From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for January 8   
      
   Genesis Chapter 25   
      
   1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.   
      
   2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and   
   Ishbak, and Shuah.   
      
   3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were   
   Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.   
      
   4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and   
   Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.   
      
   5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.   
      
   6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave   
   gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived,   
   eastward, unto the east country.   
      
   7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived,   
   an hundred threescore and fifteen years.   
      
   8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old   
   man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.   
      
   9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in   
   the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;   
      
   10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was   
   Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.   
      
   11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his   
   son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.   
      
   12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar   
   the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:   
      
   13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,   
   according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and   
   Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,   
      
   14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,   
      
   15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:   
      
   16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their   
   towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.   
      
   17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty   
   and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered   
   unto his people.   
      
   18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou   
   goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.   
      
   19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat   
   Isaac:   
      
   20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the   
   daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.   
      
   21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren:   
   and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.   
      
   22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it   
   be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.   
      
   23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two   
   manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people   
   shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the   
   younger.   
      
   24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were   
   twins in her womb.   
      
   25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they   
   called his name Esau.   
      
   26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's   
   heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old   
   when she bare them.   
      
   27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field;   
   and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.   
      
   28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah   
   loved Jacob.   
      
   29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:   
      
   30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red   
   pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.   
      
   31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.   
      
   32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit   
   shall this birthright do to me?   
      
   33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he   
   sold his birthright unto Jacob.   
      
   34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat   
   and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.   
      
   Genesis Chapter 26   
      
   1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was   
   in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the   
   Philistines unto Gerar.   
      
   2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt;   
   dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:   
      
   3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee;   
   for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I   
   will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;   
      
   4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will   
   give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the   
   nations of the earth be blessed;   
      
   5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my   
   commandments, my statutes, and my laws.   
      
   6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:   
      
   7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my   
   sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of   
   the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.   
      
   8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that   
   Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and,   
   behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.   
      
   9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy   
   wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him,   
   Because I said, Lest I die for her.   
      
   10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the   
   people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have   
   brought guiltiness upon us.   
      
   11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this   
   man or his wife shall surely be put to death.   
      
   12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an   
   hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.   
      
   13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became   
   very great:   
      
   14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great   
   store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.   
      
   15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days   
   of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them   
   with earth.   
      
   16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier   
   than we.   
      
   17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of   
   Gerar, and dwelt there.   
      
   18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in   
   the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them   
   after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by   
   which his father had called them.   
      
   19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of   
   springing water.   
      
   20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The   
   water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they   
   strove with him.   
      
      
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