Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
Many years have passed since Jacob and his people went down into Egypt under the gentle care of Joseph. Both Jacob and Joseph are dead and a new dynasty of kings have risen over Egypt. And this family of kings have no appreciation or remembrance of how Joseph saved Egypt from starvation. So, the new kings of Egypt began to employ measures to suppress and oppress the Hebrew people, enslaving them and making their lives bitter with harsh treatment in an atmosphere of death.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
Introduction to the Book of Exodus
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Genesis
After Jacob tells his twelve sons what will become of their tribal families, he closes his eyes in death. Joseph has his body embalmed and asks the pharaoh for permission to bury his father in the Land of Canaan. He is accompanied by a great entourage from Egypt and they mourn many days the death of Jacob. In time, Joseph dies and makes his brothers to promise to take his remains to the Land of Canaan, when the Lord brings the tribal family of Israel back to the Land of Promise.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Genesis
After Jacob blesses Joseph and his two sons (Genesis 48), he calls all of his sons to his bed to give a prophetic word concerning their tribal families in the future. He emphasizes how that one day the tribe of Judah and a descendant from Judah will eclipse even Joseph to reign over the entire world. But, for the near future, Joseph’s tribal family (Ephraim) will have the preeminence. Finally, he charges them all to bury him in the ancestral tomb, and the light goes out from Jacob’s eyes and he dies.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Genesis
Jacob falls sick and Joseph goes to his father so that he may bless him and his two sons before he dies. Jacob encourages them and tells them that God will be with them, just as He was with him. He adopts Joseph’s two sons in place of his own – Reuben and Simeon. Jacob then proceeds to bless Joseph’s two sons, giving the birthright to the younger son Ephraim over Manasseh, the eldest.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Genesis
After Joseph prepares his brothers to meet Pharaoh, they are set before him. He inquires of their occupation; and they tell him that they are shepherds. The pharaoh welcomes them into Egypt and tells Josephs to set some of them as caretakers of his own livestock. Joseph then brings his father Jacob before the king; and Jacob blesses pharaoh – twice.
