Genesis

Although our Godly relatives and friends have lived to a good old age, and we are confident that they have gone to heavenly glory; yet it is...

Jacob’s calling of his sons together was a precept for them to unite in love, and not to mingle with the Egyptians; and it also foretold that...

In the account that is here given of Jacob’s last interview with Joseph, it is worth noticing how the thoughts of the patriarch travel...

Joseph went to inform Pharaoh of the arrival of his family in Egypt so that he might obtain for them a fresh welcome and a concession of the...

At the close of the last chapter, we saw the elderly Jacob resolving, if it was according to God’s will, to go down into Egypt and see his...

The speech of Judah, as he pleaded on behalf of his brother Benjamin, is one of the noblest pieces of natural eloquence in any literature,...

Joseph was determined to test the sincerity of his brothers’ repentance. So before they left on their homeward journey to the land of Canaan,...

About six months after Jacob’s sons made their first trip to Egypt, he urged them to make another journey to that country and buy some more...

This chapter reads almost like a storybook. As morning dawned one day, Joseph was still in prison, with no hope of release; but in the evening,...

Joseph endured the wrong and the hardship of his prison-life in such a remarkable manner that he soon rose to influence and honor, even in the...

This chapter brings us back to the narrative concerning Joseph. We cannot help pitying him as we see him entering this period of humiliation,...

This chapter pauses in the narrative of Joseph and gives us an account of Judah’s family life. First, we read of his foolish friendship with a...

The family of Jacob was still living in the land of Canaan, although they did not own it. To all of these patriarchs, it was a land of...

In this chapter, we have an account of the descendants of Esau, who were called Edomites. It seems that Esau had already begun to settle among...

It appears that when the Lord had brought Jacob safely back to Canaan after his 20-year stay with his uncle Laban, his vow to return to Bethel...

Hitherto the patriarch Jacob had experienced many sharp and trying afflictions as they arose out of the circumstances of his own life. This...

In this chapter, we are presented with the Divinely inspired account of the meeting of Jacob and Esau, after they had spent the last 20 years...

After Jacob and his family parted ways with Laban, the angels of God appeared to him on his journey, encouraging him with the assurance of...

It is interesting to observe how the affairs of the families of the patriarchs are given in very minute detail, while the so-called “great”...

At the conclusion of the last chapter, we read how Leah gave birth to four sons; and the opening verse of this chapter tells us how Rachel, who...