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  Speaker 1: Long before the pyramids rose from the desert sands, long
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  Speaker 1: before the great pharaohs sat upon their thrones, the land
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  Speaker 1: we know as Egypt had its beginning in a single family.
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  Speaker 1: This family descended from Noah, the man who survived the
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  Speaker 1: great flood that covered the whole earth. Noah had three sons, Shem,
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  Speaker 1: Ham and jayfith Carfter the waters receded and the ark
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  Speaker 1: rested upon the mountains of Ararat, these three men and
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  Speaker 1: their wives began to fill the earth with their children
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  Speaker 1: and grandchildren. From these three sons, every nation on earth
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  Speaker 1: would come. The Book of Genesis, Chapter ten, verses six
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  Speaker 1: and seven tells us about the sons of Ham, and
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Ham Kush and Misraim and Fut and Canaan,
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  Speaker 1: and the sons of Kush Siba and Havela, and Sabta
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  Speaker 1: and Rama and Sabtacha. Pay close attention to that name Misraim.
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  Speaker 1: This name is very important in the Hebrew language. Misraim
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  Speaker 1: is the word for Egypt. When the Bible speaks of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt in the Old Testament, it uses this very name.
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  Speaker 1: Misraim was a real person, a grandson of Noah, and
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  Speaker 1: from him came the entire Egyptian nation. Misraim traveled with
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  Speaker 1: his family to the northeast corner of Africa, to a
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  Speaker 1: land watered by a great river called the Nile. This
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  Speaker 1: river flooded its banks every year, leaving behind rich, dark
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  Speaker 1: soil perfect for growing crops. Misraim and his descendants settled
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  Speaker 1: along this river, building villages that would one day become
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  Speaker 1: one of the mightiest civilizations the world has ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis Chapter ten, verses thirteen and fourteen continues to describe
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  Speaker 1: the children of Misraim and Misrhim, begat Ludim and Anamim,
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  Speaker 1: and Lehabim and Naftuhim, and Pathrusim and Kasluhim, out of
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  Speaker 1: whom came Philistim and Kaftarim. These were the tribes and
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  Speaker 1: peoples that spread across the land of Egypt and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: So Egypt did not appear out of nowhere. It was
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  Speaker 1: not built by mysterious strangers. Egypt was founded by Misraim,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Ham, the grandson of Noah. From one
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  Speaker 1: man came out nation that would play an enormous role
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  Speaker 1: in the story of God's people. Many generations passed after
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  Speaker 1: Misraim founded Egypt. The small villages along the Nile grew
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  Speaker 1: into great cities. Powerful kings called Pharaoh's rose to rule
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  Speaker 1: the land. Egypt became rich and strong, famous for its
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  Speaker 1: grain and its wealth. During this time, there lived a
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  Speaker 1: man named Abram in the land of Canaan. God had
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  Speaker 1: called Abram to leave his homeland and travel to a
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  Speaker 1: new country. Abram obeyed, and he settled in Canaan with
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  Speaker 1: his wife SARAHI. But then something terrible happened. A famine
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  Speaker 1: struck the land of Canaan. The rains did not come,
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  Speaker 1: the crops failed, and there was no food to eat.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter twelve, verse ten tells us what Abram did,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a famine in the land, and Abram
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  Speaker 1: went down into Egypt to sojourn there. For the famine
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  Speaker 1: was grievous in the land. Egypt had food because of
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  Speaker 1: the Nile River. Even when other lands suffered drought, the
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  Speaker 1: Nile continued to water the fields. So Abram took his
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  Speaker 1: family and traveled south into the land of Mizra'im's descendants.
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  Speaker 1: But as they approached the border of Egypt, Abram became afraid.
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  Speaker 1: His wife, Sarah was very beautiful, and Abram worried about
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  Speaker 1: what the Egyptians might do when they saw her. In
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter twelve, Verses eleven through thirteen, Abram spoke to
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  Speaker 1: his wife that behold, now I know that thou art
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  Speaker 1: a fair woman to look upon. Therefore it shall come
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  Speaker 1: to pass when the Egyptians shall see thee that they
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  Speaker 1: shall say this is his wife, and they will kill me,
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  Speaker 1: but they will save thee alive. Say I pray thee
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  Speaker 1: thou art my sister, that it may be well with
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  Speaker 1: me for thy sake, and my soul shall live because
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  Speaker 1: of thee Everything happened just as Abram had feared. The
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians saw how beautiful Sarah was, and words spread until
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  Speaker 1: it reached the palace. Verses fourteen and fifteen say the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very fair. The
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  Speaker 1: princes also of Pharaoh saw her and commended her before Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. Pharaoh took
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  Speaker 1: Sarah into his palace, believing she was only Abram's sister,
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  Speaker 1: but this situation was very wrong. God himself stepped in
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  Speaker 1: to fix this problem. Verse seventeen says, and the Lord
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  Speaker 1: plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: Abram's wife. When Pharaoh discovered the truth, he confronted Abram
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  Speaker 1: Verses eighteen through twenty record And Pharaoh called Abram and said,
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  Speaker 1: what is this that thou hast done unto me? Why
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  Speaker 1: didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Therefore behold thy wife, take her and go thy way.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent
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  Speaker 1: him away and his wife and all that he had.
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  Speaker 1: This was the first meeting between God's chosen family and
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  Speaker 1: the nation of Egypt. It would not be the last.
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  Speaker 1: Many years passed after Abraham left Egypt. Abraham died and
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  Speaker 1: his son Isaac grew old. Isaac had two sons, Jacob
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  Speaker 1: and Esau. Jacob, whose name God later changed to Israel,
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  Speaker 1: had twelve sons. These twelve sons would become the twelve
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  Speaker 1: tribes of Israel. Among these twelve sons, there was one
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  Speaker 1: whom Jacob loved more than all the others. His name
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  Speaker 1: was Joseph. Genesis chapter thirty seven, Verse three explains, Now
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  Speaker 1: Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
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  Speaker 1: was the son of his old age, and he made
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  Speaker 1: him a coat of many colors, this coat was a
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  Speaker 1: special robe, a sign that Joseph was his father's favorite.
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  Speaker 1: When Joseph's brothers saw this coat, they understood what it meant.
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  Speaker 1: Verse four tells us their reaction. And when his brethren
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  Speaker 1: saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,
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  Speaker 1: they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.
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  Speaker 1: Things only got worse when Joseph started having dreams. In
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter thirty seven, verses six and seven, Joseph shared
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  Speaker 1: his first dream. Here, I pray you this dream which
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  Speaker 1: I have dreamed for. Behold, we were binding sheaves in
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  Speaker 1: the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright.
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  Speaker 1: And behold, your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance
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  Speaker 1: to my sheaf. The meaning was clear. Joseph was saying
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  Speaker 1: that one day his brother would bow down to him.
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  Speaker 1: The brother's hatred grew stronger every day. They were looking
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  Speaker 1: for an opportunity to get rid of Joseph. That opportunity
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  Speaker 1: came when Jacob sent Joseph to check on his brothers
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  Speaker 1: far from home. Genesis chapter thirty seven, Verses nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty reveals their evil plan. And they said, one to another,
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  Speaker 1: behold this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us
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  Speaker 1: slay him and cast him into some pit. And we
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  Speaker 1: will say, some evil beast hath devoured him, and we
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  Speaker 1: shall see what will become of his dreams. They stripped
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  Speaker 1: Joseph of his coat and threw him into an empty pit.
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  Speaker 1: Then a caravan of merchants appeared, heading toward Egypt. Judah
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  Speaker 1: had an idea, instead of killing their brother, they would
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  Speaker 1: sell him. Verse twenty eight tells us. Then there passed
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  Speaker 1: by Midianites merchantmen, and they drew and lifted up Joseph
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  Speaker 1: out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
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  Speaker 1: for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt. Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: the Favorite Son, the dreamer of dream was now a
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  Speaker 1: slave on his way to Egypt. He was only seventeen
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  Speaker 1: years old. Joseph arrived in Egypt as a slave. Everything
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  Speaker 1: he had known was gone, his father's house, his beautiful coat,
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  Speaker 1: his place as the favorite son. Now he was property
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  Speaker 1: to be bought and sold. Genesis chapter thirty nine, Verse
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  Speaker 1: one tells us who purchased him. And Joseph was brought
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  Speaker 1: down to Egypt and Potiphar, an officer, of Pharaoh captain
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  Speaker 1: of the guard, an Egyptian bought him of the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down. Thither, Potiphar
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  Speaker 1: was the captain of Pharaoh's guard, a position of great authority.
