Genesis Chap1to50

The Bible Genesis Introduction about Genesis: • First Book in the Bible • Hebrew word “bereshit”, meaning: “in the beginning” • Toledoth – eleven structural units • Sources : Yahwist, Elohist, Priestly • Yahwist – most important source by reason of its teaching, its antiquity, and the continuity it gives the book • Elohist – less well preserved • Divided as follows: I. The Primeval History, II. The Patriarch Abraham, III. The Patriarchs Isaac and Jacob, and IV. Joseph and His Brothers I. The Primeval History Chapter 1: First Story of Creation • Earth – formless wasteland • Darkness- covered with abyss • “a mighty wind” – wind of God • First day: light – “day” and Darkness – “night” • 2nd Day: the sky

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3rd day: dry land – “the earth” and the basin of water – “the sea” 4th day: two great lights – greater one governs the day and the lesser one governs the night ; created the “Stars” 5th day: great sea monsters, all swimming creatures, and all winged birds 6th day: all kinds of living creatures on earth (land) and especially, MAN of His image and likeness

Chapter 2: • 7th day: It was finished. God rested from all the work he had done in creation. Second Story of Creation • Man – formed out of the clay on the ground; breath of life • Garden of Eden – planted by God; where He Placed the man • First river: Pishon – winds all through the land of Havilah, where there is gold • 2nd river: Gihon – winds all through the land of Cush • 3rd river: Tigris – flows east of Asshur • 4th river: Euphrates • Lord cast a deep sleep on the Man – He took out one of his ribs and closed up its with flesh – built up into a WOMAN. • “bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh” • “they were naked yet they were not ashamed” Chapter 3: Fall of Man • •

Serpent – most cunning of all the animals The serpent tricked the woman to eat the fruit that God has forbid them. The Woman got a

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fruit and ate it. She gave some to her husband too. “Their eyes were opened…” – realized that they were naked and they sewed clothes from fig leaves. “They hid” - when God is already calling them Serpent – “be banned from all the animals…” Woman – “will bring forth children and her husband will be her master…” Man – “get bread to eat…” Woman – named Eve Eve – “mother of all the living” Man – named Adam They were banished from the Garden of Eden.

Chapter 4: Cain and Abel • Cain – first son of Adam and Eve ; tiller of the soil • Abel – second son; keeper of the flocks • Because of envy, Cain killed Abel. • “Where is your brother Abel?” – God • “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” – Cain • If Cain will be killed, he will be avenged sevenfold. • Cain left Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod. Descendants of Cain and Seth • Enoch – son of Cain • Cain – founder of a city named after Enoch • Irad – son of Enoch • Mehujael – son of Irad • Methusael – son of Mehujael • Lamech – son of Methusael • Adah – first wife of Lamech • Jabal – son of Lamech and Adah; tents and cattles • Jubal - son of Lamech and Adah; lyre and pipe • Zillah – second wife of Lamech • Tubalcain – son of Lamech and Zillah ; bronze and iron • Naamah – daughter of Lamech and Zillah • Lamech killed a man and a boy – “if Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventysevenfold.” • Seth – Third son of Adam and Eve ; in place of Abel • Enosh – son of Seth Chapter 5: Generations: Adam to Noah • • • • • •

Adam – 130 years old when Seth was born; died at 930 years old Seth – 105 years old when Enosh was born ; died at 912 years old Enosh – 90 years old when Kenan was born; died at 905 years old Kenan – 70 years old when Mahalalel was born; died at 910 years old Mahalalel – 65 years old when Jared was born; died at 895 years old Jared- 162 years old when Enoch was born; died at 962 years old

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Enoch – 65 years old when Methuselah was born; died at 365 years old Methuselah – 187 years old when Lamech was born; died at 969 years old Lamech – 182 years old when Noah was born; died at 777 years old Noah – 500 years old; father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth

