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The Scroll Feed Podcast
by @TheScrollFeedCo
This is what the Bible sounds like from inside it.The Scroll Feed brings Scripture to life through cinematic, first-person storytelling—imagining the voices, conversations, and human moments surrounding the biblical text while remaining rooted in Scripture.Step inside the story. Hear familiar passages from a new point of view. Experience the people of Scripture as real people facing real choices, consequences, fears, faith, and hope—then return to the Word with fresh eyes.The Scroll Feed — Scripture, in their voices. thescrollfeedco.substack.com
Episodes
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Start Here With Us
JONAH: I paid the fare myself. That’s the part that still gets me — stood on the dock and counted it out into a man’s hand. MOSES: You’re not the only one. I asked Him to send somebody else. Out loud, in those words. He sent me anyway. Your fear isn’t the deciding vote, Jonah. JONAH: You were...
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S8:E28 · Jacob & Esau · The Burying + Song — “I counted what I owned. Then I counted who it was for.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): impulsive, generous, hungry now, regretful later — D/I. Esau — I picked up my end of the cloth and folded it, slowly, in four, and went to find my men. Nobody said a word to me going down the hill, which suited me....
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S8:E27 · Jacob & Esau · The Burying + Song — “I heard it. Then I said the names of my sons, all twelve, to an empty tent.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Israel — I set a pillar on her grave and we went on. That’s all that was meant to happen, and for a while it was all that did. I’m telling this from...
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S8:E26 · Jacob & Esau · The Burying + Song — “I’d like to tell you it was a long way. It was a little way. That’s what they all say.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): passionate, longed-for, restless, says the quiet part out loud — I. Rachel — In the morning the men took down the tents. We pulled up the tent-pins and set out. I was well when we started. We came down off the hill…
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S8:E25 · Jacob & Esau · The Burying + Song — “He sent me back to the stone I made a promise at. It took me twenty years and a limp to get here.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — I looked at the fire, and I let it burn down. My sons stood there until I stopped looking at it, and I had no answer for them, and I didn’t…
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S8:E24 · Jacob & Esau · The Burying + Song — “He said we had made him stink among the neighbours. That was the whole of it.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): exact, quiet, chooses each word like it will be read back to him — C. Levi — My mother said her name in the doorway. She said it to nobody, and every one of us at the fire heard it, and nobody turned round. I’ve got...
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S8:E23 · Jacob & Esau · The Burying + Song — “They talked about my daughter all day and not one of them talked to her.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps Imagined profile (interpretive): patient, aching, names her grief into her children — S. Leah — Jacob sat down the minute the tents went up. He’d been walking on that bad leg for days, and he put his back against a post and stretched it out in front...
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S8:E22 · Jacob & Esau · The Wrestling — “I ran. I have gone over it all the way home and that is still all I can tell you about it.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): impulsive, generous, hungry now, regretful later — D/I. Esau — I’m on the road to Seir with the sun well past noon, and I haven’t eaten since yesterday. My belly’s louder than I am. We’d been riding since before...
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S8:E21 · Jacob & Esau · The Wrestling — “The last time a man asked who I was in the dark, I gave my brother’s name. This time I gave mine.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — There was nobody on my side of the water to give an order to, so I stood there with my hands doing nothing. The Jabbok was loud in the dark…
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S8:E20 · Jacob & Esau · The Wrestling — “I sent everything I owned across the water ahead of me, and then I stood there.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps ) Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — I counted by feel first, in the dark, my hand flat on their backs, and at first light I counted by eye, and I took what came to my hand. I...
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S8:E19 · Jacob & Esau · The Wrestling — “I told them to say servant, and I told them to say it twice.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — I took up the lead rope and went on my way. That was the whole of it, and I’d have been glad if it had stayed that size. “And Jacob went on his...
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S8:E18 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “I told him it was twenty years, and he told me everything I had earned was his.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — I kept my eyes on my feet the whole time he was in there. On the dust between my sandals, with the ring of men breathing round me, because if…
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S8:E17 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “I rode seven days with a speech ready, and what I said instead was that I would have sent them off with a harp.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): fast, generous, flattering, talks in hospitality — I/D. Laban — The boy came out to the shearing on the third day with one sandal in his hand and said it before he had his breath. “Their tents are empty. Nobody’s…
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S8:E16 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “He took us out to the field to ask us, and my sister and I answered him with one voice.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): patient, aching, names her grief into her children — S. Leah — He came in late from my father’s yard and sat on the edge of the mat with his sandals still on. I lay with my face to the wall. He didn’t ask for water...
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S8:E15 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “He told me the LORD had blessed his house for my sake, and in the same breath he asked what I’d take to stay.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — I said his name twice through the wood before he had the bar up. Laban. Laban. Behind me the ewes had started, then the dogs, and the light was...
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S8:E14 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “He came out of me, and before he was washed I’d asked for the next one.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps Imagined profile (interpretive): passionate, longed-for, restless, says the quiet part out loud — I. Rachel — I didn’t hide it. I thought about it — she was standing in the yard with her water jar, and I had the whole width of the doorway to think...
