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Genesis 46:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba,  and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,  and he issued his verdict last night.’


The Lord was standing there beside him,  saying, ‘I am the Lord,  the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.


Jacob left Beer-sheba and went towards Haran.


Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.


Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba  , because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.


Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.


Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you.  I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.’


Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for  all of them. For Job thought, ‘Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.’  This was Job’s regular practice.


All Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was a confirmed prophet of the Lord.


Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel  because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.


We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress.  He has been with me everywhere I have gone.’


And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel.


The God of Abraham, and the gods  of Nahor #– #the gods of their father   #– #will judge between us.’ And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.


Abraham looked up and saw a ram  caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.


From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the Lord there, and he called on the name of the Lord.


Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.


And Abel also presented an offering #– #some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions.  The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,


and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,


Then Israel said, ‘Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go to see him before I die.’


Isaac’s high places  will be deserted, and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.’


and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.  I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau as a possession. ‘ “Jacob and his sons, however, went down to Egypt.


His firstborn son’s name was Joel and his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beer-sheba.





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