Fall Asleep Listening to Genesis: Bedtime Scripture for Deep Sleep [Holy Bible Audio]

[Music] [Music] Genesis 1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth now the Earth was formless and empty Darkness was over the surface of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters and God said let there be light and there was light God saw that the light was good and he separated the light from the darkness God called the light day and the Darkness he called night and there was evening and there was morning the first day and God said let there be a vault between the waters that separate

water from water so God made the vault and separated the water under the Vault from the water above it and it was so God called The Vault sky and there was evening and there was morning the second day and God said let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear and it was so and God called the dry ground land and the gathered Waters he called seas and God saw saw that it was Good then God said let the land produce vegetation seed bearing plants and trees on the

land that bear fruit with seed in it according to their various kinds and it was so the land produced vegetation plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds and God saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning the third day and God said let there be lights in the Vault of the sky to separate the day from the night and let them serve as signs to Mark sacred times and days and years and let them be lights in the Vault

of the sky to give light on the earth and it was so God made two great lights the greater light to govern the day and the Lesser light to govern the night he also made the Stars God set them in the Vault of the Sky to give light on the earth to govern the day and the night and to separate light from darkness and God saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning the fourth day and God said let the water team with living creatures and let birds fly above the

Earth across the Vault of the sky so God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teams and that moves about in it according to their kinds and every Winged Bird according to its kind and God saw that it was good God blessed Them and said be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas and let the birds increase on the earth and there was evening and there was morning the fifth day and God said let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds

the livestock the creatures that move along the ground and the wild animals each according to its kind and it was so God made the wild animals according to their kinds the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds and God saw that it was good then God said let us make Mankind in our image in our likeness so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds birs in the sky over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the

creatures that move along the ground so God created Mankind in his own image in the image of God he created them male and female he created them God blessed them and said to them be fruitful and increase in number fill the Earth and subdue it rule over the fish and the Sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves moves on the ground then God said I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it they will

be yours for food and to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in The sky and all the creatures that move along the ground everything that has the Breath of Life in it I give every green plant for food and it was so God saw all that he had made and it was very good and there is evening and there is morning the sixth day Genesis chapter 2 thus the heavens and the Earth were completed in all their vast array by the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing

so on the seventh day he rested from all his work then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done this is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created when the Lord God made the Earth in the heavens now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground but streams came up

from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground ground then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the Man became a living being now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east in Eden and there he put the man he had formed the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the Ground trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food in the middle of the garden where the Tree of Life and the

tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil a river watering the garden flowed from Eden from there it was separated into four Headwaters the name of the first is the Pichon it winds through the entire land of havalah where there is gold the gold of that land is good aromatic resin and onx are also there the name of the second river is the guihan it winds through the entire land of kush the name of the Third River is the Tigris it runs along the east side of Asher and the fourth river is the Euphrates the

Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it and the Lord God commanded the man you are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil for when you eat from it you will certainly die the Lord God said it is not good for the man to be alone I will make a helper suitable for him now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals

and all the birds in the sky he brought them to the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man called each living creature that was its name so the man gave names to all the livestock the birds in the sky and all the wild Animals but for Adam no suitable helper was found so the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh then the Lord God made a woman from

the rib he had taken out of the man and he brought her to the man the man said this is now bone of my bones and Flesh of My Flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man that is why a man leaves his father and mother and is United to his wife and they become one flesh Adam and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame Genesis chapter 3 now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made he said to the

woman did God really say You must not eat from any tree in the garden the woman said to the serpent we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden but God did say you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must not touch it or you will die you will not certainly die the serpent said to the woman for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil when the woman saw

that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyee and also desirable For gaining wisdom she took some and ate it she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized they were naked so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day and they hid from the Lord

God Among the Trees of the garden but the Lord God Called to the man where are you he answered I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked so I hid and he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from the man said the woman you put here with me she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it then the Lord God said to the woman what is this you have done the woman said

the serpent deceived me and I ate so the Lord God said to the serpent because you have done this cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals you will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your Offspring and hers he will crush your head and you will strike his heel to the woman he said I will make Your pains in childbearing very severe with painful labor you will give birth to Children your desire will

be for your husband and he will rule over you to Adam he said because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you you must not eat from it cursed is the ground because of you through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life it will produce thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground since from it you were taken for

dust you are and to dust you will return Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all the living the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them and the Lord God said the man has now become like one of us knowing good and evil he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the Tree of Life and eat and live forever so the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been

taken after he drove the man out he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the Tree of Life Genesis 4 Adam made love to his wife Eve and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain She said with the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man later she gave birth to his brother Abel now Abel kept flocks and Cain worked the soil in the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as

an offering to the Lord and Abel also brought an offering fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock the Lord looked with favor on Abel in his offering but on Cain in his offering he did not look with favor so Cain was very angry and his face was downcast cast then the Lord said to Cain why are you angry why is your face downcast if you do what is right will you not be accepted but if you do not do what is right sin is crouching at your door it desires to have you

but you must rule over it now Cain said to his brother Abel let's go out to the field while they were in the field Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him then the Lord said to Cain where is your brother Abel I don't know he replied am I My Brother's Keeper the Lord said what have you done listen your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground now you are under a curse and driven from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand when you work the ground

it will no longer yield its crops for you you will be a Restless Wanderer on the earth Cain said to the Lord my punishment is more than I can bear today you are driving me from the land and I will be hidden from your presence I will be a Restless Wanderer on the earth and whoever Finds Me will kill me but the Lord said to him not so anyone who kills Cain will suffer Vengeance seven times over then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him so

Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the Land of Nod East of Eden Cain made love to his wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch Cain was then building a city and he named it after his son Enoch to Enoch was born irad and irad was the father of mahel and mahel was the father of methusael and methusael was the father of lamech lamech married two women one named Ada and the other Zilla Ada gave birth to jabal he was the father of those who live in tents and raised

livestock his brother's name was Jubal he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes Zilla also had a son tual Kain who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron tubal Kane's sister was namama lamech said to his wives Ada and Zilla listen to me wives of lamech hear My words I have killed a man for wounding me a young man for injuring me if Cain is Avenged seven times then lamech 77 times Adam made love to his wife again and she gave birth to his son and named him Seth

saying God has granted me another child in place of Abel since Cain killed him him Seth also had a son and he named him enosh at that time people began to call on the name of the Lord Genesis 5 this is the written account of Adam's family line when God created mankind he made them in the likeness of God he created them male and female and blessed them and he named them mankind when they were created when Adam had lived 130 years he had a son in his own likeness in his own image and he

named him Seth after Seth was born Adam lived 800 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether Adam lived a total of 930 years and then he died when Seth had lived 105 years he became the father of enosh after he became the father of Enos Seth lived 87 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether Seth lived a total of 912 Years and then he died when enosh had lived 90 years he became the father of Kenan after he became the father of Kenan Enos lived 815 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether

enosh lived a total of 95 years and then he died when Kenan had lived 70 years he became the father of mahalalel after he became the father of mahalalel Kenan lived 840 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether Kenan lived a total of 910 years and then he died when mahalalel had lived 65 years he became the father of Jared after he became the father of Jared mahalalel lived 830 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether mahalalel lived a total of 89 5 years and then he died when Jared had lived 162 years

he became the father of Enoch after he became the father of Enoch Jared lived 800 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether jarid lived a total of 962 years and then he died when Enoch had lived 65 years he became the father of Methuselah after he became the father of Methuselah Enoch walked Faithfully with God 300 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether Enoch lived a total of 365 years Enoch walked Faithfully with God then he was no more because God took him Away when Methuselah had lived 187 years he became the father

of lamech after he became the father of lamech Methuselah lived 782 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether Methuselah lived a total of 969 years and then he died when lamech had lived 182 years he had a son he named him Noah and said he will Comfort Us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed after Noah was born lamech lived 595 years and had other Sons and Daughters altogether lamech lived a total of 777 7 years and then he died after Noah was 500 years

old he became the father of Shem ham and japheth Genesis 6 when human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful and they married any of them they chose then the Lord said my spirit will not contend with humans forever for they are mortal their days will be 120 years the Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them they

were the heroes of old men of renown the Lord saw how great the Wickedness of the human race had become on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only Evil all the time the Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth and his heart was deeply troubled so the Lord said I will wipe from the face of the Earth the human race I have created and with them the animals the birds and the creatures that move along the ground for I regret that I have made

them but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord this is the account of of Noah and his family Noah was a righteous man blameless among the people of his time and he walked Faithfully with God Noah had three sons Shem ham and japheth now the Earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence God saw how corrupt the Earth had become for all the people on Earth had corrupted their ways so God said to Noah I am going to put an end to all people for the Earth is filled with violence

because of them I am surely going to destroy both them and the Earth so make yourself an arc of Cypress Wood make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out this is how you are to build it the ark is to be 300 cubits long 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits High make a roof for it leaving below the roof an opening one cubit High all around Put a door in the side of the Ark and make lower middle and upper decks I am going to bring flood waters on the earth to

destroy all life under the heavens every creature that has the Breath of Life in it everything on Earth will perish but I will establish my Covenant with you and you will enter the ark you and your sons and your wife and your sons wives with you you are to bring into the ark two of all living creatur creatures male and female to keep them alive with you two of every kind of bird of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive

you are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them Noah did everything just as God commanded [Music] him Genesis 7 the Lord then said to Noah go into the ark you and your whole family because I have found you righteous in this generation take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal a male and its mate and one pair of every kind of unclean animal a male and its mate and also seven pairs of every kind of bird male and

female to keep their various kinds alive throughout the Earth 7 days From now I will send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights and I will wipe from the face of the Earth every living creature I have made and Noah did all that the Lord commanded him Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters came on the earth and Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons wives entered the Ark to escape the Waters of the flood pairs of clean and unclean animals of birds and of All Creatures that

move along the ground male and female came to Noah and entered the Ark as God had commanded Noah and after the seven days the flood waters came on the earth in the 600th year of Noah's life on the 17th day of the 2 month on that day all the Springs of the great deep burst forth and the flood gates of the heavens were opened and rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights on that very day Noah and his sons Shem ham and japheth together with his wife and the wives of his three

sons entered the Ark they had with them every wild animal according to its kind all livestock according to their kinds every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind everything with wings pairs of all creatures that have the Breath of Life in them came to Noah and entered the Ark the animals going in were male and female of every living Thing as God had commanded Noah then the Lord shut him in for 40 days the flood kept coming on the earth and as the waters increased they

lifted the ark high above the Earth the waters Rose and increased greatly on the earth and the Ark floated on the surface of the water they Rose great complely on the earth and all the high mountains under the entire Heavens were covered the waters Rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than 15 cubits every living thing that moved on land perished Birds livestock wild animals all the creatures that swarm over the Earth and all mankind everything on dry land that had the Breath of Life in its nostrils died every living thing on

the face of the Earth was wiped out people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth only Noah was left and those with him in the ark the waters flooded the Earth for 150 days Genesis 8 but God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were in with him in the ark and he sent a wind over the earth and the the waters receded now the Springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed and the rain had

stopped falling from the sky the water receded steadily From the earth at the end of the 150 days the water had gone down and on the seventh day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat the waters continued to recede until the 10th month and the first day of the 10th month the tops of the mountains became visible after 40 days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the

earth then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground but the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over the surface of the Earth so it returned to Noah in the ark he reached out his hand and took the Dove and brought it back to himself in the ark he waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark when the dove returned to him in the evening there in its Beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf then no one

knew that the water had receded from the earth he waited seven more days and sent the dove out again but this time it did not return to him by the first day of the first month of Noah's 61st year the water had dried up from the earth Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry by the 27th day of the 2 month the Earth was completely dry then God said to Noah come out of the Ark you and your wife and your sons and their wives

bring out every kind of living creature that is with you the bir Birds the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it so Noah came out together with his sons and his wife and his sons wives all the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds everything that moves on land came out of the Ark one kind after another then Noah built an altar to the Lord and taking some of all the

clean animals and clean Birds he sacrificed burnt offerings on it the Lord smelled the pleasing Aroma and said in his heart never again will I curse the ground because of humans even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood and never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done as long as the Earth endures seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night will never [Music] Cease Genesis chter 9 then God blessed Noah and his sons saying to them be fruitful and increase in number and

fill the Earth the fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth and on all the birds in the sky on every creature that moves along the ground and on all the fish in the sea they are given into your hands everything that lives and moves about will be food for you just as I gave you the green plants I now give you everything but you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it and for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting I will demand an accounting

from every animal and from each human being too I will demand an accounting for the the life of another human being whoever sheds human blood by humans shall their blood be shed for in the image of God has God made mankind as for you be fruitful and increase in number multiply on the earth and increase upon it then God said to Noah and to his sons with him I now establish my Covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you the birds the livestock and all the

wild animals all those that came out of the Ark with you every living creature on earth I will establish my Covenant with you never again will all life be destroyed By the Waters of a flood never again will there be a flood to destroy the Earth and God Said this is the sign of the Covenant I'm making between me and you and every living creature with you a covenant for all generations to come I have set my rainbow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the Covenant between me and the Earth whenever

