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...
Dec 24, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. So when the money failed 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 the money has failed. (Genesis 47:15) In the initial stages of this famine,...
Dec 23, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. (Genesis 47:13) The Hebrew wording translated as “in all the land” is literally translated as “all...
Dec 22, 2021 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. And Joseph situated 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. Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household...
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