1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,120 in a year. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:14,100 Yesterday we heard about Joseph's reunion with his father and his brothers and how they 4 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:19,040 relocated resettled from the land of Canaan to the land of Goshen within Egypt. 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,320 And today we're going to hear about Jacob meeting Joseph's family and how he blesses 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:29,000 his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh but he blesses them in a very unexpected way. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,000 So let's begin. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,160 Today's reading is from Genesis chapters 47 through 50. 9 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:36,160 Chapter 47. 10 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:41,480 Then Joseph went and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brothers, their flocks and 11 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:46,120 their herds, and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan, and indeed they 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,000 are in the land of Goshen. 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,760 And he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh. 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,000 Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,880 And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers. 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,880 And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no 17 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,560 pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,560 Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,280 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you. 20 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,080 The land of Egypt is before you. 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,240 Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land. 22 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,320 Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. 23 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:30,360 And if you know any competent man among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock. 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,240 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and said to him before Pharaoh. 25 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,000 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,340 Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you? 27 00:01:38,340 --> 00:01:42,440 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and 28 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:43,920 thirty years. 29 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,880 Fewer than evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained 30 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:52,560 to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 31 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,320 So Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from before Pharaoh. 32 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,560 And Joseph situated his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,920 Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,280 Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with bread, 35 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,960 according to the number in their families. 36 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:17,840 Now there was no bread in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land 37 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,940 of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine. 38 00:02:21,940 --> 00:02:25,680 Then Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the 39 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,360 land of Canaan for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's 40 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:31,360 house. 41 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,800 So when the money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians 42 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,440 came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? 43 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,280 For the money has failed. 44 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,880 Then Joseph said, Give your livestock, and I will give you bread for your livestock, 45 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,440 if the money is gone. 46 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,760 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for 47 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,240 the horses, the flocks, the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys. 48 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,920 Thus he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year. 49 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:04,920 When that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, We will not 50 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:10,160 hide from my lord that our money is gone, my lord also has our herds of livestock. 51 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,980 There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands. 52 00:03:14,980 --> 00:03:18,720 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? 53 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,460 Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh. 54 00:03:23,460 --> 00:03:28,280 Give us seed that we may live and not die, that the land may not be desolate. 55 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:33,040 Then Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold 56 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,360 his field, because the famine was severe upon them. 57 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,520 So the land became Pharaoh's, and as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from 58 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,960 one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end. 59 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,800 Only the land of the priests he did not buy. 60 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,360 For the priests had rations allotted to them by Pharaoh, and they ate the rations which 61 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,100 Pharaoh gave them, therefore they did not sell their lands. 62 00:03:56,100 --> 00:04:01,400 Then Joseph said to the people, Indeed I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. 63 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,440 Look here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land, and it shall come to pass in the 64 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:11,400 harvest that you shall give one fifth to Pharaoh, four fifths shall be your own, as seed for 65 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:16,640 the field and for your food, for those of your households and as food for your little 66 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:17,640 ones. 67 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,160 Then they said, You have saved our lives, let us find favor in the sight of my Lord, 68 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,120 and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 69 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,380 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have 70 00:04:28,380 --> 00:04:34,280 one fifth, except for the land of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh's. 71 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:39,360 So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen, and had possessions there, 72 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:44,780 and grew and multiplied exceedingly, and Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, 73 00:04:44,780 --> 00:04:49,320 so the length of Jacob's life was one hundred and forty seven years. 74 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,240 When the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, 75 00:04:54,240 --> 00:05:00,260 Now if I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly 76 00:05:00,260 --> 00:05:01,660 and truly with me. 77 00:05:01,660 --> 00:05:05,660 Please do not bury me in Egypt, but let me lie with my fathers. 78 00:05:05,660 --> 00:05:09,640 You shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place. 79 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,880 And he said, I will do as you have said. 80 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,400 And he said, Swear to me, and he swore to him, so Israel bowed himself on the head of 81 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,400 the bed. 82 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,600 Chapter 48 Now it came to pass after these things that 83 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:27,520 Joseph was told, Indeed your father is sick, and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh 84 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:28,980 and Ephraim. 