Chapter 6: Origin of the Nephilim • Sons of heavens find wives (daughters of man) • Nephilim appeared - Intercourse between sons of heavens and daughters of man bore sons too. • “My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise 120 years.” – God Warning of the Flood • Because of man’s wickedness on earth and evil desire on his heart, God regretted that he had made man. • Earth – corrupt and full of lawlessness • Noah found favor with the Lord • “I will destroy them and all life on earth.” – God Preparation for the Flood • Make an “ark of gopher wood”, put compartments • Length – 300 cubits; width – 50 cubits; height – 30 cubits • Make an opening for daylight • Put entrance on the side • At the bottom, make second and third decks • Covenant – with Noah, his sons, and his wife and his sons’ wives; all creatures, bring two – male and female • Store food Chapter 7: • Clean animal – seven pairs (male and his pair) • Unclean animal – one pair only • After 7 days – 40 days and 40 nights of heavy rain The Great Flood • Noah was 600 years old when flood waters came • Water increased up to 15 cubits; mountains were submerged • All creatures that stirred on earth were perished • Only Noah and those with him in the ark are left Chapter 8: • Waters maintained for 150 days • On the 17th day of the 7th month - ark came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat • 1st day of the 10th month – tops of the mountain appeared • End of the 40 days- Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark • Send of raven – but just flew back and forth • Send of a dove – after seven days – dove has olive leaf when returned • After seven days – send of the dove again but did not return

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601 years of Noah, 27th day of the 2nd month – they went out the ark Noah built altar to the Lord – offered holocausts

Chapter 9: Covenant with Noah • “Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth” • “I will establish a covenant with you.” • Sign of the covenant – no more flood to devastate the earth Noah and His Sons • Sons of Noah – Shem, Japheth and Ham

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Canaan – Son of Ham, the youngest Noah , man of the soil – planted vineyard Noah became drunk and lay naked inside the tent Ham saw his father’s nakedness but he just told his two other brothers However, Shem and Japheth took a robe and covered their father’s nakedness Shem and Japheth did not see their father’s nakedness since their facer were turned the other way Because of what Ham has done to his father, Noah Said “let Canaan be Shem’s and Japheth’s slave…” Noah lived 350 years after the flood; died at 950 years old

Chapter 10: Table of the Nations • Descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madal, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras • Descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Ripath, and Togarmah • Descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim • Descendants of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan • Descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca • Descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan • Nimrod – Son of Cush ; first potentate on earth; mighty hunter by the grace of the Lord • Babylon, Erech, and Accad – chief cities in Land of Shinar • Went to land of Asshur, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, as weel as Resen- the principal city • Mizraim became the father of Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, the Pathrusim, the Casluhim, and the Caphtorim from whom the Philistines sprang. • Sidon, first son, and Heth – sons of Canaan • Descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram • Descendants of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash • Others are in the Bible… (hahaha=p) pero din a important ung iba.. Chapter 11: The Tower of Babel • Men settled at the land of Shinar • Speaking the same language

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Build a city and a tower God stopped the building of the city It was called Babel –“ Lord confused the speech of all the world” The Line from Shem to Abraham • Shem  Arpachshad Shelah Eber  Peleg Reu  Serug  Nahor Terah • Terah’s sons – Abram, Nahor, and Haran II. The Patriarch Abraham Terah • Lot- son of Haran • Sarai- Abram’s wife • Milcah - Nahor’s wife; daughter of Haran • UrCanaanHaran • Terah died in Haran at 205 years old Chapter 12: Abram’s Call and Migration • Abram together with Lot, his brother’s son, his wife Sarai all his possessions went to the place where God has directed him – land of Canaan • Abram – 75 years old when he left Haran • They passed through Shechem • He journeyed on by stages to the Negeb Abram and Sarai in Egypt • There was famine • They need to go to Egypt • Sarai was very beautiful so she pretended to be Abram’s sister so that Abram will not be killed • Pharaoh became attracted to Sarai – Abram received gifts • Later on, Pharaoh knew that Sarai is Abram’s wife Chapter 13: Abram and Lot Part • Abram’s clan with Lot went up to Negeb and next to Bethel • Abram was very rich • The land was not enough to support both clans of Abram and Lot; there were quarrel between their herdsmen • ”let there be no strife between you and me... for we are kinsmen… if you prefer right, I will go left…” – Abram • Lot chose the whole Jordan plain and set out eastward. • Abram stayed at Canaan. • “where ever you are Abram, I will give you and your descendants the land you are into forever…” - Lord • Abram moved and settled near Mamre, which is at Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord. Chapter 14: The Four Kings • Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim  made war on  Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (Zoar)

