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

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/38.htm There are so many times when I think, “Maybe the Bible isn’t meant to tell us how to live, but rather how not to live.” In this chapter, we start with a bit of the genealogy of Judah, and we find that ended up marrying a Canaanite woman, against the wishes of God and Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/37.htm Jacob has now returned to the land of Canaan with his family, living where his father and grandfather had lived. And Jacob, renamed Israel by God, loved his son Joseph more than he loved the others; the Bible said it was because Joseph was the son of Israel’s old age. The only thing I Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/36.htm If you have stumbled across this, just a reminder that the purpose of this blog is for my personal study of the Bible. As a former firefighter, EMT, 911 Director, and trainer, I know that different people learn in different ways; some by reading, some by listening, some by watching, etc. I’ve read the Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/33.htm In this chapter, Jacob sees Esau and, as his servant had told him, 400 men coming. And much to Jacobs surprise, Esau came, hugged him and kissed him and wept. Perhaps we should be forgiving as Esau. Then Esau asked Jacob why he sent all of the gifts he had sent, and Jacob explained, Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/32.htm If you remember back, Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of stew, and as I said, he apparently didn’t value his birthright very much, or God made it trivial to him because God’s plan was to further Jacob. And Jacob and Rebekah had deceived Isaac, dressing Jacob up in hairy animal skins and Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/genesis/31.htm Here’s the lesson of the day. Yesterday, I talked about Jacob putting stripped rods of poplar, and almond, and chestnut in front of the sheet and they bore speckled or spotted lambs? And I said that I didn’t understand how this worked? Today I understand. Today’s chapter plainly states that it was the Will Continue reading