WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.960 Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.083 --> 00:00:03.913 Day 93 00:00:04.243 --> 00:00:07.273 During the night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two 00:00:07.273 --> 00:00:11.713 servant wives, and his 11 sons, and crossed the Jabbok River with them. 00:00:12.523 --> 00:00:15.943 After taking them to the other side, he sent over all his possessions. 00:00:16.873 --> 00:00:21.253 This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with 00:00:21.253 --> 00:00:23.083 him until the dawn began to break. 00:00:23.848 --> 00:00:27.568 When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip 00:00:27.958 --> 00:00:29.518 and wrenched it out of its socket. 00:00:30.358 --> 00:00:35.038 Then the man said, let me go for the dawn is breaking. 00:00:35.578 --> 00:00:38.818 But Jacob said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. 00:00:39.508 --> 00:00:40.348 What is your name? 00:00:40.738 --> 00:00:41.518 The man asked. 00:00:41.788 --> 00:00:46.438 He replied, Jacob, your name will no longer be Jacob. 00:00:46.768 --> 00:00:47.698 The man told him. 00:00:48.058 --> 00:00:51.898 From now on, you will be called Israel because you have fought 00:00:51.898 --> 00:00:54.538 with God and with men and have won. 00:00:55.348 --> 00:00:56.698 Please tell me your name. 00:00:56.968 --> 00:00:59.938 Jacob said, why do you want to know my name? 00:01:00.088 --> 00:01:01.018 The man replied. 00:01:01.528 --> 00:01:03.238 Then he blessed Jacob there. 00:01:04.048 --> 00:01:10.078 Jacob named the place penal, which means face of God for he said, I have seen God 00:01:10.078 --> 00:01:12.388 face to face, yet my life has been spared. 00:01:13.888 --> 00:01:17.428 The sun was rising as Jacob left penial and he was limping 00:01:17.428 --> 00:01:18.988 because of the injury to his hip. 00:01:19.978 --> 00:01:24.508 Even today, the people of Israel don't eat the tendon near the hip socket because 00:01:24.508 --> 00:01:28.048 of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob's hip. 00:01:30.448 --> 00:01:35.428 Then Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his 400 men, so he 00:01:35.428 --> 00:01:39.358 divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and his two servant wives. 00:01:39.928 --> 00:01:42.538 He put the servant wives and their children at the front. 00:01:43.018 --> 00:01:46.558 Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last. 00:01:47.338 --> 00:01:48.778 Then Jacob went on ahead. 00:01:49.558 --> 00:01:53.668 As he approached his brother, he bowed to the ground seven times before him. 00:01:54.448 --> 00:01:59.098 Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck 00:01:59.278 --> 00:02:01.528 and kissed him, and they both wept. 00:02:02.548 --> 00:02:06.358 Then Esau looked at the women and children and asked, who are these people with you? 00:02:07.228 --> 00:02:10.168 These are the children God has graciously given to me. 00:02:10.168 --> 00:02:12.238 Your servant Jacob replied. 00:02:13.078 --> 00:02:17.098 Then the servant wives came forward with their children and bowed before him. 00:02:17.638 --> 00:02:21.058 Next came Leah with her children and they bowed before him. 00:02:21.838 --> 00:02:25.828 Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed before him. 00:02:26.878 --> 00:02:29.638 And what were all the flocks and herds I met as I came. 00:02:29.938 --> 00:02:30.838 Esau asked. 00:02:31.318 --> 00:02:37.588 Jacob replied, they are a gift, my Lord, to ensure your friendship, my brother. 00:02:37.588 --> 00:02:39.808 I have plenty Esau answered. 00:02:40.198 --> 00:02:41.908 Keep what you have for yourself. 00:02:42.808 --> 00:02:45.118 But Jacob insisted, no. 00:02:45.298 --> 00:02:49.048 If I have found favor with you, please accept this gift from me. 00:02:49.468 --> 00:02:51.988 And what a relief to see your friendly smile. 