Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.

Genesis 35:27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed as a guest.

Genesis 35:28 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.

Genesis 35:29 And Isaac stopped breathing and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And those who buried him were Esau and Jacob, his sons.

Genesis 35 quotes:

“Reuben had enjoyed all the advantages of the firstborn, and in him were centred all his father’s hopes and aspirations. But he proved a great disappointment. The expression ‘turbulent as the waters’ suggests instability, indecisiveness and weakness, making him unfit for leadership. He showed this by committing incest with one of his father’s wives (Genesis 35:22). In later history no great leader ever emerged from the tribe of Reuben.”

Williams, Peter. From Eden to Egypt : Exploring the Genesis Themes. DayOne, 2001. p. 54.

“Genesis 35 has been called the chapter of sorrows, because of the deaths of three individuals—Deborah, Rachel, and Isaac—which are recorded there.”

Flint, V. Paul. Strangers & Pilgrims : A Study of Genesis. 1st ed., Loizeaux Bros, 1988. p. 198.

“Jacob turns to the past to explain Reuben’s future. Though granted all the benefits of a firstborn son, Reuben slept with his father’s concubine and thus forfeited his rights (see the comments on Genesis 35:22). Reuben’s tribe settled east of the Jordan River and was eventually absorbed into Moab.”

Hinton, Linda B. Genesis. Abingdon Press, 1994. p. 136.

Genesis 35 links:

“all live to him!”
“To be gathered to his people”
ACST 15. The Immortal One
another new start
death not a gateway
Excursus- “To Be Gathered”
expire
Israel- assuming the mantle
The consequences of separation

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, January 20, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, January 21, 2019

GENESIS in Jeff’s library

Genesis 34

Genesis 34:1 Now Dinah (the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob), went out to see the daughters of the land.

Genesis 34:2 But when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, a leader of the land, saw her, he seized her and forced himself on her and humiliated her.

Genesis 34:3 Then his throat held fast to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke from the heart to her.

Genesis 34:4 So Shechem appealed to his father Hamor, and this is what he said, “Get me this girl for my wife.”

Genesis 34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

Genesis 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.

Genesis 34:7 The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, because such a thing must not be done.

Genesis 34:8 But Hamor appealed to them, and this is what he said, “The throat of my son Shechem is attached to your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.

Genesis 34:9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

Genesis 34:10 You will live among us, and the land will be open to you. Dwell and trade in it and get property in it.”

Genesis 34:11 Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.

Genesis 34:12 Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”

Genesis 34:13 But sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor treacherously, because he had defiled Dinah, their sister.

Genesis 34:14 They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a person who is uncircumcised, because that would bring shame on us.

Genesis 34:15 We will agree with you on this condition – that you will become like we are by every male among you becoming circumcised.

Genesis 34:16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

Genesis 34:17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will go away.”

Genesis 34:18 Their words seemed good to Hamor and Hamor’s son Shechem.

Genesis 34:19 And the young man did not delay doing the thing, because he wanted Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most privileged of all in his father’s house.

Genesis 34:20 So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and appealed to the men of their city, and this is what they said,

Genesis 34:21 “These men are at peace with us; let them live in the land and trade in it, because I noticed the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

Genesis 34:22 The men will agree to live with us to become one people on this condition – that every male among us is circumcised like they are circumcised.

Genesis 34:23 Will not their livestock, their property and all their living things be ours? let us agree with them, and then they will live among us.”

Genesis 34:24 And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

Genesis 34:25 On the third day, when they were still sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males.

Genesis 34:26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away.

Genesis 34:27 Those sons of Jacob went to the place of the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34:28 They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.

Genesis 34:29 All their property, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.

Genesis 34:30 But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have cut me off by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I will be exterminated,[1] both I and my household.”

Genesis 34:31 But they said, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”[2]

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[1]שׁמד = be exterminated.

[2] זָנָה = be a prostitute. Genesis 34:31; 38:15, 24.

Genesis 34 quotes:

“Now, we turn to the story of Dinah in Genesis 34, the narrative that has invited the most controversy in biblical scholarship over whether or not she is a rape victim. As our four-part definition will show, not only is Dinah indeed raped, her rape scene is situated in Genesis to offer criticism of Israel’s early relationships with her foreign neighbors.”

Schulte, Leah Rediger.  The Absence of God in Biblical Rape Narratives. Fortress Press, 2017. p. 101.

“Genesis 34 explicitly and emphatically rejects the possibility that the circumcision of the Canaanites would result in their becoming part of Jacob’s family.”

Thiessen, Matthew. Contesting Conversion : Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2011. p. 63.