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All the latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Sidim (Salt Sea) Four against five The victors seized all the possessions and food supplies of the “loser”. Hahaha Sodom and Gamorrah were lost Abram’s nephew, Lot , was taken since he was living in Sodom Abram heard the news He and his party deployed the enemy and commit victory over Chedorlaomer and the others. He recovered Lot and all the possessions. The king of Sodom went to greet him in the Valley of Shaveh (the King’s Valley)

Chapter 15: The Covenant with Abram • Abram said to God, “you have given me no offspring, and so one of my servants will be my heir.” • Lord said, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as the possession”, “the number of stars shall be your descendants…” • “bring me a 3year old heifer, 3 year old shegoat, 3 year old ram, turtledove and a young pigeon…” – Lord (serve as an offer) • Darkness enveloped him, a smoking brazier and a flaming torch appeared – sign that the Lord has made a covenant • “to your descendants, I will give this land from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River (the Euphrates)” – Lord Chapter 16: Birth of Ishmael • Sarai, wife of Abram, cannot bore him any child • Sarai said to Abram that he can have intercourse with her maid, Hagar, so he can have sons through her. • Abram heeded Sarai’s request • When Hagar is pregnant, Sarai abused her. • Hagar ran away from her mistress because of the abusive treatment. • The Lord’s messenger found Hagar on the spring on the road of Shur and said to her, “go back to your mistress and submit to her abusive treatment… I will make your descendants so numerous…” • “you are also pregnant and shall bear a son… you shall name him Ishmael” – messenger • The well is called Beer-lahai-roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered. • Hagar bore Ishmael. Abram was 86 years old then. Chapter 17: Covenant of Circumcision • Abram – become the father of the host of nations • Abram became ABRAHAM • God gave him and his descendants the whole land of Canaan and God will be their God.

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Covenant that must be kept: “every male shall be circumcised and it will be the mark of the covenant between Lord and Abraham…” Every male when he reaches 8 days old, he will be circumcised “Covenant shall be your flesh as an everlasting pact…” Flesh of the foreskin which has not been cut off – broke the covenant Sarai became SARAH Abraham will now have a son by Sarah. The son will be named ISAAC. Isaac – the father of the twelve chieftains Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised. Ishmael – 13 years old when circumcised

Chapter 18: Abraham’s Visitors • The Lord appeared to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre • Looking up, 3 men also appeared by the entrance of the tent • Abraham prepared asked Sarah and the servants to prepare something for the visitors. • One of the visitors/angels said that Sarah will bear a son. • Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent and she LAUGHED. • “now that I am so withered and my husband is so old, am I still have a sexual pleasure?” – Sarah • Sarah denies that she laughed.

• One of the visitors said, “Yes, you did laugh!” Abraham intercedes for Sodom • Abraham and his visitors looked down toward Sodom • “the outcry against Sodom and Gamorrah is so great, and their sins so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.” – Lord • The other men moved farther and the Lord remained standing before Abraham. • Abraham said to the Lord, “will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?” • “if I found 50 innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” – Lord • “if there are only 45 innocent people there, will you destroy the city because of those five who are not innocent?” – Abraham • ”if I find 45 innocent people, I will forbear doing it for the sake of the 45.” – Lord • “how about 40?” – Abraham • “”if I find 40 innocent people, I will forbear doing it for the sake of the 40.” – Lord • Abraham continued, “Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time. What if there are at least ten there?” • “for the sake of those ten, I will not destroy the city.” – Lord

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The Lord departed as soon as he had finished speaking with Abraham, and Abraham went back home.

