Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+34   Genesis 34 English Standard Version (ESV) The Defiling of Dinah 1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+33   Genesis 33 English Standard Version (ESV) Jacob Meets Esau 1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants. 2 And he put the servants with their children in…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+32   Genesis 32 English Standard Version (ESV) Jacob Fears Esau 1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 And when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+31   Genesis 31 English Standard Version (ESV) Jacob Flees from Laban 1 Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.” 2 And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+30   Genesis 30 English Standard Version (ESV) Jacob’s Prosperity 25 As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+29   Genesis 29 English Standard Version (ESV) 15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” 16 Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah’s eyes…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+28   Genesis 28 English Standard Version (ESV) Jacob’s Dream 10 Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. 11 And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+27   Genesis 27 English Standard Version (ESV) Isaac Blesses Jacob 18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+26   Genesis 26 English Standard Version (ESV) God’s Promise to Isaac 1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Genesis+25   Genesis 25 English Standard Version (ESV) The Birth of Esau and Jacob 19 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 21 And Isaac prayed to…