Positivity Successor - Episode 48 - Positivity Successor (Genesis 29-30, 30-Mid30)

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

Mental Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Another Interesting Bible Read! (Genesis 29-30, 30-Mid30) God Bless! Amen 🙏

Hey, positive people. Welcome to Positive City's successor. Monday through Sundays to schedule including holidays every season, every year, including the leap year. Thanks for tuning to a life-changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to Pository Successor, Episode 48. Continuing on with the Bible, let's get into it. 29. Jacob arrives and patting the ram. Then Jacob continued on his journey. It came to the land of the Eastern peoples.

Then there he saw a well in the field, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well's mouth. and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Jacob asked the shepherds, My brothers, where are you from? We're from Haran. They replied. He said to him, Do you know Laban, Nairor's grandson? Yes, we know him, they answered. Then Jacob asked him, asked him, is he well?

Yes, he is, they said, and here comes his daughter, Rachel, with the sheep. Look, he said. The sun is still high, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture. We can't, they replied. Until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth, of the well, then we will water the sheep. While he was still talking with them,

Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. When Jacob saw Rachel daughter Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well, and watered his uncle's sheep. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.

He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and her son of Rebecca. So she ran in and told her father, as soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home. And there Jacob told him all these sons. stinks. Then Laban said to him, you are my own flesh and blood. Jacob marries Leah and Rachel. After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, Laban said to him, just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me from nothing?

Tell me what your wages should be. Now Laban had two sisters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely and formed and beautiful. Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, I'll work for you seven years. In return for your younger daughter, Rachel. Aban said, it's better that I give her to you than to some other men. man. Why did Jacob have to work for a LeBahn, 29, 18? In biblical times, men gave a gift to the father of the woman they married. Sometimes the gift was money or jewelry or cattle or some other goods. Jacob had

none of these, but he loved Rachel so much that he was willing to work 14 years for her. People in Bible times. Rachel Rachel was the beautiful younger daughter of Laban Jacob's uncle

Jacob loved Rachel and promised to work for LeBahn for seven years so he could marry her LeBahn cheated Jacob

who ended up working 14 years for his bribe LeBahn said It's better that I give her to you than some other man Stay here with me So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Then Jacob said to Laban, give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to lie with her. So Labon brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. but when evening came he took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob and Jacob lay with her. Le Bon gave his servant girl Zipa to his daughter as her maid servant. When morning came, there was Leah. So Jacob said to LeBon, what does this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I?

why have you deceived me? Abon replied, It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. Finish this daughter's bride all week, then we give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work. And Jacob did so. He finished this week with Leah, and the Labon gave him his daughter, Rachel, to be his wife.

Abon gave his servant girl, Bilha to his daughter, Rachel, as her maid's servant. Jacob lay with Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he worked for a Labon another seven years. Jacob's children. When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. Leo became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Rubin.

She said, It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now. She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son, she said, Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.

So she named him Simon. Simeon. Again, she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son, she said, Now, at last, my husband will become attached to me, because I have born him three sons, so he was named Lovai. She conceived again, and when she gave birth to his son, she said, This time I will praise the Lord, so she named him Judah. then she stopped having children.

30. When Rachel saw that she was not burying Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, give me children or I'll die. Jacob became angry with her and said, Am I in place of God in the place of God who has kept you from having children?

And she said, Here is Billah, my sir. maid servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her act too can build a family. So she gave him her servant, Billah, has a wife. Jacob slept with her. She became pregnant and bore him a son. Then Rachel said, God has vindicated me. He has listened to my plea and given me a son. Because of this, she named him Dan. Rachel's servant, Bill Ha, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. Then Rachel said, I have a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.

So she had named him Nefatali. When Leo saw that she had stopped having children, she took her maid servant Zopa and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Leah's servant, Zopa, bore Jacob's son. Then Leah said, what good fortune? So she named him Gad. Leah's servant, Zopa, bore Jacob, a second son. And Leah said, how happy I am.

The woman will call me happy. So she named him Asher. What is Mandrik? 3014. A mandrake is. is a plant with purple or white flowers. Its root is large and sometimes shaped like a human being. Many people in Bible times thought it had magical powers.

Which is probably why Leah and Rachel argued over the Mandrakes Ruben brought home. During wheat harvest, Ruben went out into the future. and found some mandrake plants. When he brought to his mother, Leah, Rachel said to Leah, please give me some of your son's mandrakes. But she said to her,

wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too? Very well, Rachel said. He can sleep with you tonight and return for her son's mandrakes. So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Lua went out to meet him. He must sleep with me, she said. I have hired you with my son's mandrix.

So he slept with her that night. So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Rhea went out to meet him. You must sleep with me, she said. I have hired you with my son's mandrix. So he slept with her. that night. We had conceived again and bore Jacob a six son.

Then Leah said, God has presented me with a precious gift. This time, my husband will cheer me with honor because I have borne him six sons, so she named him Zobelon. Sometime later, she gave birth to a daughter named her Dina. Then God remembered Rachel. he listened to her and opened her womb.

She became pregnant and gave birth to his son and said, God has taken away my disgrace. She named him Joseph and said, May the Lord add to me another son. We'll pick back up at Jacob's flocks increase. Thanks for tuning to another Bowery. look at the reflection back at yourself in the mirror because you are a work in progress

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