00:02:52.648 --> 00:02:54.508 It is like seeing the face of God. 00:02:55.198 --> 00:02:57.058 Please take this gift I have brought you. 00:02:57.448 --> 00:02:59.398 For God has been very gracious to me. 00:02:59.878 --> 00:03:01.258 I have more than enough. 00:03:02.488 --> 00:03:06.208 And because Jacob insisted Esau finally accepted the gift, 00:03:07.138 --> 00:03:09.448 well Esau said, let's be going. 00:03:09.568 --> 00:03:10.678 I will lead the way. 00:03:11.818 --> 00:03:16.228 But Jacob replied, you can see my Lord, that some of the children 00:03:16.228 --> 00:03:19.438 are very young and the flocks and herds have their young too. 00:03:20.098 --> 00:03:24.928 If they are driven too hard, even for one day, all the animals could die. 00:03:25.798 --> 00:03:27.958 Please, my Lord, go ahead of your servant. 00:03:28.498 --> 00:03:31.588 We will follow slowly at a pace that is comfortable for the 00:03:31.588 --> 00:03:32.878 livestock and the children. 00:03:33.448 --> 00:03:34.738 I will meet you at Seer. 00:03:35.668 --> 00:03:38.758 All righty SA said, but at least let me assign some of my 00:03:38.758 --> 00:03:40.378 men to guide and protect you. 00:03:41.098 --> 00:03:43.558 Jacob responded, that's not necessary. 00:03:43.768 --> 00:03:46.588 It's enough that you've received me, warmly, my Lord. 00:03:47.728 --> 00:03:51.208 So he saw, turned around and started back to see her that same day. 00:03:51.838 --> 00:03:55.498 Jacob, on the other hand, traveled onto Zeth there. 00:03:55.498 --> 00:03:58.858 He built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. 00:03:59.398 --> 00:04:03.058 That is why the place was named Zeth, which means shelters. 00:04:04.453 --> 00:04:04.813 Later. 00:04:04.813 --> 00:04:08.833 Having traveled all the way from Patton Arum, Jacob arrived safely at the 00:04:08.833 --> 00:04:11.023 town of Shechem in the land of Canaan. 00:04:11.683 --> 00:04:13.543 There he set up camp outside the town. 00:04:14.233 --> 00:04:18.013 Jacob bought the plot of land where he camped from the family of Haymore, the 00:04:18.013 --> 00:04:20.983 father of Sheem for 100 pieces of silver. 00:04:21.703 --> 00:04:25.573 And there he built an altar and named it Al Aloha Israel. 00:04:27.943 --> 00:04:31.543 One day, Dina, the daughter of Jacob, and Leah went to visit some of the 00:04:31.543 --> 00:04:33.103 young women who lived in the area. 00:04:33.718 --> 00:04:37.438 But when the local Prince Shechem's son of Haymore, the highlight saw 00:04:37.438 --> 00:04:40.108 Dina, he seized her and raped her. 00:04:41.098 --> 00:04:43.678 But then he fell in love with her and he tried to win her 00:04:43.678 --> 00:04:45.388 affection with tender words. 00:04:45.928 --> 00:04:49.168 He said to his father, Haymore, get me this young girl. 00:04:49.348 --> 00:04:50.518 I want to marry her. 00:04:51.358 --> 00:04:51.658 Soon. 00:04:51.658 --> 00:04:55.828 Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter, Dina, but since his sons were 00:04:55.828 --> 00:04:59.578 out in the fields hurting his livestock, he said nothing until they returned. 00:05:00.388 --> 00:05:03.748 Haymore Shechem's father came to discuss the matter with Jacob. 00:05:04.468 --> 00:05:06.808 Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come in from the field. 00:05:07.078 --> 00:05:08.638 As soon as they heard what had happened. 00:05:09.598 --> 00:05:12.988 They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped. 00:05:13.678 --> 00:05:16.438 Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob's family, 00:05:16.678 --> 00:05:18.418 something that should never be gone. 00:05:19.288 --> 00:05:21.538 Haymore tried to speak with Jacob and his sons. 00:05:22.378 --> 00:05:25.078 My son, Shechem is truly in love with your daughter. 