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Exodus 2

Exodus 2

Exodus 2:1 Then a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

Exodus 2:2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and seeing that he was special, she concealed him three months.

Exodus 2:3 When she could conceal him no longer, she prepared for him a basket made of papyrus and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

Exodus 2:4 And his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

Exodus 2:5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave,[1] and she took it.

Exodus 2:6 After she opened it, she saw the child, and noticed the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Exodus 2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

Exodus 2:8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So, the girl went and called the child’s mother.

Exodus 2:9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So, the woman took the child and nursed him.

Exodus 2:10 When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She called his name Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Exodus 2:11 Then after Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

Exodus 2:12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand.

Exodus 2:13 When he went out the next day, notice, two Hebrews were fighting together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”

Exodus 2:14 He answered, “Who made you an official and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing has been made known.”

Exodus 2:15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses ran[2] from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Exodus 2:17 The shepherds normally came and would drive them away, but Moses stood up and saved[3] them, and watered their flock.

Exodus 2:18 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “Why have you come home so soon today?”

Exodus 2:19 They said, “An Egyptian rescued us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

Exodus 2:20 He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

Exodus 2:21 And Moses was agreeable to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

Exodus 2:22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, because he said, “I have been a foreign guest in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2:23 And after many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue came up to God.

Exodus 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 2:25 God saw the sons of Israel – and God knew.

[1] אָמָה = female slave. Exodus 2:5; 20:10, 17; 21:7, 20, 26, 27, 32; 23:12.

[2] בָּרָח = run, run through. Exodus 2:15; 14:5; 26:28; 36:33.

[3] יָשַׁע = save. Exodus 2:17; 14:30.

Exodus 2 quotes:

“The stories of Exodus 2 lead to verses 23-25. The point is that if humans can rescue other humans who are caught in strife, then how much more will the God that we know from Genesis, full of compassion and mercy and who has an established covenant relationship with his people, rescue them? If the daughter of Pharaoh can hear cries and be merciful against the stated will of her father, how much more will God hear, given his stated obligation to Abraham and his descendants? If Moses can see his people’s trouble and the trouble of a group of daughters of a priest of Midian, then how much more so will God, whose nature is to have mercy? If a priest of Midian can take on board a lonely fugitive and give him a home, then how much more so will the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, do so? If humans can do it, how much more so will God? This is the point of this chapter—God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. He looked on the Israelites and he was concerned. Where God ‘remembers’, ‘looks upon’ and ‘is concerned’, we can expect to see action.”

Reid, Andrew. Out of Darkness : Exodus 1- 18. Matthias Media, 2005. p. 15.

“Exodus 2:9 “took the boy and nursed him” Breastfeeding is the natural means planned by the Creator to forge an irrevocable bond between a mother and her child. This providential intervention gave the opportunity for physical and emotional bonding between Moses and his godly mother, giving to him immersion in her faith and values in his earliest, formative years.”

Patterson, Dorothy Kelley, Touched by Greatness : Women in the Life of Moses. Christian Focus, 2011. p. 38.

“Exodus 2 includes Moses’ birth, his amazing deliverance and adoption (2:1-10), his identification with “his” Hebrew people, the killing of an Egyptian, his escape to the land of Midian, his marriage to Zipporah, and the birth of their son, Gershom (vv. 11-22). The chapter concludes with a reminder of the groaning of the people in Egypt and God’s attentive ear (vv. 23-25).”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 26.

Exodus 2 links:

as luck would have it
Exodus- God saw and knew
God’s mountain
IN A DREAM #4 – jeffersonvann
preparing for the mission
the Gershom years

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Exodus 1

Exodus 1

Exodus 1:1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each man with his house:[1]

Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

Exodus 1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

Exodus 1:5 All the throats[2] coming out of the loins of Jacob were seventy throats; Joseph being already in Egypt.