Chapter 19: Destruction of Sodom and Gamorrah • Two angels reached Sodom in the evening • Lot saw them and asked them to stay in their house to rest. He prepared meal for them. • “Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them.” – all the townsmen of Sodom • Lot said to them, “I beg you, my brothers, not to do this wicked thing. I have two daughters who have never had intercourse with men. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you please. But don’t do anything to these men…” • The people got angry and pressed hard against Lot and they even try to move closer to break down the door. • The guests pulled Lot inside and closed the door. They even struck the people and a blinding light appeared that the people were unable to reach the door. • The angels said to Lot that he must take away everyone belongs to him in the city for they will destroy the city including sons-in-law. • When Lot warned his sons-in-law, they just thought that he was joking. • Lot brought his wife and his daughter and move away from the city. • “Don’t look back or stop anywhere on the Plain.” – angels • The town where they will go to save their lives is called Zoar. • Lord rained down sulfurous fire upon Sodom and Gamorrah. he overthrew the cities, all the Plains and also the inhabitants. • Lot’s wife looked back and she was turned into a pillar of salt. Moabites and Ammonites • Lot and his two daughters settled in the hill country. • The older daughter said to her sister that “no man was left on earth to unite them…” • Theyd ecided to ply their father with wine and then tell a lie then lay with him so that they may have offspring. • They both become pregnant by their father. • Moab – son of the older one and his father; ancestor of the Moabites • Ammon – son of the younger one and his father; ancestor of the Ammonites CHAPTER 20 • Abraham went to Gerar - a place between kadesh and shur. •

Abraham said to the king of gerar that sarah was his sister.

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Abimelech-king of Gerar took sarah

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God talked to Abimelech through his dreams and said that Abimelech must give back sarah to Abraham

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Abimelech gave Abraham oxen, sheep men and women servants and gave back sarah

CHAPTER 21 • Lord visited sarah

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Huz, Buz,Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel

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Kemuel-father of Aram

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Reumah- concubine of Abraham gave birth to Tebah ang Gaham, and THasha and Maachah

CHAPTER 23 • Sarah-died 120 years old

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Sarah- bare abraham’s son

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Isaac-son of sarah and Abraham

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Died in Kirjatharba

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Abraham mourns and finding a place where he would bury sarah

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Abraham bought machpelah from Ephron- the son of Zohar

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Machpelah- Abraham buried sarah

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Abraham bought machpelah for 4hundred shekels of silver

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Isaac was circumcised in his 8 day

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Abraham-100 yrs old

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Abraham had a feast and hagar was there

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Abraham sent hagar away because of sarah

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Hagar went to Beersheba

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Abraham gave abimelech sheep and oxen and made a covenant

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Abraham and abimelech gave name to beershebathe place where they have a covenant

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Abraham sent his eldest servant to the daughter of Canaanites to take a wife for Isaac

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Abimelech and phicol-chief captain of his host went to philistines

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Mesopotmia- servant went- city of Nahor

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Rebekah- daughter of Bethuel- carrying a pithcher, the servant ran to meet her, rebekah gave him a drink and also the servant’s camels.

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The Servant gave rebaka an earring half a shekel wight and 2 bracelets 1o shekels and told her that he is from Abraham, rebekah went to home to tell her family about this

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CHAPTER 24 • Abraham was old

Abraham –sojourned in philistines and landed many days

CHAPTER 22 • God told Abraham to take his only son Isaac to land of Moriah and burn upon one of the mountains which God will tell him •

Abraham and Isaac went to Moriah

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Laban-Rebekah’s brother

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On the third day they saw the place afar from them

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Abraham was about to slay his son when God stopped him and said “ lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any ting unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou has not withheld thy son, thy only son for me”

Abraham’s servant told the family the story of Abraham, that God blessed him and Abraham is looking for a daughter of Canaanites to marry Isaac

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The servant gave rebekah jewel of silvers and jewels of gold he also gave precious items to rebekah’s family

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A ram serves an offering instead of Isaac

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Rebkah went to Isaac with the servant

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Jehovahjire- Abraham called the place

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Isaac and Rebekah soon became married and Isaac is comforted from the death of his mother

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Abraham and Isaac went back to Beersheba

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Milcah bore children unto Nahor

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Nahor- brother of Abraham

CHAPTER 25 • Kethura- abraham’s new wife

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Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuahchildren of kethura and Abraham

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Abraham- died at 175 years old

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Isaac and Ishmael buried Abraham in the cave of machpelah

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Nebajoth, Kedar, Adbeel, MIbsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadar, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, Kedema- chidren of Ishmael

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They called it “Sitnah” – (meaning: opposition)

They dug another well, but they did not quarrel over it.