85 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:32,080 And Jacob was told, Look, your son Joseph is coming to you. 86 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,360 And Israel strengthened himself, and sat up on the bed. 87 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,640 Then Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty, appear to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed 88 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:45,440 me, and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make 89 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,320 of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting 90 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,320 possession. 91 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:56,280 And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt, 92 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:58,820 before I came to you in Egypt, are mine. 93 00:05:58,820 --> 00:06:01,500 As Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 94 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:05,480 Your offspring, whom you beget after them, shall be yours. 95 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,880 They will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 96 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,120 But as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the 97 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:19,080 way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on 98 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,760 the way to Ephrath, that is Bethlehem. 99 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,440 Then Israel saw Joseph's sons and said, Who are these? 100 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,680 Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. 101 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,320 And he said, Please bring them to me, and I will bless them. 102 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,800 Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. 103 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,520 Then Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 104 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:46,120 And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face, but in fact God has also 105 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,940 shown me your offspring. 106 00:06:47,940 --> 00:06:53,100 So Joseph brought them from beside his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the earth. 107 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:58,160 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and 108 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:03,340 Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him. 109 00:07:03,340 --> 00:07:08,160 Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, 110 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:13,040 and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the 111 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,200 firstborn. 112 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,520 And he blessed Joseph and said, God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, 113 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:25,280 the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, the angel who has redeemed me from 114 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:31,120 all evil, bless the lads, let my name be named upon them, in the name of my fathers Abraham 115 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,880 and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 116 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:40,160 Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased 117 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,680 him, so he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head, to Manasseh's 118 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:45,680 head. 119 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:50,680 And Joseph said to his father, not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. 120 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,880 Put your right hand on his head. 121 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,620 But his father refused and said, I know my son, I know. 122 00:07:56,620 --> 00:08:01,800 He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother 123 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,800 shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations. 124 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:12,080 So he blessed them that day saying, by you Israel will bless, saying, may God make you 125 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,220 as Ephraim and as Manasseh. 126 00:08:14,220 --> 00:08:17,460 And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 127 00:08:17,460 --> 00:08:22,560 Then Israel said to Joseph, behold I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back 128 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,280 to the land of your fathers. 129 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:28,740 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand 130 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:33,440 of the Amorite, with my sword and with my bow. 131 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,480 Chapter 49 And Jacob called his sons and said, gather 132 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,620 together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days. 133 00:08:41,620 --> 00:08:45,640 Gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father. 134 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:50,440 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency 135 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,360 of dignity and the excellency of power. 136 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:58,580 Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed, then you 137 00:08:58,580 --> 00:09:02,120 defiled it, he went up to my couch. 138 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:07,240 Simeon and Levi are brothers, instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place. 139 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:12,400 Let not my soul enter their council, let not my honor be united to their assembly, for 140 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:18,360 in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung an ox. 141 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,960 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. 142 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,800 I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. 143 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,880 Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise, your hand shall be on the neck of 144 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,120 your enemies, your father's children shall bow down before you. 145 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,200 Judah is a lion's whelp, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. 146 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:46,460 He bows down, he lies down as a lion, and as a lion, Hushar rouse him. 147 00:09:46,460 --> 00:09:51,800 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh 148 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:57,400 comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the people, binding his donkey to the vine, 149 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,960 and his donkey's colt to the choice vine. 150 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:04,160 He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. 151 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:08,080 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. 152 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:13,200 Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea, he shall become a haven for ships, and his 153 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,600 border shall adjoin Sidon. 154 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,700 Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between two burdens. 155 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:23,140 He saw that rest was good, and that the land was pleasant. 156 00:10:23,140 --> 00:10:27,600 He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a band of slaves. 157 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,660 Dan shall judge his people. 158 00:10:29,660 --> 00:10:34,520 As one of the tribes of Israel, Dan shall be a serpent on the way, a viper by the path, 159 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,240 that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider shall fall backward. 160 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,880 I have waited for your salvation, O Lord. 161 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:46,960 Gad, a troop, shall tramp upon him, but he shall triumph at last. 162 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:51,880 Bread from Asher shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties. 163 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,800 Naphtali is a deer let loose, he uses beautiful words. 164 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,280 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well. 165 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:05,440 His branches run over the wall, the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and 166 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:11,560 hated him, but his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong, 167 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:13,720 by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. 