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Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.

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Day 91

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Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had
blessed Jacob and sent him to Pad Arum to

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find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob,
you must not marry a Canaanite woman.

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He also knew that Jacob had obeyed
his parents and gone to Patar.

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It was now very clear to Esau
that his father did not like

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the local Canaanite women.

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So Esau visited his Uncle Ishmael's family
and married one of Ishmael's daughters.

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In addition to the wives he already had.

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His new wife's name was Mehala.

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She was the sister of Nabe and the
daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son.

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Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and
traveled toward Herron at Sundown,

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he arrived at a good place to set up
camp and stopped there for the night.

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Jacob found a stone to rest his
head against and lay down to sleep.

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As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that
reached from the earth up to heaven, and

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he saw the angels of God going up and down
the stairway at the top of the stairway,

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stood the Lord, and he said, I am the
Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham,

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and the God of your father, Isaac.

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The ground you are
lying on belongs to you.

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I am giving it to you
and your descendants.

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Your descendants will be as
numerous as the dust of the earth.

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They will spread out in all directions
to the west and the east, to the

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north and the south, and all the
families of the earth will be blessed

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through you and your descendants.

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What's more?

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I am with you and I will
protect you wherever you go.

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One day I will bring
you back to this land.

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I will not leave you until I have finished
giving you everything I have promised you.

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Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and
said, surely the Lord is in this place.

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And I wasn't even aware of it,
but he was also afraid and said,

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what an awesome place this is.

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It is none other than the house of
God, the very gateway to heaven.

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The next morning, Jacob got up very early.

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He took the stone he had rested
his head against and he set it

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upright as a memorial pillar.

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Then he poured olive oil over it.

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He named that place Bethel, which
means House of God, although

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it was previously called Lu.

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Then Jacob made this vow, if God will
indeed be with me and protect me on

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this journey, and if you'll provide
me with food and clothing and if I

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return safely to my father's home.

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Then the Lord will certainly be my God.

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And this memorial pillar I have set
up will become a place for worshiping

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God and I will present to God a
10th of everything he gives me.

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Then Jacob hurried on finally
arriving in the land of the east.

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He saw well in the distance, three flocks
of sheep and goats lay in an open field

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beside it, waiting to be watered, but a
heavy stone covered the mouth of the well.

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It was the custom there to wait for all
the flocks to arrive before removing

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the stone and watering the animals.

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Afterward, the stone would be placed
back over the mouth of the well.

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Jacob went over to the shepherds
and asked, where are you from?

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My friends?

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We are from Heron.

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They answered, do you know a man there
named Labin, the grandson of Hor?

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He asked, yes, we do.

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They replied, is he doing well?

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Jacob asked.

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Yes, he's well.

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They answered, look, here comes his
daughter Rachel, with the flock.

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Now Jacob said, look, it's
still broad daylight, too

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early to round up the animals.

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Why don't you water the sheep and goats
so they can get back out to pasture?

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We can't water the animals until
all the flocks have arrived.

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They replied.

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Then the shepherds move the stone
from the mouth of the well, and

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we water all the sheep and goats.

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Jacob was still talking with them.

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When Rachel arrived with her father's
flock for, she was the shepherd and

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because Rachel was his cousin, the
daughter of Labin, his mother's brother,

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and because the sheep and goats belonged
to his uncle Labin, Jacob went over to

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the well and moved the stone from its
mouth and watered his uncle's flock.

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Then Jacob kissed Rachel
and he wept aloud.

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He explained to Rachel that he
was her cousin on her father's

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side, the son of her aunt Rebecca.

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So Rachel quickly ran and
told her father Laben.

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As soon as Laben heard that his nephew
Jacob had arrived, he ran out to meet him.

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He embraced and kissed
him and brought him home.

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When Jacob had told him his
story, Laben exclaimed, you

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really are my own flesh and blood.

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After Jacob had stayed with Laben
for about a month, Laben said to him,

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You shouldn't work for me without
pay, just because we are relatives.

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Tell me how much your wages should be.

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Now, Leman had two daughters.

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The older daughter was named Leah,
and the younger one was Rachel.

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There was no sparkle in Leah's
eyes, but Rachel had a beautiful

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figure and a lovely face.

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Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he
told her father, I'll work for you for

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seven years if you'll give me Rachel,
your younger daughter as my wife.

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Agreed.

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Leben replied, I'd rather give
her to you than to anyone else.

