Joseph Son Of Rachel

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn’t bear.

Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods. — read the full passage →

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it be so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, — read the full passage →

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. — read the full passage →

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. — read the full passage →

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore.

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. — read the full passage →

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, — read the full passage →

After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground. — read the full passage →

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.