“If only Jacob had remained a short time in Shechem, and then continued his journey to Bethel where God had first met with him and where he had taken his vow, then things would not have turned out in the tragic way they did. But, as so often happens in this life, it is only with hindsight that we see our mistakes, and that impresses upon us our need to be sensitive to the leading of God’s spirit in the decisions we make. What happened at Shechem suggests that Jacob must have stayed there for several years, for during that time his children were growing up, and Dinah — the only daughter — was now a young woman. The crime of rape with its fateful consequences is all too common in today’s society, and if only for that reason alone this story has certain lessons to teach us.”

Williams, Peter. From Eden to Egypt : Exploring the Genesis Themes. DayOne, 2001. p. 186.

consequences of avenging a rape
exterminate!
Jacob- tragedy at Shechem
life after a rape
LUSTFUL LOOKING – jeffersonvann

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, January 21, 2021

GENESIS in Jeff’s library

Genesis 32

Genesis 32:1 Jacob started traveling on his way, and the agents of God met him.

Genesis 32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp!” So, he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32:3 And Jacob sent agents ahead of him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,

Genesis 32:4 instructing them, “This is what you will say to my lord Esau: Thus says your slave Jacob, ‘I have lived with Laban as a guest and stayed until now.

Genesis 32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male slaves, and female slaves. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'”

Genesis 32:6 And the agents returned to Jacob, and this is what they said, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are also four hundred men with him.”

Genesis 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and upset. He split the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,

Genesis 32:8 thinking, “If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape.”

Genesis 32:9 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Yahveh who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, that I may do you good,’

Genesis 32:10 I am least worthy of all the deeds of covenant faithfulness and all the firmness that you have shown to your slave, because with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

Genesis 32:11 Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, because I fear him, apart from that he may come and attack me, as well as the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:12 But you promised, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'”

Genesis 32:13 So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a gift for his brother Esau,

Genesis 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 32:15 thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 32:16 These he entrusted to his slaves, every drove separately, and said to his slaves, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between one drove and the next drove.”

Genesis 32:17 He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose property are these ahead of you?’

Genesis 32:18 then you will say, ‘They belong to your slave Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And notice, he is behind us.'”

Genesis 32:19 He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You will say the same thing to Esau when you meet up with him,

Genesis 32:20 and you will say, “Notice, your slave Jacob is behind us.'” Because he thought, “I may appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

Genesis 32:21 So the gift passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

Genesis 32:22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven children, and crossed the pass of the Jabbok.

Genesis 32:23 He took them and sent them on across the stream, and everything else that he had.

Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the dawn ascended.

Genesis 32:25 The man saw that he was not able to dissuade Jacob, he hit his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.

Genesis 32:26 Then he said, “Let me go, because the dawn has ascended.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

Genesis 32:27 And he asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

Genesis 32:28 Then he said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have persisted in your struggle with God and with men and have proved yourself able.”

Genesis 32:29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he asked, “Why is it that you ask for my name?” And there he blessed him.

Genesis 32:30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “Because I have seen God face to face, but my throat has survived.”

Genesis 32:31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he limped on his hip.

Genesis 32:32 Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the thigh muscle.

Genesis 32 quotes:

“There was a time in Jacob’s life when, having stepped out in faith, he found that his faith was put to the test. God had called Jacob to go home—to face his brother, claim his inheritance and play his part in the great purposes of God. As we have seen, Jacob obeyed God and headed home. In chapter five we saw how, on arriving in Canaan, he had first taken steps which would lead to the reconciliation with his brother. What we find in Genesis 32:22-32 is that God tested Jacob in this step of faith, before the reconciliation itself took place.”

Griffiths, Paul. God and the Troubles of Life. Terra Nova Publications, 2000. p. 77.

“Jacob began and ended his plea by reminding God of His promise: “You said!” (Genesis 32:9, 12).”

Roper, David. Jacob, the Fools God Chooses. Discovery House, 2002. p. 78.

“The popular explanation of the name of Israel: “you have striven with God” (Genesis 32:28) also affirms the purpose of the story to express the vocation and experience, not just of Jacob, but of the people of God — its combat, and struggles and striving to know God. The entire history of the people of God is presented, almost prophetically, as a wrestling with God. There is something in the agonizing search of every soul to know God which unavoidably takes on the shape of Jacob’s struggle with this unknown person. The story is clearly illustrative of what every believer must experience in his relationship with God.”

McCaffrey, James. Thirsting for God in Scripture. Living Flame Press, 1984. p. 47.

Genesis 32 links:

ACST 17. The Holy One
Jacob- Peniel
surviving the struggle
wise caution

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, January 18, 2019
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, January 19, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, January 20, 2021

GENESIS in Jeff’s library

Genesis 31

Genesis 31:1 Jacob had heard the words that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this abundance.”

Genesis 31:2 Jacob also saw Laban’s face. He noticed nothing with him was like it was before.

Genesis 31:3 Then Yahveh told Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Genesis 31:4 So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah, calling them into the field where his flock was

Genesis 31:5 and saying to them, “I see your father’s face, that nothing with me is like before. But the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:6 You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength,

Genesis 31:7 but your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. Yet God did not allow him to harm me.

