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Day 93
During the night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two
servant wives, and his 11 sons, and crossed the Jabbok River with them.
After taking them to the other side, he sent over all his possessions.
This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with
him until the dawn began to break.
When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip
and wrenched it out of its socket.
Then the man said, let me go for the dawn is breaking.
But Jacob said, I will not let you go unless you bless me.
What is your name?
The man asked.
He replied, Jacob, your name will no longer be Jacob.
The man told him.
From now on, you will be called Israel because you have fought
with God and with men and have won.
Please tell me your name.
Jacob said, why do you want to know my name?
The man replied.
Then he blessed Jacob there.
Jacob named the place penal, which means face of God for he said, I have seen God
face to face, yet my life has been spared.
The sun was rising as Jacob left penial and he was limping
because of the injury to his hip.
Even today, the people of Israel don't eat the tendon near the hip socket because
of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob's hip.
Then Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his 400 men, so he
divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and his two servant wives.
He put the servant wives and their children at the front.
Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Then Jacob went on ahead.
As he approached his brother, he bowed to the ground seven times before him.
Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck
and kissed him, and they both wept.
Then Esau looked at the women and children and asked, who are these people with you?
These are the children God has graciously given to me.
Your servant Jacob replied.
Then the servant wives came forward with their children and bowed before him.
Next came Leah with her children and they bowed before him.
Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed before him.
And what were all the flocks and herds I met as I came.
Esau asked.
Jacob replied, they are a gift, my Lord, to ensure your friendship, my brother.
I have plenty Esau answered.
Keep what you have for yourself.
But Jacob insisted, no.
If I have found favor with you, please accept this gift from me.
And what a relief to see your friendly smile.
It is like seeing the face of God.
Please take this gift I have brought you.
For God has been very gracious to me.
I have more than enough.
And because Jacob insisted Esau finally accepted the gift,
well Esau said, let's be going.
I will lead the way.
But Jacob replied, you can see my Lord, that some of the children
are very young and the flocks and herds have their young too.
If they are driven too hard, even for one day, all the animals could die.
Please, my Lord, go ahead of your servant.
We will follow slowly at a pace that is comfortable for the
livestock and the children.
I will meet you at Seer.
All righty SA said, but at least let me assign some of my
men to guide and protect you.
Jacob responded, that's not necessary.
It's enough that you've received me, warmly, my Lord.
So he saw, turned around and started back to see her that same day.
Jacob, on the other hand, traveled onto Zeth there.
He built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock.
That is why the place was named Zeth, which means shelters.
Later.
Having traveled all the way from Patton Arum, Jacob arrived safely at the
town of Shechem in the land of Canaan.
There he set up camp outside the town.
Jacob bought the plot of land where he camped from the family of Haymore, the
father of Sheem for 100 pieces of silver.
And there he built an altar and named it Al Aloha Israel.
One day, Dina, the daughter of Jacob, and Leah went to visit some of the
young women who lived in the area.
But when the local Prince Shechem's son of Haymore, the highlight saw
Dina, he seized her and raped her.
But then he fell in love with her and he tried to win her
affection with tender words.
He said to his father, Haymore, get me this young girl.
I want to marry her.
Soon.
Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter, Dina, but since his sons were
out in the fields hurting his livestock, he said nothing until they returned.
Haymore Shechem's father came to discuss the matter with Jacob.
Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come in from the field.
As soon as they heard what had happened.
They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped.
Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob's family,
something that should never be gone.
Haymore tried to speak with Jacob and his sons.
My son, Shechem is truly in love with your daughter.
He said, please let him marry her.
In fact, let's arrange other marriages too.
You give us your daughters for our sons, and we will give you
our daughters for your sons.
And you may live among us.
The land is open to you.
Settle here and trade with us and feel free to buy property in
the area, then check him himself.
Spoke to Dina's father and brothers.
Please be kind to me and let me marry her.
He begged.
I will give you whatever you ask.
No matter what dowry or gift you demand, I will gladly pay it.
Just give me the girl as my wife.
But since Shechem had defiled their sister, Dina Jacob's
sons responded deceitfully to Shechem and his father Haymore.
They said to them, we couldn't possibly allow this because
you are not circumcised.
It would be a disgrace for our sister to marry a man like
you, but here is a solution.
If every man among you will be circumcised like we are, then we
will give you our daughters and we'll take your daughters for ourselves.
We will live among you and become one people, but if you don't agree to be
circumcised, we will take her and be on our way, pay more and his uncheck him.
Agree to their proposal.
Sheem wasted no time in acting on this request for he wanted
Jacob's daughter desperately.
Shem was a highly respected member of his family and he went with his
father Haymore to present this proposal to the leaders of the town gate.
These men are our friends.
They said, let's invite them to live here among us and trade freely.