I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds I will remember my Covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all Earth whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds I will see it and remember the Everlasting Covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth so God said to Noah this is the sign of the Covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth the sons of Noah who came out of

the Ark were Shem ham and japheth ham was the father of Canaan these were the three sons of Noah and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth no Noah a man of the soil proceeded to plant a Vineyard when he drank some of its wine he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent ham the father of Canaan saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside but sham and jath took a garment and laid it across their shoulders then they walked in backward and covered their father's naked body

their faces were turned the other Way so that they would not see their father naked when Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest sons had done to him he said cursed be Canan the lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers he also said praise be to the Lord the god of Shem May Canan be the slave of Shem may God extend japheth's territory may japheth live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of japheth After the flood Noah lived 350 years Noah lived a total of

950 years and then he died Genesis 10 this is the account of Shem ham and japheth Noah's sons who themselves had Sons After the flood the sons of japheth Goomer Magog madii Javon tubal mesek and T us the sons of Gomer asanas rifath and tarma the sons of Javon Elisha tares the kiit and the rodonit from these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their Clans within their Nations each with its own language the sons of ham Kush Egypt put and Canan the sons of kush seba havalah sabta Rama and Sapa the sons

of Rama Shabba and danan Kush was the father of nimrod who became a mighty warrior on the earth he Was a mighty Hunter before the Lord that is why it is said like Nimrod a mighty Hunter before the Lord the first centers of his kingdom were Babylon UK akad and Kal in shanar from that land he went to Assyria where he built Neva reoboth ear kala and ren which is between Nineveh and kala which is the great city Egypt was the father of the luddites anitesh habites Nephites pites cites from whom the Philistines came and

cites Canan was the father of sidon his firstborn and of the Hittites jebusites amorites girgashites hivites arites sinites aredes zarit and hites later the Canaanite Clans scattered and the borders of Canaan reached from sidon toward gar as far as Gaza and then toward Sodom gorah adma and sabam as far as lasasha these are the sons of ham by their Clans and languages and their territories and Nations Sons were also born to Shem whose older brother was japheth Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of abber the sons of Shem Elum Asher arfad lud and

Aram the sons of Aram o h gether and mesek arfad was the father of shella and Shella the father of abber two sons were born two Eber one was named pelg because in his name the Earth was divided his brother was named Jaan Jaan was the father of al-madad Shel hazarmaveth jera hadoram uzal dla obal Abel Shabba oir havalah and jobab all these were sons of joktan the region where they lived stretched from mesha toward zepar in the Eastern Hill Country these are are the sons of Shem by their Clans and languages and their territories

and Nations these are the clans of Noah's sons according to their lines of descent within their nations from these nations spread out over the Earth After the [Music] flood Genesis 11 now the whole world had one language and a common speech as people moved Eastward they found a plane in shinar and settled there they said to each other come let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly they used brick instead of stone and tar for martyr then they said come let us build Ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we

may make a name for ourselves otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the Earth but the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building the Lord said if as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them come let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other so the Lord scattered them from there over all the Earth and they stopped building the city that is why it is called

Babel because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole Earth this is the account of shem's family line 2 years after the flood when Shem was 100 years old he became the father of arfad and after he became the father of arfad Shem lived 500 years and had other Sons and Daughters when arfad had lived 35 years he became the father of shella and after he became the father of shella arfad lived 403 years and had other Sons and Daughters when shella

had lived 30 years he became the father of Eber and after he became the father of Eber Shala lived 43 years and had other Sons and Daughters when Eber had lived 34 years he became the father of pel and after he became the father of pelg Eber lived 430 Years and had other Sons and Daughters when Pelle had lived 30 years he became the father of Ru and after he became the father of Ru Pelle lived 209 years and had other Sons and Daughters when rayu had lived 32 years he became the father of suuk

and after he became the father of serug rayu lived 207 years and had other Sons and Daughters when serug had lived 30 years he became the father of nahor and after he became the father of nahor serug lived 200 years and had other Sons and Daughters when nahor had lived 29 years he became the father of terara and after he became the father of Tara nahor lived 119 years and had other Sons and Daughters after Tara had lived 70 years he became the father of Abram nahor and Heron this is the account of Tara's family

line Tara became the father of Abram nahor and Heron and Heron became the father of lot while his father Tara was still alive Heron died in ER of the Chaldeans in the land of his birth Abram and nahor both married the name of Abram's wife was Sarai and the name of nahor's wife was milka she was the daughter of Heron the father of both milka and isca now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive Tara took his son Abram his grandson lot son of Heron and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of his

son Abram and together they set out from ER of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan so when they Came to Heron they settled there Tara lived 205 years and he died in [Music] Heron Genesis 12 the Lord had said to Abram go from your country your people and your father's household to the land I will show you I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you I will make your name great and you will be a blessing I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse and

all peoples on Earth will be blessed through you so Abram went as the Lord had told him and lot went with him Abram was 75 years old when he set out for Heron he took his wife Sarai his nephew lot all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Heron and they set out for the land of Canaan and they arrived there Abram traveled through the land as far as the sight of the great tree of moray at sheim at that time the Canaanites were in the land the Lord appeared to

Abram and said to your Offspring I will give this land so he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him from there he went on toward the Hills East of bethl and pitched his tent with bethl on the west and I on the East there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the the Name of the Lord then Abram set out and continued toward the neev now there was a famine in the land and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was

severe as he was about to enter Egypt he said to his wife Sarai I know what a beautiful woman you are when the Egyptians see you they will say this is his wife then they will kill me but will let you live say you are my sister so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you when Abram came to Egypt the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman and when Pharaoh's officials saw her they praised her to pharaoh and she was taken into his

Palace he treated Abram well for her sake and Abram acquired sheep and cattle male and female donkeys male and female servants and camels but the Lord inflicted serious diseases on pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai so Pharaoh summoned Abram what have you done to me he said why didn't you tell me she was your wife why did you say she is my sister so that I took her to be my wife now then here is your wife take her and go then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men and they sent

him on his way with his wife and everything he had Genesis 13 so Abram went up from Egypt to the neev with his wife and everything he had and lot went with him Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold from the neav he went from place to place until he came to bethl to the place between bethl and I where his tent had been earlier and where he had first built an altar there Abram called on the name of the Lord now lot who was moving about with Abram also had

flocks and herds and Tents but the land could not support them while they stayed together for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together and quarreling arose between Abram's herders in lot the Canaanites and perizzites were also living in the land at that time so Abram said to lot let's not have any quarreling between you and me or between your herders and mine for we are close relatives is not the whole land before you let's part company if you go to the left I'll go to the right if you go

to the right I'll go to the left lot looked around and saw that the whole plane of the Jordan toward zor was well watered like the garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomora so lot chose for himself the whole Plaine of the Jordan and set out toward the east East the two men parted company Abram lived in the land of Canaan while lot lived among the cities Of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom now the people of Sodom were Wicked and were sinning

greatly against the Lord the Lord said to Abram after lot had parted from him look around from where you are to the North and South to the east and west all the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever I will make your Offspring like the dust of the earth so that if anyone could count the dust then your Offspring could be counted go walk through the length and breadth of the land for I am giving it to you so Abram went to live near the great trees of mamre at

Hebron where he pitched his tents there he built an altar to the Lord Genesis 14 at the time when amrel was king of shanar arok king of elisar kedar Lamar king of ilam and tadal king of goam these Kings went to war against barah king of Sodom Bersa king of gomorah shanab king of adma shmur king of zeboim and the king of Bah that is Zoar all these latter Kings joined forces in the valley of sidm that is the Dead Sea Valley for 12 years they had been subject to keto Lamar but in the 13th

year they rebelled in the 14th year Kor Lamar and the Kings allied with him went Out and defeated the rephaites in asaroth carim the zzit in ham the emites in chave kirim and the horites in the Hill Country of seir as far as elpan near the desert then they turned back and went to and mishpat that is cadesh and they conquered the whole territory of the amalekites as well as the amorites who were living in hon Tamar then the king of Sodom the king of Gomorrah the king of adma the king of zeboim and the

king of Bala that is Zoar marched out and Drew up their battle lions in the valley of sidm against koomar king of Elam tadal king of goyam amrel king of shanar and arok king of elisar Four Kings against five now the valley of sidm was full of tar pits and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills the Four Kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food then they went away they also carried off Abram's nephew lot

in his possessions since he was living in Sodom a man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew now Abram was living near the great trees of mamre the Amorite a brother of eshkol and Anor all of whom were allied with Abram when Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive he called out the 318 trained men born In his household and went in Pursuit as far as Dan during the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them pursuing them as far as hoba north of Damascus he

recovered all the goods and brought back his relatively lot in his possessions together with the women and the other people after Abram returned from defeating Kor Lomar and the Kings allied with him the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the valley of chave that is the King's Valley then melchisedek king of Salem brought out Bread and Wine he was Priest of God most high and he blessed Abram saying Blessed Be Abram by God most high creator of heaven and Earth and praise be to God most high who delivered your enemies into your

hand then Abram gave him a tenth of everything the king of Sodom said to Abram give me the people and keep the goods for yourself but Abram said to the king of Sodom with raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord God most high creator of Heaven and Earth that I will accept nothing belonging to you not even a thread or the St scrap of a sandal so that you will never be able to say I made Abram rich I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and let the share that

belongs to the men who went with me to Anor ishol and mamre let them Have their share Genesis 15 after this the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision do not be afraid Abram I am your Shield your very great reward but Abram said Sovereign Lord what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eleazar of Damascus and Abram said you have given me no children so a servant in my household will be my Heir then the word of the Lord came to him

this man will not be your Heir but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your Heir he took him outside and said look up at the sky and count the Stars if indeed you can count them then he said to him so shall your Offspring be Abram believed the Lord and He credited it to him as righteousness he also said to him I am the Lord who brought you out of er of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it but Abram said Sovereign Lord how can I

know that I will gain possession of it so the Lord said to him bring me a heer a goat and a ram each 3 years old along with a dove and a young pigeon Abram brought all these to him cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other the birds however he Did not cut in half then Birds of Prey came down on the carcasses but Abram drove them away as the sun was setting Abram fell into a deep sleep and a thick and Dreadful Darkness came over him then the Lord said to

him know for certain that for 400 years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there but I will punish the nation they serve as slaves and afterward they will come out with great possessions you however will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age in the fourth generation your descendance will come back here for the sin of the amorites has not yet reached its full measure when the sun had set and darkness had fallen a smoking fire pot

with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said to your descendants I give this land from the wiad of Egypt to the Great River the Euphrates the land of the kenites kenites konit Hittites perizzites rephaites amorites Canaanites girgashites and [Music] jebusites Genesis 16 now Sarai Abram's wife had borne him No children but she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar so she said to to Abram the Lord has kept me from having children go sleep with my slave perhaps I can build a family

through her Abram agreed to what Sarai said so after Abram had been living in Canaan 10 years Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife he slept with Hagar and she conceived when she knew she was pregnant she began to despise her mistress then Sarai said to Abram you are responsible for the wrong I am suffering I put my slave in your arms and now that she knows she is pregnant she despises me may the lord judge between you and me your slave is in your

hands Abram said do with her whatever you think is best then Sarai mistreated Hagar so she fled from her the angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert it was the spring that is beside the road of sure and he said Hagar slave of Sarai where have you come from and where are you going I'm running away from my mistress Sarai she answered then the angel of the Lord told her go back to your mistress and submit to her the angel added I will increase your descendants so much that they will

be too numerous to count the angel of the Lord also said to her you are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son you shall name him Ishmael for The Lord has heard your misery he will be a wild donkey of a man his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers she gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her you are the God who sees me for she said I have now seen the one who sees me that is

why the well was called beer laahi Roy it is still there between cadesh and bed so Hagar bore Abram a son and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael Genesis chap 17 when Abram was 99 years old the Lord appeared to to him and said I am God Almighty walk before me faithfully and be blameless then I will make my Covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers Abram fell face down and God said to him as for me

this is my Covenant with you you will be the father of many nations no longer will you be called Abram your name will be Abraham for I have made you a father of many nations I will make you very fruitful I will make nations of you and Kings will come from you I will establish my Covenant as an Everlasting Covenant between me and you and your Descendants after you for the generations to come to be your God and the god of your descendants after you the whole land of Canaan where you now reside as a

foreigner I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you and I will be their God then God said to Abraham as for you you must keep my Covenant you and your descendants after you for the generations to come this is my Covenant with you and your descendants after you the Covenant you are to keep every male among you shall be circumcised you are to undergo circumcision and it will be a sign of the Covenant between me and you for the generations to come every male among you who is 8 days

old must be circumcised including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner those who are not your Offspring whether born in your household or bought with your money they must be circumcised my Covenant in your flesh is to be an Everlasting Covenant any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised In the Flesh will be cut off from his people he has broken my Covenant God also said to Abraham as for Sarai your wife wife you are no longer to call her Sarai her name will be Sarah I will bless her and

