How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Genesis 39:9. It is always a critical period in a young man’s life when he is separated from home influences and wise counsels and enters upon new scenes
A Home in Trouble
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him. Genesis 37:4. The sin of Jacob, and the train of events to which it led, had not failed to exert an influence
Seven Short Years
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Genesis 29:20. How different his [Jacob’s] arrival from that of Abraham’s messenger nearly a hundred years before!
A Home God can Bless
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment. Genesis 18:19. In God’s sight, a man is just what he
He Walked with God
Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years. Genesis 5:21, 22. Of Enoch it is written that he lived sixty-five years, and begat a son…. During these
Cursed!
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; … and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, … cursed is the ground for
A Chance to Choose
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17. Our first parents, though created innocent and holy, were