/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //#9 OT // /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// var title="JACOB AND LEAH"; var title2="Event 9: Genesis 29-31"; Text=new Array(15); aposstr=new String; speechstr=new String; aposstr="'"; speechstr='"'; for (var x=0; x<16;x++) { Text[x]=""; } max=15; Text[0]=" 1. Genesis 29 'So Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the East. "; Text[1]=" 2. Jacob has left his father in Beersheba. he dreamed of the angels while at Bethel. From Bethel he traveled to Haran 'in the East'."; Text[2]=" 3. And he looked, and saw a well in the field; and behold, there were three flocks of sheep Wlying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks. A large stone was on the well's mouth."; Text[3]=" 4. Now all the flocks would be gathered there; and they would roll the stone from the well's mouth, water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the well's mouth. "; Text[4]=" 5. Then he said to them, 'Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?' And they said, 'We know him.'"; Text[5]=" 6. So he said to them. 'Is he well?' And they said, 'He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.'"; Text[6]=" 7. Now while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess."; Text[7]=' 8. Genesis 29:10, "And so it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother\'s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother\'s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well\'s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother\'s brother." (NKJV)'; Text[8]=" 9. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's relative and that he was Rebekah's son. So she ran and told her father. "; Text[9]=" 10. Genesis 29:14. And Laban said to him, 'Surely you are my bone and my flesh.' And he stayed with him for a month."; Text[10]=" 11. Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel."; Text[11]=" 12. Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.' And Laban said, 'It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.'"; Text[12]=" 13. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her."; Text[13]=" 14. Then Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.'"; Text[14]=" 15. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast. Now it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her. And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to Leah as a maid."; // *** POSITIONING AND STYLES ********************************************* //**DO NOT EDIT THIS ***** //*********************** //************************