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They called it “Rohoboth”

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Isaac went to Beersheba

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Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar

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Isaac was 40 when he married Rebekah

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Rebekah bore twins Esau 1st Jacob 2nd

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Ahuzzath – his councilor

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Esau- a hunter

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Phicol - general of his army

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Jacob- a plain man ,dwelling tents

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Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for bread and pottage because he was feint.

Isaac’s servants brought him the news about the well that they had been digging: they have reached water – “Shibah”

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Esau – 40 years old

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CHAPTER 26 • Isaac went down to Abimelech

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Abimelech – King of the Philistines in Gerar

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The Lord ordered Isaac to stay in Gerar and don’t go down to Egypt

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When men of Gerar asked Isaac about her, he answered, “She is my sister.”

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He was afraid that if he called her his wife, the men might kill him for she’s very beautiful.

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Isaac left there and made Wadi Gerar his regular campsite.

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embitterment to Isaac and Rebekah CHAPTER 27 Jacob’s Deception • Esau – Isaac’s older son

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Jacob – Isaac’s younger son

•Isaac asked Esau to go out into the country to hunt some game for him

Abimelech saw Isaac fondling his wife and gave a warning to his men that anyone who molests Isaac or his wife will be put to death. Isaac became richer and richer and the Philistines got envious of him.

He married Judith – daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath (daughter of Elon the Hivite)

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Rebekah asked Jacob to pretend as Esau and be given the special blessing

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Special blessing: “Blessing of my soul”

Shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s servants:

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Jacob was sent by Rebekah to his brother Laban in Haran until Esau’s fury subsides

“The water belongs to us!”: they called the well “Esek” – (meaning: challenge)

They dug another well and quarreled over that one too.

CHAPTER 28 • Isaac to Jacob: “You shall not marry a Canaanite woman!”

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Paddan-aram – home of Rebekah’s father Bethuel, the Aramean

Rachel: “Give me children or I shall die!”

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Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob as a consort

Esau went to Ishmael

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He married Mahalath (addition to his wives)

Dan – “he has vindicated me”

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Naphtali – “I engaged in a fateful struggle with my sister and I prevailed.”

Mahalath – daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth

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Jacob’s dream at Bethel • Jacob departed from Beersheba and proceeded to Haran. •

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He took a stone and set it up as a memorial stone and poured oil on top of it.

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He called that site “Bethel”: “house of God”

Leah also gave Zilpah as a consort

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CHAPTER 29 Arrival in Haran

Issachar – 5th son of Leah and Jacob

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Zeubulun – 6th son (bridegroom’s gift)

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Haran – land of the Easteners

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Dinah – 7th child (1st daughter)

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Laban – son of Nahor

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Rachel – younger daughter of Laban

Joseph – 1st child of Rachel and Jacob

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Leah – older daughter of Laban

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Laban to Jacob: “You are indeed my flesh and blood!”

