TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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Page 15 of 227. 11323 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
Read word by wordand he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
Read word by wordNow while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Read word by wordMoreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
Read word by wordSo he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
Read word by wordOn the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
Read word by wordSo he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
Read word by wordBut that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Read word by wordNow Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
Read word by wordThen Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
Read word by wordWhy did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
Read word by word“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
Read word by wordSo Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
Read word by wordNow Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
Read word by wordRachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.
Read word by wordThen Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
Read word by wordAs it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Read word by wordThus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
Read word by wordIf the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
Read word by wordBut Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
Read word by wordCome now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
Read word by wordSo Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
Read word by wordand he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
Read word by wordLaban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
Read word by wordThen Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
Read word by wordLaban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
Read word by wordMay the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Read word by wordThen Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
Read word by wordEarly the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.1
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.2
When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.3
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.4
He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.5
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.6
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.7
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.8
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.9
Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.10
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.12
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.13
Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.14
He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.17
He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.18
then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.19
He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.20
You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.21
So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.22
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.23
He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.24
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.25
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