A Daily Genesis

[FONT=Verdana]Exploring the Bible[/FONT]

  1. Genesis 47:27-30a

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 47:27-28 . . Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number. Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.[/B]

    Jacob immigrated to Egypt when he was 130 (Gen 47:9) so he spent as many years with Joseph at the last as he had at the first-- seventeen (cf. Gen 37:2). At this point, the famine ...
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  2. Genesis 47:21-26

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 47:21-22 . . and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other. However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.[/B]

    That regular State allotment must have made religion seem like an attractive career path. Their constituents may have been suffering, ...
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  3. Genesis 47:14-20

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 47:14 . . Joseph gathered in all the money that was to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, as payment for the rations that were being procured, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's palace.[/B]

    Some people accuse Joseph of profiteering; of exploiting the people's hardship. But they fail to realize that he wasn't acting on his own. Joseph answered to a higher authority: to Mr. Pharaoh. If Joseph had gone ...
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  4. Genesis 47:7b-13

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†. [/COLOR]Gen 47:7b . . and Jacob blessed Pharaoh[/B]

    As a rule, the lesser is blessed of the better (Heb 7:7). However, it's possible for the better to be blessed by the lesser too. (e.g. Ps 16:7, Ps 26:12, Ps 34:1, et al). It all depends on the nature of the blessing. There's nothing a man can do to improve God's lot in life, but there's certainly a lot God can do to improve a man's lot in life; however, either can say nice things about the ...
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  5. Genesis 47:1-7A

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 47:1-2 . .Then Joseph came and reported to Pharaoh, saying: My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that is theirs, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the region of Goshen. And selecting five of his brothers, he presented them to Pharaoh.[/B]

    Aren't you curious which five of the eleven brothers Joseph selected; and what guided his decision?

    When Christ went up on a mountain to ...
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