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28 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments hebrew $0.03
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 35:1-5 source Jacob was upset last week. He did not know what he would do after his sons massacred all the men of Shechem. But this week starts with God telling him to take his fam...
7 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments hebrew $0.02
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 34:18-24 source Today is the day that an entire city goes under the knife. What a wretched request. What a painful proposal we saw last week. So now, Shechem is giving the hard se...
23 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments hebrew $0.06
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 34:7-12 One line stands out in the next passage we are reading. "For such a thing must not be done." We left off with the rape of Dinah, Jacob's daughter. We pick back up with the s...
16 Sep 2022 2 minute read 4 comments hebrew $0.04
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 34:1-6 Most love stories start out with a couple meeting, falling in love, and then getting intimate, which leads to having a family. Apparently, the sons of Hamor were a backwards...
14 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments evgenima $0.08
Daily Bible Reading: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Psalm 101 (NRSV) 1I will sing of loyalty and of justice; to you, O LORD, I will sing. 2I will study the way that is blameless. When shall I attain it? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house...
27 Aug 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Let us spread the wealth $0.04
Alas, this includes your own mind! Learning to question everything is an art that has to be practiced, but there are pitfalls. For example, there is a big difference between curiosity and skepticism, which can have quite a negative effect on your mi...
19 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments hebrew $0.09
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 33:1-5 source We saw Jacob's fear of his brother last week as he had sent droves of presents ahead of him to meet his brother. Then we saw how he wrestled with God and prevailed. Now the m...
12 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments hebrew $0.00
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 32:26-33 source More than a quarter of a century has passed from Abraham to Jacob, all leading up to the birth of Israel. He spent more than twenty years obtaining wives and havin...
5 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments hebrew $0.02
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 32:20-25 Movie source at 11:13:39 There was only this line animals and servants moving ahead to meet Esau in the movie portrayal of this story. In the Tanakh, however, there were drov...
29 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments hebrew $0.02
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 32:14-19 source We saw Jacob praying last week because he was afraid of what will happen when he meets his burly sibling again. There is so much more to lose now than when he had left. B...
