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  1. January 31 - When God Punches

    book
    01/31/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    נגע - But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. (GENESIS 12:17)
    January 31 - When God Punches

  2. January 30 - The Unfruitful Earth

    book
    01/30/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    רעב - Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. (GENESIS 12:10)
    January 30 - The Unfruitful Earth

  3. January 29 - God’s Marching Orders

    book
    01/29/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    הלך - Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you." (GENESIS 12:1)
    January 29 - God’s Marching Orders

  4. January 28 - Building Blocks of Language

    book
    01/28/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    לבנה - And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly... Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens." (GENESIS 11:3–4)
    January 28 - Building Blocks of Language

  5. January 27 - The Fruit of the Vine

    book
    01/27/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יין - Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. (GENESIS 9:20–21)
    January 27 - The Fruit of the Vine

  6. January 26 - God’s Retired Weapon

    book
    01/26/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    קשׁת - I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. (GENESIS 9:13–15)
    January 26 - God’s Retired Weapon

  7. January 25 - The Axis of Heaven and Earth

    book
    01/25/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מזבח - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (GENESIS 8:20)
    January 25 - The Axis of Heaven and Earth

  8. January 24 - The Prophetic and Feathered Jonah

    book
    01/24/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יונה - And the dove came back to [Noah] in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. (GENESIS 8:11)
    January 24 - The Prophetic and Feathered Jonah

  9. January 23 - God’s Remembering Actions

    book
    01/23/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    זכר - But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. (GENESIS 8:1)
    January 23 - God’s Remembering Actions

  10. January 22 - The Major and Minor Arks

    book
    01/22/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    תבה - Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. (GENESIS 6:14)
    January 22 - The Major and Minor Arks

  11. January 21 - A Bad Frame of Mind

    book
    01/21/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    יצר - The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (GENESIS 6:5)
    January 21 - A Bad Frame of Mind

  12. January 20 - Call on the Name of Yahweh

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    01/20/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    קרא - To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD. (GENESIS 4:26)
    January 20 - Call on the Name of Yahweh