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  Speaker 1: But Joseph was not alone in that foreign land. Verses
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  Speaker 1: two through four revealed, And the Lord was with Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: and he was a prosperous man. And his master saw
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him,
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  Speaker 1: and he made him overseer over his house, and all
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  Speaker 1: that he had he put into his hand. Potiphar noticed
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  Speaker 1: something special about Joseph. He saw that God blessed everything
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  Speaker 1: Joseph touched. So Potiphar promoted Joseph, making him overseer of
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  Speaker 1: his entire household. But then trouble came. Verse seven reveals
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  Speaker 1: the problem. And it came to pass after these things
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  Speaker 1: that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and
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  Speaker 1: she said, lie with me. Joseph refused. Verses eight and
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  Speaker 1: nine recalled his answer, Behold, my master wotteth not, what
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  Speaker 1: is with me? In the house, and he hath committed
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  Speaker 1: all that he hath to my hand. There is none
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  Speaker 1: greater in this house than I. Neither hath he kept
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  Speaker 1: back anything from me but thee because thou art his wife?
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  Speaker 1: How then can I do this great wickedness and sin
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  Speaker 1: against God? Day after day she pressured him. One day,
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  Speaker 1: when no other servants were in the house, she grabbed
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  Speaker 1: his garment. Verse twelve says and she caught him by
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  Speaker 1: his garments, saying, lie with me. And he left his
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  Speaker 1: garment in her hand and fled and got him out.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph chose to flee rather than sin, but the woman
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  Speaker 1: wanted revenge. She used Joseph's garment as false evidence, telling
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  Speaker 1: every one that Joseph had attacked her. Verses nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty described the result. And it came to pass when
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  Speaker 1: his master heard the words of his wife, that his
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  Speaker 1: wrath was kindled. And Joseph's master took him and put
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  Speaker 1: him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners
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  Speaker 1: were bound. Joseph was thrown into prison. He had done
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong, yet now he sat in chains. Joseph found
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  Speaker 1: himself in one of the darkest places in Egypt. This
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  Speaker 1: was the place where Pharaoh's own prisoners were kept. But
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  Speaker 1: even in that dark dungeon, God did not forget Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter thirty nine, verses twenty one through twenty three
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  Speaker 1: shows us but the Lord was with Joseph and showed
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  Speaker 1: him mercy and gave him favor in the sight of
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  Speaker 1: the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the
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  Speaker 1: prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were
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  Speaker 1: in the prison, and whatsoever they did there. He was
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  Speaker 1: the doer of it. Once again, Joseph rose to a
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  Speaker 1: position of authority. Then one day two important prisoners arrived,
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  Speaker 1: the chief butler and chief baker of Pharaoh. Genesis chapter forty,
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  Speaker 1: verses five through eight describes what happened. And they dreamed
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  Speaker 1: a dream, both of them, each man his dream in
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  Speaker 1: one night. And Joseph came in unto them in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and looked upon them, and behold they were sad.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, unto him, we have dreamed a dream,
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  Speaker 1: and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said,
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  Speaker 1: unto them, do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me them,
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  Speaker 1: I pray you. The butler shared his dream about a
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  Speaker 1: vine with three branches producing grapes. Joseph interpreted in verses
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  Speaker 1: twelve and thirteen the three branches are three days. Yet
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  Speaker 1: within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head and
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  Speaker 1: restore thee unto thy place, And thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: cup into his hand. Joseph asked the butler to remember
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  Speaker 1: him and speak to Pharaoh on his behalf. Then the
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  Speaker 1: baker shared his dream, but Joseph's interpretation in verses eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and nineteen was grim. The three baskets are three days.
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  Speaker 1: Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head
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  Speaker 1: from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
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  Speaker 1: Three days later, on Pharaoh's birthday, everything happened exactly as
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  Speaker 1: Joseph said. The butler was restored and the baker was executed.
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  Speaker 1: But verse twenty three says, yet did not the chief
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  Speaker 1: butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. The butler forgot Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph remained in prison waiting. Two full years passed. Then
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh had troubling dreams that none of his wise men
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  Speaker 1: could interpret. Genesis Chapter forty one, verses one through four
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  Speaker 1: describes the first dream, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood
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  Speaker 1: by the river, and behold, there came up out of
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  Speaker 1: the river seven well favored kind and fat fleshed, and
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  Speaker 1: they fed in a meadow. And behold, seven other kind
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  Speaker 1: came up after them out of the river, ill favored
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  Speaker 1: and lean fleshed. And the ill favored and lean fleshed
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  Speaker 1: kind did eat up the seven well favored and fat kind.
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  Speaker 1: Only then did the butler remember Joseph. Joseph was cleaned
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  Speaker 1: up and brought before Pharaoh. His response in verse sixteen
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  Speaker 1: was humble. It is not in me God shall give
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh an answer of peace. After hearing the dreams, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: explained their meaning in verses twenty nine through thirty one. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: there comes seven years of great plenty throughout all the
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt, and there shall arise after them seven
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  Speaker 1: years of famine, and all the plenty shall be forgotten
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  Speaker 1: in the land of Egypt, and the famine shall consume
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  Speaker 1: the land. Joseph advised Pharaoh to appoint someone to store
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  Speaker 1: grain during the good years. Pharaoh's response in verses thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine and forty was immediate. For as much as God
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  Speaker 1: hath showed thee all this, there is none so discreet
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  Speaker 1: and wise as thou art. Thou shalt be over my house,
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  Speaker 1: and according unto thy word, shall all my people be
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  Speaker 1: ruled only in the throne. Will I be greater than thou.
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  Speaker 1: Verses forty two and forty three describe Joseph's incredible promotion.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and
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  Speaker 1: put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures
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  Speaker 1: of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
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  Speaker 1: And he made him to ride in the second chariot
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  Speaker 1: which he had, And they cried before him, bow the knee,
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  Speaker 1: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: The slave had become a prince. The prisoner now ruled
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  Speaker 1: all of Egypt. Joseph was thirty years old when he
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  Speaker 1: stood before Pharaoh. Thirteen years had passed since his brothers
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  Speaker 1: sold him into slavery. Now he had important work to do.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter forty one, verse forty six tells us and
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  Speaker 1: Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went
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  Speaker 1: throughout all the land of Egypt. Joseph traveled across the
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  Speaker 1: entire country, preparing for what was coming. The seven years
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  Speaker 1: of plenty began exactly as God had revealed. Verses forty
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  Speaker 1: seven through forty nine described the abundance, and in the
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  Speaker 1: seven plenteous years, the earth brought forth by handfuls. And
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  Speaker 1: he gathered up all the food of the seven years,
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  Speaker 1: which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up
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  Speaker 1: the food in the cities. And Joseph gathered corn as
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  Speaker 1: the sand of the sea, very much until he left numbering,
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  Speaker 1: for it was without number. The harvests were enormous. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: stored so much grain that his workers eventually stopped trying
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  Speaker 1: to measure it. During these prosperous years, Joseph started a family.
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  Speaker 1: Verses fifty one and fifty two tell us about his sons.
