March 4 - Mr. Big House
פרעה - Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold ta feast to me in the wilderness.’ ” But Pharaoh said, “Who is…
March 3 - A Bridegroom of Blood
חתן דמים - At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said…
March 2 - Sin’s Skin Story
צרעת - Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. Then God said, “Put your…
March 1 - Sticking It to Enemies
מטה - The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran…
February 28 - I Am Who I Am
יהוה - Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I…
February 27 - Holy Ground
קדשׁ - Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” EXODUS 3:5
February 26 - God’s Unique Messenger
מלאך - And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. EXODUS 3:2
February 25 - When God Knows
ידע - And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. EXODUS 2:15–16
February 24 - Drinking from a Beer
באר - When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and…
February 23 - Moses the Water Man
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 22 - The Birth-Helpers
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…
February 21 - Be Fruitful and Multiply
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 20 - Seventy
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 19 - From Sister-in-Law to Wife
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 18 - The Coat of Many Colors
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…
February 17 - Israel the God-Fighter
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…
February 16 - The Ineptitude of Idols
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…
February 15 - The Rise of Leah’s Fourth Son
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 14 - The Unloved Wife
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 13 - The Lord at the Ladder’s Bottom
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 12 - God’s Place Name
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…
February 12 - God’s Place Name
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…
February 11 - A Heel of a Man
יעקב - Afterward [Esau's] brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. GENESIS 25:26
February 10 - Mt. Moriah
יהוה יראה - So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.” GENESIS 22:14
February 9 - Fire and Brimstone
גפרית - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. GENESIS 19:24 (KJV)