14 Jan 2019 Mon
genesis 37:1-38:30;1chronicles
2:3-6;1chronicles 2:8;genesis 39:1-23
How much is 20 Shikels of silver?
Joseph is a type of Christ, being sold.
http://www.craigkeener.com/selling-joseph-into-slavery-genesis-3725-28/
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15 Jan 2019 Tue
genesis 40:1-23;genesis 35:28-29;genesis
41:1-57
Joseph
Made Ruler of Egypt
37 Joseph’s
suggestions were well received by Pharaoh and his officials.38 So Pharaoh asked his
officials, “Can we find anyone else like this man so obviously filled with
the spirit of God?” 39 Then
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has revealed the meaning of the dreams to
you, clearly no one else is as intelligent or wise as you are. 40 You will be in charge
of my court, and all my people will take orders from you. Only I, sitting on
my throne, will have a rank higher than yours.”
41 Pharaoh
said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the entire land of Egypt.” 42 Then Pharaoh removed
his signet ring from his hand and placed it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed
him in fine linen clothing and hung a gold chain around his neck. 43 Then he had Joseph
ride in the chariot reserved for his second-in-command. And wherever Joseph
went, the command was shouted, “Kneel down!” So Pharaoh put Joseph in charge
of all Egypt. 44 And
Pharaoh said to him, “I am Pharaoh, but no one will lift a hand or foot in
the entire land of Egypt without your approval.”
45 Then
Pharaoh gave Joseph a new Egyptian name, Zaphenath-paneah.[a] He also gave him
a wife, whose name was Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, the priest
of On.[b] So Joseph took
charge of the entire land of Egypt. 46 He
was thirty years old when he began serving in the court of Pharaoh, the king
of Egypt. And when Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence, he inspected the entire
land of Egypt.
47 As
predicted, for seven years the land produced bumper crops.48 During those years,
Joseph gathered all the crops grown in Egypt and stored the grain from the
surrounding fields in the cities. 49 He
piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped
keeping records because there was too much to measure.
50 During
this time, before the first of the famine years, two sons were born to Joseph
and his wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On. 51 Joseph named his older
son Manasseh,[c] for he said,
“God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.” 52 Joseph named his
second son Ephraim,[d] for he said,
“God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.”
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16 Jan 2019 Wed
genesis 42:1-45:15
Joseph
Reveals His Identity
45 Joseph could stand it
no longer. There were many people in the room, and he said to his attendants,
“Out, all of you!” So he was alone with his brothers when he told them who he
was. 2 Then he broke down and
wept. He wept so loudly the Egyptians could hear him, and word of it quickly
carried to Pharaoh’s palace.
3 “I am
Joseph!” he said to his brothers. “Is my father still alive?” But his
brothers were speechless! They were stunned to realize that Joseph was
standing there in front of them. 4 “Please,
come closer,” he said to them. So they came closer. And he said again, “I am
Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt.5 But don’t be upset,
and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God
who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives. 6 This famine that has
ravaged the land for two years will last five more years, and there will be
neither plowing nor harvesting. 7 God
has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve
many survivors.[g] 8 So it was God who sent
me here, not you! And he is the one who made me an adviser[h] to
Pharaoh—the manager of his entire palace and the governor of all Egypt.
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17 Jan 2019 Thu
genesis 45:16-47:27
Gen 45
26 “Joseph is still alive!” they told him. “And
he is governor of all the land of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned at the news—he
couldn’t believe it. 27 But when they repeated to Jacob everything Joseph had told them,
and when he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, their father’s
spirits revived.
28 Then Jacob exclaimed, “It must be true! My son
Joseph is alive! I must go and see him before I die.”
Gen 46
8 These
are the names of the descendants of Israel—the sons of Jacob—who went to
Egypt:
Reuben
was Jacob’s oldest son. 9 The
sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10 The sons of Simeon
were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul. (Shaul’s mother was a
Canaanite woman.)
11 The sons of Levi were
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 The sons of Judah were
Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (though Er and Onan had died in the land
of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
14 The sons of Zebulun
were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These
were the sons of Leah and Jacob who were born in Paddan-aram, in addition to
their daughter, Dinah. The number of Jacob’s descendants (male and female)
through Leah was thirty-three.