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph called the name of the first born Manasseh,
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  Speaker 1: for God said he hath made me forget all my
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  Speaker 1: toil and all my father's house. And the name of
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  Speaker 1: the second called he Ephraim, for God hath caused me
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  Speaker 1: to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. Then
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  Speaker 1: the seven good years ended. Verses fifty four through fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven described the change, and the seven years of dearth
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  Speaker 1: began to come according as Joseph had said, and the
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  Speaker 1: dearth was in all lands, but in all the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt there was bread. And when all the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh said, unto all the Egyptians, go unto Joseph
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  Speaker 1: what he saith to you do? And all countries came
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  Speaker 1: into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn, because that
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  Speaker 1: the famine was so sore in all lands. The e
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  Speaker 1: wisdom God gave Joseph was now feeding the world. Far
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  Speaker 1: away in Canaan, the famine was devastating the land. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: heard that there was grain in Egypt. Genesis chapter forty two,
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  Speaker 1: verses one and two record his words. Jacob said, unto
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  Speaker 1: his sons, why do ye look one upon another? And
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  Speaker 1: he said, behold, I have heard that there is corn
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt. Get you down thither and buy for us
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  Speaker 1: from thence that we may live and not die. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: sent ten of his sons to Egypt, keeping only Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: at home. After losing Joseph, Jacob could not bear to
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  Speaker 1: risk losing Rachel's other son. Genesis chapter forty two, verses
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  Speaker 1: six through eight describes the meeting and Joseph was the
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  Speaker 1: governor over the land, and he it was that sold
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  Speaker 1: to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren
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  Speaker 1: came and bowed down themselves before him, with their faces
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  Speaker 1: to the earth. And Joseph saw his brethren, and he
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  Speaker 1: knew them, but made himself strange unto them. And Joseph
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  Speaker 1: knew his brethren, but they knew not him. Joseph recognized
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  Speaker 1: his brothers immediately, but they did not recognize him. And
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  Speaker 1: something remarkable happened. The brothers bowed down before Joseph with
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  Speaker 1: their faces to the ground. Verse nine says, and Joseph
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  Speaker 1: remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them. The dreams
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  Speaker 1: from his youth had come true. Joseph tested his brothers,
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  Speaker 1: demanding they bring Benjamin. After many trials, Joseph finally revealed himself.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter forty five, Verses three and four records this
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  Speaker 1: powerful moment. And Joseph said, unto his brethren, I am Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not
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  Speaker 1: answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. And
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  Speaker 1: Joseph said, unto his brethren, come near to me. I
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  Speaker 1: pray you and they came near, and he said, I
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  Speaker 1: am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. The
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  Speaker 1: others were terrified, but Joseph had no intention of revenge.
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  Speaker 1: Verses five through eight reveal his understanding. Now, therefore, be
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  Speaker 1: not grieved nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither.
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  Speaker 1: For God did send me before you to preserve life.
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  Speaker 1: For these two years, hath the famine been in the land,
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  Speaker 1: and yet there are five years in the which there
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  Speaker 1: shall neither be erring nor harvest. And God sent me
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  Speaker 1: before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So
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  Speaker 1: now it was not you that sent me hither, but God,
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  Speaker 1: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh and
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  Speaker 1: lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all
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  Speaker 1: the land of Egypt. What the brothers meant for evil,
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  Speaker 1: God used for good. Joseph sent his brothers back with
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  Speaker 1: a message for their father. Verses nine through eleven contain
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  Speaker 1: his invitation, haste ye and go up to my father
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  Speaker 1: and say unto him. Thus saith thy son, Joseph. God
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  Speaker 1: hath made me lord of all Egypt. Come down unto
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  Speaker 1: me tarry not, and thou shalt dwell in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Gosha, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou
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  Speaker 1: and thy children and thy children's children. And there will
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  Speaker 1: I nourish thee For yet there are five years of famine.
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  Speaker 1: The son who was sold as a slave had become
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  Speaker 1: the savior of his family. The descendants of Abraham, Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob were coming to Egypt, where a new chapter
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  Speaker 1: of their story was about to begin. When Jacob heard
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  Speaker 1: that his son Joseph was alive and ruling over all
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt, he could hardly believe it. The son he
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  Speaker 1: had mourned for over twenty years was not dead. He
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  Speaker 1: was the second most powerful man in the world. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: gathered everything he owned and began the journey to Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Along the way, God spoke to him. Genesis chapter forty six,
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  Speaker 1: verses two through four records this encounter. And God spake
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  Speaker 1: unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said Jacob, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: And he said, here am I. And he said, I
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  Speaker 1: am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to
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  Speaker 1: go down into Egypt, for I will there make of
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  Speaker 1: thee a great nation. I will go down with THEE
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  Speaker 1: into Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up again.
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  Speaker 1: God promised Jacob that his family would become a great
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  Speaker 1: nation in Egypt. He also promised to bring them back
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  Speaker 1: to Canaan one day. Genesis chapter forty six, verse twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven tells us how many people came. All the souls
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  Speaker 1: of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt were
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  Speaker 1: three score and ten seventy people in total. Joseph went
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  Speaker 1: to meet his father in Goshen. Genesis chapter forty six,
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  Speaker 1: verses twenty nine and thirty describes their reunion. And Joseph
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  Speaker 1: made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel,
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  Speaker 1: his father to Goshen, and presented himself unto him. And
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  Speaker 1: he fell on his neck and wept on his neck
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  Speaker 1: a good while. And Israel said, unto Joseph, now let
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  Speaker 1: me die, since I have seen thy face, and because
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  Speaker 1: thou art yet alive. Joseph then brought his father before Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter forty seven, verses five and six records Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: generous offer. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, thy father
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  Speaker 1: and thy brethren are come unto thee the land of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt is before thee in the best of the land.
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  Speaker 1: Make thy father and brethren to dwell in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Goshen. Let them dwell. Pharaoh gave Jacob's family the
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  Speaker 1: best land in Egypt. The family of Israel had found
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  Speaker 1: a new home under Pharaoh's protection. Jacob lived in Egypt
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  Speaker 1: for seventeen years. When he knew his death was near,
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  Speaker 1: he blessed each of his twelve sons and asked to
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  Speaker 1: be buried in Canaan in the cave where Abraham and
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  Speaker 1: Isaac were buried. Genesis chapter forty nine, verse thirty three
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  Speaker 1: records his death, and when Jacob had made an end
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  Speaker 1: of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into
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  Speaker 1: the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered
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  Speaker 1: unto his people. Joseph kept his promise. He took his
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  Speaker 1: father's body back to Canaan and buried him in the
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  Speaker 1: cave of Machpela. Joseph continued to care for his family
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt. He lived to see his great grandchildren. Before
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  Speaker 1: Joseph died, he made his brother's promise something important. This
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  Speaker 1: is Chapter fifty, Verses twenty four and twenty five records
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  Speaker 1: his words and Joseph said, unto his brethren, I die,
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  Speaker 1: and God will surely visit you and bring you out
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  Speaker 1: of this land, unto the land which he swear to Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: to Isaac and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath
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  Speaker 1: of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you,
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  Speaker 1: and ye shall carry up my bones. From Hence, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: knew that Egypt was not their permanent home. God would
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  Speaker 1: one day bring them back to Canaan. Verse twenty six concludes.
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  Speaker 1: So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old,
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  Speaker 1: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a
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  Speaker 1: coffin in Egypt. After Joseph's death, the children of Israel
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  Speaker 1: continued to live in Goshen, and they multiplied rapidly. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter one, verse seven describes their growth. And the children
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  Speaker 1: of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, and multiplied and waxed,
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  Speaker 1: exceeding mighty, and the land was filled with them. What
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  Speaker 1: began as seventy people was becoming a great multitude. Many
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  Speaker 1: years passed, the pharaoh, who had welcomed Joseph's family died.
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  Speaker 1: A new dynasty rose to power in Egypt, and everything changed.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus chapter one, verse eight introduces this dark turn. Now
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  Speaker 1: there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew
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  Speaker 1: not Joseph. This new pharaoh did not remember Joseph or
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  Speaker 1: the great service he had done for Egypt. All he
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  Speaker 1: saw was a large foreign population living in his land,
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  Speaker 1: and he was afraid. Verses nine and ten reveal his concerns,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, unto his people, behold, the people of
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply.
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  Speaker 1: And it come to pass that when there falleth out
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  Speaker 1: any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight
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  Speaker 1: against us. And so get them up out of the land.
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  Speaker 1: So Pharaoh decided to oppress them. Verses eleven through fourteen
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  Speaker 1: described the slavery that began. Therefore, they did set over
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  Speaker 1: them task masters to afflict them with their burdens, and
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  Speaker 1: they built for Pharaoh treasure cities pithom and ramses. But
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  Speaker 1: the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.
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  Speaker 1: And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve
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  Speaker 1: with rigor, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage,
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  Speaker 1: in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of
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  Speaker 1: service in the field. The Egyptians worked the Hebrews without mercy.