Exodus 1:6 Joseph eventually died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

Exodus 1:7 But the sons of Israel had been fruitful and greatly crowded Egypt; they multiplied and grew very strong, so that the land[3] was filled with them.

Exodus 1:8 Then a new king – who did not remember Joseph – began reigning over Egypt,

Exodus 1:9 And he said to his people, “Notice,[4] the people of the sons of Israel are too many and too strong for us.

Exodus 1:10 Cooperate! let us deal wisely with them, or else[5] they will keep multiplying, and, when war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

Exodus 1:11 Therefore they set officials[6] over them to force heavy burdens[7] upon them. They built store cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they permeated the country. And the Egyptians detested the people of Israel.

Exodus 1:13 So they callously made the people of Israel work as slaves

Exodus 1:14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they callously made them work as slaves.

Exodus 1:15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

Exodus 1:16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, you will kill him, but if it is a daughter, she will live.”

Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the boys live.

Exodus 1:18 So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the boys live?”

Exodus 1:19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are strong and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Exodus 1:20 So God treated the midwives well. And the people continued to multiply and grew very strong.

Exodus 1:21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them houses.

Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh ordered all his people, and this is what he said, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you will throw into the Nile, but you will let every daughter live.”

[1] בַּיִת = house, home, inside. Exodus 1:1, 21; 2:1; 3:22; 6:14; 7:23; 8:3, 9, 11, 13, 21, 24; 9:19, 20; 10:6; 12:3, 4, 7, 13, 15, 19, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30, 46; 13:3, 14; 16:31; 19:3; 20:2, 17; 22:7, 8; 23:19; 25:11, 27; 26:29, 33; 28:26; 30:4; 34:26; 36:34; 37:2, 14, 27; 38:5; 39:19; 40:38.

[2] נֶפֶשׁ = throat. Exodus 1:5; 4:19; 12:4, 15, 16, 19; 15:9; 16:16; 21:23, 30; 23:9; 30:12, 15, 16; 31:14.

[3] אֶרֶץ = land. Exodus 1:7, 10; 2:15, 22; 3:8, 17; 4:3, 20; 5:5, 12; 6:1, 4, 8, 11, 13, 26, 28; 7:2, 3, 4, 19, 21; 8:5, 6, 7, 14, 16, 17, 22, 24, 25; 9:5, 9, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 33; 10:5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22; 11:3, 5, 6, 9, 10; 12:1, 12, 13, 17, 19, 25, 29, 33, 41, 42, 48, 51; 13:5, 11, 15, 17, 18; 14:3; 15:12; 16:1, 3, 6, 14, 32, 35; 18:3, 27; 19:1, 5; 20:2, 4, 11; 22:21; 23:9, 10, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33; 29:46; 31:17; 32:1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 23; 33:1, 3; 34:8, 10, 12, 15, 24.

[4] הִנֵּה = notice. Exodus 1:9; 2:6, 13; 3:2, 4, 9, 13; 4:6, 7, 14, 23; 5:16; 7:16, 17; 8:2, 21, 29; 9:3, 7, 18; 10:4; 14:10, 17; 16:4, 10, 14; 17:6; 19:9; 23:20; 24:8, 14; 31:6; 32:9, 34; 33:21; 34:10, 11, 30; 39:43.

[5]פֵּן = or else. Exodus 1:10; 5:3; 13:17; 19:21-22, 24; 20:19; 23:33; 33:3; 34:12, 15.

[6] שַׂר = official. Exodus 1:11; 2:14; 18:21, 25.

[7] סִבְלָה = burden. Exodus 1:11; 2:11; 5:4, 5; 6:6, 7.

Exodus 1 quotes:

“In Exodus 1:7 we are told that “the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them”. The language here is reminiscent of Genesis 1:28 where humans are blessed by God and told to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it”. We are being reminded that God’s purpose to bless the whole world is being carried out through the descendants of Abraham.”

