https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/48.htm They say that certain numbers have meaning, like 7 which is a “perfect” number. The number 12 is reportedly special as well, but I do not remember why. Jacob (Israel) had 11 sons, who inherited the land of Canaan, and who had their inheritance named after them, resulting in a country. But instead of Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/46.htm This chapter tells the tale of Jacob’s journey from Canaan to the land of Goshen in Egypt, and even Pharaoh sent things needed to make travel successful Most of the reminder of thi s chapter details the genealogy of Jacobs sons. And yes, reading about their genealogy can be extremely boring. It is full Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/45.htm In this chapter, Joseph cannot take it any longer. He has to reveal himself to his brothers. And I still, even though I’ve prayed for understanding, do not know why Joseph has done these things. And yes, I’m sure I can have a pastor explain to me what he or she was taught in Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/44.htm Once again, Joseph sends his brothers back to Canaan, with as much grain as they could carry, and once again, put their money back in there sacks. And this time, he instructed his servants to put his silver cup in Benjamin’s sack. It was a silver cup that Joseph personally used. Once again, Joseph Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/44.htm Once again, Joseph sends his brothers back to Canaan, with as much grain as they could carry, and once again, put their money back in there sacks. And this time, he instructed his servants to put his silver cup in Benjamin’s sack. It was a silver cup that Joseph personally used. Once again, Joseph Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/43.htm So, Jacobs family is starting to get low on food again, so he tells his sons to return to Egypt to buy more food. They remind him that “the man” (Joseph) had told them that unless they brought Benjamin, they wouldn’t see him again. This distraught Jacob a lot, he had already lost Joseph Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/42.htm The seven years of plenty have passed, as Joseph warned, and now they are in seven years of famine. And Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, so he sent his sons with money to buy some grain. Obviously Joseph was already in Egypt, and Jacob kept Benjamin, the youngest, at home. When Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/41.htm Now it was time for Pharaoh to need a dream interpreter. He had a dream about 7 scrawny cows that ate seven fit and fat cows, and another dream about seven thin and dried-up heads of grain that overtook seven large and juicy ears of corn, and even though he asked everyone in his Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/40.htm In addition to everything Joseph has been through, he is now in prison on false charges of attempted rape. But because the Lord is with Joseph and, shall we say, “good behavior”, Joseph has found favor with the head guard, so the guard has given Joseph special privileges, a “trustee” if you will. The Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/39.htm In the last chapter we read how the Ishmaelites, descendants of Ishmael, had sold Joseph to Potiphar, a Captain in Pharoah’s army. And the Bible says that the Lord “was with Joseph”, and that Potiphar could see that “the Lord was with him”, yet, Potiphar didn’t try to turn to the Lord to be Continue reading