Look, the land is large enough to hold them.
We can take their daughters as wives and let them marry ours, but they will
consider staying here and becoming one people with us only if all of our
men are circumcised just as they are.
But if we do this, all their livestock and possessions will eventually be ours.
Come, let's agree to their terms and let them settle here among us.
So all the men in the town council agreed with Haymore and Zeca, and
every male in the town was circumcised.
But three days later, when their wounds were still soar, two of Jacob's
sons, Simeon and Levi, who were ful brothers, took their swords and
entered the town without opposition.
Then they slaughtered every male there, including Haymore and his son Shechem.
They killed them with their swords, then took Dina from Shechem's
house and returned to their camp.
Meanwhile, the rest of Jacob's sons arrived finding the men slaughtered.
They plundered the town because their sister had been defiled there.
They seized all the flocks and herds and donkeys, everything they could
lay their hands on, both inside the town and outside in the fields.
They looted all their wealth and plundered their houses.
They also took all their little children and wives and led them away as captives.
Afterward, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, you have ruined me.
You've made me stink Among all the people of this land, among all the
Canaanites and parasites, we are so few that they will join forces and crush us.
I will be ruined and my entire household will be wiped out.
But why should we let them treat our sister like a prostitute?
They retorted angrily.
Then God said to Jacob, get ready and move to Bethel and settle there.
Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you
fled from your brother Esau.
So Jacob told everyone in his household, get rid of all your Pagan idols, purify
yourselves, and put on clean clothing.
We are now going to Bethel where I will build an altar to the God who answered
my prayers when I was in distress.
He has been with me wherever I have gone.
So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under
the great tree near Shechem as they sat out a terror from Gods spread over the
people at all the towns of that area.
So no one attacked Jacob's family.
Eventually Jacob and his household arrived at lz, also called Bethel in Canaan.
Jacob built an altar there and named the place l Bethel, which means God of Bethel
because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother Esau.
Soon after this, Rebecca's old nurse, Deborah died.
She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel.
Ever since the tree has been called Alan Eth, which means oak of weeping.
Now that Jacob had returned from Patton Arum, God appeared to him again at Bethel.
God blessed him saying, your name is Jacob, but you will
not be called Jacob any longer.
From now on, your name will be Israel.
So God renamed him Israel.
Then God said, I am lha.
I God almighty, be fruitful and multiply.
You will become a great nation.
Even many nations, kings will be among your descendants, and I will give you the
land I once gave to Abraham and Isaac.
Yes, I will give it to you and your descendants after you.
Then God went up from the place where he had spoken to Jacob.
Jacob set up a stone pillar to mark the place where God had spoken to him.
Then he poured wine over it as an offering to God and anointed the pillar with olive
oil, and Jacob named the place Bethel, which means house of God because God
had spoken to him there leaving Bethel.
Jacob and his clan moved on toward F Rath, but Rachel went into labor while
they were still some distance away.
Her labor pains were intense.
After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed.
Don't be afraid you have another son.
Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath, she named the baby
Benoni, which means son of my sorrow.
The baby's father, however, called him Benjamin, which
means son of my right hand.
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to F Rath.
That is Bethlehem.
Jacob set up a stone monument over Rachel's grave and it
can be seen there to this day.
Then Jacob traveled on and camped beyond MGD eater.
While he was living there, Ruben had intercourse with Bill ha, his father's
concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it.
These are the names of the 12 sons of Jacob.
The Sons of Leah were Ruben Jacob's, oldest son, Simeon,
Levi, Judah, Zakar, and Zebulun.
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin, the sons of Bilhah.
Rachel's servant were Dan and Naftaly.
The sons of Zpa, Leah's Ser were Gad and Asher.
These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Pat.
So Jacob returned to his father Isaac in Mammary, which is near Ki Arba
now called Hein, where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners.
Isaac lived for 180 years, then he breathed his last and died at a ripe
old age, joining his ancestors in death, and his son's Esau and Jacob buried him.
This is the account of the descendants of Esau, also known as Edam.
He saw married two young women from Canaan, ADA, the daughter of Elon, the
Hitite, and Ol Obama, the daughter of AA and granddaughter of Zian, the highlight.
He also married his cousin Bassima, who was the daughter of Ishmael and
the sister of nabe Ada gave birth to a son named pha, for he saw bass
math gave birth to a son named Rule.
Ol Obama gave birth to sons named Jish, Jalen, and Cora.
All these sons were born to Esau in the land of Canaan.
Esau took his wives, his children, and his entire household, along with his
livestock and cattle, all the wealth he had acquired in the land of Canaan
and moved away from his brother Jacob.
There was not enough land to support them, both because of all the livestock
and possessions they had acquired.
So Esau, also known as Edam, settled in the hill country of seer.
This concludes today's Immer reading experience.
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