will surely give you a son by her I will bless her so that she will be the mother of Nations Kings of peoples will come from her Abraham fell face down he laughed and said to himself will a son be born to a man a 100 years old will Sarah bear a child at the age of 90 and Abraham said to God if only Ishmael might live under your blessing then God said yes but your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will call him Isaac I will establish my Covenant with him as

an Everlasting Covenant for his descendants after him and as for Ishmael I have heard you I will surely bless him I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers he will be the father of 12 rulers and I will make him into a great nation but my Covenant I will establish with Isaac whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year when he had finished speaking with Abraham God went up from him on that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his

money every male in his household and circumcised them as God told him Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised and his son Ishmael was 13 Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day and every male in Abraham's household including those born in his household or bought From a foreigner was circumcised with him Genesis 18 the Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamay while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent In the Heat of the day Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby when

he saw them he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground he said I have found favor in your eyes my Lord Do not pass your servant by let a little water be brought and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree let me give you something to eat so you can be refreshed and then go on your way now that you have come to your servant very well they answered do as you say so Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah quick he

said get three seas of the finest flower and knead it and bake some bread then he ran to the herd and selected a choice tender calf and gave it to a servant who hurried to prepare it he then brought some curds and milk in the calf that had been prepared and and set these before them while they ate he stood near them under a tree where is your wife Sarah they asked him there in the tent he said then one of them said I will surely return to you about this time next year and Sarah

your wife will have a son now Sarah was listening at the Entrance to the tent which was behind him Abraham and Sarah were already very old and Sarah was past the age of childbearing so Sarah laughed to herself as she thought after I am worn out and my Lord is old will I now have this pleasure then the Lord said to Abraham why did Sarah laugh and say will I really have a child now that I am old is anything too hard for the Lord I will return to you at the appointed time next year

and Sarah will have a son Sarah was afraid so she lied and said I did not laugh but he said yes you did laugh when the men got up to leave they looked down towards Sodom and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way then the Lord said shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation and All Nations on Earth will be blessed through him for I have chosen him so that he will direct his children and his household sold after

him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him then the Lord said the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so Grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me If not I will know the men turned away and went towards Sodom but Abraham remained standing before the Lord then Abraham approached him and said will you sweep away the

righteous with the wicked what if there are 50 righteous people in the city will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the 50 righteous people in it far be it from you to do such a thing to kill the righteous with the wicked treating the righteous and the wicked alike far be it from you will not the judge of all the Earth do right [Music] the Lord said if I find 50 righteous people in the city of Sodom I will spare the whole place for their sake then Abraham

spoke again now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord though I am nothing but dust and Ashes what if the number of the righteous is five less than 50 will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people if I find 45 there he said I will not destroy it once again he spoke to him what if only 40 are found there he said for the sake of 40 I will not do it then he said may the Lord not be angry but let me speak what if only 30

can be Found there he answered I will not do it if I find 30 there Abraham said now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord what if only 20 can be found there he said for the sake of 20 I will not destroy it then he said may the Lord not be angry but let me speak just once more what if only 10 can be found there he answered for the sake of 10 I will not destroy it when the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham he left and Abraham returned

returned [Music] home Genesis 19 the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening and lot was sitting in the Gateway of the city when he saw them he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground my lords he said please turn aside to your Servants house you can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning no they answered we will spend the night in the Square but he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house he

prepared a meal for them baking bread without yeast and they ate before they had gone to bed all The men from every part of the city of Sodom both young and old surrounded the house they called to lot where are the men who came to you tonight bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said no my friends don't do this wicked thing look I have two daughters who have never slept with a man let me bring them

out to you and you can do what you like with them but don't do anything to these men for they have come under the protection of my roof get out of our way they replied this fellow came here as a foreigner and now he wants to play the judge we'll treat you worse than them they kept bringing pressure on lot and moved forward to break down the door but the men inside reached out and pulled lot back into the house and shut the door they then struck the men who were at the door of the

house young and old with blindness so that they could not find the door the two men said to lot do you have anyone else here sons-in-law Sons or daughters or anyone else in the city Who belongs to you get them out of here because we are going to destroy this place the outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it so lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters he said hurry and get out of this place because the Lord

is about to destroy the city but his sons-in-law thought he was Joking with the coming of dawn the Angels urged lot saying hurry take your wife and your two daughters who are here or you will be swept away when the city is punished when he hesitated the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters and led them safely out of the city for the Lord was merciful to them as soon as they had brought them out one of them said Flee for your lives don't look back and don't stop

anywhere in the plain flee to the mountains or you will be swept away but lot said to them no oh my lords please your servant has found favor in your eyes and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life but I can't flee to the mountains This Disaster will overtake me and I'll die look here is a town near enough to run to and it is small let me flee to it it is very small isn't it then my life will be spared he said to him very well I will grant you

this request quest to I Will Not overthrow the town you speak of but flee there quickly because I cannot do anything until you reach it that is why the town was called Zoar by the time lot reached Zoar the sun had risen over the land then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the heavens thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain destroying all Those living in the cities and also the veget ation in the land but Lot's wife looked back and she became a pillar of

salt early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord he looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah toward all the land of the Plaine and he saw dense smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace so when God destroyed the cities of the plain he remembered Abraham and he brought lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where lot had lived lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains for he was afraid to stay in zoir he and his two

daughters lived in a cave one day the older daughters said to the younger our father is old and there is no man around here to give us children as is the custom all over the Earth let's get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father that night they got their father to drink wine and the older daughter went in and slept with him he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up the next day the older daughter said to the

younger last night I slept with my father let's get him to drink wine again tonight and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father so they got their father to drink wine that night also and the younger daughter went in and slept with him again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up so both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father the older daughter had a son and she named him Moab he is the father of the moabites of

today the younger daughter also had a son and she named him benami he is the father of the ammonites of [Music] today Genesis 20 now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the neev and lived between cadesh and Shure for a while he stayed in gar and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah she is my sister then aimc king of gar sent for Sarah and took her but God came to aimc in a dream one night and said to him you are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken

she is a married woman now aimc had not gone near her so he said Lord will you destroy an innocent Nation did he not say to me she is my sister and didn't she also say he is my brother I have done this with a clear conscience and Clean Hands then God said to him in the dream yes I know you did this with a clear conscience and so I have kept you from sinning against me that is why I did not let you touch her now return the man's Wife for he is a prophet

and he will pray for you and you will live but if you do not return her you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die early the next morning aimc summoned all his officials and when he told them all that had happened they were very much afraid then aimc called Abraham in and said what have you done to us how have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me my kingdom you have done things to me that should never be done and aimc asked Abraham what was

your reason for doing this Abraham replied I said to myself there is surely no fear of God in this place and they will kill me because of my wife besides she really is my sister the daughter of my father though not of my mother and she became my wife and when God had me Wander from my father father's household I said to her this is how you can show your love to me everywhere we go say of me he is my brother then aimc brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them

to Abraham and he returned Sarah his wife to him and ailec said my land is before you live wherever you like to Sarah he said I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver this is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you you are Completely Vindicated then Abraham prayed to God and God healed aimc his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again for the Lord had kept all the women in AMC's household from conceiving because of Abraham's wife Sarah Genesis 21 now the the Lord was

gracious to Sarah as he had said and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age at the very time God had promised him Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him when his son Isaac was 8 days old Abraham circumcised him as God commanded him Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him Sarah said God has brought me laughter and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me and she added who would have

said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children yet I have borne him a son in his old age the child grew and was weaned and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast but Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had born to Abraham was mocking and she said to Abraham get ready of that slave woman and her son for that woman's son will never share in The Inheritance with my son Isaac the matter distressed Abraham Greatly because it concerned his son do not be so distressed about the boy and

your slave woman listen to whatever Sarah tells you because it is through Isaac that your Offspring will be reckoned I will make the son of the slave into a nation also because he is your Offspring early the next morning Abraham took some food and skin of water and gave them to Hagar he set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy she went on her way and wandered in the desert of beerseba when the water in the skin was gone she put the boy under one of the bushes then she went

off and sat down about a bow shot away for she thought I cannot watch the boy die and as she sat there she began to sob God heard the boy crying and the angel of God Called to Hagar from heaven and said to her what is the matter Hagar do not be afraid God has heard the boy crying as he lies there lift the boy up and take him by the hand for I will make him into a great nation then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water so she went and

filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink God was with the boy as he grew up he lived in the desert and became an Archer while he was living in the desert of peran his mother got a wife for him from Egypt at that time aimc and ficol the commander of his forces said to Abraham God is with you and everything you do now swear to me here before God that you Will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendant show to me and the country where you now reside

as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you Abraham said I swear it then Abraham complained to aimc about a well of water that AMC's servants had seized but aimc said I don't know who has done this you did not tell me and I heard about it only today so Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to aimc and the two men made a treaty Abraham set apart seven U Lambs from the flock and aimc asked Abraham what is the meaning of these seven you Lambs you have set apart by themselves he

replied accept these seven Lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well so that place was called beerseba because the two men swore an oath there after the treaty had been made at beerseba aimc and ficol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines Abraham planted a t esk Tree in beerseba and there he called on the name of the Lord the Eternal God and Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time Genesis 22 sometime later God tested Abraham he said to him Abraham here

I am he replied then God said take your son your only son son Whom you love Isaac and go to the region of Mariah sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey he took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac when he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering he set out for the place God had told him about on the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance he said to

his servants stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there we will worship and then we will come back to you Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac and he himself carried the fire and the knife as the two of them went on together Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham father yes my son Abraham replied the fire and wood are here Isaac said but where is the lamb for the burnt offering Abraham answered God himself will provide the lamb for the

burnt offering my son when they reached the place God had told him about Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son but the angel of the Lord called out to him from Heaven Abraham Abraham here I am he replied do not lay a hand On the boy he said do not do anything to him now I know that you fear God because you have

not withheld from me your son your only son Abraham looked up and there in a Thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns he went over and took the RAM and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son so Abraham called that place the Lord will provide and to this day it is said on the mountain of the Lord it will be provided the angel of the Lord called to Abraham from Heaven a second time and said I swear by myself declares the Lord that because you have done this and have not

withheld your son your only son I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies and through your Offspring All Nations on Earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me then Abraham returned to his servants and they set off together for beers Sheba and Abraham stayed in beers Sheba sometime later Abraham was told milka is also a mother she has born Sons to your brother nahor o the first born Buzz

his brother huel the father of Aram kesed Paso pildes jidf and bethu bethu Became the father of Rebecca milka bore these eight Sons to Abraham's brother nahor his concubine whose name was Ruma also had sons tabba gaham tahash and Maka Genesis chap 23 Sarah lived to be 127 years old she died at kirath arba that is Hein in the land of Canaan and Abraham went to mourn Sarah and to weep over her then Abraham Rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites he said I am a foreigner and stranger among you sell

me some property for a burial sight here so I can bury my dead the Hittites replied to Abraham sir listen to us you are a mighty Prince Among Us bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs none of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead then Abraham Rose and bowed down before the people of the land the Hittites he said to them if you are willing to let me bury my dead then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf so he will sell me the the

cave of Mella which belongs to him and is at the end of his field ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial sight among you Ephron the hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in The hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his City no my Lord he said listen to me I give you the field and I give you the cave that is in it I give it to you in the presence of my people people bury your dead again