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S8:E13 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “My son ran in from the wheat with his shirt full of plants, and his aunt and I traded a night over his head.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): patient, aching, names her grief into her children — S. Leah — Bilhah went across the yard with him on her hip, and nobody at the trough said a word to her, and what I looked at was the cloth. Rachel’s cloth, over...
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S8:E12 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “I said it to the wrong person and he was angry, and he was right, and it did not help.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): passionate, longed-for, restless, says the quiet part out loud — I. Rachel — Four. There are four of them in the other part of this house and I can hear them from here. “And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no...
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S8:E11 · Jacob & Esau · The Wages — “I named three sons at my husband. The fourth one, I didn’t name at him at all.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): patient, aching, names her grief into her children — S. Leah — Four sons. I want to go through the names, because the names are the only place I have ever been allowed to say anything. My body has done this four…
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S8:E10 · Jacob & Esau · The Stone — “He loved me more. That is the sentence. Read it again and notice what it does to my sister.”
(Prefer to listen? Episode also on podcast apps) Imagined profile (interpretive): passionate, longed-for, restless, says the quiet part out loud — I. Rachel — Nine days. That is what it took to arrange the rest of my life and my sister’s, and I was in the room for almost none of it. I’m sitting…
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S8:E9 · Jacob & Esau · The Stone — “In the evening my father brought me. In the morning, behold.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): patient, aching, names her grief into her children — S. Leah — The shouting outside has finally stopped. It’s still today, barely, and I can hear my own heartbeat again. I have been listening to two men argue about me since the light came. Neither of them has said...
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S8:E8 · Jacob & Esau · The Stone — “Two verses to introduce us both. Mine is the one with a but in the middle of it.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): patient, aching, names her grief into her children — S. Leah — The month ended and my father turned it into a question about money, which is how most things in this house turn out in the end. I was carding wool when it happened, and I’ve been carding wool ever...
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S8:E7 · Jacob & Esau · The Stone — “Three flocks were lying there waiting for enough men. I moved it on my own and then I cried.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — I’m in a house tonight. I haven’t been in a house since Beersheba. There’s a roof over me and I keep looking up at it. The room smells of lamp smoke and boiled grain and the inside of other...
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S8:E6 · Jacob & Esau · The Stone — “He promised me seven things and asked me for nothing. I answered with a word that starts a bargain.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — I’ve got oil on my hands and the sun’s barely up. I haven’t had time yet to make myself sound better in this than I was. “And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.” — Genesis...
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S8:E5 · Jacob & Esau · The Stealing — “Nobody ever told me. I worked it out standing outside a tent, listening to my brother being sent away.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): impulsive, generous, hungry now, regretful later — D/I. Esau — They called him back in. Two days after the dish, and this time my father knew exactly which son was standing in front of him. “And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto...
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S8:E4 · Jacob & Esau · The Stealing — “I told my husband I was weary of my life. Every word of that was true, and it wasn’t the reason.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): bold, quick, takes initiative, engineers outcomes — D/I. Rebekah — Somebody came and stood outside my tent and wouldn’t come in. That’s how I knew it was bad. A man with ordinary news puts his head through. This one stood off a pace in the last of the light with…
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S8:E3 · Jacob & Esau · The Stealing — “I did every last thing he told me. I was two questions late.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): impulsive, generous, hungry now, regretful later — D/I. Esau — I came up the last of the slope with both hands under it and it was still hot through the cloth. Out since before light. Further than I meant to go, because they’d shifted off the near side and I…
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S8:E2 · Jacob & Esau · The Stealing — “He asked me how I’d found it so fast. I could have said anything. I said God arranged it.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): cunning, relentless, will not let go until he is blessed — D/I. Jacob — My father. Two words, and I heard them go out of my mouth in my own voice, and there was nothing to be done about that then and there’s nothing now. “And he came unto his father, and said, My...
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S8:E1 · Jacob & Esau · The Stealing — “He sent for his eldest son. I was at the flock before he finished the sentence.”
Imagined profile (interpretive): bold, quick, takes initiative, engineers outcomes — D/I. Rebekah — An hour. That’s what I’ve got, near enough, and I’ve been standing here spending it on arithmetic. He won’t hunt fast and he won’t hunt slow. I’ve been timing that man’s hunting since before either...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is what the Bible sounds like from inside it.The Scroll Feed brings Scripture to life through cinematic, first-person storytelling—imagining the voices, conversations, and human moments surrounding the biblical text while remaining rooted in Scripture.Step inside the story. Hear familiar passages from a new point of view. Experience the people of Scripture as real people facing real choices, consequences, fears, faith, and hope—then return to the Word with fresh eyes.The Scroll Feed — Scripture, in their voices.
thescrollfeedco.substack.com
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@TheScrollFeedCo
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This is what the Bible sounds like from inside it.The Scroll Feed brings Scripture to life through cinematic, first-person storytelling—imagining the voices, conversations, and human moments surrounding the biblical text while remaining rooted in Scripture.Step inside the story. Hear familiar...
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