Hi, and welcome back
to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you
for being with me today to read
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in the book of Genesis,
the ongoing story of Joseph.
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But before we read, let's pray
together. Dear Jesus, thank you
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again for and opportunity
to come apart for a few minutes
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and spend time directly with you
in your presence with your word.
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May these words speak to us
in the way that you would have
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them, in each of our hearts.
Touch us and give us the wisdom
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that you know that we need.
You know all the circumstances
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of everyone listening right now.
Please come close to each of us.
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Draw us close to you,
that's where we long to be.
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We love you so much.
Thank you for loving us. Amen.
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We're reading the story of
Joseph, down in Egypt and how
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after many years he had -
there was a famine in the land.
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He had his brothers come and
he tested them out and revealed
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himself to them, had them bring
their father and all of their
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families down and settle
in Goshen and now his father,
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Jacob, Israel, is getting
older and is in poor health,
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and so Joseph brings to his
father, his two sons, Ephraim,
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and Manasseh. And we'll pick
up the story in Genesis 48, and
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verse 9. This is
the King James Version.
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And Joseph said unto his father,
They are my sons, whom God hath
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given me in this place. And he
said, Bring them, I pray thee,
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unto me, and I will bless them.
Now the eyes of Israel were dim
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for age, so that he could not
see. And he brought them near
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unto him; and he kissed
them, and embraced them.
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And Israel said unto Joseph,
I had not thought to see thy
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face, and lo, God hath shewed
me also thy seed. And Joseph
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brought them out from between
his knees, and he bowed himself
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with his face to the earth. And
Joseph took them both, Ephraim,
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in his right hand toward
Israel's left hand, and Manasseh
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in his left hand,
toward Israel's right hand,
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and brought them near unto him.
And he blessed Joseph and said,
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God, before whom my fathers,
Abraham and Isaac, did walk
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the God which fed me all
my life long unto this day,
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The Angel which redeemed me
from all evil, bless the lads;
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and let my name be named on
them, and the name of my fathers
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Abraham and Isaac; and
let them grow into a multitude
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in the midst of the earth.
And And when Joseph saw that
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his father laid his right
hand upon the head of Ephraim,
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it displeased him: and he held
up his father's hand, to remove
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it from Ephraim's head
unto Manasseh's head. And Joseph
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said unto his father, Not so, my
father for this is the firstborn
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put thy right hand upon his
head. And his father refused,
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and said, I know it, my son,
I know it: he also shall become
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a people, and he also shall
be great: but truly his younger
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brother shall be greater than
he, and his seed shall become
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a multitude of nations. And
he blessed them that day, saying
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In thee shall Israel
bless, saying, God make thee as
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Ephraim and as Manasseh: and
he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
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And Israel said unto Joseph,
Behold, I die: but God shall be
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with you, and bring you again
unto the land of your fathers.
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Moreover I have given to thee
one portion above they brethren,
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which I took out of the hand
of the Amorite with my sword
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and with my bow.
We're continuing to read
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now in the King James
version, Genesis, chapter 49.
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And Jacob called unto his sons,
and said, Gather yourselves
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together, that I may tell
you that which shall befall you
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in the last days. Gather
yourselves together, and hear
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ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
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Reuben, thou art my firstborn,
my might, and the beginning of
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my strength, the excellency of
dignity, and the excellency of
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power: Unstable as water, thou
shalt not excel; because thou
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wentest up to thy father's
bed; then defiledst thou it:
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he went up to my couch.
Simeon and Levi are brethren
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instruments of cruelty are
in their habitations. O my soul,
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come not thou into their secret;
unto their assembly, mine honor,
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be not thou united: for in
their anger they slew a man,
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and in their selfwill
they digged down a wall.
