Is this where we get "Pull the wool over his eyes" from?

Today we're looking at Genesis25:27-28:5
The title refers to Jacob stealing Esau's blessing, but we'll come back to that in a second.  The first part of this reading was about Isaac.  In 26:2 it says, "The Lord appeared to Isaac".  I've noted in previous entries when God has actually appeared to people in the Bible.  I will continue to do this, as I sort of wonder when did he stop doing that?  Did he stop doing that?

Like father like son?
While living in Gerar, Isaac told everyone that Rebekah was his sister rather than his wife so that he wouldn't get killed on account of her.  And the king got mad when he found out.  Incidentally, this was King Abimelech, the same king who took Sarah as a wife before he found out she was Abraham's wife, not his sister.  No wonder he was mad!  He probably thought, "Geesh!  What is it with this family?!?!  Trying to get us all to commit adultery!"

Now, would you please look at Genesis 26:34?  No really.  Go look, I'll wait.  Is just me, or does this come out of nowhere?  We're reading all about Isaac and Abimelech and then BAM! "When Esau was 40 years old...."  Esau?  What?  That comes out of nowhere, right?  Odd.

So then there is the story of Jacob stealing Esau's blessing at Rebekah's urging.  When Jacob asks Rebekah, "what if my father touches me?" (because Esau was a very hairy man), she covers his hands and the smooth part of his neck with goat skins.  You see, Isaac was blind.  Isaac recognizes Jacob's voice as being Jacob's voice, but he touches the goat skins and thinks it must be Esau after all.  Hence my question:  Is this where the phrase "pull the wool over his eyes" comes from?  Not according to the websites that come up if you Google this phrase, but I think I might be onto something here....

Yeah, yeah, yeah I know...where have I been?!?!

I'm behind in my reading and even further behind in my blogging!  It turns out this is not so easy to do after all!  I know I said I'd blog about my experience and this is my experience:  Life happens!  We had company and I got behind, then because I was behind, I got further behind.  Then I was so far behind, catching up seemed daunting!  BUT I can't put it off any longer.  I actually enjoyed doing my reading and miss it.  So here's the plan.  I will list the verses here (in order from my list) that I read while I was away.  I am not going to blog about them as that is what has stopped me from moving ahead.  So I will just admit that I am not perfect and move on from here.  I will stop numbering the posts as those numbers will be inaccurate.  Once I get through what oneyearbible.com has given me as "month one", I'll move on to month two and just keep going.  I will try to double up on my reading some days to keep me on track to finish in a year.  Also--there have been a number of times that One Year Bible's list has given me 3 chapters one day and two verses the next day...I think I might break down some of the bigger chunks and add them to the days with just a few verses.  I'll always post the verses I read so you can follow along.  I invite you to respond and follow me!  
Again-- you need not be Christian to respond, but I do ask you to be kind.
Here's what I read while away:
Genesis 11:32- 25:26
1 Chronicles 1:28-34
Thanks for reading!

Day 14: I'm still here!

Well, It's a good thing my plan was to "read the whole Bible in a year" and not "to read the Bible everyday for a year!" Otherwise, I'd be seriously off-track!  I'm going back to school for Residential Design & Planning and right now I'm enrolled in a Basic Drafting class.  Killer workload!  I was up past my bedtime 4 nights last week!  (One night til 1:30am!) I finished my work for last week and have started to get a jump on this week, so I'm coming back to my Bible reading for a bit.
Today we're looking at Day 14:  Genesis 11:27-31
This talks about Terah, who was Noah's great, great, great, great, great, great grandson. (I think that's the right # of greats!)  Terah was Abram's father.  It mentions here that he is also the grandfather of Lot.  I'm not familiar with Terah, but I do know who Abram and Lot are!  It also mentions here that Abram's wife was Sarai.  I know who she is too!
That was a short one!  Day 15 will be longer!

Day 12 & 13 Why Can't We Be Friends?

Day 12:  Genesis 11:1-26- This starts with the story of the tower of Babel.  These people made bricks and were building a city with a tower that reached up to the heavens.  11:5 It says, "God came down."  So we are still seeing evidence of God on earth.  11:6 God said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."  Isn't this true of about any group that gets along and works cohesively together?  Nothing can stop them.  Think of "the church".  I don't mean my church or your church specifically--but the church as a whole, all the representatives of the kingdom of God- can you imagine if we all worked together for the good of the Lord?  As Nicky Gumbel, a vicar in the Church of England and speaker for the Alpha program said about the different denominations, "What unites us is far greater than what divides us."  Imagine if we all concentrated on that.  Anyway--God confused their language and scattered them over the earth.

Verses 10-26 are the lineage of Shem, Noah's son, down to Abraham
Day 13: 1 Chronicles 1:24-27- A recap of the lineage of Shem

Day 8- Day 11 More of the lineage of Noah

Day 8 was yesterday.  I read but I didn't post- the reading was 1 Chronicles 1:8-16 which was basically a recap on the lineage of Noah.  Not much to say accept that that Nimrod guy really made an impression.  Both here and in Genesis it mentions that "he grew to be a mighty warrior" where there is no description for any of the others.

Today's reading:  Genesis 10:21-30

This is more of the lineage of Noah.

For Day 10:   1 Chronicles 1:17-23- an exact duplicate of the reading for Day 9.

Day 11:  Just a summation that, yep, these were Noah's sons. 

So, yeah.  I read ahead.  I'll see you back here for Day 12 on or around April 7th!

Day 7: An Easy One!

Today's reading is Genesis 10:6-20

Genesis 10:8 "Cush was the father of Nimrod"  Hmmm....Nimrod...I wonder why no one uses that name anymore...

Today's reading was a little on the begatting side, but I did notice something.  This was showing the lineage of Noah through his son Ham down to whole populations like the Hittites and Canaanites.  Ham's descendants populated Sodom & Gomorah.  So while Noah "walked with God", it looks like not all of his ancestors stayed so close! 

That's all I've got for today! 
I'll add a picture today for visual interest.  This is the Reading Pagoda in Reading, PA.

Day 6- I got nothin'!

Today's reading:  1 Chronicles 1:5-7--Begatting down Noah's line!  I'm gonna take a much needed rest!  See you tomorrow!