Who are the mothers of Jacob’s children? Rachel and Leah and their respective handmaidens, of course. I am the mother of Dan and Naphtali.

Because Reuben defiled his father’s couch with me, his firstborn rights are nullified. Who am I?

In Paphos on the island of Cyprus, I lived as a man of contradictions. I am a Jew, yet an attendant of a Roman proconsul. Although Moses condemns sorcery (Lev. 20:22), I am described as a “Jewish sorcerer.” Although my name means “son of Jesus,” I am described as “a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right.” Instead of, as “son of Savior,” seeking to “save people from their sins,” I never stopped perverting the ways of the Lord. As “son of Jesus” I should have brought “light for revelation to the Gentiles,” but, when cursed, I was in mist and darkness. Who am I and who is the proconsul who believed when I was cursed?

Gen. 29:29; 35:22; 49:4; Acts 13