Abraham bowed down before the people of the land and he said to ephrine in their hearing listen to me if you will I will pay the price of the field accept it from me so I can bury my dead there Ephron answered Abraham listen to me my Lord the land is worth 400 shekels of silver but what is that between you and me bury your dead Abraham agreed to ephron's terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites 400 shekels of silver according to the weight current among

the merchants so ephron's field in Mella near mamre both the field and the cave in it and all the trees within the borders of the field was deeded to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Mella near mamre which is Hein in the land of Canaan so the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site Genesis 24 Abraham was now very old

and the Lord had blessed him in every way he said to the senior servant in his household the one in charge of all that he had put your hand under my thigh I want you to swear by the Lord the god of Heaven and the god of Earth that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac the servant asked him what if the woman is unwilling to

come back with me to this land shall I take your son back to the country you came from make sure that you do not take my son back there Abraham said the Lord the god of Heaven who brought me out of my father's household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath saying to your Offspring I will give this land he will send his Angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there if the woman is unwilling to come back with you then you

will be released from this oath of mine only do not take my son back there so the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter then the servant left taking with him 10 of his master's camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master he set out for Aram naharaim and made his way to the town of nahor he had The camels kneel down near the well outside the town it was toward evening the time the women go out to draw water

then he prayed Lord God of my master Abraham make me successful today and show kindness to my master Abraham see I am standing beside this spring and the daughters of the town's people are coming out to draw water may it be that when I say to a young woman please let down your jar that I may have a drink and she says drink and I'll Water your camels too let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac by this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master before he had

finished praying Rebecca came out with her jar on her shoulder she was the daughter of beule son of milka who was the wife of Abraham's brother nahor the woman was very beautiful a virgin no man had ever slept with her she went down to the spring filled her jar and came up again the servant hurried to meet her and said please give me a little water from your jar drink my Lord she said and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink after she had given him a drink she said I'll

draw water for your camels too until they have enough to drink so she quickly emptied her jar into the trough ran back to the well to draw more water and Drew enough for all his camels Without saying a word the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the Lord had made his journey successful when the camels had finished drinking the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a Becca and two gold bracelets weighing 10 shekels then he asked whose daughter are you please tell me is there room in your father's house for

us to spend the night she answered him I am the daughter of bethu the son that milka bore to nahor and she added we have plenty of straw and fodder as well as room for you to spend the night then the man bowed down and worshiped the Lord saying praise be to the Lord the god of my master Abraham who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master as for me the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my Master's relatives the young woman ran and told her mother's household

about these things now Rebecca had a brother named laan and he hurried out to the man at the spring as soon as he had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms and had heard Rebecca tell what the man said to her he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring come you who are blessed by the Lord he said why are you standing out here I have prepared the house and a place for the the camels so the man went to the house and the

camels were unloaded straw and fodder were brought for the camels and Water for him and his men to wash their feet then food was set before him but he said I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say then tell us laan said so he said I am Abraham's servant the Lord has blessed my master abundantly and he has become wealthy he has given him sheep and cattle silver and gold male and female servants and camels and donkeys my Master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age

and he has given him everything he owns and my master made me swear an oath and said you must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live but go to my father's family into my own Clan and get a wife for my son then I asked my master what if the woman will not come back with me he replied the Lord before whom I have walked Faithfully will send his angel with you and make your journey a success so that you can get a wife for

my son from my own Clan and from my father's family you will be released from my oath if when you go to my clan they refuse to give her to you then you will be released from my oath when I came to the spring today I said Lord God of my master Abraham if you will please Grant success to the journey on which I have come see I am standing beside this spring if a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her please let me drink a little Water from your jar

and if she says to me drink and I'll draw water for your camels too let her be the one the Lord has chosen for my master's son before I finished praying in my heart Rebecca came out with her jar on her shoulder she went went down to the spring and Drew water and I said to her please give me a drink she quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said drink and I'll Water your camels too so I drank and she watered the camels also I asked her whose daughter are you she said the

daughter of bethu son of nahor whom Mila bore to him then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms and I bowed down and worshiped the Lord I praised the Lord the god of my master Abraham who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my Master's brother for his son now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master tell me and if not tell me so I may know which way to turn laan and bethu answered this is from the Lord we can say

nothing to you one way or the other here is Rebecca take her and go and let her become the wife of your master's son as the Lord has directed when Abraham's servant heard what they said he bowed down to the ground before the Lord then the servant Brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebecca he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there when they got up the next morning

he said send me on my way to my master but her brother and her mother replied let the young woman remain with us 10 days or so then you may go but he said to them do not detain me now that the Lord has granted success to my Journey Send Me on my way so I may go to my master then they said let's call the young woman and ask her about it so they called Rebecca and asked her will you go with this man I will go she said so they sent their sister Rebecca

on her way along with her nurse and Abraham's servant and his men and they blessed Rebecca and said to her our sister may you increase to thousands upon thousands may your Offspring possess the cities of their enemies then Rebecca and her attendants got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man so the servant took Rebecca and left now Isaac had come from beer laay Roy for he was living in the neav he went out to the field one evening to meditate and as he looked up he saw camels approaching Rebecca also looked

up and saw Isaac she got down from her camel and Asked the servant who is that man in the field coming to meet us he is my master the servant answered so she took her veil and covered herself then the servant told Isaac all he had done Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and he married Rebecca so she became his wife and he loved her and Isaac was comforted after his mother's [Music] death Genesis 25 Abraham had taken another wife whose name was Cura she bore him zimran Jaan midan Midian ishbah

and shua Jaan was the father of Sheba and danan the descendants of danan were the ashit the leites and the leites the sons of Midian were epha eper hanok Abida and Elda all these were descendants of Keta Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac but while he was still living He gave gifts to the sons of his concubine bines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the East Abraham lived 175 years then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age an old man and full of years and

he was Gathered to his people his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Mella near mamre in the field of Ephron son of nahor the hittite the field Abraham had bought from the hit ites there Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah after Abraham's death God blessed his son Isaac who then lived near beer Ley Roy this is the account of the family line of Abraham's son Ishmael whom Sarah's slave Hagar the Egyptian bore to Abraham these are the names of the sons of Ishmael listed in the order of their birth nebbio

the firstborn of Ishmael Kadar msum mishma Duma Masa Hadad Tima jur nafish and Keda these were the sons of Ishmael and these are the names of the 12 tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps Ishmael lived 137 years he breathed his last and died and he was gathered to his people his descendants settled in the area from the havala to Shure near the eastern border of Egypt as you go toward aure and they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them this is the account of the family line of Abraham's son Isaac

Abraham became the father of Isaac and Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebecca daughter of bethuel the aramean from Paden Aram and sister of laan the aramean Isaac prayed to the Lord on Behalf of his wife because she was childless the Lord answered his prayer and his wife Rebecca became pregnant the babies jostled each other within her and she said why is this happening to me so she went to inquire of the Lord the Lord said to her two nations are in your womb and two peoples from within you will be separated one

people will be stronger than the other and the older will serve the younger when the time came for her to give of birth there were twin boys in her womb the first to come out was red and his whole body was like a hairy garment so they named him Esau after this his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel so he was named Jacob Isaac was 60 years old when Rebecca gave birth to them the boys grew up and Esau became a skillful Hunter a man of the Open Country while Jacob was content

to stay stay at home among the tents Isaac who had a taste for Wild game loved Esau but Rebecca loved Jacob once when Jacob was cooking some stew Esau came in from the Open Country famished he said to Jacob quick let me have some of that red stew I'm famished that is why he was also called Edom Jacob replied first sell me your Birthright look I'm about to die Esau said what good is the birthright to me but Jacob said swear to me first so he Swore an oath to him selling his Birthright to Jacob

then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew he ate and drank and then got up and left so Esau despised his Birthright Genesis 26 now there was a famine in the land besides the previous famine in Abraham's time and Isaac went to aimc King of the Philistines in gar the Lord appeared to Isaac and said do not go down to Egypt live in the land where I tell you to live stay in this land for a while and I will be with you and will bless you for to you and your descendants I

will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands and through your Offspring All Nations on Earth will be blessed because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him keeping my commands my decrees and my instructions so Isaac stayed in gar when the men of that place asked him about his wife he said she is my sister because he was afraid to say she is my wife he thought

the men of this place might kill me on account of Rebecca because she is beautiful when Isaac had been there a long time aimc King of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebecca so ailec summoned Isaac and said she is really your wife why did you say she is my Sister Isaac answered him because I thought I might lose my life on account of her then aimc said what is this you have done to us one of the men might well have slept with your wife and you would

have brought guilt upon us so aimc gave orders to all the people anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a h hundredfold because the Lord blessed him the man became rich and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy he had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him so all the wells that his father's servant had dug in the time of his father Abraham the Philistines stopped up filling them with Earth

then aimc said to Isaac move away from us you have become too powerful for us so Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the valley of gar where he settled Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in in the time of his father Abraham which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died and he gave them the same names his father had given them Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there but the herders of gar quarreled with those of Isaac and said the water is ours so

he named the well asek because they disputed with him then they dug another well but they quarreled over that one also so he named it Sitna he moved on from there and dug another well and no one quarreled over it he named it reoboth saying now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land from there he went up to beerseba that night the Lord appeared to him and said I am the god of your father Abraham do not be afraid for I am with you I will bless you and will

increase the number of your decision descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord there he pitched his tent and there his servants dug a well meanwhile aimc had come to him from gar with ahaz his personal adviser and Fel the commander of his forces Isaac asked them why have you come to me since you were hosle to me and sent me away they answered we saw clearly that the Lord was with you so we said there ought to be a sworn agreement between

us between us and you let us make a treaty with you that you will do us no harm just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully and now you are blessed by the Lord Isaac then made A Feast for them and they ate and drank early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other then Isaac sent them on their way and they went away peacefully that day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug they said we found water he

called it Sheba And to this day the name of the town has been beer Sheba when Esau was 40 years old he married Judith daughter of bir the hittite and also basemath daughter of Elon the hittite they were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebecca Genesis ch 27 when Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see he called for Esau his older son and said to him my son here I am he answered Isaac said I am now an old man and don't know the day of my

death now then get your equipment your quiver and bow and go out to the Open Country to hunt some wild game for me prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat so that I may give you my blessing before I die now Rebecca was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau when Esau left for the Open Country to hunt game and bring it back Rebecca said to her son Jacob look I overheard your father say to your brother Esau bring me some game and prepare me some

tasty food to eat so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die now my son listen carefully and do what I tell you go out to the flock and bring me two Choice young goats so I can prepare some tasty food for your father just the way he likes it then take it to your father to eat so that he may give you his Blessing before he dies Jacob said to Rebecca his mother but my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin what if

my father touches me I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing his mother said to him my son let the curse fall on me just do what I say go and get them for me so he went and got them and brought them to his mother and she prepared some tasty food just the way his father liked it then Rebecca took the best clothes of Esau her older son which she had in the house and put them on her younger son Jacob she also covered

his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goat skins then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made he went to his father and said my father yes my son he answered who is it Jacob said to his father I am Esau your firstborn I have done as you told me please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing Isaac asked his son how did you find it so quickly my son the Lord your God gave me success

he replied then Isaac said to Jacob come near so I can touch you my son to know whether you really are my son Esau or not Jacob went close to his father Isaac who touched him and said the voice is the voice of Jacob but the hands are the hands of Esau he did not recognize him for his hands were hairy like those of his Brother Esau so he proceeded to BL bless him are you really my son Esau he asked I am he replied then he said my son bring me some of your game

to eat so that I may give you my blessing Jacob brought it to him and he ate and he brought some wine and he drank then his father Isaac said to him come here my son and kiss me so he went to him and kissed him when when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes he blessed him and said ah the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed may God give you Heaven's Dew and Earth's richness an abundance of grain and new wine May Nations serve you

and peoples bow down to you be Lord over your brothers and may the sons of your mother bow down to you may those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed after Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence his brother Esau came in from hunting he too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father then he said to him my father please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing his father Isaac asked him who are you

I am your son he answered your firstborn Esau Isaac trembled violently and said who was it then that hunted game And brought it to me I ate it just before you came and I blessed him and indeed he will be blessed when Esau heard his father's words he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father bless me me too my father but he said your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing Esau said isn't he rightly named Jacob this is the second time he has taken advantage of me he took

my Birthright and now he's taking my blessing then he asked haven't you reserved any blessing for me Isaac answered Esau I have made him Lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants and I have sustained him with grain and new wine so what can I possibly do do for you my son Esau said to his father do you have only one blessing my father bless me too my father then Esau wept aloud his father Isaac answered him your dwelling will be away from the Earth's richness away from the Dew of Heaven above

you will live by the sword and you will serve your brother but when you grow Restless you will throw his yoke from off your neck Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him he said to himself the days of Mourning for my father are near then I will kill my brother Jacob when Rebecca was told what her older son Esau had said she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you now then my son do what

I say flee at once to my brother laan and Heron stay with him for a while until your brother's Fury subsides when your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him I'll send word for you to come back from there why should I lose both of you in one day then Rebecca said to Isaac I'm disgusted with living because of these hittite women if Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land from hittite women like these my life will not be worth [Music] living Genesis 28 so

Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him then he commanded him do not marry a Canaanite woman so at once to pad and arum to the house of your mother's father bethuel take a wife for yourself there from among the daughters of laan your mother's brother may may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples may he give you in your Descendants the blessing given to Abraham so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner the land God gave

to Abraham then Isaac sent Jacob on his way and he went to Padden Aram to laan son of bethu the aramean the brother of Rebecca who is the mother of Jacob and Esau now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to pad and Aram to take a wife from there and that when he blessed him he commanded him do not marry a Canaanite woman and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to pad and Aram Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac

so he went to Ishmael and married mahalath the sister of nooth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham in addition to the wives he already had Jacob left beer Sheba and set out for haran when he reached a certain place he stopped for the night because the sun had set taking one of the stones there he put it under his head and lay down to sleep he had a dream in which he saw a Stairway resting on the earth with its top reaching to heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it

there above it stood the Lord and he said I am the Lord the god of your father Abraham and the god of Isaac I will give you and your Descendants the land on which you are lying your descendants will be like the dust of the earth and you will spread out to the west and to the east to the north and to the South All Peoples on Earth will be blessed through you and your Offspring I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go and I will bring you back to the this

land I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you when Jacob awoke from his sleep he thought surely the Lord is in this place and I was not aware of it he was afraid and said how awesome is this place this is none other than the house of God this is the Gate of Heaven early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it he called that place bethl though the city used to

be called LZ then Jacob made a vow saying if God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father's household then the Lord will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house and of all that you give me I will will give you a tenth Genesis 29 then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the Eastern peoples there

he saw a well in the open country with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well the stone over the mouth of the well was large when all the flocks were gathered there the Shepherds would roll away the Stone from the Well's mouth and water the Sheep then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well Jacob asked the Shepherds my brothers where are you from We're from Haron they replied he said to them do you know laan nahor's grandson yes we know him

they answered then Jacob asked them is he well yes he is they said and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep look he said the sun is still high it is not time for the flocks to be gathered water the sheep and take them back to pasture we can't they replied until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well then we will water the Sheep while he was still talking with them Rachel came with her father's sheep for she was a Shepherd when Jacob saw