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Cursed be their anger, for
it was fierce; and their wrath,
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for it was cruel: I will divide
them in Jacob, and scatter them
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in Israel. Judah, thou art he
whom thy brethren shall praise:
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Thy hand shall be in the neck
of thine enemies; thy father's
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children shall bow down before
thee. Judah is a lion's whelp:
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from the prey, my son, thou
art gone up: he stooped down,
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he couched as a lion, and as an
old lion; who shall rouse him up
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The scepter shall not depart
from Judah, nor a lawgiver
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from between his feet,
until Shiloh come; and unto him
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shall the gathering of the
people be. Binding his foal
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unto the vine, and his
ass's colt unto the choice vine;
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He washed his garments in wine,
and his clothes in the blood of
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grapes: His eyes shall be red
with wine, and his teeth white
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with milk. Zebulun shall
dwell at the haven of the sea;
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and he shall be for an haven of
ships; and his border shall be
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unto Zidon. Issachar is a strong
ass couching between 2 burdens:
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And he saw that rest was
good, and the land that it was
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pleasant; and bowed his shoulder
to bear, and became a servant
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into tribute. Dan shall judge
his people, as one of the tribes
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of Israel. Dan shall
be a serpent by the way,
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an adder in the path,
that biteth the horse heels,
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so that his rider
shall fall backward.
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I have waited for
thy salvation, O Lord.
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Gad, a troop shall overcome
him: but he shall overcome
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at the last. Out of
Asher his bread shall be fat,
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and he shall yield royal
dainties. Napthali is a hind
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let loose: he giveth goodly
words. Joseph is a fruitful
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bough, even a fruitful bough
by a well; whose branches run
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over the wall: The archers have
sorely grieved him, and shot at
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him, and hated him: But his bow
abode in strength, and the arms
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of his hands were made strong
by the hands of the mighty God
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of Jacob; from thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:
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Even by the God of thy
father, who shall help thee;
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and by the Almighty, who shall
bless thee with blessings of
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heaven above, blessings of the
deep that lieth under, blessings
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of the breasts, and of the womb:
The blessings of thy father have
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prevailed above the blessings
of my progenitors unto the
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utmost bound of the everlasting
hills: they shall be on the
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head of Joseph, and on the crown
of the head of him that was
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separate from his brethren.
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf:
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in the morning he shall devour
the prey, and at night he shall
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divide the spoil. All these
are the twelve tribes of Israel:
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and this is it that their father
spake unto them, and blessed
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them; every one according to
his blessing he blessed them.
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And he charged them, and said
unto them, I am to be gathered
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unto my people: bury me with
my fathers in the cave that is
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in the field of Ephron the
Hittite, in the cave that is in
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the field of Machpelah, which
is before Mamre, in the land of
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Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron
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the Hittite for a
possession of a burying place.
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There they buried Abraham
and Sarah his wife; there they
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buried Isaac and Rebekah his
wife; and there I buried Leah.
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The purchase of the field and
of the cave that is therein was
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from the children of Heth.
And when Jacob had made an end
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of commanding his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the
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bed, and yielded up the ghost,
and was gathered unto his people
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We're continuing now with
chapter 50, the book of Genesis.
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This is the King James
Version. And Joseph fell upon
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his father's face, and wept upon
him, and kissed him. And Joseph
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commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father:
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and the physicians embalmed
Israel. And forty days were
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fulfilled for him; for so
are fulfilled the days of those
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which are embalmed: and
the Egyptians mourned for him
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threescore and ten days. And
when the days of his mourning
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were past, Joseph spake unto
the house of Pharaoh, saying,
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If now I have found grace in
your eyes, speak, I pray you,
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in the ears of Pharaoh,
saying, My father made me swear,
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saying, Lo, I die: in my
grave which I have digged for me
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in the land of Canaan,
there shalt thou bury me.
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Now therefore let me go up, I
pray thee, and bury my father,
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and I will come again. And
Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury
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thy father, according
as he made thee swear.
