See Grandma, my eyes are really dark blue....not big brown ones like daddy

See Grandma, my eyes are really dark blue....not big brown ones like daddy

Ryan and friend

Ryan and friend
Mommy, Daddy, I'm saying Hi to Grandma?

This one is for you, Grandma!

Nathan

Nathan
soccer with determination and no airplane distractions

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Life in Paradise, death in Egypt

Reading the Bible in one year.
Jan. 17 (Gen. 48-50).
Taken from the Orthodox Study Bible
(Chapter 48). Joseph had two sons in the land of Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim. (11)"Then Israel said to Joseph, "I had not thought to see your face; but in fact, God has also shown me yours seed." Israel placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, who was younger than Manasseh, on the left, and blessed them both, setting Ephraim before Manasseh.
(21)."Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers." Giving Joseph a special present, Shechem, (having taken it from the Amorites with his own sword and bow).
(Chapter 49). Israel gathers his twelve sons. (28). "All these are the twelve sons of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them; and he blessed each one according to his own blessing." (29). "Then he charged them and said to them; "I am to be added to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place." When Jacob finished commanding his sons be breathed his last, and was added to his people.
(Chapter 50). Joseph kissed his father and commanded his servants to embalm him. (6). Then Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear." (forty days of mourning were required for those embalmed). The Egyptians mourned him for seventy days. A very great gathering beyond the Jordan observed seven days of mourning with solemn lamentations. After a journey, his sons carried him to his resting place in the cave in Canaan. Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers, who were afraid now that Jacob was dead that Joseph would repay them for the evil that they had done to him. (19). "So Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for I belong to God." (20)."But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." (21)."Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your households". Thus he comforted them and spoke to their heart.
At one hundred and ten years old Joseph dies in Egypt.
(24). "Then Joseph said to his brethren, "I am about to die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land God swore to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, all brought up on Joseph's knees.
(25). "Thus Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
He was embalmed and put in a coffin in Egypt.

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