Marriage to Leah and Rachel • Jacob fell in love with Rachel

Jacob Outwits Laban • Dark sheep, spotted or speckled goats – what Jacob asked from Laban •

Future: “any animal in my possession that is not speckled or spotted goat or a dark sheep, got there by theft.” – Jacob

CHAPTER 31 Flight from Laban • Laban cheated Jacob

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He served Laban 7 years for Rachel

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Zilpah – maid servant of Leah

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Jacob return to the land of his fathers

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Bilhah – maid servant of Rachel

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3rd day: Laban already knew that Jacob had fled

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Jacob has to finish the Bridal Week

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Levi – 3 son

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Judah – 4th son

He pursued him for 7 days

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He caught up with him in the hill of Gilead

Jacob and Laban in Gilead • 20 years: Jacob was under Laban

Jacob’s Children • Reuben – 1st son of Leah and Jacob nd

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They had a meal there at the mound

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He named the place “Mahanaim”

Embassy to Esau • Jacob sent messengers to Esau in the land of Seir

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Land of Seir – country of Edom

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Presents for Esau

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200 ewes and 20 rams

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20 she-asses and 10 he-asses

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“You shall no longer be spoken of as Jacob, but as Israel because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed.”

Peniel – name given by Jacob to the place where he met the man

“the face of God”

CHAPTER 33 Jacob and Esau meet • Jacob bowed to the ground 7 times •

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, and flinging himself on his neck, kissed him as he wept.

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Jacob journeyed to Succoth – there he build a home for himself and made booths for his livestock

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Jacob arrived safely at the City of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, and he encamped in sight of the city

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El – God of Israel

CHAPTER 34 The Rape of Dinah • Dinah went out to visit some women of the land •

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He seized Dinah and lay with her by force

Revenge of Jacob’s sons • Jacob’s sons asked Hamor and Shechem that every male in their town must be circumcised •

On the third day, Simeon and Levi took their swords and massacred all men in the town of Hamor

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CHAPTER 35 Bethel Revisited • God to Jacob: “Go up now to Bethel. Settle there and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you while you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

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Jacob and his people arrived in Luz, in the land of Canaan.

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He built an altar and named the place Bethel.

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Death came to Rebekah’s nurse, Deborah; she was buried under the oak below Bethel, and so it was called Allon-bacuth.

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Allon-bacuth – “oak of weeping”

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God appeared to Jacob in Paddam-aram -

“You whose name is Jacob

Shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name.” Jacob’s Family • Ephrath – where Rachel gave birth to Benjamin

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With her last breath while giving birth, she called her son Benoni, but Jacob called him Benjamin

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Road of Ephrath(Bethlehem) – where Rachel was buried

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Israel pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder

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Reuben lay with Bilhah and Israel was offended

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Jacob went home to his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriatharba(Hebron)

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Isaac – died at 180 years old

Chap. 36 Wives of Esau (aka EDOM) • Ada • Aholibama • Basemat Kings of Edom • Timna • Alva • Jatet • Ela • Pinon • Kenaz • Teman • Mibzar Sons and Daughter of Jacob • Reuben • Levi • Simeon • Judah • Zabulun • Issachar • Dan • Gad • Naphtali • Joseph • Benjamin • Dina 

Esau is the father of the Edomites.

Chap. 37  Joseph is the favorite son of Jacob (aka Israel) because he is a son of Rachel so he made him clothes which made his brothers very jealous.  Joseph had a dream that his father, mother and brothers will kneel before him and he will rule upon them which made them very mad at him.  His brothers wanted to kill him but Reuben suggested that they should throw him inside the dry well naked.

 They sold Joseph to the Imaelites (worth 200 silvers)  They kill a goat and pour its blood to the clothes of Joseph and told their father that he was killed by a vicious animal.  They sold him to Potifar of Egypt. Chap. 38 Sons of Juda • Er (died) • Onan (died) • Sela  Tamar, is the wife of Er and Onan and also the fiancé of Sela but Juda and Tamar intercourse so she gave birth to Fares and Zara. Chap. 39  Potifar – Captain of the sodiers of the Phraoh.  Potifar made Joseph the caretaker of his house and all of his properties.  Because he is very good looking, Potifar’s wife attempted to have intercourse with him but Joseph resist that is why she framed Joseph so he was imprisoned. Chap. 40  Joseph interpreted the dream of the butler and the baker.  Dream of the butler: “In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 10 And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes and Pharaohs cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaohs cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaohs hand.” Joseph’s interpretation: “In three days you will be freed and you will have your job back”  Dream of the baker: “I had three white baskets on my head and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.” Joseph’s interpretation: “In three days you shall be beheaded and they will hung your body in the tree where the birds will feed on them” Chap. 41  The butler recommended to the pharaoh that Joseph knows how to interpret dreams so the pharaoh summoned him.  The dream of the pharaoh: “I stood upon the bank of the river and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness and the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but