17 The sons of Asher were
Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Their sister was Serah. Beriah’s sons were
Heber and Malkiel.
18 These
were the sons of Zilpah, the servant given to Leah by her father, Laban. The
number of Jacob’s descendants through Zilpah was sixteen.
19 The sons of Jacob’s
wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
20 Joseph’s sons, born in
the land of Egypt, were Manasseh and Ephraim. Their mother was Asenath,
daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.[h]
21 Benjamin’s sons were
Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
22 These
were the sons of Rachel and Jacob. The number of Jacob’s descendants through
Rachel was fourteen.
23 The son of Dan was
Hushim.
24 The sons of Naphtali
were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These
were the sons of Bilhah, the servant given to Rachel by her father, Laban.
The number of Jacob’s descendants through Bilhah was seven.
26 The total number of
Jacob’s direct descendants who went with him to Egypt, not counting his sons’
wives, was sixty-six. 27 In
addition, Joseph had two sons[i] who
were born in Egypt. So altogether, there were seventy[j] members
of Jacob’s family in the land of Egypt.
7 Then Joseph brought in his father, Jacob, and
presented him to Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 “How old are you?” Pharaoh asked him.
9 Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for
130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my
ancestors.” 10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh again before
leaving his court.
11 So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt—the
region of Rameses—to his father and his brothers, and he settled them there,
just as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph provided food for his father and his brothers in
amounts appropriate to the number of their dependents, including the smallest
children.
25 “You have saved our lives!” they exclaimed.
“May it please you, my lord, to let us be Pharaoh’s servants.” 26 Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in
the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should receive one-fifth of all the crops
grown on his land. Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to
Pharaoh.
27 Meanwhile, the people of Israel settled in the
region of Goshen in Egypt. There they acquired property, and they were
fruitful, and their population grew rapidly.
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18 Jan 2019 Fri
genesis 47:28-50:26
Jacob
Blesses Manasseh and Ephraim
48 One day not long after
this, word came to Joseph, “Your father is failing rapidly.” So Joseph went
to visit his father, and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 When
Joseph arrived, Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to see you.” So
Jacob[c] gathered
his strength and sat up in his bed.
3 Jacob
said to Joseph, “God Almighty[d] appeared
to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. 4 He said to me, ‘I will
make you fruitful, and I will multiply your descendants. I will make you a
multitude of nations. And I will give this land of Canaan to your descendants[e] after
you as an everlasting possession.’
5 “Now
I am claiming as my own sons these two boys of yours, Ephraim and Manasseh,
who were born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived. They will be my
sons, just as Reuben and Simeon are. 6 But
any children born to you in the future will be your own, and they will
inherit land within the territories of their brothers Ephraim and Manasseh.
7 “Long
ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram,[f] Rachel
died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from
Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside
the road to Ephrath.”
8 Then
Jacob looked over at the two boys. “Are these your sons?” he asked.
9 “Yes,”
Joseph told him, “these are the sons God has given me here in Egypt.”
And Jacob said, “Bring
them closer to me, so I can bless them.”
10 Jacob
was half blind because of his age and could hardly see. So Joseph brought the
boys close to him, and Jacob kissed and embraced them. 11 Then Jacob said to
Joseph, “I never thought I would see your face again, but now God has let me
see your children, too!”
12 Joseph
moved the boys, who were at their grandfather’s knees, and he bowed with his
face to the ground. 13 Then
he positioned the boys in front of Jacob. With his right hand he directed
Ephraim toward Jacob’s left hand, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at
Jacob’s right hand.14 But
Jacob crossed his arms as he reached out to lay his hands on the boys’ heads.
He put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger boy,
and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, though he was the firstborn. 15 Then he blessed Joseph
and said,
“May the God before whom my grandfather Abraham
and my father, Isaac, walked— the God who has been my shepherd all my life, to this very day, 16 the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may he bless these boys. May they preserve my name and the names of Abraham and Isaac. And may their descendants multiply greatly throughout the earth.”
17 But
Joseph was upset when he saw that his father placed his right hand on
Ephraim’s head. So Joseph lifted it to move it from Ephraim’s head to
Manasseh’s head. 18 “No,
my father,” he said. “This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his
head.”
