Monday, April 2, 2012

Genesis 28:1-9 (NIV) and Matthew 18:10-14 (NKJV))

Genesis 28:1-9
Isaac Called for Jacob

1  So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
2  Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3  May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
4  May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
5  Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6  Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
7  and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
8  Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
9  so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

Matthew 18:10-14
The Parable of the Lost Sheep

10  “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. 
11  For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
12  “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 
13  And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. 
14  Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

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