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And Joseph went up to bury his
father: and with him went up all
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the servants of Pharaoh, the
elders of his house, and all the
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elders of the land of Egypt,
And all the house of Joseph,
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and his brethren, and his
father's house: only their
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little ones, and their flocks,
and their herds, they left
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in the land of Goshen. And there
went up with him both chariots
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and horsemen: and it was a very
great company. And they came to
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the threshingfloor of
Atad, which is beyond Jordan,
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and there they mourned
with a very great and very sore
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lamentation: and he made a
mourning for his father 7 days.
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And when the inhabitants of
the land, the Canaanites, saw
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the mourning in the floor
of Atad, they said, This is a
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grievous mourning to the
Egyptians: wherefore the name
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of it was called Abelmizraim,
which is beyond Jordan.
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And his sons did unto him
according as he commanded them:
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For his sons carried him into
the land of Canaan, and buried
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him in the cave of the field of
Machpelah, which Abraham bought
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with the field for a possession
of a burying place of Ephron
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the Hittite, before
Mamre. And Joseph returned into
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Egypt, he, and his brethren,
and all that went up with him to
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bury his father, after
he had buried his father.
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And when Joseph's brethren
saw that their father was dead,
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they said, Joseph
will peradventure hate us,
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and will certainly requite
us all the evil which we did
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unto him. And they sent a
messenger unto Joseph, saying,
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Thy father did command before
he died, saying, So shall ye say
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unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray
thee now, the trespass of thy
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brethren, and their sin;
for they did unto thee evil:
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and now, we pray thee, forgive
the trespass of the servants of
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the God of they father.
And Joseph wept when they spake
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unto him. And his brethren
also went and fell down before
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his face; and they said, Behold,
we be thy servants. And Joseph
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said unto them, Fear not:
for am I in the place of God?
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But as for you, ye thought evil
against me; but God meant it
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unto good, to bring to pass,
as it is this day, to save much
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people alive. Now therefore
fear ye not: I will nourish you,
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and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spake kindly
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unto them. And Joseph dwelt
in Egypt, he, and his father's
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house: and Joseph lived
and hundred and ten years.
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And Joseph saw Ephraim's
children of the 3rd generation:
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the children also of Machir the
son of Manasseh were brought up
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upon Joseph's knees. And Joseph
said unto his brethren, I die:
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and God will surely visit you,
and bring you out of this land
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unto the land which he sware
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
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Jacob. And Joseph took an
oath of the children of Israel,
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saying, God will surely visit
you, and ye shall carry up my
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bones from hence. So Joseph
died, being an hundred and ten
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years old: and they embalmed
him, and he was put in a coffin
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in Egypt. - We're continuing to
read now in the book of Exodus.
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This is the King James
Version, Exodus, chapter one.
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Now these are the names of the
children of Israel, which came
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into Egypt; every man and
his household came with Jacob.
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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Dan and Naphtali, Gad, and
Asher. And all the souls that
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came out of the loins of
Jacob were 70 souls: for Joseph
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was in Egypt already. And Joseph
died, and all his brethren,
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and all that generation.
And the children of Israel were
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fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied,
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and waxed exceeding mighty; and
the land was filled with them.
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Now there arose up a new
king over Egypt, which knew not
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Joseph. And he said unto his
people, Behold, the people of
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the children of Israel are more
and mightier than we: Come on,
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let us deal wisely with them;
lest they multiply, and it come
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to pass that, when there falleth
out any war, they join also unto
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our enemies, and fight against
us, and so get them up out of
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our land. Therefore they did set
over them taskmasters to afflict
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them with their burdens. And
they built for Pharaoh treasure
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cities, Pithom and Raamses. But
the more they afflicted them,
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the more they multiplied
and grew. And they were grieved
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because of the children
of Israel. And the Egyptians
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made the children of
Israel to serve with rigor:
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Thank you for being with me
to read today and we'll pick up
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the story of the children
of Israel in Egypt next time.
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Until then God
bless and keep you.
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