Reid, Andrew. Out of Darkness : Exodus 1- 18. Matthias Media, 2005. p. 35.

“The actual situation in Egypt and the implications of the biblical text are in very good agreement, therefore, if we understand the rise of a new king over Egypt in Exodus 1:8 to mean the change to the Nineteenth Dynasty, and if we refer to the time under the early kings of that dynasty the statement of Exodus 1:13: “They made the people of Israel serve with rigor, and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.” It was for this reason that ever afterward when the Israelite people looked back to Egypt they called it “the house of bondage” (Exodus 13:3, etc.).”

Finegan, Jack. Let My People Go; a Journey through Exodus. [1st ed.] ed., Harper & Row, 1963. p. 21.

“The midwives’ courage and fear of the Lord contrast with a powerful, yet paranoid, pharaoh. Although the chapter begins with the patriarchal list, the hope of the Israelites was in the daily life of the Hebrew home and childbirth. Here we see the beginning of the key role women played in God’s deliverance of Israel from crisis in Exodus 1-4 (see also Exod. 2:1-10; 4:24-26).”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 22.

Exodus 1 links:

a bad turn within God’s will
Exodus- opportunities
Exodus- The flip-side of blessing
no vacancy
strange deliverance

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Genesis 50

Genesis 50

Genesis 50:1 Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:2 And Joseph commanded his slaves — the healers — to embalm his father. So, the healers embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50:3 Forty days were required for it, because that is how many days are required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Genesis 50:4 And when the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, and this is what he said, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please appeal to Pharaoh on my behalf, saying,

Genesis 50:5 My father made me swear, and this is what he said, ‘Notice, I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there will you bury me.’ Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.”

Genesis 50:6 And Pharaoh replied, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

Genesis 50:7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the slaves of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Genesis 50:8 as well as all the family of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s family. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 50:9 And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very heavy group.

Genesis 50:10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very loud and heavy lamentation, and he mourned for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a heavy mourning by the Egyptians.” This is why the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50:12 Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,

Genesis 50:13 because his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

Genesis 50:14 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

Genesis 50:15 When Joseph’s brothers realized that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the wrong we did to him?”

Genesis 50:16 So they sent word to Joseph, and this is what they said, ” Before he died, your father gave this instruction:

Genesis 50:17 ‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the slaves of the God of your father.” When this word was presented to him, Joseph wept.

Genesis 50:18 Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, “Notice us; we are your slaves.”

Genesis 50:19 But Joseph replied to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant to wrong me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

Genesis 50:21 So now, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children.” Then he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.

Genesis 50:22 Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

Genesis 50:23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; who were counted as his own.

Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am going to die. But God will certainly come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore by oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Genesis 50:25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. And this is what he said, “God will certainly come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Genesis 50 quotes:

“The word for coffin here is the Hebrew ‘aron, meaning a chest or ark. This is the same word that was used for the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament. Its use here, of course, refers to the coffin in which the body of Joseph was placed. So great was Joseph’s faith in the promise of a land that he requested that his bones be taken from the land of Egypt to the Promised Land when the children of Israel left Egypt (w. 24-25, cf. Heb. 1 1 : 22). This mummy case, or coffin, remained with the Israelites through the forty-year wandering in the wilderness. It was taken from Egypt at the time of the exodus (Ex. 13:19) and was later buried in Shechem (Josh. 24:32).”

Davis, John James. Mummies, Men and Madness. BMH Books, 1972. p. 100.

“When you have totally forgiven another person, you do not want them to be afraid of you. Do you know the feeling of wanting another person to be just a little bit afraid of you? You refuse to be very friendly so that they remain worried whether or not you have forgiven them. Perhaps you give them the ever-so-slight cold shoulder— the type of thing that another could not be absolutely sure about. We are all experts at this, aren’t we? Or we act as though we do not see them, or we say all the right words— we even put on a smile— but we convey an unloving feeling so the other person still feels unforgiven, because this is what we want them to feel. We have all done that, haven’t we? Why? We want to control them so they will be afraid of us.”