Genesis 31:8 If he said, ‘The spotted will be your wages,’ then all the flock gave birth to spotted; and if he said, ‘The striped will be your wages,’ then all the flock gave birth to striped.

Genesis 31:9 This is how God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

Genesis 31:10 In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, noticing that the goats that had mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.

Genesis 31:11 And an agent from God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Notice me!’

Genesis 31:12 And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that have mated with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, because I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you have anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your relatives.'”

Genesis 31:14 Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance to us in our father’s household?

Genesis 31:15 Are we not thought by him as foreigners? Because he has sold us, and he has also devoured our silver.

Genesis 31:16 All the wealth that God has plucked up from our father belongs to us and to our children. So, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Genesis 31:17 So Jacob got up and put his sons and his wives on camels.

Genesis 31:18 He sent all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.

Genesis 31:19 Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s teraphs.

Genesis 31:20 And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to go away.

Genesis 31:21 He fled with all that he had and crossed the Euphrates and set out in the direction of the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:22 When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,

Genesis 31:23 he took his relatives with him and chased him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful or else you will say something to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. And Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his relatives also pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have stolen away my heart and carried away my daughters like captives with a sword?

Genesis 31:27 Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with laughter and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

Genesis 31:28 And why did you not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters goodbye? Now you have acted foolishly.

Genesis 31:29 It is in my power to do damage to you. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, and this is what he said, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

Genesis 31:30 And now you have escaped because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:31 Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, since I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

Genesis 31:32 Anyone with whom you find your gods will not stay alive. In the presence of our relatives point out what I have that is yours and take it.” But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female slaves, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

Genesis 31:34 But Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent but did not find them.

Genesis 31:35 And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, because the way of women is upon me.” So, he searched but did not find the teraphs.

Genesis 31:36 So Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have angrily chased me?

Genesis 31:37 Because you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household items? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, so that they may decide between us two.

Genesis 31:38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flocks I have not eaten.

Genesis 31:39 I did not bring to you what was torn by wild living things. I took the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Genesis 31:40 I was like this: the heat consumed me by day, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:41 These twenty years I have been with your household. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 31:42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, you would have already sent me away empty-handed. God saw my trouble and the labor of my hands and he rebuked you last night.”

Genesis 31:43 Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 31:44 Come now, let us swear to a covenant, between me and you. And let it be a witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31:45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a monument.

Genesis 31:46 And Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a pile, and they ate there by the pile.

Genesis 31:47 Laban named it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 31:48 Laban said, “This pile is a witness between me and you today.” That is why he named it Galeed,

Genesis 31:49 and Mizpah, because he said, “Yahveh is watching between me and you, because we are hidden, each man from his companion.

Genesis 31:50 If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.”

Genesis 31:51 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Notice this pile and the monument, which I have set between me and you.

Genesis 31:52 This pile is a witness, and the monument is a witness, that I will not pass over this pile to you, and you will not pass over this pile and this monument to me, to do damage.

Genesis 31:53 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So, Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,

Genesis 31:54 and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.

Genesis 31:55 Early in the morning Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.

Genesis 31 quotes:

“We learn in Genesis 31:22 that Laban was told of Jacob’s escape on the third day after the patriarch and his entourage had set out from Haran. Although Laban must have been angry, God divinely restrained him from excessive retaliation by appearing to him in a dream (31:24).”

Flint, V. Paul. Strangers & Pilgrims: A Study of Genesis. 1st ed., Loizeaux Bros, 1988. p. 187.

“Laban’s heart was deceitful, not Jacob’s (Genesis 31:7). God is the One who took away the wealth of Laban (Genesis 31:8-9). Jacob’s methodology with breeding is God-directed, not some fanciful, wishful experiment of an ignorant farmer. God had given Jacob prophetic insight.”

Morris, Henry M. The Book of Beginnings: A Practical Guide to Understand and Teach Genesis. Institute for Creation Research, 2012. p. 176.

“With the opening of chapter 31 the atmosphere in Laban’s household had changed and there was a growing hostility towards Jacob because of his increased prosperity. “Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, ‘Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father’. And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude towards him was not what it had been” (Genesis 31:1—2). The signs were all there that the time had come for him to return to Canaan and this was confirmed for him by a direct word from the Lord. “Then the Lord said to Jacob, ‘Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you’” (Genesis 31:3). In the verses following we read that Jacob discusses the matter with Rachel and Leah and they agreed this was the right thing to do.”

Williams, Peter. From Eden to Egypt: Exploring the Genesis Themes. DayOne, 2001. p. 170.

Genesis 31 links:

a treaty at Mizpah
ACST 43- The Helpers
another camp
Jacob- Mizpah
making life decisions
sneaking away from your problems
Spring up, Oh Well
taking the moral high ground

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, January 18, 2023

GENESIS in Jeff’s library