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  Speaker 1: But despite the hard labor, the Hebrews kept multiplying. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: then gave a terrible command to the Hebrew midwives. Verses
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and sixteen record and the King of Egypt spake
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  Speaker 1: to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the
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  Speaker 1: one was Shifra, and the name of the other poor.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, when ye do the office of a
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  Speaker 1: midwife to the Hebrew women, if it be a son,
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  Speaker 1: then ye shall kill him. But if it be a daughter,
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  Speaker 1: then ye shall live. But the midwives feared God more
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  Speaker 1: than they feared Pharaoh. Verse seventeen says, But the midwives
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  Speaker 1: feared God and did not as the King of Egypt
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  Speaker 1: commanded them, but save the men children alone. So Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: made his command public. Verse twenty two records his decree.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, every son that
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  Speaker 1: is born, ye shall cast into the river, and every
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  Speaker 1: daughter ye shall save alive. Every Hebrew baby boy was
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  Speaker 1: to be thrown into the Nile River. During this dark time,
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew couple from the tribe of Levi had a
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  Speaker 1: baby boy. When his mother saw how beautiful he was,
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  Speaker 1: she could not bear to let him die. Exodus chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse two tells us and the woman conceived and bear
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  Speaker 1: a son, And when she saw him that he was
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  Speaker 1: a goodly child, she hid him three months. For three
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  Speaker 1: months she kept her baby hidden, but as he grew,
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  Speaker 1: it became impossible to hide him any longer. So she
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  Speaker 1: came up with a plan. Verses three and four describe
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  Speaker 1: what she did. And when she could not longer hide him,
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  Speaker 1: she took for him an ark of bulrushes. Count dauped
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  Speaker 1: it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein.
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  Speaker 1: And she laid it in the flags by the river's brink,
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  Speaker 1: and his sister stood afar off to wit what would
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  Speaker 1: be done to him. She made a waterproof basket and
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  Speaker 1: placed her baby inside. Then she set the basket among
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  Speaker 1: the reeds along the nile. The baby's sister, Miriam, watched
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  Speaker 1: from a distance. Then something unexpected occurred. Verses five and
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  Speaker 1: six say, and the daughter of Pharaoh came down to
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  Speaker 1: wash herself at the river, and when she saw the
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  Speaker 1: ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
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  Speaker 1: And when she had opened it, she saw the child,
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  Speaker 1: and behold the babe wept, and she had compassion on
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  Speaker 1: him and said, this is one of the Hebrew's children.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's own daughter found the baby. She knew he was
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  Speaker 1: a Hebrew child, but she had compassion on him. Miriam
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  Speaker 1: quickly offered to find a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter agreed Verses eight and nine tell Us. And
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go, And the maid went
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  Speaker 1: and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said, unto her,
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  Speaker 1: take this child away and nurse it for me, and
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  Speaker 1: I will give thee thy wages. How the woman took
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  Speaker 1: the child and nursed it. The baby's own mother was
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  Speaker 1: paid to raise him. When he was older, she brought
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  Speaker 1: him to Pharaoh's daughter. Verse ten says and the child grew,
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  Speaker 1: and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
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  Speaker 1: her son. And she called his name Moses. And she said,
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  Speaker 1: because I drew him out of the water, Moses, the
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  Speaker 1: child who should have died in the Nile, was now
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  Speaker 1: a prince in Pharaoh's palace. Moses grew up in the palace,
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  Speaker 1: educated in all the wisdom of Egypt, but he never
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  Speaker 1: forgot that he was a Hebrew. One day, when he
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  Speaker 1: was grown, he went out to see how his people
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  Speaker 1: were living. Exodus Chapter two, Verses eleven and twelve describe
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  Speaker 1: what happened. And it came to pass in those days
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  Speaker 1: when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his
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  Speaker 1: brethren and looked on their burdens. And he spied an
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian smiting a Hebrew one of his brethren. And he
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  Speaker 1: looked this way and that way, and when he saw
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  Speaker 1: that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian and
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  Speaker 1: hid him in the sand. Moses saw an Egyptian beating
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  Speaker 1: a Hebrew slave, anger rose within him, and he killed
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptian, burying his body in the sand. The next
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  Speaker 1: day Moses went out again Verses thirteen and fourteen tell Us,
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  Speaker 1: and when he went out the second day, behold two
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  Speaker 1: men of the Hebrews strove together. And he said to
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  Speaker 1: him that did the wrong. Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, who made thee a prince and a
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  Speaker 1: judge over us? Intendest thou to kill me, as thou
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  Speaker 1: killst the Egyptian. And Moses feared and said, surely this
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  Speaker 1: thing is known. His secret was out word reached Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Verse fifteen says, now, when Pharaoh heard this thing, he
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  Speaker 1: sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face
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  Speaker 1: of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and
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  Speaker 1: he sat down by a well. Moses ran for his
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  Speaker 1: life ad that well, Moses met the daughters of a
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  Speaker 1: priest named Jethro. He helped them water their flocks. Verses
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  Speaker 1: twenty one and twenty two describe what followed, and Moses
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  Speaker 1: was content to dwell with the man. And he gave
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  Speaker 1: Moses Zipporah his daughter, and she bare him a son.
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  Speaker 1: And he called his name Gersham, for he said, I
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  Speaker 1: have been a stranger in a strange land. Moses married
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  Speaker 1: Zippora and became a shepherd in Midian. For forty years,
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  Speaker 1: he lived quietly in the desert, far from Egypt and
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  Speaker 1: far from his people, who still suffered in slavery. Back
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt, the Hebrews continued to suffer. Exodus Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verses twenty three through twenty five tells us and it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass in process of time that the king
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt died, and the children of Israel's side by
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  Speaker 1: reason of the bondage. And they cried, and their cry
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  Speaker 1: came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And
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  Speaker 1: God heard their groaning. And God remembered his covenant with Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: with Isaac and with Jacob. And God looked upon the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. God
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  Speaker 1: heard their cries. He remembered his promise to Abraham. Now
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  Speaker 1: he was ready to act. One day, Moses was tending
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  Speaker 1: his father in law's flock near Mount Horeb. Exodus chapter three,
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  Speaker 1: verses two through four describes what he saw. And the
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  Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame
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  Speaker 1: of fire, out of the midst of a bush. And
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  Speaker 1: he looked and behold the bush burned with fire, and
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  Speaker 1: the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will
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  Speaker 1: now turn aside and see this great sight. Why the
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  Speaker 1: bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that,
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  Speaker 1: he turned aside to see. God called unto him out
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  Speaker 1: of the midst of the bush and said Moses, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: And he said, here am I. The bush was on fire,
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  Speaker 1: but did not burn up. When Moses came closer, God
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  Speaker 1: spoke to him. God told Moses his plan. Verses seven
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  Speaker 1: through ten record and the Lord said, I have surely
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  Speaker 1: seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters.
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  Speaker 1: For I know their sorrows, and I am come down
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  Speaker 1: to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,
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  Speaker 1: and to bring them up out of that land unto
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  Speaker 1: a good land and a large gown, to a land
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  Speaker 1: flowing with milk and honey. Come now therefore, and I
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  Speaker 1: will send thee unto fair Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring
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  Speaker 1: forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: God was sending Moses back to Egypt to free his people.
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  Speaker 1: Moses returned to Egypt with his brother Erin. They went
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  Speaker 1: before Pharaoh and delivered God's message. Exodus chapter five, verse
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  Speaker 1: one records their demand. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: let my people go, that they may hold a feast
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  Speaker 1: unto me in the wilderness. But Pharaoh refused. Verse two says,
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  Speaker 1: and Pharaoh said, who is the Lord that I should
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  Speaker 1: obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. Pharaoh did
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  Speaker 1: not know the God of Israel, but he was about
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  Speaker 1: to learn God began to pour out his judgments on Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus chapter seven, verses twenty and twenty one describes the
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  Speaker 1: first plague, and Moses and Aaron did so as the
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  Speaker 1: Lord commanded, And he lifted up the rod and smote
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  Speaker 1: the waters that were in the river, and all the
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  Speaker 1: waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
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  Speaker 1: And the fish that was in the river died, and
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  Speaker 1: the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of
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  Speaker 1: the water of the river. And there was blood throughout
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  Speaker 1: all the land of Egypt. The Nile, which the Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: worshiped as a god, turned to blood, but Pharaoh hardened
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  Speaker 1: his heart. Seven days later, God sent the second plague.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus chapter eight, verses five and six tells Us and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Frogs swarmed everywhere. They filled the houses, the beds, the ovens.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh begged Moses to remove them and promised to let
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  Speaker 1: the people go, But when the frogs died, Pharaoh changed
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  Speaker 1: his mind. Then came the third plague Verses sixteen and
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  Speaker 1: seventeen describe it. And Aaron stretched out his hand with
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  Speaker 1: his rod and smote the dust of the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: it became lice in man and in beast. All the
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  Speaker 1: dust of the land became lice. Throughout all the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt, the dust turned into gnats that covered every
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  Speaker 1: person and animal. Even Pharaoh's magicians could not replicate this plague.
