Category: Genesis
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The eternal well
Genesis 26:18 “And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.” In the accounts of the patriarchs in Scripture we see examples of how…
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So Sarah laughed
Genesis 18:10-15 “The Lord said, ’I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.’ And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah. So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, ’After I am…
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Confusion
Genesis 11:6-7 “And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s…
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Angel of light
Genesis 3:1-5 “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God…
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Wonderful understatement
Genesis 1:16 “And God . . . made the stars also.” John 1:3 “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Matthew 26:27-28 “Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?” 2 Corinthians…
To Encourage You 