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  1. February 23 - Moses the Water Man

    book
    02/23/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    משׁה - When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.” EXODUS 2:10
    February 23 - Moses the Water Man

  2. February 22 - The Birth-Helpers

    book
    02/22/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מילדת - Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” GENESIS 46:27
    February 22 - The Birth-Helpers

  3. February 21 - Be Fruitful and Multiply

    book
    02/21/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    פרו ורבו - But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. GENESIS 46:27
    February 21 - Be Fruitful and Multiply

  4. February 20 - Seventy

    book
    02/20/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׁבעים - And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy. GENESIS 46:27
    February 20 - Seventy

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

    book
    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

  6. February 18 - The Coat of Many Colors

    book
    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

  7. February 17 - Israel the God-Fighter

    book
    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

  8. February 16 - The Ineptitude of Idols

    book
    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

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

    book
    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

  10. February 14 - The Unloved Wife

    book
    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

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

    book
    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

  12. 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