Kendall, R. T. God Meant It for Good. MorningStar Publications, 1988. p. 201.

“Joseph testifies about the power of God’s presence in his life and in the world at large (see Genesis 50:20). This testimony is the fundamental message of the story of Joseph and of the book of Genesis as a whole. In this verse, the Hebrew word that is translated as meant in the NRSV can also be translated intended or planned. Thus Joseph tells us that God plans good for the world, even in the face of human evil.”

Hinton, Linda B. Genesis. Abingdon Press, 1994. p. 141.

Genesis 50 links:

“all live to him!”
ACST 7 The Source
GOD BACKSTAGE – jeffersonvann
Joseph- key to forgiveness
Joseph- permission for a funeral
the God factor
THE GOD WHO REVEALS HIMSELF – jeffersonvann
THE MEN WHO COULD SEE THE FUTURE – jeffersonvann

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Genesis 49

Genesis 49

Genesis 49:1 Jacob called his sons and told them, “Collect yourselves together, that I may tell you what will happen to you in days to come.

Genesis 49:2 “Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.

Genesis 49:3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the first of my strength, greatest in dignity and greatest in power.

Genesis 49:4 Unstable as water, you will not have supremacy, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it – he went up to my couch!

Genesis 49:5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers; vessels of violence are their swords.

Genesis 49:6 My throat, do not come into their council; O my glory, do not be joined to their company. Because in their anger they killed men, and for their amusement they hamstrung oxen.

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, because it is violent, and their wrath, because it is brutal! I will divide them up among Jacob and scatter them throughout Israel.

Genesis 49:8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down before you.

Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched like a lion and like a lioness; who dares provoke him?

Genesis 49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him will be the compliance of the peoples.

Genesis 49:11 While binding his foal to the vine and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his robes in the blood of grapes.

Genesis 49:12 His eyes are dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

Genesis 49:13 “Zebulun will stay at the shore of the sea; he will become a safe place for ships, and his border will be with Sidon.

Genesis 49:14 “Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching among the sheepfolds.

Genesis 49:15 He saw that an undeveloped place was good, and that the land was nice, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a slave there, doing forced labor.

Genesis 49:16 “Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a snake in the road, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that his rider falls off backward.

Genesis 49:18 I wait for your deliverance, O Yahveh.

Genesis 49:19 “Raiders will raid Gad, but he will also raid at their heels.

Genesis 49:20 “Asher’s food will be rich, and he will produce royal delicacies.

Genesis 49:21 “Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns.

Genesis 49:22 “Joseph is a fruitful limb, a fruitful limb by a spring; his branches run over the wall.

Genesis 49:23 The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and hassled him severely,

Genesis 49:24 but his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made nimble by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (the Shepherd is from there, the Stone of Israel),

Genesis 49:25 by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that crouches below, blessings from the breasts and from the womb.

Genesis 49:26 The blessings of your father are mightier than the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the permanent hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

Genesis 49:27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”

Genesis 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suited for him.

Genesis 49:29 Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is located in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 49:30 in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham purchased with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

Genesis 49:31 There they had buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they had buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah-

Genesis 49:32 the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”

Genesis 49:33 When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and expired and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 49 quotes:

“Simeon and Levi are here depicted together as forming a secret society for organized cruelty and crime. Their swords were red from violence. It was Jehovah’s purpose that the swords of Israel should be the swords of the Lord, or justice and divine retribution. Simeon separated himself from all sense of justice. His sword had degenerated into one which was controlled by whim and mere caprice. His ‘‘hatred’’ was cruel, leading to murder. His wrath brought a curse upon all. Simeon was a bully and a coward.”

Hardinge, Leslie. The Conquerors : Studies in the Characters of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Pacific Press, 1982. p. 31.