19 But
his father refused. “I know, my son; I know,” he replied. “Manasseh will also
become a great people, but his younger brother will become even greater. And
his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
20 So
Jacob blessed the boys that day with this blessing: “The people of Israel
will use your names when they give a blessing. They will say, ‘May God make
you as prosperous as Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In this way, Jacob put Ephraim
ahead of Manasseh.
21 Then
Jacob said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and
will take you back to Canaan, the land of your ancestors.22 And beyond what I have
given your brothers, I am giving you an extra portion of the land[g] that
I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
Jacob’s
Last Words to His Sons
49 Then Jacob called
together all his sons and said, “Gather around me, and I will tell you what
will happen to each of you in the days to come.
2 “Come
and listen, you sons of Jacob;
listen to Israel, your father.
3 “Reuben,
you are my firstborn, my strength,
the child of my vigorous youth. You are first in rank and first in power. 4 But you are as unruly as a flood, and you will be first no longer. For you went to bed with my wife; you defiled my marriage couch.
5 “Simeon
and Levi are two of a kind;
their weapons are instruments of violence. 6 May I never join in their meetings; may I never be a party to their plans. For in their anger they murdered men, and they crippled oxen just for sport. 7 A curse on their anger, for it is fierce; a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel. I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob; I will disperse them throughout Israel.
8 “Judah,
your brothers will praise you.
You will grasp your enemies by the neck. All your relatives will bow before you. 9 Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants,[h] until the coming of the one to whom it belongs,[i] the one whom all nations will honor. 11 He ties his foal to a grapevine, the colt of his donkey to a choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
13 “Zebulun
will settle by the seashore
and will be a harbor for ships; his borders will extend to Sidon.
14 “Issachar
is a sturdy donkey,
resting between two saddlepacks.[j] 15 When he sees how good the countryside is and how pleasant the land, he will bend his shoulder to the load and submit himself to hard labor.
16 “Dan
will govern his people,
like any other tribe in Israel. 17 Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous viper along the path that bites the horse’s hooves so its rider is thrown off. 18 I trust in you for salvation, O Lord!
19 “Gad
will be attacked by marauding bands,
but he will attack them when they retreat.
20 “Asher
will dine on rich foods
and produce food fit for kings.
21 “Naphtali
is a doe set free
that bears beautiful fawns.
22 “Joseph
is the foal of a wild donkey,
the foal of a wild donkey at a spring— one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.[k] 23 Archers attacked him savagely; they shot at him and harassed him. 24 But his bow remained taut, and his arms were strengthened by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel. 25 May the God of your father help you; may the Almighty bless you with the blessings of the heavens above, and blessings of the watery depths below, and blessings of the breasts and womb. 26 May my fatherly blessings on you surpass the blessings of my ancestors,[l] reaching to the heights of the eternal hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, who is a prince among his brothers.
27 “Benjamin
is a ravenous wolf,
devouring his enemies in the morning and dividing his plunder in the evening.”
28 These
are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said as he
told his sons good-bye. He blessed each one with an appropriate message.
Comments :-
Jabob came into Egypt
at 130 years old, lived another 17 years and died at 147 years old.
Joseph lived to 110
years old. Jacob gave the firstborn rights to Joseph and made his two sons
great and made the younger son Ephraim ahead of
Manasseh.
The book of Genesis
ended with Joseph’s death. He was a great man. The great men in Genesis were
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.
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19 Jan 2019 Sat
job 1:1-4:21
Prologue
1 There once was a man
named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete
integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil. 2 He had seven sons and
three daughters. 3 He
owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 teams of oxen, and 500 female donkeys.
He also had many servants. He was, in fact, the richest person in that entire
area.
4 Job’s
sons would take turns preparing feasts in their homes, and they would also
invite their three sisters to celebrate with them. 5 When these
celebrations ended—sometimes after several days—Job would purify his
children. He would get up early in the morning and offer a burnt offering for
each of them. For Job said to himself, “Perhaps my children have sinned and
have cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
6 One
day the members of the heavenly court[a] came
to present themselves before the Lord, and
the Accuser, Satan,[b] came
with them.7 “Where
have you come from?” the Lord asked
Satan.
