Saturday, April 21, 2012

Genesis 35:16-29 and Matthew 22:23-33 (NIV)

Genesis 35:16-29
The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
16  Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
17  And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.”
18  As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
19  So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
20  Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.
21  Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
22  While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.  Jacob had twelve sons:
23  The sons of Leah:  Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
24  The sons of Rachel:  Joseph and Benjamin.
25  The sons of Rachel’s servant Bilhah:  Dan and Naphtali.
26  The sons of Leah’s servant Zilpah:  Gad and Asher.  These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27  Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
28  Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.
29  Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.


Matthew 22:23-33
Marriage at the Resurrection
23  That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
24  “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
25  Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
26  The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
27  Finally, the woman died.
28  Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
29  Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 
30  At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 
31  But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 
32  ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33  When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

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