00:05:25.348 --> 00:05:27.928 He said, please let him marry her. 00:05:28.453 --> 00:05:30.403 In fact, let's arrange other marriages too. 00:05:30.913 --> 00:05:34.213 You give us your daughters for our sons, and we will give you 00:05:34.213 --> 00:05:35.953 our daughters for your sons. 00:05:36.403 --> 00:05:37.453 And you may live among us. 00:05:38.143 --> 00:05:39.613 The land is open to you. 00:05:39.853 --> 00:05:43.453 Settle here and trade with us and feel free to buy property in 00:05:43.453 --> 00:05:46.213 the area, then check him himself. 00:05:46.218 --> 00:05:48.043 Spoke to Dina's father and brothers. 00:05:48.823 --> 00:05:51.583 Please be kind to me and let me marry her. 00:05:51.583 --> 00:05:52.183 He begged. 00:05:52.603 --> 00:05:54.163 I will give you whatever you ask. 00:05:54.643 --> 00:05:58.423 No matter what dowry or gift you demand, I will gladly pay it. 00:05:58.903 --> 00:06:01.093 Just give me the girl as my wife. 00:06:02.263 --> 00:06:06.163 But since Shechem had defiled their sister, Dina Jacob's 00:06:06.163 --> 00:06:09.043 sons responded deceitfully to Shechem and his father Haymore. 00:06:09.673 --> 00:06:12.973 They said to them, we couldn't possibly allow this because 00:06:12.973 --> 00:06:14.233 you are not circumcised. 00:06:14.893 --> 00:06:17.833 It would be a disgrace for our sister to marry a man like 00:06:17.833 --> 00:06:20.503 you, but here is a solution. 00:06:21.178 --> 00:06:24.898 If every man among you will be circumcised like we are, then we 00:06:24.898 --> 00:06:28.588 will give you our daughters and we'll take your daughters for ourselves. 00:06:29.188 --> 00:06:33.418 We will live among you and become one people, but if you don't agree to be 00:06:33.418 --> 00:06:39.478 circumcised, we will take her and be on our way, pay more and his uncheck him. 00:06:39.958 --> 00:06:41.338 Agree to their proposal. 00:06:41.938 --> 00:06:45.418 Sheem wasted no time in acting on this request for he wanted 00:06:45.418 --> 00:06:46.978 Jacob's daughter desperately. 00:06:47.668 --> 00:06:51.028 Shem was a highly respected member of his family and he went with his 00:06:51.028 --> 00:06:54.718 father Haymore to present this proposal to the leaders of the town gate. 00:06:55.828 --> 00:06:57.208 These men are our friends. 00:06:57.418 --> 00:07:01.438 They said, let's invite them to live here among us and trade freely. 00:07:02.338 --> 00:07:04.738 Look, the land is large enough to hold them. 00:07:05.128 --> 00:07:09.568 We can take their daughters as wives and let them marry ours, but they will 00:07:09.568 --> 00:07:13.738 consider staying here and becoming one people with us only if all of our 00:07:13.738 --> 00:07:16.378 men are circumcised just as they are. 00:07:17.023 --> 00:07:21.583 But if we do this, all their livestock and possessions will eventually be ours. 00:07:22.123 --> 00:07:26.023 Come, let's agree to their terms and let them settle here among us. 00:07:27.073 --> 00:07:31.453 So all the men in the town council agreed with Haymore and Zeca, and 00:07:31.453 --> 00:07:33.613 every male in the town was circumcised. 00:07:34.483 --> 00:07:38.323 But three days later, when their wounds were still soar, two of Jacob's 00:07:38.323 --> 00:07:43.333 sons, Simeon and Levi, who were ful brothers, took their swords and 00:07:43.333 --> 00:07:44.833 entered the town without opposition. 00:07:45.853 --> 00:07:49.963 Then they slaughtered every male there, including Haymore and his son Shechem. 00:07:50.473 --> 00:07:53.833 They killed them with their swords, then took Dina from Shechem's 00:07:53.833 --> 00:07:55.633 house and returned to their camp. 00:07:56.533 --> 00:08:00.523 Meanwhile, the rest of Jacob's sons arrived finding the men slaughtered. 