Dec 30, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. “And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.” (Genesis 48:5) Like so much of this story involving Joseph and the reconciliation...
Dec 29, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. “And said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’” (Genesis 48:4) In a follow up to yesterday’s devotion, I...
Dec 28, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, “Indeed your father is sick”; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. And Jacob was told, “Look, your son Joseph is coming to you”; and Israel strengthened himself and sat up...
Dec 27, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years. (Genesis 47:28) As this chapter in Genesis comes to a close we see that Jacob lived 17 years in Egypt which is to say, in exile. We...
Dec 26, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly. (Genesis 47:21-27) Not only did God orchestrate a plan whereby His people had a place to live, but the land they acquired...
Dec 25, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end. Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had rations allotted to them by Pharaoh, and they ate their rations which Pharaoh...
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