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Genesis 30 - Summary

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Rachel gives her maid Bilhah to Jacob, who bears Dan and Naphtali, and Leah responds by giving Zilpah, who bears Gad and Asher. Leah resumes bearing and has Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah, and finally God remembers Rachel, who conceives and bears Joseph. Jacob negotiates new wages with Laban, using spotted and speckled animals to increase his own flocks through selective breeding, prospering greatly while Laban's sons grow resentful.

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CreationChapters 1-2
The Fall and Its AftermathChapters 3-5
The FloodChapters 6-9
The Nations and BabelChapters 10-11
AbrahamChapters 12-25
Isaac and JacobChapters 25-36

Isaac fathers Esau and Jacob. Jacob deceives his father to obtain the blessing, flees to Laban, wrestles with God at Peniel, and is renamed Israel. He reconciles with Esau and settles in Canaan. His twelve sons become the tribes of Israel.

JosephChapters 37-50

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The oldest man died the very year of the Flood

Add up the ages in Genesis 5: Methuselah, who lived 969 years, the longest life recorded, dies in the very year the Flood arrives. His name is even sometimes read as 'his death shall bring it.' The genealogy is quietly counting down to the great judgement.

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