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  Speaker 1: They told Pharaoh in verse nineteen, this is the finger
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  Speaker 1: of God. But Pharaoh would not listen. The fourth plague
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  Speaker 1: brought swarms of flies. Verse twenty four says, and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord did so, and there came a grievous swarm of
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  Speaker 1: flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants houses,
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  Speaker 1: and into all the land of Egypt. But God made
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  Speaker 1: a distinction Verse twenty two promised, and I will sever
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  Speaker 1: in that day the land of Goshen, in which my
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  Speaker 1: people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there.
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  Speaker 1: The flies tormented the Egyptians, but not the Hebrews. Still
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh refused to let them go. The plagues continued to
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  Speaker 1: grow worse. Exodus chapter nine, verses three through six, describes
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  Speaker 1: the fifth plague. Behold, the hand of the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: upon thy cattle, which is in the field, upon the horses,
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  Speaker 1: upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and
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  Speaker 1: upon the sheep. There shall be a very grievous moraine,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel
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  Speaker 1: and the cattle Egypt, and there shall nothing die of
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  Speaker 1: all that is the children's of Israel. And the Lord
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  Speaker 1: did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt died, But of the cattle of the children
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  Speaker 1: of Israel died not one. A deadly disease killed all
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  Speaker 1: the curse Egyptian livestock, but not a single animal belonging
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  Speaker 1: to the Hebrews died. The sixth plague struck the bodies
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  Speaker 1: of the Egyptians themselves Verses ten and eleven. Tell Us
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  Speaker 1: and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven, and it became
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  Speaker 1: a boil, breaking forth with blaines upon man and upon beast.
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  Speaker 1: And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of
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  Speaker 1: the boils. For the boil was upon the magicians and
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  Speaker 1: upon all the Egyptians. Painful boils covered every Egyptian. Even
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  Speaker 1: the magicians suffered so badly they could not appear before Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: The seventh plague was terrifying. Verses twenty three and twenty
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  Speaker 1: four describe it. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord sent thunder and hale, and the fire
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  Speaker 1: ran along upon the ground, and the Lord reigned hail
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  Speaker 1: upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail and
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  Speaker 1: fire mingled with the hail very grievous, such as there
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  Speaker 1: was none like it in all the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: since it became a nation. Fire and ice fell together
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  Speaker 1: from the sky. The hail destroyed crops, killed animals left
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  Speaker 1: in the fields, and struck down any one caught outside.
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  Speaker 1: The eighth plague brought locusts. Exodus Chapter ten, verses fourteen
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  Speaker 1: and fifteen describes the devastation. And the locusts went up
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  Speaker 1: over all the land of Egypt, very grievous worthy, for
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  Speaker 1: they covered the face of the whole earth, so that
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  Speaker 1: the land was darkened. And they did eat every herb
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  Speaker 1: of the land, and all the fruit of the trees
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  Speaker 1: which the hail had left. And there remained not any
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  Speaker 1: green thing in the trees or in the herbs of
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  Speaker 1: the field. Through all the land of Egypt, the locusts
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  Speaker 1: ate everything. Not a single green plant remained. Then came
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  Speaker 1: the ninth plague Verses twenty two and twenty three. Tell
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  Speaker 1: Us and Moses. They stretched forth his hand toward heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a thick darkness in all the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. Three days. They saw not one another, neither
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  Speaker 1: rose any from his place for three days, but all
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. Total
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  Speaker 1: darkness covered Egypt for three days, but the Hebrews had
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  Speaker 1: light in their homes. Pharaoh still refused. God had one
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  Speaker 1: more plague, the worst of all. God announced the final
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  Speaker 1: plague to Moses. Exodus chapter eleven, verses four through six
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  Speaker 1: contains this dreadful warning. And Moses said, thus, saith the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: about midnight, will I go out into the midst of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: And all the first born in the land of Egypt
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  Speaker 1: shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon
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  Speaker 1: his throne, even unto the first born of the maid
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  Speaker 1: servant that is behind the mill, and all the first
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  Speaker 1: born of beasts. And there shall be a great cry
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  Speaker 1: throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was
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  Speaker 1: none like it, nor shall be like it anymore. Every
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  Speaker 1: first born in Egypt would die at midnight. But God
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  Speaker 1: provided a way for the Hebrews to be protected. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter twelve, verses three through seven gives the instructions. In
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  Speaker 1: the tenth day of this month, they shall take to
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  Speaker 1: them every man a lamb according to the house of
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  Speaker 1: their fathers, a lamb for an house. Your lamb shall
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  Speaker 1: be without blemish, a male of the first year, And
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  Speaker 1: ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of
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  Speaker 1: the same month. And the whole assembly of the Congregation
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  Speaker 1: of Israel shall kill it in the evening, and they
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  Speaker 1: shall take of the blood and strike it on the
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  Speaker 1: two side posts and on the upper door post of
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  Speaker 1: the houses, wherein they shall eat it. Each family was
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  Speaker 1: to kill a lamb and put its blood on the
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  Speaker 1: door frame. Verses twelve and thirteen explain why. For I
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  Speaker 1: will pass through the land of Egypt this night and
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  Speaker 1: will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: both man and beast. And the blood shall be to
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  Speaker 1: you for a token upon the houses where ye are.
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  Speaker 1: And when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
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  Speaker 1: and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you.
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  Speaker 1: When God saw the blood, he would pass over that house.
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  Speaker 1: This is why this knight is called passover. At midnight
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  Speaker 1: God struck. Verses twenty nine and thirty described the devastation.
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  Speaker 1: And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord
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  Speaker 1: smote all the first born in the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: from the first born of Pharaoh that sat on his
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  Speaker 1: throne unto the first born of the captive that was
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  Speaker 1: in the dungeon, and all the first born of cattle.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all
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  Speaker 1: his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house
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  Speaker 1: where there was not one dead. Every Egyptian home lost
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  Speaker 1: someone that night. Finally Pharaoh gave in verse thirty one records,
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  Speaker 1: and he called for Moses and Aaron by knight, and said,
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  Speaker 1: rise up and get you forth from among my people,
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  Speaker 1: both ye and the children of Israel, and go serve
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, as ye have said. The Hebrews did not wait.
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  Speaker 1: They had been ready for this moment. Exodus chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: verses thirty three through thirty six describes their departure, and
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might
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  Speaker 1: send them out of the land in haste, for they said,
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  Speaker 1: we be all dead men, and the people took their
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  Speaker 1: dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound
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  Speaker 1: up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children
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  Speaker 1: of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and
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  Speaker 1: they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels
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  Speaker 1: of gold and raiment. And the Lord gave the people
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  Speaker 1: favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
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  Speaker 1: leant unto them such things as they required, and they
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  Speaker 1: spoiled the Egyptians. The Egyptians gave the Hebrews silver, gold,
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  Speaker 1: and clothing. They wanted them gone as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Verses thirty seven and thirty eight tell us how many
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  Speaker 1: people left, and the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses
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  Speaker 1: to Sukoth, about six hundred thousand on foot. That were
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  Speaker 1: men beside children, and a mixed multitude went up also
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  Speaker 1: with them, and flocks and herds, even very much cattle.
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  Speaker 1: Six hundred thousand men plus women and children. What had
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  Speaker 1: started as seventy people had become a mighty nation. Verses
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  Speaker 1: forty and forty one mark this historic moment. Now the
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  Speaker 1: sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt
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  Speaker 1: was four hundred and thirty years, and it came to
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  Speaker 1: pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: even the self same day, it came to pass that
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  Speaker 1: all the hosts of the Lord went out from the
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt. After four hundred and thirty years, Israel
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  Speaker 1: finally left Egypt, but Pharaoh soon changed his mind. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter fourteen, verses five through seven tells us and it
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  Speaker 1: was told the king of Egypt that the people fled,
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  Speaker 1: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was
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  Speaker 1: turned against the people. And they said, why have we
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  Speaker 1: done this? That we have let Israel go from serving us?
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  Speaker 1: And he made ready his chariot and took his people
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  Speaker 1: with him, and he took six hundred chosen chariots and
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  Speaker 1: all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one
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  Speaker 1: of them. Pharaoh gathered his army and chased after the Hebrews.
