Hear2See

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 40   Highlight – Genesis 40:18-23 New Living Translation Joseph Interprets Two Dreams 18  “This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.  19  Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”  20  Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he p...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 39   Highlight – Genesis 39:19-21   New Living Translation Joseph Put in Prison 19  Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her.  20  So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.  21  But the Lord was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 38   Highlight – Genesis 38:26-30 New Living Translation Judah and Tamar 26  Judah recognized them immediately and said, “She is more righteous than I am, because I didn’t arrange for her to marry my son Shelah.” And Judah never slept with Tamar again.  27  When the time came for Tamar to give birth, it was discovered that she was carrying twins.  28  While she was in la...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 37   Highlight – Genesis 37:1-4 New Living Translation Joseph’s Dreams 1 So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived as a foreigner. 2 This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Jos...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 36   Highlight – Genesis 36:1,6-9 New Living Translation Descendants of Esau 1   This is the account of the descendants of Esau (also known as Edom).  …6  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.  7  There was not enough lan...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 35   Highlight – Genesis 35:1-5 New Living Translation Jacob’s Return to Bethel 1Then 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.”  2  So Jacob told everyone in his household, “Get rid of all your pagan idols, purify yourselves, and put on clean clothing.  3 ...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 34   Highlight – Genesis 34:24-26 New Living Translation Revenge against Shechem 24  So all the men in the town council agreed with Hamor and Shechem, and every male in the town was circumcised.  25  But three days later, when their wounds were still sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, who were Dinah’s full brothers, took their swords and entered the town without...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 33   HEAR Journaling -  Wednesday - Genesis 33-34   Highlight – Genesis 33:5-11 New Living Translation Jacob and Esau Make Peace 5  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.  6  Then the servant wives came forward with their children and bowe...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 32   Highlight - Genesis 32:24-32 New Living Translation Jacob Wrestles with God 24 This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break.25 When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket.26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!” But Jacob sa...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 31   Highlight - Genesis 31:38-42  New Living Translation 38  “For twenty years I have been with you, caring for your flocks. In all that time your sheep and goats never miscarried. In all those years I never used a single ram of yours for food.  39  If any were attacked and killed by wild animals, I never showed you the carcass and asked you to reduce the count of your...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 30   Highlight - Genesis 30:31-36 New Living Translation Jacob’s Wealth Increases 31  “What wages do you want?” Laban asked again. Jacob replied, “Don’t give me anything. Just do this one thing, and I’ll continue to tend and watch over your flocks. 32  Let me inspect your flocks today and remove all the sheep and goats that are speckled or spotted, along with all the bla...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 29.   Highlight - Genesis 29:31-35 New Living Translation Jacob’s Many Children 31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive. 32 So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,[ b ] for she said, “The Lord has noticed my misery, and now my husband will love me.” 33 She soon became pregna...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 28   Highlight - Genesis 28:10-15 New Living Translation Jacob’s Dream at Bethel 10  Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran.  11  At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep.  12  As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 27   Highlight - Genesis 27:33-36 New Living Translation Jacob Steals Esau’s Blessing 33  Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably and said, “Then who just served me wild game? I have already eaten it, and I blessed him just before you came. And yes, that blessing must stand!” 34  When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry. “Oh my father, what abou...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 26   Highlight - Genesis 26:1-11 New Living Translation Isaac Deceives Abimelech 1A severe famine now struck the land, as had happened before in Abraham’s time. So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived. 2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt, but do as I tell you. 3 Live here as a foreigner in this land, and I will...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 25   Highlight - Genesis 25:1-8 New Living Translation The Death of Abraham 25  Abraham married another wife, whose name was Keturah.  2  She gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.  3  Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s descendants were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.  4  Midian’s sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida,...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 24   Highlight – Genesis 24:1-4, 61, 67 New Living Translation A Wife for Isaac 1Abraham was now a very old man, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.  2  One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, “Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh.  3  Swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 23   Highlight – Genesis 23:1-2, 17-20 New Living Translation The Burial of Sarah 23  When Sarah was 127 years old,  2  she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her. …  17  So Abraham bought the plot of land belonging to Ephron at Machpelah, near Mamre. This included the field itself, the cave that was in it,...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 22   Highlight Genesis 22:8-12 New Living Translation Abraham’s Faith Tested 8  “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.  9  When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 21   Highlight Genesis 21:1-7 New Living Translation The Birth of Isaac 21  The Lord kept his word and did for Sarah exactly what he had promised.  2  She became pregnant, and she gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. This happened at just the time God had said it would.  3  And Abraham named their son Isaac.  4  Eight days after Isaac was born, Abraham circumc...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 20   Highlight – Genesis 20:1-7 New Living Translation Abraham Deceives Abimelech 20  Abraham moved south to the Negev and lived for a while between Kadesh and Shur, and then he moved on to Gerar. While living there as a foreigner,  2  Abraham introduced his wife, Sarah, by saying, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar sent for Sarah and had her brought to him a...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 19   Highlight – Genesis 19:14-16, 23-29 New Living Translation Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed 14 So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters’ fiancés, “Quick, get out of the city! The Lord is about to destroy it.” But the young men thought he was only joking. 15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daugh...

 HEAR Journaling Genesis 18   Highlight – Genesis 18:10-15 New Living Translation 10  Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!” Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.  11  Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.  12  So she laughed silently to hersel...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 17   Highlight – Genesis 17:1-8 New Living Translation 1   When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.  2  I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants.”  3  At this, Abram fell face down on the ground. Then God said...

HEAR Journaling -  Genesis 16   Highlight – Genesis 16:15-16 New Living Translation 15  So Hagar gave Abram a son, and Abram named him Ishmael.  16  Abram was eighty-six years old when Ishmael was born.           Explain –  Genesis Chapter 6 recounts that Abram and Sari could not see how God would fulfill His promise of a child from their union, so they conspired to have a child through Hagar, tha...