Rachel daughter of his uncle laan and laan's sheep he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud he had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebecca so she ran and told her father as soon as laan heard the news about Jacob his sister's son he hurried to meet him he embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home and there Jacob told him all these things then laan

said to him You are my own flesh and blood after Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month laan said to him just because you are a relative of mine should you work for me for nothing tell me what your wages should be now laan had two daughters the name of the older was Leah and the name of the younger was Rachel Leah had weak eyes but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful Jacob was in love with Rachel and said I'll work for you 7 years in return for your younger daughter Rachel

laan said it's better that I give her to you than to some other man stay here with me so Jacob served seven years to get Rachel but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her then Jacob said to laan give me my wife my time is completed and I want to make love to her so laan brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast but when evening came he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob and Jacob made love to her and laan

gave his servant zilpa to his daughter as her attendant when morning came there was Leah so Jacob said to laan what is this you have done to me I served you for Rachel didn't I why have you deceived me a replied it is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one finish this daughter's Bridal week and then we will Give you the younger one also in return for another s years of work and Jacob did so he finished the week with Leah and then laan gave him his daughter

Rachel to be his wife laan gave his servant bilha to his daughter Rachel as her attendant Jacob made love to Rachel also and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah and he worked for laan another 7 years when the Lord saw that Leah was not loved he enabled her to conceive but Rachel remained childless Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son she named him Reuben for she said it is because the Lord has seen my misery surely my husband will love me now she conceived again and when she gave

birth to his son she said because the Lord has heard that I am not loved he gave me this one too so she named him Simeon again she conceived and when she gave birth to a son she said now at last my husband will become attached to me because I have borne him three sons so he was named Levi she conceived again and when she gave birth to his son she said this time I will praise the Lord so she named him Judah then she stopped having children Genesis 30 When Rachel saw that she was

not bearing Jacob any children she became jealous of her sister so she said to Jacob give me children or I'll die Jacob became angry with her and said am I in the place of God who has kept you from having children then she said said here is bilha my servant sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her so she gave him her servant bilha as a wife Jacob slept with her and she became pregnant and bore him a son then Rachel said God has

Vindicated me he has listened to my plea and given me a son because of this she named him Dan Rachel's servant bilha conceived again and bore Jacob a second son then Rachel said I have had a great struggle with my sister and I have won so she named him naftali when Leah saw that she had stopped having children she took her servant zilpa and gave her to Jacob as a wife Leah's servant zilpa bore Jacob a son then Leah said what a good fortune so she named him Gad Leah's servant Zila bore Jacob a second

son then Leah said how happy I am the women will call me happy so she named him Asher during wheat Harvest Reuben went out into the fields and found some Mandrake plants which he brought to his mother Leah Rachel said to Leah please give me some of your son's mandres but she said to her wasn't it enough that you took away my husband will you take My son's Mand Dres too very well Rachel said he can sleep with you tonight in return for your Sons mandres so when Jacob came in from the fields that evening

Leo went out to meet him you must sleep with me she said I have hired you with my son's mandres so he slept with her that night God listened to Leah and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son then Leah said God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband so she named him isachar Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son then Leah said God has presented me with a precious gift this time my husband will treat me with honor because I have borne him six Sons so she named

him zebulun sometime later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dena then God remembered Rachel he listened to her and enabled her to conceive she became pregnant and gave birth to his son and said God has taken away my disgrace she named him Joseph and said may the Lord add to me another son after Rachel gave birth to Joseph Jacob said to laan send me on my way so I can go back to my own Homeland give me my wives and children for whom I have served you and I will be on my

way you know how much work I've done for you but laan said to him if I have found favor In your eyes please please stay I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you he added name your wages and I will pay them Jacob said to him you know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care the little you had before I came has increased greatly and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been but now when may I do something for my

own household what shall I give you he asked don't give me anything Jacob replied but if you will do this one thing for me I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep every dark colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat they will be my wages and my honesty will testify for me in the future whenever you check on the wages you have paid me any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted or

any lamb that is not dark colored will be considered stolen agreed said laan let it be as you have said that same day he removed all the male goats that were stre or spotted and all the speckled or spotted female goats all that had white on them and all the dark colored lambs and he placed them in the care of his sons then he put a three-day Journey between himself and Jacob while Jacob continued to tend the the rest of laan's flocks Jacob however took fresh cut branches from popler almond and plain Trees and made

white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink when the flocks were in heat and came to drink they made it in front of the branches and they bore young that were stre or speckled or spotted Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves but made the rest face the stre and dark colored animals that belonged to Laban thus he

made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with laan's animals whenever the stronger females were in heat Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches but if the animals were weak he would not place them there so the weak animals went to laan and the strong ones to Jacob in this way the men grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys Genesis 31 Jacob heard that laan's Sons were saying Jacob has taken

everything Our Father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father and Jacob noticed that laan's attitude toward him was not what it had been then the Lord said to Jacob go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives and I will be with You so Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were he said to them I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before but the god of my father has been with me

you know that I've worked for your father with all my strength yet your father has cheated Me by ch changing my wages 10 times however God has not allowed him to harm me if he said the speckled ones will be your wages then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young and if he said the street ones will be your wages then all the flocks bore Street young so God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me in breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw

that the male goats mating with the flock were beaked speckled or spotted the angel of God said to me in the dream Jacob I answered here I am and he said look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are stre speckled or spotted for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you I am the god of bethl where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me now leave this land at once and go back to your native land then Rachel and Leah replied do

we still have any share in the inheritance of our father's estate does he not regard us as foreigners not only has he sold us but he has used up what was paid for us Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children so do whatever God has told you then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels and he drove all his livestock ahead of him along with all the good Goods he had accumulated in pad and Aram to go to his father Isaac in the land

of Canaan when laan had gone to Shear his sheep Rachel stole her father's household Gods moreover Jacob deceived laan the aramean by not telling him he was running away so he fled with all he had crossed the Euphrates river and headed for the Hill Country of Gilead on the third day laan was told that Jacob had fled taking his relativ lives with him he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the Hill Country of Gilead then God came to laan the aramean in a dream at night and said to him be

careful not to say anything to Jacob either good or bad Jacob had pitched his tent in the Hill Country of Gilead when laan overtook him and laan and his relatives camped there too then laan said to Jacob what have you done you've deceived me and you've carried off my daughters like captives in war why did you run off secretly and deceive me why didn't you tell me so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timberl and harps you didn't even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughter's goodbye you

have done a foolish thing I have the power to harm you but Last night the god of your fathers said to me be careful not to say anything to Jacob either good or bad now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father's household but why did you steal my gods Jacob answered laan I was afraid because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force but if you find anyone who has your gods that person shall not live in the presence of our relatives see for yourself whether there

is anything of yours here with me and if so take it now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods so laan went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants but he found nothing after he came out of Leah's tent he entered Rachel's tent now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel saddle and was sitting on them laan searched through everything in the tent but found nothing Rachel said to her father don't be angry my Lord Lord that I cannot

stand up in your presence I'm having my period so he searched but could not find the household Gods Jacob was angry and took laan to task what is my crime he asked laan how have I wronged you that you hunt me down now that you have searched through all my goods what have you found that belongs to your household put it here in front of your relatives and mine and let them judge between the two of us I have been with you for 20 years now your sheep and goats have not miscarried nor have I

eaten Rams from your flocks I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts I bore the loss myself and you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night this was my situation the heat consumed me in the daytime in the cold at night and sleep fled from my eyes it was like this for the 20 years I was in your household I worked for you 14 years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks and you changed my wages 10 times if the god of my father the god

of Abraham and the fear of Isaac had not been with me you would surely have sent me away empty-handed but God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands and last night he rebuked you Laban answered Jacob the women are my daughters the children are my children and the flocks are my flocks all you see is mine yet what can I do today about these Daughters of mine or about the children they have born come now let's make a covenant you and I and let it serve as a witness between us so Jacob

took a stone and set it up as a pillar he said to his relatives gather some Stones so they took stones and piled them them in a heap and they ate there by the Heap laan called it SE Hadua and Jacob called it galed laan said this Heap is a witness between you and me today that is why it was called galed it was also called mispah because he said may the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other if you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives

besides my daughters even though no one is with us remember that God is a witness between you and me laan also said to Jacob here is this Heap and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me this Heap is a witness and this pillar is a witness that I will not go past this Heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this Heap and pillar to my side to harm me May the god of Abraham and the god of nahor the god of their father judge

between us so Jacob took an oath in the name of the fear of his father Isaac he offered a sacrifice there in the Hill Country and invited his relatives to a meal after they had eaten they spent the night there early the next morning laan kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them then he left and returned home Genesis CH 32 Jacob also went on his way and the angels of God met him when Jacob saw them he said this is the camp of God so he named that place Mahanaim Jacob sent Messengers ahead

of him to his brother Esau in the land of seer the country of Edom he instructed them this is what you are to say to my Lord Esau your servant Jacob says I have been staying with laan and have remained there until now I have cattle and donkeys sheep and goats male and female servants now I am sending this message to my Lord that I may find favor in your eyes when The Messengers returned to Jacob they said we went to your brother Esau and now he is coming to meet you and 400 men are

with him in great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups and the flocks and herds and camels as well he thought if Esau comes and attacks one group the group that is left May Escape then Jacob prayed oh god of My Father Abraham God of my father Isaac Lord you who said to me go back to your country and your relatives and I will make you prosper I am Unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant I had only my staff when I crossed this

Jordan but now I have become two camps save me I pray from the hand of my brother Esau for I am afraid he will come and attack me and also the mothers with their children but you have said I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea which cannot be counted he spent the night there and From what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau 200 female goats and 20 male goats 200 's and 20 Rams 30 female camels with their young 40

cows and 10 bulls and 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys he put them in the care of his servants each herd by itself and said to his servants go ahead of me and keep some space between the herds he instructed the one in the lead when my brother Esau meets you and asks who do you belong to and where are you going and who owns all these animals in front of you then you are to say they belong to your servant Jacob they are a gift sent to my Lord Esau and he is coming

behind us he also instructed the second the third and all the others who followed the herds you are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him and be sure to say your servant Jacob is coming behind us for he thought I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead later when I see him perhaps perap he will receive me so Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him but he himself spent the night in the camp that night Jacob got up and took his two wives his two female servants and

his 11 sons and crossed the Ford of the jabc after he had sent them across the stream he sent over all his possessions so Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him till Daybreak When the man saw that he could not overpower him he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man then the man said let me go for it is Daybreak but Jacob replied I will not let you go unless you bless me the man asked him what is your name Jacob he

answered then the man said your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome Jacob said please tell me your name but he replied why do you ask my name then he blessed him there so Jacob called the place penel saying it is because I saw God face to face and yet my life was spared the sun rose above him as he passed penel and he he was limping because of his hip therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to

the socket of the hip because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon Genesis 33 Jacob looked up and there was Esau coming with his 400 men so he divided the children among Leah Rachel and the two female servants he put the female servants and their children in front Leah and her children next and Rachel and Joseph in the rear he himself went on ahead and bowed Down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother but Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him he threw his arms around his neck and

kissed him and they wept then Esau looked up and saw the women and children who are these is with you he asked Jacob answered they are the children God has graciously given your servant then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down next Leah and her children came and bowed down last of all came Joseph and Rachel and they too bowed down Esau asked what's the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met to find favor in your eyes my Lord he said but Esau said I already have plenty my brother keep

what you have for yourself no please said Jacob if I have found favor in your eyes accept this gift from me for to see your face is like seeing the face of God now that you have received me favorably please accept the present that was brought to you for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need and because Jacob insisted Esau accepted it then Esau said let us be on our way I'll accompany you but Jacob said to him my Lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care

for the use and cows that are Nursing their young if they are driven hard just one day all the animals will die so let my Lord go on ahead of his servant while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children until I come to my Lord in seir Esau said then let me leave some of my men with you but why do that Jacob asked just let me find favor in the eyes of my Lord so that day Esau started on his way back

to sear Jacob however went to sakth where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock that is why the place is called sakth after Jacob came from pad and Aram he arrived safely at the city of shakim in Canaan and camped within sight of the city for a 100 pieces of silver he bought from the sons of hmar the father of shakem the plot of ground where he pitched his tent there he set up an altar and called it l Elway Israel Genesis 34 now Dena the daughter Leah had born to