they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke and I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears” Joseph’s interpretation: “There will be 7 years of good harvest and after those 7 years of famine”  Pharaoh made Joseph the governor of Egypt through the ring that he gave him in which he is in charge of collecting portions of the harvest in which he will store this in preparation for the famine. By which he will now be Zaphnath-paaneah.  Through Joseph, the pharaoh now has all the lands of the Egyptians.  Asenath – wife of Joseph  Manasseh and Ephraim – sons of Joseph Chap. 42  Jacob sends forth his sons except Benjamin to Egypt to buy food.  Joseph pinpointed them as spies  He imprisoned them 3 days but in he set them free in one condition  He wanted to see Benjamin so he made a condition to his brothers that they can’t go back and retrieve Simeon unless they show him their youngest.  They beg Jacob to let Benjamin come with them so that they can go back to Egypt but Jacob insisted Chap. 43  Jacob finally allowed Benjamin to go to Egypt but reminded them not to let him get hurt or taken by the Egyptians.  When Joseph saw Benjamin, he ordered his caretaker to prepare for a feast.  He cried when he saw his full brother Chap. 44  Joseph ordered his caretaker to put his silver cup inside the sack of Benjamin to which he will be taken in to prison.  Judah begs Joseph to take him instead because if he takes Benjamin, their father will die because he really loves Benjamin. Chap. 45  Joseph cried and cried until he decided to confess the truth that he is their brother that they sold to the Imaelites.  So he ordered his brothers to go home and tell their father that he is still alive.  The pharaoh heard the news that Joseph’s brothers came so he ordered Joseph to give the lots of food and water to his brothers when they go to Canaan to fetch their father and your people and when they are already here I will give your people the most wonderful land in Egypt, “Goshen”. Chap. 46

 There are 70 people of Jacob who lived in Goshen  Joseph said to his brothers that when pharaoh asks what their occupation is, you will tell him that you are shepherds since you were still young. Chapter 46

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Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.” He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes.” Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt — Jacob, and all his seed with him, his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt. These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

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To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born 46: Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. • The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. • These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. • The son of Dan: Hushim. • The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. • These are the sons of Bilhah, whom 6: Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. • All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six. • The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy. • He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. • Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. • Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.” Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, • “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. • These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’ • It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’ • that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.” Chapter 47:1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.” • From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. • Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.” • They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in

the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.” • Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. • The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.” • Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. • Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” • Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.” • Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. • Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. • Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families. • There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. • Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. • When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.” • Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.” • They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. • When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. • Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.” • So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

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As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. • Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land. • Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. • It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.” • They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.” • Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s. • Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. • Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. • The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt, but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.” •

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“Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head. 48:1 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Chapter 48:2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. •

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“God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

• and said to me, ‘Behold, 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 for an everlasting possession.’ • Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. • Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. • As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).” • Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?” • Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.” • Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. • Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also.” • Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. • 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 brought them near to him. • Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. • He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, • the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” • When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. • Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.” • His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.” • He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

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Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

49:16 “Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 49:17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

chapter49:1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: 49:18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh. “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. • Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father. • “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. • Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch. • “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. • My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. • Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. • “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. • Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? • ]The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be. • Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 49:12 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

49:19 “A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel. 49:20 “Asher’s food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties. 49:21 “Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. 49:22 “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall. 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him: 49:24 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), 49:25 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 49:26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. 49:27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil.”

49:13 “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

49:14 “Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

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49:15 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

“I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan,

which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. 49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: 49:32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”

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When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

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

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Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days. When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying,

“If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’” • Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.” • Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, • all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. • There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. • They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. • When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. • His sons did to him just as he commanded them, • for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

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Joseph returned into Egypt — he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. • When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.” • They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying, • ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. • His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.” • Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? • As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. • Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. • Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years. • Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees. • Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” • Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” • So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.