Marie.Irby
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:24 NLT
“Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:25 NLT
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, and he said, “When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you.”
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:22 NLT
So Joseph and his brothers and their families continued to live in Egypt. Joseph lived to the age of 110.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:20 NLT
You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:14 NLT
After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:13 NLT
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:10 NLT
When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:7-8 NLT
So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt. Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:6 NLT
Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:3 NLT
The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 50:1 NLT
Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:31-33 NLT
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah. It is the plot of land and the cave that my grandfather Abraham bought from the Hittites.” When Jacob had finished this charge to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and joined his ancestors in death.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:28 NLT
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.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:27 NLT
“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring his enemies in the morning and dividing his plunder in the evening.”
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:22 NLT
“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.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:24-25 NLT
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. 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.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:26 NLT
May my fatherly blessings on you surpass the blessings of my ancestors, reaching to the heights of the eternal hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, who is a prince among his brothers.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:21 NLT
“Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 49:20 NLT
“Asher will dine on rich foods and produce food fit for kings.
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