Jacob went out to visit the women of the land when sheam son of hamor the hivite the ruler of that area saw her he took her and raped her his heart was drawn to Dena daughter of Jacob he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her and sheam said to his father hamor get me this girl as my wife when Jacob heard that his daughter Dena had been defiled his sons were in the fields with His livestock so he did nothing about it until they came home then sheck's father hamor went out to talk

with Jacob meanwhile Jacob's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened they were shocked and Furious because sheim had done an outrageous thing in Israel by Sleeping with Jacob's daughter a thing that should not be done but hamor said to them my son sheim has his heart set on your daughter please give her to him as his wife inter marry with us give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves you can settle Among Us the land is open to you live in it trade in it and

acquire property in it then sheam said to dena's father and brothers let me find favor in your eyes and I will give you whatever you ask make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like and I'll pay whatever you ask me only give me the young woman as my wife because their sister Dena had been defiled Jacob's sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to sheim and his father hore they said to them we can't do such a thing we can't give our sister to a man who

is not circumcised that would be a disgrace to us we will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only that you become Like Us by circumcising all your males then we will give you our daughter and take your daughters for ourselves we'll settle among you and become one People with you but if you will not agree to be circumcised we'll take our sister and go their proposal seemed good to homore and his son sheam the young man who was the most honored of all his father's family lost no time in doing what they

said because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter so hamor and his son sheam went to the gate of their City to speak to the men of their City these men are friendly toward us they said let them live in our land and trade in it the land has plenty of room for them we can marry their daughters and they can marry ours but the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised as they themselves are won't their livestock their property and all their other animals

become ours so let us agree to their terms and they will settle Among Us all the men who went out of the city gate agreed with hore and his son sheam and every male in the city was circumcised 3 days later while all of them were still in pain two of Jacob's sons Simeon and Levi dena's Brothers took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting City killing every male they put hamor and his son sheam to the sword and took Dena from sheck's house and left the sons of Jacob Came Upon on the dead bodies and

looted the city where their sister had been defiled They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in The city and out in the fields They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children taking us plunder everything in the houses then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi you have brought Trouble On Me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and perizzites the people living in this land land we are few in number and if they join forces against me and attack me I and my household will be destroyed

but they replied should he have treated our sister like a prostitute Genesis 35 then God said to Jacob go up to bethl and settle there and build an altar there to God who appeared to you when you you were fleeing from your brother Esau so Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him get rid of the foreign Gods you have with you and purify yourselves and change your clothes then come let us go up to bethl where I will build an altar to God who answered me in the day of my

distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone so they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears and Jacob buried them under the oak at sheam then they set out and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them Jacob and all the people with him came to L that is bethl in the land of Canaan there he built an altar and he Called The Place El bethl because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he

was fleeing from his brother now Deborah Rebecca's nurse died and was buried under the oak outside bethl so it was named Alan Bak after Jacob returned from Paden Aram God appeared to him again and blessed him God said to him your name is Jacob but you will no longer be called Jacob your name will be Israel so he named him Israel and God said to him I am God Almighty be fruitful and increase in number a nation and a community of Nations will come from you and Kings will be among your Descendants the land I

gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you and I will give this land to your descendants after you then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him and he poured out a drink offering on it he also poured oil on it then Jacob called the place where God had talked with him bethl then they moved on from bethl while they were still some distance from ephrath Rachel began to give birth and had great

difficulty and as she was having great difficulty in childbirth the Midwife said to her don't despair for you have another son as she breathed her last for she was dying she named her son Ben Onai but his father named him [Music] Benjamin so Rachel died and was buried on the way to ephrath that is Bethlehem over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's Tomb Israel moved on again and pitched his tent Beyond migdal Eder while Israel was living in that region Reuben went in and slept with his

father's concubine BHA and Israel heard of it Jacob had 12 sons the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Jacob Simeon Levi Judah issachar and zebulun the sons of Rachel Joseph and Benjamin the sons of Rachel's servant bilha Dan and naftali the sons of Lea's servant zilpa Gad and Asher these were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paden Aram Jacob came home to his father Isaac in mamre near kirath arba that is Hein where Abraham and Isaac had stayed Isaac lived 180 years then he breathed his last and died and was gathered

to his people old and full of years and his sons Esau and Jacob buried Him Genesis 36 this is the account of the family line of Esau that is Edom Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan Ada daughter of Elon the hittite and a b daughter of Ana and granddaughter of zon the hivite also basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of nooth adab bore elifaz to Esau basemath bore Ruel and aoli B bore jush jalam and Kora these were the sons of Esau who were born to him in Canaan Esau took his wives

and Sons and daughters and all the members of his household as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob their possessions were too great for them to remain together the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock so Esau that is Edom settled in the Hill Country of seir this is the account of the family line of Esau the father of the in the Hill Country of seir these are

the names of Esau's Sons elifaz the son of Esau's wife adaah and Ruel the son of Esau's wife bth the sons of elifas Taman Omar zepo gam and Kos Esau's son elifaz also had a concubine named timna Who Bore him amalec these were grandsons of Esau's wife adah the Sons of Ruel nth Zarah shama and miza these were grandsons of Esau's wife basmath the sons of Esau's wife aama daughter of Ana and granddaughter of zon whom she bore to Esau jush jalam and Kora these were the Chiefs among Esau's descendants the sons of elifaz the

firstborn of Esau Chiefs tamon Omar zepo Kaz Kora gatam and amalec these were the Chiefs descended from elifaz and Edom they were grandsons of adah the sons of Esau's son Ruel Chiefs nah Zarah shama and mizah these were the Chiefs descended from Ruel and Edom they were grandsons of Esau's wife basemath the sons of Esau's wife aib Chiefs J jalam and Kora these were the Chiefs descended from Esau's wife AOL daughter of Ana these were the sons of Esau that is Edom and these were their Chiefs these were the sons of seir the horite who

were living in the region Lon shobal zon Ana deson azir and desan these sons of seir and Edom were horite Chiefs the sons of Len Hy and homom timna was Lan's sister the sons of shobal alvan manath Ebal shefo and onam the sons of zon Aya and Anna this is the Anna who discovered the hot springs in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zeon the children of Anna deson and aoli B daughter of Anna the sons of deson hemdon esbon ithon and Kon the sons of Azar bilhan zavan and akan

the sons of desan O and aan these were the horite Chiefs Lon shobal zon Ana deson AAR and desan these were the horite Chiefs according to their divisions in the land of seer these were the Kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite King reigned Bala son of Bor became king of Edom his city was named dinhabah when Bala died jobab son of Zarah from bzra succeeded him as king when jobab died hasham from the land of the tonit succeeded him as king when hasham died Hadad son of badad who defeated Midian in the country

of Moab succeeded him as king his city was named ath when Hadad died samla from mrea succeeded him as king when samla died Shaul from reoboth on the river succeeded him as king when Shaul died B Hanan son of akbor succeeded him as king when B Hanan son of akbor died Hadad succeeded him as king his daughter was named Po and his wife's name was mahel daughter of matre the daughter of May zahab these were the Chiefs descended from Esau by name according to their Clans and regions timna Alva jath AOL Bama aah Pon kanaz

Taman mibar magdiel and irum these were the chiefs of Edom according to their settlements in the land they occupied this is the family line of Esau the father of the [Music] Genesis 37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed the land of Canaan this is the account of Jacob's family line Joseph a young man of 17 was tending the flocks with his brothers the sons of bilha and the sons of zilpa his father's wives and he brought their father a bad report about them now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his

other Sons because he had been born to him in his old age and he made an ornate Robe for him when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him Joseph had a dream and when he told it to his brothers they hated him all the more he said to them listen to this dream I had we were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheath Rose and stood upright while your sheaves gathered around mine and

bowed down to it his brother said to him do you intend to Reign Over Us will you actually rule us and they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said then he had another dream and he told it to his brothers listen he said I had another dream and this time the sun and moon and 11 Stars were bowing down to me when he told his father as well as his brothers his father rebuked him and said what is this dream you had will your mother and I and your

brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you his brothers were jealous of him but his father kept the matter in mind now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near shakem and Israel said to Joseph as you know your brothers are grazing the flocks near shakam come I'm going to send you you to them very well he replied so he said to him go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks and bring word back to me then he sent him off from the valley of

Hein when Joseph arrived at shakem a man found him Wandering around in the fields and asked him what are you looking for he replied I'm looking for my brothers can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks they have moved on from here the man answered I heard them say let's go to Dothan so Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan but they saw him in the distance and before he reached them they plotted to kill him here comes that dreamer they said to each other come now let's kill him and

throw him into one of these sisters and say that a ferocious animal devoured him then we'll see what comes of his dreams when Reuben heard this he tried to rescue him from their hands let's not take his life he said don't shed any blood throw him into this sistern here in the wilderness and don't lay a hand on him Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father so when Joseph came to his brothers they stripped him of his robe the ornate robe he was wearing and they took him

and threw him into the sistern the sistern was empty there was no water in it as they sat down to eat their meal they looked up and saw a caravan of ishmaelites coming from Gilead their camels were loaded with spices balm and myrrh and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt Judas said to his brothers what will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood come let's sell him to the ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him after all he is our brother our Own flesh and

blood his brothers agreed so when the midianite merchants came by his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the sistern and sold him for 20 shekels of silver to the ishmaelites who took him to Egypt when Reuben returned to the sistern and saw that Joseph was not there he tore his clothes he went to his brothers and said the boy isn't there where can I turn now then they got Joseph's robe slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood they took the ornate robe back to their father and said we found this examine it

to see whether it is your son's robe he recognized it and said it is my son's robe some ferocious animal has devoured him Joseph has surely been Torn to Pieces then Jacob tore his clothes put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days all his sons and daughters came to comfort him but he refused to be comforted no he said I I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave so his father wept for him meanwhile the midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Piper one of Pharaoh's officials the captain of

the Guard Genesis 38 at that time Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of a dullum named hyra there Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man man named shua he married her and made love to her She became pregnant and gave birth to a son who was named ER she conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan she gave birth to still another son and named him Sheila it was at kzb that she gave birth to him Judah got a wife for ER his firstborn and

her name was Tamar but ER Judas firstborn was wicked in the Lord's sight so the Lord put him to death then Judas said to Onan sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up Offspring for your brother but Onan knew that the child would not be his so whenever he slept with his brother's wife he spilled his seen on the ground to keep from providing Offspring for his brother what he did was wicked in the Lord's sight so the Lord put him to death also Judah then said

to his daughter-in-law Tamar live as a widow in your father's household until my son Sheila grows up for he thought he may die too just like his brothers so Tamar went to live in her father's household after a long time judah's wife the daughter of shua died when Judah had recovered from his grief he went up to timna to The Men Who were shearing his sheep and his friend hyra the adelite went with him when Tamar was told your father-in-law is on his way to timna to Shear his sheep she took off her widow's clothes

covered herself with a veil to disguise herself and then sat down at the entrance of anim which is on the Road to timna for she saw that though Sheila had now grown up she had not been given to him as his wife when Judah saw her he thought she was a prostitute for she had covered her face not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law he went over to to her by the roadside and said come now let me sleep with you and what will you give me to sleep with you she asked I'll send you

a young goat from my flock he said will you give me something as a pledge until you send it she asked he said what pledge should I give you your seal and its cord and the staff in your hand she answered so he gave them to her and slept with her and she became pregnant by him after she left she took off her veil and put on her widow's clothes again meanwhile Judas sent the young goat by his friend the adelite in order to get his pledge back from the woman but he did not find

her he asked the men who lived there where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at anim there hasn't been any Shrine prostitute here they said so he went back to Judah and said I didn't find her besides the men who lived there said they hasn't been any Shrine prostitute here then Judas said let her keep what she has or we will become a laughing stock after all I did send her this young goat but you didn't find her about 3 months later Judah was told your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of Prostitution and

as a result she is now pregnant Judah said bring her out and have her burn to death as she was being brought out she said sent a message to her father-in-law I am pregnant by the man who owns these she said and she added see if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are Judo recognized them and said she is more righteous than I since I wouldn't give her to my son Sheila and he did not sleep with her again when the time came for her to give birth there were twin boys in

her womb as she was giving birth one of them put out his hand so the Midwife took a Scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said this one came out first but when he drew back his hand his brother came out and she said so this is how you have broken out and he was named Perez then his brother who had the Scarlet thread on his wrist came out and he was named [Music] Zarah Genesis 39 now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt potier an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials the

captain of the Guard brought him from the ishmaelites who had taken him there the Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered and he lived in the house of his Egyptian Master when his master saw that the Lord Was with him and that the lord gave him success in everything he did Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant potier put him in charge of his house household and he entrusted to his care everything he owned from the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned the

Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph the blessing of the Lord was on everything potier had both in the house and in the field so potier left everything he had in Joseph's care with Joseph in charge he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate now Joseph was wellb built and handsome and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said come to bed with me but he refused with me in charge he told her my master does not concern himself with anything in the house everything

he owns he has entrusted to my care no one is greater in this house than I am my master has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife how then then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God and though she spoke to Joseph day after day he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her one day he went into the house to attend to his duties and none of the household servants was inside she caught him by his cloak and said come to bed with

me but he left his cloak in her Hand and ran out of the house when she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and he ran out of the house she called her household servants look she said to them this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us he came in here to sleep with me but I screamed when he heard me scream for help he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house she kept his cloak beside her until his master came home then she told

him this story that Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me but as soon as I screamed for help he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house when his master heard the story his wife told him saying this is how your slave treated me he burned with anger Joseph's Master took him and put him in prison the place where the king's prisoners were confined but while Joseph was there in prison the Lord was with him he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of

the prison Warden so the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison and he was made responsible for all that was done there the warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did Genesis 40 sometime later the cup Bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their Master the king of Egypt Pharaoh was angry with his two officials the chief cup Bearer and the chief Baker And put them in custody in the house of the captain

of the guard in the same prison where Joseph was confined the captain of the Guard assigned them to Joseph and he attended them after they had been in custody for some time each of the two men the cup Bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt who were being held in prison had a dream the same night and each dream had a meaning of its own when Joseph came to them the next morning he saw that they were dejected so he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house why

do you look so sad today we both had dreams they answered but there is no one to interpret them then Joseph said to them do not interpretations belong to God tell me your dreams so the chief cup Bearer told Joseph his dream he said to him in my dream I saw a Vine in front of me and on the vine were three branches as soon as it budded it blossomed and its clusters ripened into grapes Pharaoh's cup was in my hand and I took the grapes squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup and put the cup in

his hand this is what it means Joseph said to him the three branches are three days within 3 days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position and you will put Pharaoh's Cup in his hand just as you used to do when you were his cup Bearer but when all goes well for you remember me and show me kindness mention me to pharaoh and get Me out of this prison I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in

a dungeon when the chief Baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation he said to Joseph I too had a dream on my head were three baskets of bread in the top basket baset were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head this is what it means Joseph said the three baskets are 3 days within 3 days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole and the birds will eat away your flesh now the third day was Pharaoh's

birthday and he gave A Feast for all his officials he lifted up the heads of the chief cup Bearer and the Chief Baker in the presence of his officials He restored the chief cup Bearer to his position so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand but he impaled the chief Baker just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation the chief cup Bearer however did not remember Joseph he forgot him Genesis 41 when two f years had passed Pharaoh had a dream he was standing by the Nile when out of the

river there came up seven cows sleek and fat and they grazed among the Reeds after them seven other cows Ugly and gaunt came up out of the Nile and Stood Beside those on the riverbank and the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven Sleek fat cows then Pharaoh woke up he fell asleep again and had a second dream seven heads of grain healthy and good were growing on a single stock after them seven other heads of grain sprouted thin and scorched by the East Wind the thin heads of grain swallowed up the

seven healthy full heads then Pharaoh woke up it had been a dream in the morning his mind was troubled so he sent for All The Magicians and wise men of Egypt Pharaoh told them his dreams but no one could interpret them for him then the chief cup Bearer said to Pharaoh today I am reminded of my shortcomings Pharaoh was once again angry with his servants and he imprisoned me and the chief Baker in the house of the captain of the Guard each of us had a dream the same night and each dream had a meaning

of its own now a young Hebrew was there with us a servant of the captain of the Guard we told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us give giving each man the interpretation of his dream and things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us I was restored to my position and the other man was impaled so Pharaoh sent for Joseph and he was quickly brought from the dungeon When he had shaved and changed his clothes he came before Pharaoh Pharaoh said to Joseph I had a dream and no one can interpret

it but I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it I cannot do it Joseph replied to Pharaoh but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires then Pharaoh said to Joseph in my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile when out of the river there came up seven cows fat and sleek and they grazed among the Reeds after them seven other cows came up scrawny and very ugly and lean I never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt the lean ugly

cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first but even after they ate them no one could tell that they had done so they looked just as ugly as before then I woke up in my dream I saw seven heads of grain full and good growing on a single stalk after them seven other heads sprouted withered and thin and scorched by the East Wind the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads I told this to The Magicians but none of them could explain it to me then Joseph said to Pharaoh

the dreams of pharaoh are one and the same God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do the seven good cows are seven years and the Seven good heads of Grain are seven years it is one and the same dream the seven lean ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the East Wind they are seven years of famine it is good as I said to Pharaoh God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do seven years of great abundance are

coming throughout the land of Egypt but seven years of famine will follow them then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten and the famine will ravage the land the abundance in the land will not be remembered because the famine that follows it will be so severe the reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God and God will do it soon and now let Pharaoh look for a Discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt let Pharaoh appoint

Commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the Harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance they should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of pharaoh to be kept in the cities for food this food should be held in reserve for the country to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt so that the country may not be ruined by the famine the plan seemed good to pharaoh and to all his officials so Pharaoh asked them

can we find anyone like this man one in whom is The spirit of God then Pharaoh said to Joseph since God has made all this known to you there is no one so Discerning and wise as you you should be in charge of my Palace and all my people are to submit to your orders only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you so Pharaoh said to Joseph I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt then Pharaoh took his senette ring from a finger and put it on Joseph's

finger he dressed him in Robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck he had him ride in a chariot as his second in command and people shouted before him make way thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt then Pharaoh said to Joseph I am Pharaoh but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt Pharaoh gave Joseph the name zephan pinea and gave him asnath daughter of paapa priest of an to be his wife and Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt Joseph

was 30 years old when he entered the service of pharaoh king of Egypt and Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout Egypt during the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities in each City he put the food grown in the Fields surrounding it Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain like the sand of the sea it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure before the years of

famine came two sons were born to Joseph by azna Daughter of poera priest of an Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said it is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household the second son he named Ephraim and said it is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering the seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end and the seven years of famine began just as Joseph had said there was famine in all the other lands but in the whole land of Egypt there

was food when all Egypt began to feel the famine the people cry to Pharaoh for food then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians go to Joseph and do what he tells you when the famine had spread over the whole country Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians for the famine was severe throughout Egypt and all the world came to Egypt to buy Grain from Joseph because the famine was severe everywhere Genesis 4 42 when Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt he said to his sons why do you just keep looking at

each other he continued I have heard that there is grain in Egypt go down there and buy Some for us so that we may live and not die then 10 of Joseph's brothers went down to buy Grain from Egypt but Jacob did not send Benjamin Joseph's brother with the others because he was afraid that harm might come to him so Israel's Sons were among those who went to buy Grain for there was famine in the land of Canaan also now Joseph was the governor of the land the person who sold grain to all its people

so when Joseph's brothers arrived they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground as soon as Joseph saw his brothers he recognized them but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them where do you come from he asked from the land of Canaan they replied to buy food although Joseph recognized his brothers they did not recognize him then he remembered his dreams about them and said to them you are spies you have come to see where our land is unprotected no my Lord they answered your servants have come to buy

food we are all the sons of one man your servants are honest men not spies no he said to them you have come to see where our land is unprotected but they replied your servants were 12 brothers the sons of one man who lives in the land of Canaan the youngest is now with our father and one is no more Joseph said to them it is just as I told you you are spies and this is how You will be tested as surely as Pharaoh lives you will not not leave this place unless your youngest

brother comes here send one of your number to get your brother the rest of you will be kept in prison so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth if you are not then as surely as Pharaoh lives you are spies and he put them all in custody for 3 Days on the third day Joseph said to them do this and you will live for I Fear God if you are honest men let one of your brothers stay here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain

back for your starving households but you must bring your youngest brother to me so that your words may be verified and that you may not die this they proceeded to do they said to one another surely we are being punished because of our brother we saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life but we would not listen that's why this distress Has Come On Us Reuben replied didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy but you wouldn't listen now we must give an accounting for his blood they did

not realize that Joseph could understand them since he was using an interpreter he turned away from them and began to weep but then came back and spoke to them again he had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes Joseph gave orders to fill their bags With grain to put each man silver back in his sack and to give them Provisions for their Journey after this was done for them they loaded their Grain on their donkeys and left at the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get

feed for his donkey and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack my silver has been returned he said to his brothers here it is in my sack their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said what is this that God has done to us when they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan they told him all that had happened to them they said the man who was Lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land but we

said to him we are honest men we are not spies we were 12 Brothers sons of one father one is no more and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan then the man who was Lord over the land said to us this is how I will know whether you are honest men leave one of your brothers here with me and take food for your starving households and go but bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men then I will give your brother back to

you and you can trade in the land as they were emptying their sacks there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver when they and their father saw the money pouches they were frightened their father Jacob said to them you have deprived me of my children Joseph is no More and Simeon is no more and now you want to take Benjamin everything is against me then Ruben said to his father you may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you entrust him to my care and I

will bring him back but Jacob said my son will not go down there with you his brother is dead and he is the only one left if harm comes to him on the journey you are taking you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow Genesis 43 now the famine was still severe in the land so when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt their fathers said to them go back and and buy us a little more food but Judas said to him the man warned us solemnly you

will not see my face again unless your brother is with you if you will send our brother along with us we will go down and buy food for you but if you will not send him we will not go down because the man said to us you will not see my face again unless your brother is with you Israel asked why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother they said the man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family is your father still living he asked us do

you have another brother we simply answered his questions how are we to Know he would say bring your brother down here then Judas said to Israel his father send the boy along with me and we will go at once so that we and you and our children may live and not die I myself will guarantee his safety you can hold me personally responsible for him if I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you I will bear the blame before you all my life as it is if we had not

delayed we could have gone and returned twice then their father Israel said to them if it must be then do this put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down down to the man as a gift a little balm and a little honey some spices and myrrh some pistachio nuts and almonds take double the amount of silver with you for you must return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your Sachs perhaps it was a mistake take your brother also and go back to the man

at once and may God Almighty grant you Mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you as for me if I am bed I am bereaved so the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver and Benjamin also they hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph when Joseph saw Benjamin with him he said to the steward of his house take these men to my house Slaughter an animal and Prepare a meal they are to eat with me at noon the man did as

Joseph told him and took the men to Joseph's house now the men were frightened when they were taken to his house they thought we were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our Sachs the first time he wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys so they went up to Joseph's Steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house we beg your pardon our Lord they said we came down here the first time to BU food but at the place where we

stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver the exact weight in the mouth of his sack so we have brought it back with us we have also brought additional silver with us to buy food we don't know who put our silver in our sacks it's all right he said don't be afraid your God the god of your father has given you treasure in your sacks I received your silver then he brought Simeon out to them the steward took the men into Joseph's house gave them water to wash their

feet and provided fodder for their donkeys they prepared their gifts for Joseph's arrival at noon because they heard they were to eat there when Joseph came home they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house and they bowed before him to the ground he asked them how they were and then he said how is your aged father you Told me about is he still living they replied your servant our father is still alive and well and they bowed down prostrating themselves before him as he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin his

own Mother's Son he asked is this your younger brother the one you told me about and he said God be gracious to you my son deeply moved at the sight of of his brother Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep he went into his private room and wept there after he had washed his face he came out and controlling himself said serve the food they served him by himself the brothers by themselves and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews for that is detestable to

Egyptians the man had been seated before him in the order of their ages from the firstborn to the youngest and they looked at each other in astonishment when portions were served to them from Joseph's table Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's so they feasted and drank freely with [Music] Him Genesis 44 now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack then put my cup the silver one in

the mouth of the youngest one's sack along with the silver for his grain and he did as Joseph said as morning dawned the men were sent on their way with their donkeys they had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his Steward go after those men at once and when you catch up with them say to them why have you repaid good with evil isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination this is a wicked thing you have done when he caught up with them he repeated these

words to them but they said to him why does my Lord say such things far be it from your servants to do anything like that we even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our Sachs so why would we steal silver or gold from your Master's house if any of your servants is found a habit he will die and the rest of us will become my Lord's slaves very well then he said let it be as you say whoever is found to have it will become

my slave the rest of you will be free from blame each of them quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it then the steward proceeded to search beginning with the oldest and ending With the youngest and the cup was found and Benjamin sat at this they tore their clothes then they all loaded their donkeys and returned to the city Joseph was still in the house when Judah and his brothers came in and they threw themselves to the ground before him Joseph said to them what is this you have done don't you know that

a man like me can find things out by divination what can we say to my Lord Judah replied what can we say how can we prove our innocence God has uncovered your servants guilt we are now my Lord's slaves we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup but Joseph said far be it from me to do such a thing only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave the rest of you go back to your father in peace then Judah went up to him and said pardon

your servant my Lord let me speak a word to my Lord do not be angry with your servant though you are equal to Pharaoh himself my Lord asked his servants do you have a father or a brother and we answered we have an aged father and there is a young son born to him in his old age his brother is dead and he is the only one of his mother's sons left and his father loves him then you said to your servants bring him down to me so I can see him for myself and we

said to my Lord the boy cannot leave his father if he leaves him His father will die but you told your servants unless your youngest brother comes down with you you will not see my face again when we went back to your servant my father we told him what my Lord had said then our father said go back and buy a little more food but we said we cannot go down only if our youngest brother is with us will we go we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us your servant