00:08:00.733 --> 00:08:03.913 They plundered the town because their sister had been defiled there. 00:08:04.513 --> 00:08:07.903 They seized all the flocks and herds and donkeys, everything they could 00:08:07.903 --> 00:08:11.593 lay their hands on, both inside the town and outside in the fields. 00:08:12.388 --> 00:08:15.718 They looted all their wealth and plundered their houses. 00:08:16.348 --> 00:08:20.998 They also took all their little children and wives and led them away as captives. 00:08:21.958 --> 00:08:26.398 Afterward, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, you have ruined me. 00:08:26.938 --> 00:08:30.688 You've made me stink Among all the people of this land, among all the 00:08:30.688 --> 00:08:35.818 Canaanites and parasites, we are so few that they will join forces and crush us. 00:08:36.238 --> 00:08:39.928 I will be ruined and my entire household will be wiped out. 00:08:40.918 --> 00:08:43.948 But why should we let them treat our sister like a prostitute? 00:08:44.458 --> 00:08:45.688 They retorted angrily. 00:08:47.218 --> 00:08:51.628 Then God said to Jacob, get ready and move to Bethel and settle there. 00:08:52.168 --> 00:08:54.718 Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you 00:08:54.718 --> 00:08:56.398 fled from your brother Esau. 00:08:57.538 --> 00:09:02.878 So Jacob told everyone in his household, get rid of all your Pagan idols, purify 00:09:02.878 --> 00:09:05.118 yourselves, and put on clean clothing. 00:09:06.043 --> 00:09:10.483 We are now going to Bethel where I will build an altar to the God who answered 00:09:10.483 --> 00:09:12.163 my prayers when I was in distress. 00:09:12.943 --> 00:09:15.313 He has been with me wherever I have gone. 00:09:16.543 --> 00:09:21.103 So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under 00:09:21.108 --> 00:09:26.563 the great tree near Shechem as they sat out a terror from Gods spread over the 00:09:26.563 --> 00:09:28.483 people at all the towns of that area. 00:09:28.993 --> 00:09:31.093 So no one attacked Jacob's family. 00:09:32.263 --> 00:09:37.273 Eventually Jacob and his household arrived at lz, also called Bethel in Canaan. 00:09:38.023 --> 00:09:43.303 Jacob built an altar there and named the place l Bethel, which means God of Bethel 00:09:43.843 --> 00:09:48.073 because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother Esau. 00:09:49.033 --> 00:09:52.783 Soon after this, Rebecca's old nurse, Deborah died. 00:09:53.413 --> 00:09:56.293 She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. 00:09:57.073 --> 00:10:01.873 Ever since the tree has been called Alan Eth, which means oak of weeping. 00:10:03.013 --> 00:10:07.513 Now that Jacob had returned from Patton Arum, God appeared to him again at Bethel. 00:10:08.143 --> 00:10:12.433 God blessed him saying, your name is Jacob, but you will 00:10:12.433 --> 00:10:14.113 not be called Jacob any longer. 00:10:14.473 --> 00:10:16.753 From now on, your name will be Israel. 00:10:17.443 --> 00:10:19.093 So God renamed him Israel. 00:10:20.128 --> 00:10:23.098 Then God said, I am lha. 00:10:23.098 --> 00:10:27.448 I God almighty, be fruitful and multiply. 00:10:28.078 --> 00:10:29.518 You will become a great nation. 00:10:29.878 --> 00:10:34.648 Even many nations, kings will be among your descendants, and I will give you the 00:10:34.648 --> 00:10:37.018 land I once gave to Abraham and Isaac. 00:10:37.708 --> 00:10:41.038 Yes, I will give it to you and your descendants after you. 00:10:41.968 --> 00:10:44.968 Then God went up from the place where he had spoken to Jacob. 00:10:46.333 --> 00:10:49.633 Jacob set up a stone pillar to mark the place where God had spoken to him. 00:10:50.143 --> 00:10:54.553 Then he poured wine over it as an offering to God and anointed the pillar with olive 00:10:54.553 --> 00:11:00.673 oil, and Jacob named the place Bethel, which means house of God because God 00:11:00.673 --> 00:11:04.603 had spoken to him there leaving Bethel. 