His Words Are Life

Genesis 45:16 To Genesis 48:8

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00:17 Hi, and welcome back to His Words are Life.
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank you for joining with me today
00:22 to keep reading the wonderful story of Joseph. Before we start
00:26 Let's pray together. Dear God, thank you again, again and again
00:31 for sending these words to us; for the comfort they bring to us
00:35 for the encouragement; for the inspiration and for what they
00:39 show us about you. That is the deepest cry of our heart.
00:42 We want to see you. We want to know you. Please help us now to
00:46 understand you deeper than we have before because of the
00:50 stories that we're about to read and be with us as we read,
00:53 that we may understand. We love you so much, and thank you
00:57 for loving us. Amen. When we were last together we
01:01 were reading the story of the famine in Egypt and how Joseph's
01:05 Brethren came down and bought food from him, and how he tested
01:10 them out to see if their hearts had changed; and the ultimate
01:15 test came and he was going to keep Benjamin as his slave
01:19 and send the rest back, because he had set it up to make it look
01:21 like Benjamin had stolen the silver cup in Joseph's house
01:25 and his brother, Judah, made a beautiful speech to him, just
01:31 begging him, Please don't keep our brother Benjamin here.
01:35 He's the last thing my father has from the wife that he loved
01:38 so much. Keep me instead. Send Benjamin went back home and
01:42 Joseph knew then that his brothers weren't the same.
01:45 as they had been when they sold him into slavery. And he sent
01:49 all of his household help out of the room and he revealed
01:52 himself to his brothers, and joyfully said, I am Joseph!
01:56 Go get our father. Come on down here. There's going to be 5 more
01:59 years of famine. I'll take care of you. And he wept
02:02 and he hugged them and they all talked together.
02:04 We're picking up the story now in Genesis chapter 45, verse 16
02:09 and this is the King James Version.
02:10 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying
02:15 Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well,
02:18 and his servants. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy
02:22 brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the
02:27 land of Canaan; and take your father and your households,
02:31 and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land
02:33 of Egypt, and ye shall eat of the fat of the land.
02:36 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the
02:41 land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives,
02:44 and bring your father, and come. Also regard not your stuff,
02:48 for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. And the children
02:52 of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to
02:55 the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the
02:59 way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment;
03:02 but to Benjamin he gave 300 pieces of silver, and 5 changes
03:07 of raiment. And to his father he sent after this manner; 10 asses
03:12 laden with the good things of Egypt, and 10 she asses laden
03:16 with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
03:19 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said
03:23 unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. And they went
03:27 up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob
03:31 their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive,
03:34 and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart
03:38 fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all
03:43 the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he
03:47 saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him,
03:49 the spirit of Jacob their father revived: and Israel said,
03:54 It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive:
03:59 I will go and see him before I die.
04:03 Continuing to read in Chapter 46
04:06 the book of Genesis. And Israel took his journey
04:11 with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered
04:15 sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake
04:19 unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob,
04:22 Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And he said, I am God, the God
04:28 of they father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will
04:32 there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee
04:36 into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again:
04:39 and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. And Jacob
04:45 rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob
04:48 their father, and their little ones, and their wives,
04:50 in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
04:53 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had
04:56 gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob,
05:00 and all his seed with him: His sons, and his sons' sons with
05:05 him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all
05:08 his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
05:11 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
05:16 into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
05:19 And the sons of Reuben; - and the sons of Simeon;
05:24 And the sons of Levi; and the sons of Judah; and the sons of
05:27 Issachar; and the sons of Zebulun. - the sons of Leah
05:31 which she bare - and the sons of Gad; the sons of Asher -
05:34 the sons of Zilpah and the sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, Joseph
05:37 and Benjamin. - We're reading now I skipped, as you may have
05:41 noticed, skipped a lot of the names of those sons,
05:43 the genealogy. Moving on to Genesis, chapter 46, verse 20
05:50 We'll pick it up there. - And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt
05:54 were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of
05:57 Potipherah, priest of On, bare unto him. And the sons of
06:02 Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman,
06:06 Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. These are the sons of
06:11 Rachael, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were 14.
06:15 And the sons of Dan; Hushim. And the sons of Naphtali;
06:19 Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. These are the sons
06:23 of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachael his daughter, and she
06:26 bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were 7. All the souls
06:31 that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins,
06:34 besides Jacob's sons wives, all the souls were threescore and 6;
06:39 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt,
06:42 were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came
06:46 into Egypt, were threescore and ten. And he sent Judah
06:50 before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen;
06:53 and they came into the land of Goshen. And Joseph made ready
06:57 his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen,
07:00 and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck and wept
07:06 on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph,
07:10 Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art
07:15 yet alive. And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his
07:20 father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say
07:23 unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in
07:26 the land of Canaan, are come unto me; and the men are
07:29 shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they
