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Rebekah meets Issac - James Tissot Google Art Project - Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/9/2019 Day 9 Genesis 24:1 - 25:18 Reflection Abe is worried that Isaac is not married yet. Abe is getting old. He sends his servant to find a woman in his home land. The servant under a sacred vow goes to the land. Rebekah comes To the well that the servant and his caravan of gifts are and tends to the flocks and invites the servant home. The servant shares his story to her father Laban - a deal is struck and Rebekah follows the servant back. Isaac in the fields is spotted by Rebekah and the servant tells Isaac what is going on. Isaac marries Rebekah and she comforts Isaac when his mother Sarah passes. Abe died a full life of 175 years after having a new family yielding another six sons. He was buried with Sarah. What happened to Ishmael - the servant girls son of Abe? He has ...

Read |  Genesis 30:25 – 31:55 Dates | 1915 BC or 1749 BC Background | Wikipedia - 18th Century BC - Click here  | Hammurabi and Babylonian Empire, start of Thirteenth Dynasty in Egypt, bronze age in many parts of world. Brief history timeline - Click here .  Reading | Jacob and Laben negotiate Jacob's pay through livestock; masterful husbandry; Jacob takes his wealth and runs; God speaks to Jacob; Laben and Jacob create a contract; Laben goes back to his homeland and Jacob to Canaan. Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here  for a place to purchase. +++ Collect of the Day: The First Sunday after the Epiphany Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy S...