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  Speaker 1: He caught up with them at the edge of the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea. The Hebrews were trapped with the sea before
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  Speaker 1: them and Pharaoh's army behind them. The people were terrified,
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  Speaker 1: but Moses spoke to them. Verses thirteen and fourteen recalled
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  Speaker 1: his words, and Moses said unto the people. Fear ye
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  Speaker 1: not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: which he will show to you to day. For the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see
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  Speaker 1: them again no more. For ever the Lord shall fight
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  Speaker 1: for you, can ye shall hold your peace. Then God
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  Speaker 1: commanded Moses to stretch out his hand over the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty one describes what happened. And Moses stretched out
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  Speaker 1: his hand over the sea. And the Lord caused the
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  Speaker 1: sea to go back by a strong east wind all
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  Speaker 1: that night and made the sea dry land, and the
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  Speaker 1: waters were divided. The sea split in two. Walls of
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  Speaker 1: water stood on the left and right, while the Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: walked through on dry ground. Verse twenty two says, and
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel went into the midst of the
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  Speaker 1: sea upon the dry ground, and the waters were a
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  Speaker 1: wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
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  Speaker 1: The Egyptians followed them into the sea, but God threw
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  Speaker 1: their army into confusion. Exodus chapter fourteen, verses twenty six
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  Speaker 1: through twenty eight records the final judgment. And the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: unto Moses, stretch out thine hand over the sea, that
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  Speaker 1: the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots,
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  Speaker 1: and upon their horsemen, and Moses stretched forth his hand
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  Speaker 1: over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength.
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  Speaker 1: When the morning appeared, and the Egyptians fled against it,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and the waters returned and covered the chariots
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  Speaker 1: and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that
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  Speaker 1: came into the sea. After them, there remained not so
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  Speaker 1: much as one of them. The waters crashed down on
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptian army. Not a single soldier survived. Verse thirty concludes.
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  Speaker 1: Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the
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  Speaker 1: hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead
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  Speaker 1: upon the sea shore. Israel was free. The nation that
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  Speaker 1: had held them in slavery generations was defeated. God had
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  Speaker 1: brought his people out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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  Speaker 1: Centuries passed after Israel left Egypt, the Hebrew slaves had
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  Speaker 1: become a powerful kingdom. David, the shepherd boy who killed Goliath,
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  Speaker 1: united the Twelve tribes and established Jerusalem as the capital.
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  Speaker 1: When David died, his son Solomon became king. Solomon was
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  Speaker 1: known for his wisdom and his great wealth, but one
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  Speaker 1: of his first acts as king surprised everyone. He made
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  Speaker 1: an alliance with Egypt, the very nation that had once
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  Speaker 1: enslaved his ancestors. First Kings, Chapter three, verse one tells
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  Speaker 1: us about this alliance. And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her
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  Speaker 1: into the city of David. Until he had made an
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  Speaker 1: end of building his own house and the house of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem roundabout. Solomon married
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter. This was a political marriage designed to bring
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  Speaker 1: peace between the two kingdoms. In ancient times, king often
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  Speaker 1: married the daughters of other kings to seal treaties and
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  Speaker 1: prevent wars. This Egyptian princess came to live in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon built a special house for her. Verse Kings Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: verse eight mentions this and his house where he dwelt,
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  Speaker 1: had another court within the porch, which was of the
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  Speaker 1: like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter,
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  Speaker 1: whom he had taken to wife like unto this porch,
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  Speaker 1: Solomon did not want her living in the palace of David.
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  Speaker 1: Second Chronicles, Chapter eight verse eleven explains why. And Solomon
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  Speaker 1: brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city
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  Speaker 1: of David unto the house that he had built for her.
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  Speaker 1: For he said, my wife shall not dwell in the
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  Speaker 1: house of David, King of Israel, because the places are
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  Speaker 1: holy whereunto the ark of the Lord hath come. The
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  Speaker 1: places where the ark of God had been were holy.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon felt it was not right for a foreign woman
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  Speaker 1: to live there. The alliance with Egypt brought benefits to Israel.
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  Speaker 1: First Kings, Chapter ten, verses twenty eight and twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: tells her about trade. And Solomon had horses brought out
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt and linin yan. The king's merchants received the
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  Speaker 1: linin yarn at a price, and a chariot came up
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  Speaker 1: and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of
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  Speaker 1: silver and an horse for one hundred and fifty. And
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  Speaker 1: so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for
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  Speaker 1: the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by
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  Speaker 1: their means. Egypt was famous for its horses and fine linen.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon imported these goods and sold horses to other kingdoms.
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  Speaker 1: Israel became a trading hub between Egypt and the northern kingdoms.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon grew extremely wealthy through this commerce, but this alliance
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  Speaker 1: came with a cost. Solomon's foreign wives eventually turned his
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  Speaker 1: heart away from God. First Kings, Chapter eleven, verses one
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  Speaker 1: through four warns but King Solomon loved many strange women,
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  Speaker 1: together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zedonians,
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  Speaker 1: and Hittites, of the nations, concerning which the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: unto the children of Israel, ye shall not go into them,
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  Speaker 1: neither shall they come in unto you, for surely they
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  Speaker 1: will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clave
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  Speaker 1: unto these in love. For it came to pass when
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  Speaker 1: Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart
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  Speaker 1: after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with
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  Speaker 1: the Lord his God, as was the heart of David,
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  Speaker 1: his father. Solomon's alliance with Egypt brought wealth and peace,
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  Speaker 1: but it also planted seeds of spiritual decline that would
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  Speaker 1: affect Israel for generations. After Solomon died, his kingdom split
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  Speaker 1: in two. His son Rehoboam became king of Judah in
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  Speaker 1: the south, ruling over only two tribes. The other ten
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  Speaker 1: tribes broke away and formed the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Rehoboam was not as wise as his father. The kingdom
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  Speaker 1: was now divided and weakened, and watching from the south
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  Speaker 1: was Egypt, no longer an ally, but an enemy. The
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  Speaker 1: pharaoh at this time was named Shishak. He had been
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  Speaker 1: watching the chaos in Israel and saw an opportunity. First Kings,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen, Verses twenty five and twenty six describes what happened,
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  Speaker 1: and it came to pass in the fifth year of
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  Speaker 1: King ri Hooboem, that Sheishak, king of Egypt, came up
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  Speaker 1: against Jerusalem, and he took away the treasures of the
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  Speaker 1: House of the Lord and the treasures of the King's house.
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  Speaker 1: He even took away all and he took away all
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  Speaker 1: the shields of gold which Solomon had made. Just five
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  Speaker 1: years after Solomon's death, Egypt attacked Jerusalem. Shishak and his
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  Speaker 1: army took everything of value, all the gold that Solomon
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  Speaker 1: had gathered, all the treasures of the temple, all the
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  Speaker 1: golden shields. Everything was carried away to Egypt. Second Chronicles,
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  Speaker 1: chapter twelve gives us more details. Verses two through four
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  Speaker 1: explain why it happened, and it came to pass that
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  Speaker 1: in the fifth year of King re Hoboam, she Shak,
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  Speaker 1: king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem because they had
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  Speaker 1: transgressed against the Lord, with twelve hundred chariots and threescore
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  Speaker 1: thousand horsemen, and the people were without number that came
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  Speaker 1: with him out of Egypt, the Lubims, the Sukiyms, and
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  Speaker 1: the Ethiopian and he took the fenced cities which pertained
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  Speaker 1: to Judah and came to Jerusalem. Shishak brought an enormous
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  Speaker 1: army twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen, plus countless
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  Speaker 1: foot soldiers from Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia. He conquered the
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  Speaker 1: fortified cities of Judah before reaching Jerusalem. The reason for
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  Speaker 1: this disaster was clear. Judah had turned away from God.
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  Speaker 1: Second Chronicles, Chapter twelve, Verse one says, and it came
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  Speaker 1: to pass when Rihobum had established the kingdom and had
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  Speaker 1: strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord count
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  Speaker 1: all Israel with him. When the prophet Shamaiyah delivered God's message,
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  Speaker 1: the leaders humbled themselves Verses six and seven. Tell Us
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  Speaker 1: whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, the Lord is righteous. And when the
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  Speaker 1: Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, they have humbled themselves. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: I will not destroy them, but I will grant them
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  Speaker 1: some deliverance. Because they repented. God spared Jerusalem from total destruction,
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  Speaker 1: but they still paid a heavy price. Verses nine through
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  Speaker 1: eleven described the loss. So Sheishac, king of Egypt, came
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  Speaker 1: up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the
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  Speaker 1: House of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house.
