Fr. Mike compares the sacraments with Isaac's blessing to Jacob in Genesis 27-28, Job 17-18, and Proverbs 3:1-4. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we will read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
This is day 14, and we have just completed two weeks. We are completing, actually, we're in the process of completing Two weeks, the 14th day. Let's get started. Today we're reading from Genesis 27 and 28. We're also reading Job chapter 17 and 18. And we're now cracking into Proverbs chapter 3 verses 1 through 4. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition.
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As I said, we are reading today, Genesis chapter 27 and 28. Let's get started. When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau, his older son, and said to him, my son. And he answered, here I am. He said, behold, I am old. I do not know the day of my death.
Now then take your weapons, your quiver and your bow and go out to the field and hunt game for me and prepare for me savory food such as I love and bring it to me that I may eat, that I may bless you before I die. Now, Rebecca was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau.
So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, Rebecca said to her son Jacob, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, bring me game and prepare for me savory food that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die. Now, therefore. My son, obey my word as I command you.
Go to the flock and fetch me two good kids that I may prepare for them savory food for your father, such as he loves, and you shall bring it to your father to eat so that he may bless you before he dies. But Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.
Perhaps my father will feel me and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing. His mother said to him, "'Upon me be your curse, my son. Only obey my word and go fetch them to me.' So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared savory food such as his father loved.
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