07:32 have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they
07:35 have. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you,
07:38 and shall say, What is your occupation? That ye shall say,
07:41 thy servant's trade hath been about cattle from our youth
07:44 even until now, both we, and also our fathers:
07:48 that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is
07:52 an abomination unto the Egyptians.
07:54 Continuing to read now in Genesis, in chapter 47,
07:58 This is the King James Version. Then Joseph came and told
08:02 Pharoah, and said, My father and my brethren,
08:04 and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have,
08:06 are come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are
08:09 in the land of Goshen. And he took some of his brethren,
08:12 even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh,
08:16 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren,
08:18 What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh,
08:21 Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.
08:25 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land
08:29 are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks
08:33 for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore,
08:36 we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
08:40 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
08:44 brethren are come unto thee: The land of Egypt is before thee
08:47 in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell;
08:50 in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any
08:54 men of activity among them, then make them rulers over
08:57 my cattle. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him
09:01 before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
09:03 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob
09:07 said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are
09:11 an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of
09:15 the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days
09:19 of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
09:21 pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from
09:25 before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his
09:28 brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt,
09:31 in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh
09:35 had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his
09:38 brethren, and all his father's household, with bread,
09:41 according to their families. And there was no bread in all the
09:45 land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt
09:49 and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
09:52 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land
09:56 of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they
09:59 bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
10:02 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land
10:05 of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said,
10:08 give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence?
10:11 for the money faileth. And Joseph said, Give your cattle
10:16 and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
10:18 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave
10:22 them bread in exchange for horses, and for their flocks,
10:25 and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed
10:28 them with bread for all their cattle for that year. When that
10:32 year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said
10:36 unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money
10:40 is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is
10:44 aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies,
10:46 and our lands: Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes,
10:49 both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we
10:54 and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed
10:58 that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
11:01 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharoah; for the
11:06 Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
11:08 prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
11:11 and as for the people, he removed them to cities
11:14 from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end
11:17 thereof. Only the land of the priests bought he not;
11:21 for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh,
11:24 and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore
11:28 they sold not their lands. Then Joseph said unto the people,
11:32 Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh:
11:36 lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
11:40 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give
11:43 the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own,
11:47 for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your
11:51 households, and for food for your little ones. And they said,
11:54 Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of
11:58 my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
12:01 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day
12:05 that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of
12:10 the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
12:13 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of
12:17 Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew and multiplied
12:21 exceedingly. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years:
12:26 so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
12:30 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called
12:34 his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace
12:39 in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,
12:43 and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee,
12:48 in Egypt: But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt
12:52 carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.
12:56 And he said, I will do as thou hast said. And he said,
13:01 Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself
13:06 upon the bed's head. Continuing now with chapter 48.
13:11 This is the King James Version. And it came to pass after these
13:15 things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick:
13:19 and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
13:23 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh
13:27 unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself,
13:29 and sat upon the bed. And Jacob said unto Joseph,
13:33 God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and
13:38 blessed me and said unto me, Behold I will make thee fruitful
13:41 and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of
13:44 people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an
13:48 everlasting possession. And now thy two sons,
13:51 Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land
13:55 of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine;
13:58 as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. And thy issue, which
14:02 thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called
14:05 after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
14:08 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me
14:13 in the land of Canaan in the way when yet there was but a little
14:16 way to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of
14:19 Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem. And Israel beheld Joseph's
14:23 sons, and said, Who are these? We'll pick up the story
14:29 next time we're together. Thank you for joining with me.
14:32 Goodbye.


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