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  Speaker 1: He took all he carried away, also the shields of
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  Speaker 1: gold which Solomon had made henstead of which King Rehoboam
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  Speaker 1: made shields of brass. The golden shields were replaced with
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  Speaker 1: bronze ones. The glory of Solomon's kingdom was gone. Egypt
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  Speaker 1: had taken its revenge on the nation that had once
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  Speaker 1: escaped its grasp. Throughout the centuries that followed, the prophets
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  Speaker 1: of Israel often spoke about Egypt. Sometimes they warned Israel
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  Speaker 1: not to trust in Egypt for help. Other times they
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  Speaker 1: pronounced judgment on Egypt itself. Isaiah was one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest prophets. He lived during a time when Judah was
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  Speaker 1: threatened by the powerful Assyrian Empire. Some leaders wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make an alliance with Egypt for protection. Isaiah warned them
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  Speaker 1: this was a mistake. Isaiah Chapter thirty, verse is one
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  Speaker 1: through three contains this warning, woe to the rebellious children
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord that take counsel but not of Me,
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  Speaker 1: and that cover with a covering, but not of My spirit.
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  Speaker 1: That they may add sin to sin, that walk to
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  Speaker 1: go down into Egypt and have not asked at my
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  Speaker 1: mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and
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  Speaker 1: to trust in the shadow of Egypt. Therefore, shall the
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  Speaker 1: strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
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  Speaker 1: the shadow of Egypt your confusion. God called it rebellion
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  Speaker 1: to seek help from Egypt instead of trusting in him.
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  Speaker 1: The strength of Pharaoh would bring shame, not salvation. Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty one, verses one and three continues this theme,
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  Speaker 1: woe to them that go down to Egypt for help
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  Speaker 1: and stay on horses and trust in chariots because they
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  Speaker 1: are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong.
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  Speaker 1: But they look not unto the Holy One of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: neither seek the Lord. Now the Egyptians are men and
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  Speaker 1: not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit. When
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  Speaker 1: the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that
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  Speaker 1: helpeth shall fall, and he that is holp and shall
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  Speaker 1: fall down, and they all shall fail together. Egypt's horses
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  Speaker 1: and chariots were famous, but they were just flesh and blood.
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  Speaker 1: When God stretched out his hand, both Egypt and those
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  Speaker 1: who trusted in Egypt would fall. Isaiah also prophesied about
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  Speaker 1: Egypt's future. Isaiah Chapter nineteen, verses one through four describes
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  Speaker 1: a coming judgment the burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,
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  Speaker 1: and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of it. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and
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  Speaker 1: every one against his neighbor, city against city, and kingdom
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  Speaker 1: against kingdom. And the Egyptians will I give over into
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  Speaker 1: the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king
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  Speaker 1: shall rule over them. Saith the Lord the lord of hosts.
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  Speaker 1: Civil war would tear Egypt apart. A cruel foreign room
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  Speaker 1: would conquer them. Their idols would be powerless to save them.
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  Speaker 1: The prophet Ezekiel, who lived later during the Babylonian Exile,
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  Speaker 1: also spoke against Egypt. Ezekiel chapter twenty nine, verses two
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  Speaker 1: and three records God's message to Pharaoh, son of Man.
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  Speaker 1: Set thy face against Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and prophesy
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  Speaker 1: against him and against all Egypt. Speak and say, thus
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against thee Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: King of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is
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  Speaker 1: mine own, and I have made it for myself. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: boasted that the Nile was his own creation. This pride
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  Speaker 1: would be punished. Ezekiel chapter twenty nine, verses ten through
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  Speaker 1: twelve pronounces judgment, Behold, therefore I am against thee and
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  Speaker 1: against thy rivers, and I will make the land of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt utterly waste and desolate. From the tower of Syena,
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  Speaker 1: even unto the border of Ethiopia, no foot of man
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  Speaker 1: shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited. Forty
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  Speaker 1: years and I I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations,
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  Speaker 1: and will disperse them through the countries. Egypt would be
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  Speaker 1: conquered and desolated. The proud kingdom of the Nile would
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  Speaker 1: be humbled before the God of Israel. Josiah was one
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  Speaker 1: of the best kings Judah ever had. He loved God
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  Speaker 1: and led a great religious reformation in the land. He
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  Speaker 1: destroyed the idols, repaired the temple, and brought the people
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  Speaker 1: back to worshiping the true God. But Josiah made one
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  Speaker 1: fatal mistake. He went to war against Egypt when God
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  Speaker 1: had not told him to. The pharaoh at this time
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  Speaker 1: was named Neko. He was marching his army north, not
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  Speaker 1: to attack Judah, but to help the Assyrians fight against
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  Speaker 1: the rising power of Babylon. To reach the battle, Neko
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  Speaker 1: needed to pass through the land of Israel. Second Chronicles,
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty five, Verses twenty and twenty one describes what
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  Speaker 1: happened after all this. When Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho,
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  Speaker 1: king of Egypt, came up to fight against Cherkamish by Euphrates,
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  Speaker 1: and Josiah went out again against him. But he sent
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  Speaker 1: ambassadors to him, saying, what have I to do with Thee,
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  Speaker 1: thou King of Judah. I come not against THEE this day,
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  Speaker 1: but against the house wherewith I have war. For God
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  Speaker 1: commanded me to make haste forbear THEE from meddling with God,
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  Speaker 1: who is with me, that he destroy Thee, not Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Neko sent messengers to Josiah. He told him that he
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  Speaker 1: was not coming to fight Judah. He even claimed that
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  Speaker 1: God had commanded him to hurry to this battle. He
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  Speaker 1: warned Josiah not to interfere, but Josiah would not listen.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty two says, Nevertheless, Josiah would not turn his
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  Speaker 1: face from him, but disguised himself that he might fight
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  Speaker 1: with him. And hearkened not unto the words of Neko
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God, and came to fight in
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  Speaker 1: the valley of Megido. Josiah disguised himself and went to
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  Speaker 1: battle anyway. The Bible makes clear that the warning from
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  Speaker 1: Neko was actually from God. The battle took place at Megido.
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  Speaker 1: Verses twenty three and twenty four record the tragic outcome,
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  Speaker 1: and the archers shot at King Josiah, and the king
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  Speaker 1: said to his servants, have me away, for I am
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  Speaker 1: sore wounded. His servants therefore took him out of that
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  Speaker 1: chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had,
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  Speaker 1: and they brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and
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  Speaker 1: was buried in one of the sepulchers of his fathers,
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  Speaker 1: and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. An arrow
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  Speaker 1: struck Josiah. His servants rushed him back to Jerusalem, but
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  Speaker 1: he died from his wounds. All of Judah mourned for
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  Speaker 1: their beloved king. Josiah's death was a turning point for Judah.
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  Speaker 1: The good king was gone after him. Judah had only
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  Speaker 1: wicked kings who led the nation into disaster. Within just
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  Speaker 1: twenty three years of Josiah's death, Jerusalem would be destroyed
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  Speaker 1: by Babylon. After Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and burned the temple,
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  Speaker 1: most of the Jews were taken as captives to Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: but a small group was left behind in Judah. The
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  Speaker 1: Babylonians appointed a governor named Gedalia to rule over them,
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  Speaker 1: but Gadalia was murdered. The remaining Jews were terrified. They
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  Speaker 1: feared that Babylon would blame them and come to destroy
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  Speaker 1: them completely. They came to Jeremiah and asked him to
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  Speaker 1: pray for guidance. Jeremiah chapter forty two, verses two and
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  Speaker 1: three records their request and said, unto Jeremiah the Prophet,
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  Speaker 1: let we beseech Thee our supplication be accepted before THEE,
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  Speaker 1: and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even
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  Speaker 1: for all this remnant, that the Lord thy God may
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  Speaker 1: show us the way wherein we may walk and the
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  Speaker 1: thing that we may do. They promised to obey whatever
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  Speaker 1: God said. Verses five and six record their vow. Then
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  Speaker 1: they said to Jeremiah, the Lord be a true and
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  Speaker 1: faithful witness between us. If we do not even according
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  Speaker 1: to all things for the which the Lord thy God
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  Speaker 1: shall send THEE to us, whether it be good or
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  Speaker 1: whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord our God, to whom we send THEE, that
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  Speaker 1: it may be well with us when we obey the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the Lord our God. Jeremiah prayed, and after
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  Speaker 1: ten days God answered. The message was clear, stay in
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  Speaker 1: the land and do not be afraid of Babylon. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter forty two, verses ten through twelve contains God's promise
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  Speaker 1: if ye will still abide in this land. Then will
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  Speaker 1: I build you and not pull you down. And I
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  Speaker 1: will plant you and not pluck you up. Be not
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  Speaker 1: afraid of the King of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid.
