Genesis - Joseph Sold By His Brothers

Genesis 37:18-35 (NKJV)

[18] Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him.
[19] Then they said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is coming!
[20] Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!”
[21] But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”
[22] And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.
[23] So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.
[24] Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
[25] And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
[26] So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
[27] Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.” And his brothers listened.
[28] Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
[29] Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
[30] And he returned to his brothers and said, “The lad is no more; and I, where shall I go?”
[31] So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
[32] Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said, “We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son’s tunic or not?”
[33] And he recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.”
[34] Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
[35] And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “For I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis - Jacob’s Twelve Sons

Genesis 35:23-26 (NKJV)

[23] the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;
[24] the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;
[25] the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;
[26] and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram.

Genesis - A Bride For Isaac

Genesis 24:51-67 (NKJV)

[51] Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as the Lord has spoken.”
[52] And it came to pass, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, that he worshiped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
[53] Then the servant brought out jewelry of silver, jewelry of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
[54] And he and the men who were with him ate and drank and stayed all night. Then they arose in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
[55] But her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman stay with us a few days, at least ten; after that she may go.”
[56] And he said to them, “Do not hinder me, since the Lord has prospered my way; send me away so that I may go to my master.”
[57] So they said, “We will call the young woman and ask her personally.”
[58] Then they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
And she said, “I will go.”
[59] So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.
[60] And they blessed Rebekah and said to her:
“Our sister, may you become
The mother of thousands of ten thousands;
And may your descendants possess
The gates of those who hate them.”
[61] Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.
[62] Now Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he dwelt in the South.
[63] And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming.
[64] Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel;
[65] for she had said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?”
The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a veil and covered herself.
[66] And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
[67] Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis - Your Name Shall Be Abraham

Genesis 17:1-11 (NKJV)

[1] When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
[2] And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
[3] Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying:
[4] “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.
[5] No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.
[6] I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.
[7] And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
[8] Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
[9] And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
[10] This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised;
[11] and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Genesis - Abraham’s Faith Confirmed

Genesis 22:1-13 (NKJV)

[1] Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
[2] Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
[3] So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
[4] Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.
[5] And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
[6] So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
[7] But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
[8] And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
[9] Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
[10] And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
[12] And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
[13] Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis - God’s Covenant with Noah

Genesis 9:8-17 (NKJV)

[8] Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
[9] “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
[10] and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
[11] Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
[12] And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
[13] I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
[14] It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;
[15] and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
[16] The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
[17] And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Genesis - Promises to Abram

Genesis 12:1-7 (NKJV)

[1] Now the Lord had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
[2] I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
[3] I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
[4] So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
[5] Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.
[6] Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
[7] Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis - The Ark Is Built

Genesis 6:9-22 (NKJV)

[9] This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
[10] And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
[11] The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
[12] So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
[13] And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
[14] Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.
[15] And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
[16] You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
[17] And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
[18] But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
[19] And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
[20] Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
[21] And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”
[22] Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
Part Four: God’s Covenant with Noah
Genesis 9:8-17 (NKJV)
[8] Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
[9] “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
[10] and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
[11] Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
[12] And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
[13] I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
[14] It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;
[15] and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
[16] The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
[17] And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”