168 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:19,320 From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel, by the God of your Father who will help you, 169 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,920 and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the 170 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:28,000 deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. 171 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,320 The blessings of your Father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors. 172 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:37,160 Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills, they shall be on the head of Joseph, 173 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:41,160 and on the crown of the head of him who is separate from his brothers. 174 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,280 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. 175 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:48,480 In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 176 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,040 All these were the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their Father spoke to them, 177 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:57,120 and he blessed them, he blessed each one according to his own blessing. 178 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:01,440 Then he charged them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people, bury me with 179 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:05,840 my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is 180 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:11,280 in the field of Makpela, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought 181 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,760 with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place. 182 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:21,240 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, 183 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,480 and there I buried Leah. 184 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,680 The field and the cave that is there were purchased from the sons of Heth, and when 185 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:32,720 Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed 186 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,080 his last, and was gathered to his people. 187 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,440 Chapter 50 188 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,680 Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him, and kissed him, and Joseph 189 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:45,120 commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. 190 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,480 So the physicians embalmed Israel. 191 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,560 Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed, 192 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:55,600 and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. 193 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:00,280 Now when the days of mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh saying, 194 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:05,680 If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh saying, My 195 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:10,840 father made me swear saying, Behold I am dying, in my grave which I dug for myself in the 196 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:11,840 land of Canaan. 197 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,680 There you shall bury me. 198 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:18,160 Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back. 199 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,740 And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear. 200 00:13:22,740 --> 00:13:27,320 So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, 201 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,160 the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, as well as the house 202 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,720 of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. 203 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,640 Only the little ones, their flocks and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 204 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:43,800 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great gathering. 205 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:48,400 Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned 206 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,380 there with a great and very solemn lamentation. 207 00:13:51,380 --> 00:13:54,480 He observed seven days of mourning for his father. 208 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,560 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing 209 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:03,100 floor of Atad, they said, This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians. 210 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:07,840 For its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 211 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,040 So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them. 212 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,760 For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in a cave of the field of Makphela 213 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:20,620 before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property 214 00:14:20,620 --> 00:14:22,240 for a burial place. 215 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,520 And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and 216 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,480 all who went up with him to bury his father. 217 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:34,280 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Perhaps Joseph will hate 218 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,840 us and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him. 219 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:43,120 So they sent messengers to Joseph saying, Before your father died he commanded, saying, 220 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:48,120 Thus you shall say to Joseph, I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and 221 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,800 their sin, for they did evil to you. 222 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,840 Now please forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. 223 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,280 And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 224 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:01,560 Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face and they said, Behold, we 225 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,240 are your servants. 226 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,040 Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 227 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:11,640 But as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to bring 228 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,760 it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. 229 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,080 Now therefore do not be afraid, I will provide for you and your little ones. 230 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,080 And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. 231 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:29,760 So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's household, and Joseph lived 110 years. 232 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,800 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. 233 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:37,880 The children of Makir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph's knees. 234 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,520 And Joseph said to his brethren, I am dying, but God will surely visit you and bring you 235 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:47,800 out of this land, to the land of which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 236 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,760 Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel saying, God will surely visit you 237 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,500 and you shall carry up my bones from here. 238 00:15:55,500 --> 00:16:03,280 So Joseph died, being 110 years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. 239 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,880 Congratulations, we finished together the first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis. 240 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:10,560 I am very proud of you. 241 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,200 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 242 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,360 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 243 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:26,400 God bless you and have a great day.