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  Speaker 1: Be not afraid of him, saith the Lord. For I
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  Speaker 1: am with you to save you and to deliver you
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  Speaker 1: from his hand. And I will show mercies unto you,
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  Speaker 1: that he may have mercy upon you and cause you
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  Speaker 1: to return to your own land. But God also gave
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  Speaker 1: a stern warning Verses fifteen through seventeen. Say, and now
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  Speaker 1: therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt
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  Speaker 1: and go to sojourn there, then it shall come to
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  Speaker 1: pass that the sword which ye feared shall overtake you
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  Speaker 1: there in the land of Egypt, and the famine whereof
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  Speaker 1: you are afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: and there ye shall die. If they went to Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: the very disasters they feared would follow them there. But
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  Speaker 1: the people did not believe Jeremiah. Jeremiah Chapter forty three,
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  Speaker 1: Verses two through four records their response. Then spake Azariah,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Hoshiah, and Johanna, the son of Korea,
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  Speaker 1: and all the proud men, saying, unto Jeremiah, thou speakest falsely.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord, our God hath not sent thee to say,
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  Speaker 1: go not into Egypt, to sojourn there. So Johanna and
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  Speaker 1: the son of Korea, and all the captains of the forces,
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  Speaker 1: and all the people obeyed not the voice of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to dwell in the land of Judah. They accused Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: of lying, and they disobeyed God completely. Verses five through
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  Speaker 1: seven tell us what they did. But Johanna, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Korea and all the captains of the forces took
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  Speaker 1: all the remnant of Judah, even men and women and children,
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  Speaker 1: and Jeremiah the Prophet, and Barrack, the son of Nariah.
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  Speaker 1: So they came into the land of Egypt. For they
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  Speaker 1: obeyed not the voice of the Lord. Thus came they
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  Speaker 1: even to Tapanese. They took every one, including Jeremiah himself,
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  Speaker 1: and fled to Egypt. They had returned to the land
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  Speaker 1: their ancestors had escaped from centuries before. Hundreds of years later,
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  Speaker 1: Egypt would play one more important role in God's plan.
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  Speaker 1: This time, it would be a place of refuge for
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  Speaker 1: the most important child ever born. When Jesus was born
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  Speaker 1: in Bethlehem, wise men from the east came to worship him.
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  Speaker 1: They had seen his star and followed it to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: where they asked King Herod where the new king of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews had been born. Herod was troubled by this news.
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  Speaker 1: He did not want any rival to his throne. Herod
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  Speaker 1: pretended to want to worship the child too. He asked
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  Speaker 1: the wise men to find the baby and report back
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  Speaker 1: to him, but God warned the wise men in a
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  Speaker 1: dream not to return to Herod. They went home by
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  Speaker 1: a different route. When Herod realized the wise men had
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  Speaker 1: tricked him, he was furious. Matthew Chapter two, verses thirteen
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  Speaker 1: through fifteen describes what happened next and when they were departed.
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  Speaker 1: Behold the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in
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  Speaker 1: a dream, saying, arise and take the young child and
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  Speaker 1: his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there
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  Speaker 1: until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the
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  Speaker 1: young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took
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  Speaker 1: the young child and his mother by night and departed
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  Speaker 1: into Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod,
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  Speaker 1: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord by the prophet, saying out of Egypt, have I
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  Speaker 1: called my son? An angel warned Joseph in a dream.
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  Speaker 1: He took Mary and the baby Jesus and fled to
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  Speaker 1: Egypt that very night. They stayed there until Herod died.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew tells us this fulfilled a prophecy. The prophet Hoseiah
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  Speaker 1: had written these words hundreds of years earlier. Joseiah chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 1: verse one says, when Israel was a child, then I
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  Speaker 1: loved him and called my son out of Egypt. Originally,
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  Speaker 1: this verse spoke about the nation of Israel leaving Egypt
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  Speaker 1: in the Exodus, but it also pointed forward to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Just as Israel had been called out of Egypt, so
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  Speaker 1: would God's true so be called out of Egypt. The
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  Speaker 1: land that had once enslaved God's people now protected God's son.
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  Speaker 1: Egypt became a safe haven for the Holy Family during
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  Speaker 1: their most dangerous time. Matthew Chapter two, verses nineteen through
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  Speaker 1: twenty one tells us about their return. But when Herod
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  Speaker 1: was dead, behold an angel of the Lord Appereth in
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  Speaker 1: a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, arise and take
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  Speaker 1: the young child and his mother, and go into the
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  Speaker 1: land of Israel, for they are dead. Which sought the
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  Speaker 1: young child's life. And he arose and took the young
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  Speaker 1: child and his mother and came into the land of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: After Herod died, the angel told Joseph it was safe
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  Speaker 1: to return. The family left Egypt and went back to Israel,
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  Speaker 1: eventually settling in Nazareth, where Jesus grew up. The ancient
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians did not disappear from history. Their descendants still live
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt today. Many of them are Christians known as
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  Speaker 1: Coptic Christians. The word Coptic comes from the Greek word
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  Speaker 1: for Egypt. The Coptic Church traces its origins back to
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  Speaker 1: the earliest days of Christianity. According to tradition, the apostle Mark,
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  Speaker 1: who wrote the Gospel of Mark, brought the Christian faith
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt. He is considered the founder of the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Alexandria, one of the most important churches in early Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: The Book of Acts tells us that Egyptians were present
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  Speaker 1: on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came
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  Speaker 1: upon the Apostles. Acts Chapter two, Verses one through four,
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  Speaker 1: describes that day. And when the day of Pentecost was
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  Speaker 1: fully come, they were all with one accord in one place,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of
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  Speaker 1: a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house
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  Speaker 1: where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them clove
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  Speaker 1: and tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon
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  Speaker 1: each of them, and they were all filled with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit gave them utterance. Verses nine through eleven list
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  Speaker 1: the people who heard the Apostles speaking in their own languages,
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  Speaker 1: Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia
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  Speaker 1: and in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, Phrygia
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  Speaker 1: and Pamphylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya,
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  Speaker 1: about Syene and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes
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  Speaker 1: and Arabians. We do hear them speak in our tongues,
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  Speaker 1: the wonderful works of God. People from Egypt heard the
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  Speaker 1: gospel that very first day. Some of them may have
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  Speaker 1: carried the good news back to their homeland. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: also mentions an Egyptian Jew named Apollos, who became an
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  Speaker 1: important early Christian teacher. Acts Chapter eighteen, verses twenty four
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five introduces him and a certain Jew named Apollos,
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  Speaker 1: born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, and being fervent in the spirit, he
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  Speaker 1: spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord. Apollos
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  Speaker 1: was from Alexandria, the great city in Egypt. He was
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  Speaker 1: powerful in his knowledge of the scriptures and became a
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  Speaker 1: key figure in the early Church. Today, the Coptic Christians
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt number around ten million people. They are the
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  Speaker 1: largest Christian community in the Middle East. They have preserved
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  Speaker 1: ancient traditions and worship practices that date back nearly two
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  Speaker 1: thousand years. The Coptic language, which is still used in
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  Speaker 1: their church services, is the final stage of the ancient
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian language. When Cops pray and sing in their churches,
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  Speaker 1: they use words that connect directly to the language of
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  Speaker 1: the pharaohs. The descendants of Mizraim, the grandson of Noah,
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  Speaker 1: who founded Egypt, are still there along the Nile. Many
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  Speaker 1: of them now worshiped the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: The nation that once held Israel in slavery and worshiped
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  Speaker 1: false gods now includes millions who call Jesus their lord.
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  Speaker 1: From ancient enemy to place of refuge, from land of
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  Speaker 1: bondage to home of believers, Egypt's story in the Bible
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  Speaker 1: is complete. The children of Mezraim continue to live in
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  Speaker 1: the land their ancestors settled thousands of years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: among them are those who have found faith in the
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  Speaker 1: God who once sent ten plagues upon their land. If
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  Speaker 1: this story has touched your heart, if you have learned
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