00:11:04.873 --> 00:11:09.703 Jacob and his clan moved on toward F Rath, but Rachel went into labor while 00:11:09.703 --> 00:11:11.203 they were still some distance away. 00:11:11.743 --> 00:11:13.193 Her labor pains were intense. 00:11:14.113 --> 00:11:17.563 After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed. 00:11:17.983 --> 00:11:20.563 Don't be afraid you have another son. 00:11:21.553 --> 00:11:25.483 Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath, she named the baby 00:11:25.633 --> 00:11:28.753 Benoni, which means son of my sorrow. 00:11:29.623 --> 00:11:32.803 The baby's father, however, called him Benjamin, which 00:11:33.163 --> 00:11:35.173 means son of my right hand. 00:11:36.163 --> 00:11:39.313 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to F Rath. 00:11:39.613 --> 00:11:40.753 That is Bethlehem. 00:11:41.863 --> 00:11:45.043 Jacob set up a stone monument over Rachel's grave and it 00:11:45.043 --> 00:11:46.663 can be seen there to this day. 00:11:47.563 --> 00:11:51.223 Then Jacob traveled on and camped beyond MGD eater. 00:11:52.003 --> 00:11:55.723 While he was living there, Ruben had intercourse with Bill ha, his father's 00:11:55.723 --> 00:11:58.093 concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it. 00:11:59.113 --> 00:12:02.023 These are the names of the 12 sons of Jacob. 00:12:03.148 --> 00:12:07.618 The Sons of Leah were Ruben Jacob's, oldest son, Simeon, 00:12:07.978 --> 00:12:11.218 Levi, Judah, Zakar, and Zebulun. 00:12:11.968 --> 00:12:16.348 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin, the sons of Bilhah. 00:12:16.438 --> 00:12:19.198 Rachel's servant were Dan and Naftaly. 00:12:19.768 --> 00:12:23.338 The sons of Zpa, Leah's Ser were Gad and Asher. 00:12:24.088 --> 00:12:27.118 These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Pat. 00:12:29.098 --> 00:12:34.198 So Jacob returned to his father Isaac in Mammary, which is near Ki Arba 00:12:34.648 --> 00:12:38.518 now called Hein, where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners. 00:12:39.358 --> 00:12:44.608 Isaac lived for 180 years, then he breathed his last and died at a ripe 00:12:44.608 --> 00:12:50.998 old age, joining his ancestors in death, and his son's Esau and Jacob buried him. 00:12:53.578 --> 00:12:57.658 This is the account of the descendants of Esau, also known as Edam. 00:12:59.308 --> 00:13:03.748 He saw married two young women from Canaan, ADA, the daughter of Elon, the 00:13:03.748 --> 00:13:09.688 Hitite, and Ol Obama, the daughter of AA and granddaughter of Zian, the highlight. 00:13:10.258 --> 00:13:14.308 He also married his cousin Bassima, who was the daughter of Ishmael and 00:13:14.313 --> 00:13:20.488 the sister of nabe Ada gave birth to a son named pha, for he saw bass 00:13:20.488 --> 00:13:22.708 math gave birth to a son named Rule. 00:13:23.548 --> 00:13:27.868 Ol Obama gave birth to sons named Jish, Jalen, and Cora. 00:13:28.618 --> 00:13:31.498 All these sons were born to Esau in the land of Canaan. 00:13:32.578 --> 00:13:36.868 Esau took his wives, his children, and his entire household, along with his 00:13:36.868 --> 00:13:40.798 livestock and cattle, all the wealth he had acquired in the land of Canaan 00:13:41.098 --> 00:13:43.198 and moved away from his brother Jacob. 00:13:43.858 --> 00:13:47.578 There was not enough land to support them, both because of all the livestock 00:13:47.578 --> 00:13:48.988 and possessions they had acquired. 00:13:49.798 --> 00:13:54.718 So Esau, also known as Edam, settled in the hill country of seer. 00:13:56.788 --> 00:13:59.638 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:13:59.758 --> 00:14:00.988 Thank you for joining us.