Satan answered
the Lord, “I have been
patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”
8 Then
the Lord asked Satan,
“Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He
is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from
evil.”
9 Satan
replied to the Lord,
“Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.10 You
have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his
property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he
is! 11 But reach out and take
away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
12 “All
right, you may test him,” the Lord said
to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm
him physically.” So Satan left the Lord’s
presence.
20 Job stood up and tore his robe in grief. Then
he shaved his head and fell to the ground to worship. 21 He said,
“I came naked from my
mother’s womb,
and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!”
22 In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming
God.
8 Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken
pottery as he sat among the ashes. 9 His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to
maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”
10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish
woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never
anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
Job’s
Three Friends Share His Anguish
11 When
three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got
together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their
names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
Naamathite. 12 When
they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly,
they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show
their grief. 13 Then
they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word
to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.
Job’s anguish cry :-
I cannot eat for sighing;
my groans pour out like water. 25 What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come true. 26 I have no peace, no quietness. I have no rest; only trouble comes.” |
20 Jan 2019 Sun
job 5:1-7:21
Eliphaz’s
Response
5 “Cry for help, but
will anyone answer you?
Which of the angels[a] will help you? 2 Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple. 3 I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster. 4 Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them. 5 The hungry devour their harvest, even when it is guarded by brambles.[b] The thirsty pant after their wealth.[c] 6 But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth. 7 People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
8 “If I
were you, I would go to God
and present my case to him. 9 He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles. 10 He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields. 11 He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer. 12 He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed. 13 He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted. 14 They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night. 15 He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong, and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful. 16 And so at last the poor have hope, and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.
17 “But
consider the joy of those corrected by God!
Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin. 18 For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal. 19 From six disasters he will rescue you; even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil. 20 He will save you from death in time of famine, from the power of the sword in time of war. 21 You will be safe from slander and have no fear when destruction comes. 22 You will laugh at destruction and famine; wild animals will not terrify you. 23 You will be at peace with the stones of the field, and its wild animals will be at peace with you. 24 You will know that your home is safe. When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing. 25 You will have many children; your descendants will be as plentiful as grass! 26 You will go to the grave at a ripe old age, like a sheaf of grain harvested at the proper time!
27 “We
have studied life and found all this to be true.
Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself.”
Job’s
Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz
6 Then Job spoke again:
2 “If
my misery could be weighed
and my troubles be put on the scales, 3 they would outweigh all the sands of the sea. That is why I spoke impulsively. 4 For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows. Their poison infects my spirit. God’s terrors are lined up against me. 5 Don’t I have a right to complain? Don’t wild donkeys bray when they find no grass, and oxen bellow when they have no food? 6 Don’t people complain about unsalted food? Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?[d] 7 My appetite disappears when I look at it; I gag at the thought of eating it!
8 “Oh,
that I might have my request,
that God would grant my desire. 9 I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me. 10 At least I can take comfort in this: Despite the pain, I have not denied the words of the Holy One. 11 But I don’t have the strength to endure. I have nothing to live for. 12 Do I have the strength of a stone? Is my body made of bronze? 13 No, I am utterly helpless, without any chance of success.
7 “Is
not all human life a struggle?
Our lives are like that of a hired hand, 2 like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid. 3 I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery. 4 Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn. 5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
Job Cries Out to God
6 “My
days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle.
They end without hope. 7 O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness. 8 You see me now, but not for long. You will look for me, but I will be gone. 9 Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die[g] will not come back. 10 They are gone forever from their home— never to be seen again.
11 “I
cannot keep from speaking.
I must express my anguish. My bitter soul must complain. 12 Am I a sea monster or a dragon that you must place me under guard? 13 I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’ 14 but then you shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions. 15 I would rather be strangled— rather die than suffer like this. 16 I hate my life and don’t want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.
17 “What
are people, that you should make so much of us,
that you should think of us so often? 18 For you examine us every morning and test us every moment. 19 Why won’t you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow! 20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of all humanity? Why make me your target? Am I a burden to you?[h] 21 Why not just forgive my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.” |
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Week 3/52 - Read the Bible In A Year Project
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