Genesis 29:7, “‘Water the sheep and go, pasture them.’ But they said, ‘We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.” What first caught my attention here was the repetition of “rolling away the stone” language (29:3, 8, […]
Genesis 28:12-13, 16-17, “And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, YHWH stood above it (or “beside him” or “on it”)…. Then Jacob awoke from his
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Genesis 46:4, “I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again…” The Lord speaks these words to Jacob before the Patriarch moves with his family down to Egypt in order to escape a famine in the land. While the immediate fulfillment of Gen. 46:4 happens when
Genesis 12:3, “…in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” These are the climactic words of YHWH’s initial covenant promise to Abram in Genesis 12. With these words the entire “History of Redemption” proper gets started. Through Abraham will come Israel, through Israel will come Judah, through Judah will come David
Genesis 9:13,15, “I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth…And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.” The most memorable element of God’s covenant with and all creation after the flood is the visual sign
Genesis 50:20, “As For you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good…” The most implication-laden element of this sentence is that word, “meant.” It’s used twice in verse 20. First we see Joseph say that his brothers meant what they did to him as evil…that’s not surprising, we know our
