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as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 50:7 ESV

So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 50:6 ESV

And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 50:3 ESV

Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:33 ESV

When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:31-32 ESV

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah—the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites."

Mar 30

Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:28 ESV

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:22-26 ESV

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall. The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely, yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel), by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:8-12 ESV

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes. His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. "Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:6-7 ESV

Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:5 ESV

"Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 49:3 ESV

"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 48:22 ESV

Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 48:7 ESV

As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 47:28 ESV

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 46:33 ESV

When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your occupation?'

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 46:34 ESV

you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

Mar 30

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highlighted Genesis 46:1 ESV

So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Mar 25

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highlighted Genesis 45:28 ESV

And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."

Mar 25

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