“It would seem that the dying words of Jacob were recorded, learned by heart and passed on from generation to generation until they became incorporated into the permanent record of Israel’s history of which Genesis 49 is a crucial part. There is no doubt that this chapter contains a poem which is among the oldest surviving pieces of literature in the whole world. It is quite remarkable and we must handle it with reverence and care.”

Searle, David C. Joseph : “His Arms Were Made Strong.” Banner of Truth Trust, 2012. p. 177.

“Reuben had enjoyed all the advantages of the firstborn, and in him were centred all his father’s hopes and aspirations. But he proved a great disappointment. The expression ‘turbulent as the waters’ suggests instability, indecisiveness and weakness, making him unfit for leadership. He showed this by committing incest with one of his father’s wives (Genesis 35:22). In later history no great leader ever emerged from the tribe of Reuben.”

Williams, Peter. From Eden to Egypt : Exploring the Genesis Themes. DayOne, 2001. p. 54.

Genesis 49 links:

“all live to him!”
“To be gathered to his people”
a legacy of justice and grace
ACST 61- The Advents
building up a spiritual legacy
Excursus- “To Be Gathered”
Jacob- blessing his sons, gathered to his people
last visit to Machpelah
Machpelah and the intermediate state
The consequences of separation

Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, January 30, 2019

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Genesis 48

Genesis 48

Genesis 48:1 It happened after this, Joseph was told, “Notice, your father is ill.” So, he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:2 And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you.” Then Israel made himself strong and sat up in bed.

Genesis 48:3 And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

Genesis 48:4 and said to me, ‘See, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your seed after you to permanently possess.’

Genesis 48:5 And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

Genesis 48:6 And the children that you fathered after them will be yours. They will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

Genesis 48:7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

Genesis 48:8 Then Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and he said, “Who are these?”

Genesis 48:9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.”

Genesis 48:10 The eyes of Israel had grown dim with age, so that he could not see well. So, Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

Genesis 48:11 And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face; and see, God has let me see your seed also.”

Genesis 48:12 Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground.

Genesis 48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand and stood them near him.

Genesis 48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (because Manasseh was the firstborn).

Genesis 48:15 And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

Genesis 48:16 the agent who has redeemed me from all evil, bless these boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a huge number in the midst of the land.”

Genesis 48:17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it upset him, and he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

Genesis 48:18 And Joseph said to his father, “Not like this, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.”

Genesis 48:19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be numerous. But his younger brother will become more numerous than him, and his seed will become a number of nations.”

Genesis 48:20 So he blessed them that day, saying, “Because of you Israel will pronounce blessings, and this is what he said, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and as Manasseh.'” In this way he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Genesis 48:21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Notice, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 48:22 Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I personally took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

Genesis 48 quotes:

“When you bless another person, you are proclaiming in faith what he or she shall become! The words you are speaking are not just empty sounds falling off of the tip of your tongue. By the power of a faith-filled spoken blessing you can speak life into another person’s future. And when that person is in the coming generation, you also break the chains to your past.”

Früh, Aaron. The Forgotten Blessing: Ancient Words That Heal Generational Wounds. Chosen Books, 2006. p. 116.

“Joseph was displeased when his father laid his right hand on Ephraim’s head. He grasped his fathers hand and attempted to correct the switch. Jacob’s blessing, however, was given under the direction of the Spirit of God. Though nature’s eyes were dim, faith’s vision was sharp. Jacob refused Joseph’s correction and said, “I know it, my son, | know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations’ (Genesis 48:19).”

McQuay, Earl P. Joseph: Seeing God in the Worst of Times. Acćent Books, 1989. p. 119.

“God is a relentless promise keeper. Keep this in mind the next time you come across a promise in the Bible.”

Rhodes, Ron. 40 Days through Genesis. Harvest House, 2015. p. 272.

Genesis 48 links:

fighting the temptations of fatherhood
passing on a spiritual legacy
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