Chad Bird

  1. February 19 - From Sister-in-Law to Wife

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    02/19/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יבם - But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. GENESIS 38:9
    February 19 - From Sister-in-Law to Wife

  2. February 18 - The Coat of Many Colors

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    02/18/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    כתנת פסים - Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. GENESIS 37:3–4
    February 18 - The Coat of Many Colors

  3. February 17 - Israel the God-Fighter

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    02/17/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׂרה - And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day... Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[a] for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” GENESIS 32:24, 28
    February 17 - Israel the God-Fighter

  4. February 16 - The Ineptitude of Idols

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    02/16/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    תרפים - Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them. And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” GENESIS 31:34–35
    February 16 - The Ineptitude of Idols

  5. 1 Samuel 27:8-28:19 (Episode 254)

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    02/15/21
    1 min
    By Chad Bird | Daniel Emery Price
    Violent raids and raising the dead.
    1 Samuel 27:8-28:19 (Episode 254)

  6. February 15 - The Rise of Leah’s Fourth Son

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    02/15/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יהודה - And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing. GENESIS 29:35
    February 15 - The Rise of Leah’s Fourth Son

  7. February 14 - The Unloved Wife

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    02/14/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׂנא - So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years. When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. GENESIS 29:30–31
    February 14 - The Unloved Wife

  8. February 13 - The Lord at the Ladder’s Bottom

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    02/13/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    סלם - [Jacob] had a dream; a stairway was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down it. And the Lord was standing beside him. GENESIS 28:12–13A (NJPS)
    February 13 - The Lord at the Ladder’s Bottom

  9. February 12 - God’s Place Name

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    02/12/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מקום - 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 to sleep. GENESIS 28:10–11
    February 12 - God’s Place Name

  10. February 12 - God’s Place Name

    book
    02/12/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מקום - 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 to sleep. GENESIS 28:10–11
    February 12 - God’s Place Name

  11. February 11 - A Heel of a Man

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    02/11/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יעקב - Afterward [Esau's] brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. GENESIS 25:26
    February 11 - A Heel of a Man

  12. February 10 - Mt. Moriah

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    02/10/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יהוה יראה - So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.” GENESIS 22:14
    February 10 - Mt. Moriah