Bible Reading Genesis 43-46 #genesis #faith #folklore #fiction #josephofegypt

On this Episode Gary Reads Genesis Chapters 43-46 talking about the rest of Josephs story of meeting his Brothers and moving them into Egypt.

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So we are going to start off with Genesis 43, and uh I won't delay any longer. Let's just get into it. And the famine was sore in the land, and it came to pass when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt. Their father said unto them, Go again and buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protect us unto protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your frother your brother be with you. And if thou send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food. But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down. For the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face except your brother be with you. And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? And they said, The man asked us straightly of our state and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. We could could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down. Now for context, which I guess I should have led with, so Joseph uh has just been made second in place in Egypt, and there's a famine in the area, and his brothers who'd sold him into slavery, they actually come to Egypt wanting food, and Joseph sees them and gives them a hard time. Um, presumably at first because he's angry, and then the brothers immediately realize or they conclude that they're being punished by God for what they did to Joseph. And this gets to Joseph and he starts crying. But I think Joseph like sent the money back at that point. Bottom line is though, when he was giving them a hard time, he insisted that uh they bring the other brother with them, presumably because they wanted to see the brother. And so this would be Benjamin, and so that's what they're talking about here. They've ran out of food, they gotta go back, but they can't go back unless they bring Benjamin. So that's the situation. So with some context there, I will go on. And Judah said unto his father, send the lad with me, and we will arise and go that we may live and not die, both we and thou, and also our little ones. Let's see. Excuse me, I'm trying to make sure I got the right spot. So this is seven. And they said, The man asked us straightly to our state and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words, could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? So yes, okay, there we were. And then on to eight. And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die. Both we and thou, and also our little ones, I will be surety for him, of my hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever. For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second. And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this, take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds. And take double money in your hands, and the money that was and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand. Peradventure it was an oversight. Take also your brother and arise, go again unto the man, and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your brother, your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. And the man took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin and rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph. And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home and slay and make ready, for these men shall dine with me at noon. And the man and the man and the man did as Joseph bade, and the man brought the men unto into Joseph's house. And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house, and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks, at the first time we are brought in, that he may seek occasion against us. Okay. Okay, hang on, I read that wrong, I apologize. Because of the money that was that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we are brought in, that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen and our asses. And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house, and said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food. And it came to pass when we came to the inn that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight, and we have brought it again in our hand. And other money we have brought down in our hands to buy food. We cannot tell who put our money in our sacks. And he said, Peace be to you, fear not, your God and the God of your father hath given you treasure in your sacks. I had your money, and he brought Simeon out unto them. And the men and the man brought them in into Joseph's house and gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave their asses pr provinder. Now that's interesting because I kind of also assumed that Joseph was setting them up to get them to come back. Um, so I guess though he uh just wanted to give them a gift because he's claiming that uh he had their money. So I'm not sure what the deal is there. That's something to think about. And they made ready the present against Joseph uh okay, and they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon, for they had for they heard that they should eat bread there. And they made ready the present against Joseph. Okay, and they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there. I'm not sure what that means. We'll just move on for now. And the Joseph and when Joseph came home and they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him and to the earth, and he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well? The old man of whom ye spake, is he yet alive? And they answered, Our sir the servant and they answered, Thy servant, our father, is in good health, yet he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance. And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this the younger brother of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. And Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother, and he sought where to weep, and he entered into his chamber and wept there. So when he saw Benjamin he wept, and he washed his face and went out and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians which did eat with him by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. That's interesting. And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled at one another at another, one at another, and the men marveled one at another. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him, but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs, and they drank and were merry with him. That is Genesis 43. So pretty straightforward so far. I think we're just gonna move on to 44. After, of course, I check to make sure nothing's blown up on Rumble. Let's see what's going on here. Hang on a minute, let's try. There it goes. It also says we're streaming on Twitter, which is all let me actually check Twitter really quick. Oh well, secondary problem. Alrighty then, let's move on for we'll move on to that for another day. So let's see, where's Bogmars? Okay. Alright, so we are going to move on back to Genesis forty-four. All right, and he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sack with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth, and put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, and they, they and their asses. And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men, and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? Is it not is not this it in which my Lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth, ye have done evil in so doing. And he overtook them, and spake unto them these same words. So he gives them all gifts again, uh, puts the money in the sacks, puts a silver cup in the sack, and then says, You stole from me this time. So I guess the reason he did it the first time is because he was wanting to set a precedent. That would be my guess. So now he's doing it again, and this time he send he intends to call them out on it and arrest them. Looks like. So where are we at? Yeah, okay, so seven. And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words, God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing. Behold, the money which we found in our sacks, mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondsman, or bondman. And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words, he with whom it is found shall be my servant, and ye shall be blameless. Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack, and he searched and began at the eldest and left at the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. Then they rent their clothes and laden every man his ass and returned to the city. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, for he was yet there, and they fell before him on the ground. And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this ye have done? What ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? And Judah said, What shall we say unto my Lord? What shall we speak? How or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants. Behold, we are my Lord's servants, both we and he also with whom the cup is found. And he said, God forbid that I should do so. But the men in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant, and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father. And Judah came near unto him and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant, for thou art even as Pharaoh. My Lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother? And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left with his mother, and his father loveth him. And thou shalt said unto thy and thou saidest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die. And thou saidest unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. And our father said, Go again and buy us a little food. And we said, We cannot go down if our youngest brother be with us. Then we will go down. We cannot go down, if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down. For we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother be with us. And thy servant my father said unto us, ye know that my wife bear me two sons. And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I saw him not since. And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Now, therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us, seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life, it shall come to pass when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die, and thy servant shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant, our father, with sorrow to the grave. For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. Now therefore I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me, lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father? And that is Genesis forty-four. So we're just going along here. Um the only thing I would really say, or the only question I would really have is I guess I I'm not sure if Joseph was pulling a um a joke or like a vindictive kind of thing, or just wanted to give them a gift, or if he really was trying to bait them back so we could see his younger brother. I think the third scenario is most likely. We probably read somewhere that that was his intention, and I just missed it. But anyway, that is Genesis 44. We're gonna go on to Genesis 45. And we're just gonna keep going. So Genesis 45. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried, Cause every man cause every man to go out from me, and there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brothers, I am Joseph, doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, come near to me, I pray you. And they came near, and he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved or nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither, for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land, and yet there are five years in the which in the which there shall neither be earring nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God, and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Haste ye and go up to my father and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me Lord in all Egypt, come down unto me, tarry not, and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks and thy herds, and all that thou hast, and there will I nourish thee, for yet there are five years of famine, lest thou and thy household, and all that thou hast come to poverty. And behold your eyes see, and the eyes of your brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them, and after that his brethren talked with him. And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come, and it pleased Pharaoh well and his servants. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brother, this do ye, laid your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan, and take your father and your households and come unto me, and I will give you the good land of E the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. Now thou art commanded to this do ye. Take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come, and also regard not your stuff, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. And the children of Israel did so, and Joseph gave them wagons according to the commandments of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment raiment, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment of raiment. And to his father he sent after his after this manner, ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed, and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. And they went out of they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, unto Jacob, their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. And Israel said, It is enough, Joseph, my son. Son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die. And that is Genesis 45. We are really cooking here. So I think one of the things that we talked about earlier in a previous episode is this idea of kind of the generational curse thing being lifted. I'm not sure if that's necessarily apt looking at this because you know Jasop or Jose uh Jacob and Esau made amends. And here you see Joseph and his brothers making amends. But this idea of forgiveness kind of breaking these um kind of bad cyclical behaviors is I think what we were is what I think we were going for, but reading it, I I don't really think that's necessarily applicable now, having gone through it, but uh yeah. I think that this is basically a story of forgiveness, and you know, we ought to forgive everybody. So with that said, we're gonna do one more chapter because we've got the time before we have to move on to the next subject. And so we are going to move on to Genesis 46. After I check Rumble again. Hang on here. Alrighty, alrighty, alrighty, alrighty. Haven't lost everybody yet. No chats on Rumble. Okay, Doki. Alright, we're good. Okay, moving on. Actually, hang on a minute here. We're gonna refresh this. Okay, here we go. So Genesis 46. And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob, and he said, Here I am, and he said, I am God, the God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation. I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up again, and Joseph shall put his hands upon thine eyes. And Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him. His sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. And these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons, Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and the sons of Reuben, Hanok, and Falu, and Hezron and Carmi, or Karmi, and the sons of Simeon, Jamul, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jacan, and Zohar, and Shaal, and the son of a Canaanitish woman, and the sons of Levi, Gershin, Kohath, and Meriat Meri, and the sons of Judah, Ur and Onan and Sheila, Shela, and Phares, and Zara, and Ur, and Onan died in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Pharisees were Hezron and Hamul. And the sons of Issachar, Tolah and Fuva, and Job and Shemron Shemron. I wonder if that's the Job. I don't know.