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Stay and work with me.

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So Jacob worked seven years to pay
for Rachel, but his love for her

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was so strong that it seemed to him.

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But a few days, finally, the
time came for him to marry her.

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I have fulfilled my agreement.

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Jacob said to Lavin, now give me
my wife so I can sleep with her.

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So layman invited everyone in the
neighborhood and prepared a wedding feast.

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But that night when it was dark, layman
took Leah to Jacob and he slept with her.

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Layman had given Leah a servant, ZPA
to be her maid, but when Jacob woke

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up in the morning, it was Leah, what
have you done to me, Jacob at Lavin?

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I worked seven years for Rachel.

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Why have you tricked me?

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It's not our custom here to marry off a
younger daughter ahead of the firstborn.

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Leban replied, but wait until the
bridal week is over and then we'll give

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you Rachel too, provided you promised
to work another seven years for me.

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So Jacob agreed to work seven more
years, a week after Jacob had married

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Leah Leban gave him Rachel too.

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Leban gave Rachel a servant
Bill ha, to be her maid.

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So Jacob slept with Rachel too, and
he loved her much more than Leah.

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He then stayed and worked for
Labin the additional seven years.

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When the Lord saw that Leah was
unloved, he enabled her to have

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children, but Rachel could not conceive.

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So Leah became pregnant
and gave birth to his son.

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She named him Ruben for she said,
the Lord has noticed my misery,

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and now my husband will love me.

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She soon became pregnant again
and gave birth to another son.

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She named him Simeon for, she said
The Lord heard that I was unloved

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and has given me another son.

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Then she became pregnant a third
time and gave birth to another

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son he was named Levi for.

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She said, surely this time my
husband will feel affection for me

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since I have given him three sons.

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Once again, Leah became pregnant
and gave birth to another son.

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She named him Judah for.

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She said, now I will praise the Lord.

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And then she stopped having children.

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When Rachel saw that she wasn't
having any children for Jacob,

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she became jealous of her sister.

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She pleaded with Jacob, give
me children, or I'll die.

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Then Jacob became furious with Rachel.

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Am I God?

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He asked.

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He's the one who has kept
you from having children.

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Then Rachel told him,
take my maid Bill Ha.

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And sleep with her.

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She will bear children for me and
through her I can have a family too.

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So Rachel gave her servant Bill Ha to
Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

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Bill Ha.

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Became pregnant and
presented him with a son.

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Rachel named him Dan for, she
said, God has vindicated me.

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He has heard my request
and given me a son.

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Then Bill Ha became pregnant
again and gave Jacob a second son.

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Rachel named him Naf Lie for.

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She said, I have struggled hard
with my sister and I'm winning.

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Meanwhile, Leah realized that she
wasn't getting pregnant anymore,

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so she took her servant Zpa and
gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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Soon, ZPA presented him with a son.

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Leah named him Gad for, she
said how fortunate I am.

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Then Zpa gave Jacob a second
son, and Leah named him Asher

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for she said, what Joy is mine?

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Now the other women
will celebrate with me.

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One day during the wheat harvest, Ruben
found some mandrakes growing in a field

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and brought them to his mother, Leah.

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Rachel, begged Leah, please give
me some of your son's mandrakes.

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Leah angrily replied, wasn't it
enough that you stole my husband?

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Now, will you steal my
son's mandrakes too?

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Rachel answered.

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I will let Jacob sleep with you tonight
if you give me some of the mandrakes.

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So that evening, as Jacob was
coming home from the fields,

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Leah went out to meet him.

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You must come and sleep with me tonight.

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She said, I have paid for you with
some mandrakes that my son found.

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So that night he slept with Leah
and God answered Leah's prayers.

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She became pregnant again and gave
birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

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She named him Iscar for, she said,
God has rewarded me for giving my

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servant to my husband as a wife.

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Then Leah became pregnant again and
gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob.

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She named him Zebulon for, she said,
God has given me a good reward.

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Now my husband will treat me with
respect for I have given him six sons.

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Later, she gave birth to a
daughter and named her Dina.

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Then God remembered Rachel's
plight and answered her prayers

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by enabling her to have children.

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She became pregnant and
gave birth to a son.

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God has removed my disgrace, she said,
and she named him Joseph for she said, may

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the Lord add yet another son to my family.

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This concludes today's
Immer Reading experience.

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Thank you for joining us.