my father said to us you know that my wife bore me two sons one of them went away from me and I said he has surely been torn to pieces and I have not seen him since if you take this one from me too and harm comes to him you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery so now if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father and if my father whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life sees that the boy isn't

there he will die your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father I said if I do not bring him back to you I will bear the blame before you my father all my life now then please let your servant remain here as my Lord's slave in place of the boy and let the boy return with his brother how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me no do not let me see the misery

that would come on my father Genesis 45 then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants and he cried out have everone leave my presence so there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brother brothers and he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him and Pharaoh's household heard about it Joseph said to his brothers I am Joseph is my father still living but his brothers were not able to answer him because they were terrified at his presence then Joseph said to his brothers come close to me when

they had done so he said I am your brother Joseph the one you sold into Egypt and now do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you for 2 years now there has been famine in the land and for the next 5 years there will be no plowing and reaping but God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant of on Earth and to save your lives by a great Deliverance so then it was

not you who sent me here but God he made me father to Pharaoh Lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt now hurry back to my father and say to him this is what your son Joseph says God has made me Lord of all Egypt Come down to me don't delay you shall live in the region of go ocean and be near me you your children and grandchildren your flocks and herds and all you have I will provide for you there because 5 years of famine are still to come otherwise you and your

household and all who belong to you will become destitute you can see for yourselves and so can my brother Benjamin that it is really I who am speaking to you tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen and bring my father down here quickly then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept and Benjamin embraced him weeping and he kissed all his brothers and wept over them afterward his brothers talked with him when the news reached Pharaoh's Palace that Joseph's brothers had come pharaoh and

all his officials were pleased Pharaoh said to Joseph tell your brothers do this load your animals and return to the land of Canaan and bring your father and your families back to me I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land you are also directed to tell them do this take some carts from Egypt for your children and your wives and get your father and come never mind about your belongings because the best of all Egypt will be yours yours so the sons of Israel

did This Joseph gave them carts as Pharaoh had commanded and he also gave them Provisions for their journey to each of them he gave new clothing but to Benjamin he gave 300 shekles of silver and five sets of clothes and this is what he sent to his father 10 donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt and 10 female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other Provisions for his journey then he sent his brothers away and as they were leaving he said to them don't quarrel on the way so they went up out of

Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan they told him Joseph is still alive in fact he is the ruler of all Egypt Jacob was stunned he did not believe them but when they told him everything Joseph had said to them and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back the spirit of their father Jacob revived and Israel said I'm convinced my son Joseph is still alive I will go and see him before I die Genesis 46 so Israel set out with all that was his and when

he reached beerseba he offered sacrifices to the god of his father Isaac and God spoke to Israel in a dream at night and said Jacob Jacob here I am he replied I am God the god of your father He said do not be afraid to go down to Egypt for I will make you into a great nation there I will go down to Egypt with you and I will surely bring you back again in Joseph's own hand will close your eyes then Jacob left beerseba and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and

their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him so Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters all his offspring these are the names of the sons of isra Jacob and his descendants who went to Egypt Reuben the firstborn of Jacob the sons of Reuben hanak Palo hezron and Cari the sons of Simeon jamuel Jamon Ohad Jain Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman

the sons of Levi Gerson kth and morari the sons of Judah ER Onan Sheila Perez and zerah but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan the sons of Perez hezron and hamul the sons of isachar toah Pua joshb and shimron the sons of zebulun zared Elon and Jalil these were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in padan Aram besides his daughter Dena these Sons and Daughters of his were 33 in all the sons of GAD zephon Hagi shunai esbon Ari aodi and aeli the sons of Asher IMA ishva ishi and bariah their

sister was Sarah the sons of bariah HEB and malel these were the children born to Jacob by zilpa whom laan had given to his daughter Leah 16 in all the sons of Jacob's wife Rachel Joseph and Benjamin in Egypt Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by asnath Daughter of poera priest of on the sons of Benjamin Bella beer ashbel jera Naman ehi rash MIM Haim and Ard these were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob 14 and all the son of Dan Hashim the sons of naftali jazziel gunai jezar and sheim these

were the sons born to Jacob by bilha whom laan had given to his daughter Rachel seven in all All those who went to Egypt with Jacob those who were his direct descendants not counting his son's wives numbered 66 persons with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt the members of Jacob's family which went to Egypt were 70 in all now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goan when they arrived in the region of Goan Joseph had his Chariot made ready and went to Goan to meet

his father Israel as soon as Joseph appeared before him he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time Israel said to Joseph now I am ready to die since I have seen for myself that you are still alive then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household I will go up and speak to pharaoh and will say to him my brothers in my father's household who were living in the land of can Canan have come to me the men are Shepherds they tend livestock and they have brought along their

flocks and herds and everything they own when Pharaoh calls you in and asks what is your occupation you should answer your servants have tended livestock from our Boyhood on just as our fathers did then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goan for all shepherds are detestable to the [Music] Egyptians Genesis 47 Joseph went and told Pharaoh my father and brothers with their flocks and herds and everything they own have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goan he chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh Pharaoh

asked the brothers what is your occupation your servants are Shepherds they replied to Pharaoh just as our fathers were they also said to him we have come to live here for a while because the is severe in Canaan and your servants flocks have no pasture so now please let your servants settle in Goan Pharaoh said to Joseph your father and your brothers have come to you and the land of Egypt is before you settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land let them live in Goan and if you know of

any among them with special ability put them in charge of my own livestock then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh after Jacob blessed Pharaoh Pharaoh asked him how old are you and Jacob said to Pharaoh the years of my pilgrimage are 130 my years have been few and difficult and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers then Jacob blessed pharaoh and went out from his presence so Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt in gave them property in the best part of the land

the District of ramsy as Pharaoh Directed Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food according to the number of their children there was no food however in the whole region because the famine was severe both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying and he brought it to Pharaoh's Palace when the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone all Egypt came to Joseph and

said give us food why should we die before your eyes our money is all gone then bring your livestock said Joseph I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock since your money is gone so they brought their livestock to Joseph and he gave them food in exchange for their horses their sheep and goats their cattle and donkeys and he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock when that year was over they came to him the following year and said we cannot hide from our Lord the fact that

since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you there is nothing else for our Lord except our bodies and our land why should we perish before your eyes we and our land as well buy us and our land in exchange for food and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh give us seed so that we may live and not die and that the land may not become desolate so Joseph bought all the land In Egypt for Pharaoh the Egyptians one and all sold their fields because the famine was too severe

for them the land became Pharaoh's and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other however he did not buy the land of the priests because they received a regular allotment from pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them that is why they did not sell their land Joseph said to the people now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh here is seed for you so you can plant the ground but when the crop comes in give a fifth of it to Pharaoh the

other four fifths you may may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children you have saved Our Lives they said may we find favor in the eyes of Our Lord we will be in bondage to Pharaoh so Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt still enforced today that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh it was only the land of the priests that did not become pharaohs now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goan they acquired property there and were

fruitful and increased greatly in number Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years and the years of his life were 147 when the time Drew near for Israel to die he called for his son Joseph and Said to him if I have found favor in your eyes put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness do not bury me in Egypt but when I rest with my fathers carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried I will do as you say he said swear to me he

said then Joseph swore to him and Israel worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff Genesis 48 sometime later Joseph was told your father is ill so he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him when Jacob was told your son Joseph has come to you Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed Jacob said to Joseph God Almighty appeared to me at l in the land of Canaan and there he blessed me and said to me I'm going to make you free fruitful and increase your numbers I will

make you a community of peoples and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you now then your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine Ephraim and manasse will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are Mine any children born to you after them will be yours and the ter teritory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers as I was returning from padon to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were

still on the way a little distance from ephrath so I buried her there beside the road to ephrath that is Bethlehem when Israel saw the sons of Joseph he asked who are these they are the Sons God has given me here Joseph said to his father then Israel said bring them to me so I may bless them now Israel's eyes were failing because of old age and he could hardly see so Joseph brought his sons close to him and his father kissed them and embraced them Israel said to Joseph I never expected to see your

face again again and now God has allowed me to see your children too then Joseph removed them from Israel's knees and bowed down with his face to the ground and Joseph took both of them Ephraim on his right toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel's right hand and brought them close to him but Israel reached out His right hand and put it on ephraim's head though he was the younger and Crossing his arms he put his left hand on manasseh's head even though Manasseh was the first born then he blessed Joseph

and said May the god before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac walked Faithfully The God Who has been my shepherd all my life to this this day the angel who has delivered me from all harm may he bless these boys may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and may they increase greatly on the earth when Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on ephraim's head he was displeased so he took hold of his father's hand to Move It from Ephraim Head to manasseh's Head Joseph said

to him no my father this one is the firstborn put your right hand on his head but his father refused and said I know my son I know he too will become a people and he too will become great nevertheless his younger brother will be greater than he and his descendants will become a group of Nations he blessed them that day and said in your name will Israel pronounce this blessing may God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh so he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh then Israel said to Joseph I am about to die but

God God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers and to you I give one more Ridge of land than to your brothers the ridge I took from the amorites with my sword and my [Music] bow Genesis 49 then Jacob called for his sons and said gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come Assemble and listen sons of Jacob listen to your father Israel Reuben you are my firstborn my might the first sign of my strength excelling in honor excelling in power

turbulent as the waters you will no longer Excel for you went up onto your father's bed onto my couch and defiled it Simeon and Levi are brothers their swords are weapons of violence let me not enter their counsel let me not join their assembly for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased cursed by their anger so Fierce and their Fury so cruel I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse 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 to you you are a lion's Cub Judah you return from the prey my son like a lion he crouches and lies down like a lioness who dares to Rouse him the scepter will not depart from Judah nor the ruler staff from between his feet until he to whom it belongs shall come and The Obedience of the Nations shall be his he will tether his donkey to a Vine his Colt to the choicest branch he will wash his garments in wine his robes and the blood of grapes his eyes will be darker

than Wine his teeth wher than milk zebulun will live by the seashore and become a Haven for ships his border will extend towards sidon isachar is a raw boned donkey lying down among the Sheep pens when he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor Dan will provide Justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel Dan will be a snake by the roadside a diper along the path that bites the horse's heels so that its

Rider tumbles backward I look for your deliverance Lord Gad will be attacked by a band of Raiders but he will attack them at their heels Asher's food will be rich he will Provide Delicacies Fit For A King naftali is a do set free that bears beautiful fawns Joseph is a fruitful Vine a fruitful Vine near a spring whose branches climb over a wall with bitterness archers attacked him they shot at him with hostility but his bow remained steady his strong arms stayed limber because of the hand of the mighty one of Jacob because of the

shepherd the rock of Israel because of your father's God who helps you because of the almighty who blesses you with the blessings of the skies above blessings of the Deep Springs below blessings of the breast and womb your father's blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains then the Bounty of the age-old hills let all these rest on the head of Joseph on the brow of the prince among his brothers Benjamin is a ravenous wolf in the morning he devours the prey in the evening he divides the plunder all these are the 12

tribes of Israel and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them giving each the blessing appropriate to him then he gave them these instructions I am about to be gathered to my people bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the hittite the cave in the field of Mella near mamre in Canaan which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place for Ephron the hittite there Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there Isaac and his wife Rebecca were buried and there I buried Leah

the field in the cave in it were bought from the Hittites when Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons he drew his feet up into the bed breathed his last and was gathered to his people Genesis 50 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him then Joseph directed The Physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel so the Physicians embalmed him taking a full 40 Days for that was the time required for embalming and the Egyptians mourned for him 70 days when the days of mourning had passed Joseph

said to Pharaoh's court if I have found favor in your eyes speak to Pharaoh for me tell him my father made me swear an oath and said I am about to die bury me in the Tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan now let me go up and bury my father then I will return Pharaoh said go up and bury your father as he made you swear to do so Joseph went up to bury his father all Pharaoh's officials accompanied him the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt besides

all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goan chariots and Horsemen also went up with Him it was a very large company when they reached the threshing floor of atad near the Jordan they lamented loudly and bitterly and there Joseph observed a 7-Day period of mourning for his father when the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of atad they said the Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning that is why that

place near the Jordan is called Abel misraim so Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them They Carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of mpela near mamre which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from ephrine the hittite after burying his father Joseph returned to Egypt together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father when Joseph's brother saw that their father was dead they said what if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays

us back for all the wrongs we did to him so they sent word to Joseph saying your father left these instructions before he died this is what you are to say to Joseph I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly now please forgive the sins of the Servants of the god of your father when their message came to him Joseph wept his brothers then came and threw themselves down before him we are your slaves they Said but Joseph said to them don't be afraid am

I in the place of God you intended to harm me but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done the saving of many lives so then don't be afraid I will provide for you and your children and he reassured them and spoke kindly to them Joseph stayed in Egypt along with all his father's family he lived 110 years and saw the third generation of ephraim's children also the children of makir son of Manasseh were placed at Birth on Joseph's knees then Joseph said to his brothers I am about to die but

God will surely come to your Aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said God will surely come to your Aid and then you must carry my bones up from this place so Joseph died at the age of 110 and after they embalmed him he was placed in a coffin in Egypt [Music]