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I wonder if it's surely not.

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I wonder if it's the same Job from the book of Job. I don't know. I'm gonna have to look that up. So what is this? 4613. You had a Job mentioned there. I'm gonna look that up and see what I come up with at some point. Alright. And the sons of Zebulun or Zebulun, Sarid, and Elon and Jahil. These are the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob and Pedanaram with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. And the sons of Gad, Zipion, and Haggai, Shuni, and Ezbon, Arai, and Arodai, and Ariel, or Arli. And the sons of Asher, Jimna, and Eshua, and Isui, and Beri and Sarah, their sister, and their sons, Buriah, Heber, and Malek Malkel. And the and these are the sons of Zipah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls, the sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, Joseph and Benjamin. And unto Jacob and unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim and Asnath, and the daughter of Potiphar's priest the daughter of Potiphar Potiphora. It's not Potiphur. Potiphar, priest of On, bar unto him. And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asnath, the daughter of Potiphar, priest of On, bare unto him. And the sons Benjamin were Bela and Betcher and Ashbel and Gerah and Naman and Ehi and Rosh and Muppen and Huffin Huppen and Ard. These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob. All the souls were fourteen. These are the sons of Rachel which were born to Jacob. All the souls were fourteen. And the sons of Dan, Hashim, and the sons of Naphtale, Jas Jazil, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shalim. These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel, his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob. All the souls were all the souls were seven. All the souls that came with Jacob and into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threen six. And the sons of Jacob which were born him in Egypt, were two souls, all the souls of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt were threescore and ten. And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph to direct a face, uh to direct his face into Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. All right. And Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet his father to go to Goshen, and presented himself unto him, and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let him meet and Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. And Joseph said unto his brethren, brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me. And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have. And it came to pass with Pharaoh, sh when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? That ye shall say, Thy servant's trade hath been about cattle from our youth, even into now until now, both we and also our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. And that was a little harder, but that's Genesis 46. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Faith Fiction and Folklore. If you did, we would love it if you would subscribe to us on YouTube or follow us on Rumble. We can also be found on X, Instagram, and Facebook. And we are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio. Thank you again very much for listening, and we'll see you next time.