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  Speaker 1: Before Egypt became a refuge, It was a prison before
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  Speaker 1: a throne. There was a pit before reconciliation. There was
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  Speaker 1: blood on a coat of many colors. The story you're
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  Speaker 1: about to hear was written in the stars before it
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  Speaker 1: unfolded on earth, a divine blueprint hidden in dreams, whispered
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  Speaker 1: through angels, and fulfilled through the most unlikely vessels. God
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  Speaker 1: spoke to a fugitive sleeping on a stone and showed
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  Speaker 1: him a ladder connecting Heaven to Earth. Decades later, he
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  Speaker 1: spoke through that man's son in an Egyptian dungeon, revealing
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  Speaker 1: mysteries that would alter the fate of nations. This is
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  Speaker 1: the prophecy of Jacob and Joseph, two men who carried
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  Speaker 1: the weight of God's promise through deception, exile, slavery, and betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: Every pit was preparation, Every prison was positioning. Every tear
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  Speaker 1: watered the seeds of a salvation. They couldn't yet see.
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  Speaker 1: What does divine sovereignty weaves through humans failure, transforming a
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  Speaker 1: family's darkest sins into the instrument of their deliverance. The
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  Speaker 1: coat will be torn, but the promise cannot be broken.
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  Speaker 1: The sun will be sold but the blessing will be multiplied.
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  Speaker 1: This is how God writes history, not despite our brokenness,
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  Speaker 1: but through it. The journey begins. Now Isaac had grown old.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes were dim, and he could no longer see.
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  Speaker 1: Death felt near, and there was something important he needed
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  Speaker 1: to do before his time came. As we read in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty seven to one four, Isaac called his oldest son, Esau,
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  Speaker 1: and said to him, my son, And Esau answered, here
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  Speaker 1: I am, Isaac continued, Behold, now I am old, I
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  Speaker 1: know not the day of my death. Now therefore, take
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  Speaker 1: I pray THEE thy weapons, thy quiver, and thy bow,
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  Speaker 1: and go out to the field and take me some
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  Speaker 1: venison and make me savory meat such as I love,
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  Speaker 1: and bring it to me that I may eat, that
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  Speaker 1: my soul may bless THEE before I die. This was
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  Speaker 1: the moment Esau had been waiting for his entire life.
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  Speaker 1: The blessing of the first born was not just words.
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  Speaker 1: It carried authority, inheritance and the promise of leadership over
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  Speaker 1: the family. Esau immediately took his bow and headed into
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  Speaker 1: the open country to hunt wild game for his father.
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  Speaker 1: But some one else was listening. Rebecca Isaac's wife and
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  Speaker 1: the mother of both Esau and Jacob, had heard every
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  Speaker 1: word her husband spoke. Her heart had always favored Jacob
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  Speaker 1: the younger twin Now, as Genesis twenty seven five ten
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  Speaker 1: tells us, Rebecca went quickly to find Jacob. She said
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  Speaker 1: to him, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau,
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  Speaker 1: thy brother, saying bring me venison and make me savory
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  Speaker 1: meat that I may eat and bless thee before the
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  Speaker 1: Lord before my death. Now, therefore, my son, obey my
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  Speaker 1: voice according to that which I command thee. Go now
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  Speaker 1: to the flock and fetch me from thence two good
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  Speaker 1: kids of the goats, and I will make them savory
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  Speaker 1: meat for thy father, such as he loveth and thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat
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  Speaker 1: and that he may bless thee before his death. Jacob hesitated,
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  Speaker 1: he knew his brother well. According to Genesis twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: eleven to twelve, Jacob said to Rebeccah his mother, behold, Esore,
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  Speaker 1: my brother is a hairy man, and I am a
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  Speaker 1: smooth man. My father, peradventure, will feel me, and I
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  Speaker 1: shall seem to him as a deceiver, and I shall
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  Speaker 1: bring a curse upon me and not a blessing, but
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca was determined. She told him in Genesis twenty seven thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: upon me be thy curse my son, only obey my
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  Speaker 1: voice and go fetch them to me. Jacob obeyed his mother.
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  Speaker 1: He went and got two young goats, and Rebeccah prepared
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  Speaker 1: them exactly the way Isaac loved. The plan was set
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  Speaker 1: in motion. A mother's favoritism was about to change the
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  Speaker 1: course of history. Rebecca worked quickly. She took the best
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  Speaker 1: clothes of Esau, the ones he kept at home, and
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  Speaker 1: put them on Jacob. But clothing alone would not be enough.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac might not see, but he could still touch and smell.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty seven fifteen sixteen shows us what happened next.
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  Speaker 1: And Rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son, Esau,
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  Speaker 1: which were with her in the house, and put them
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  Speaker 1: upon Jacob, her younger son. And she put the skins
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  Speaker 1: of the kids of the goats upon his hands and
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  Speaker 1: upon the smooth of his neck. The goat skins felt
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  Speaker 1: rough like Esau's hairy skin. The smell of the fields
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  Speaker 1: clung to Esau's clothes. Jacob was being transformed into his brother.
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  Speaker 1: Then Rebecca placed the savory meat and bread she had
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  Speaker 1: made into Jacob's hands, and he went to his father.
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  Speaker 1: Jenesis twenty seven eighteen to nineteen records the moment. And
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  Speaker 1: he came unto his father and said, my father, And
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  Speaker 1: he said, here am I who art thou, my son?
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau, thy
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  Speaker 1: first born. I have done according as thou badest me. Arise,
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  Speaker 1: I pray THEE sit and eat of my venison, that
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  Speaker 1: thy soul may bless me. Isaac was surprised. How had
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  Speaker 1: Esau returned so quickly, as Genesis twenty seven twenty tells us.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac asked his son, how is it that thou hast
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  Speaker 1: found it so quickly? My son? Jacob lied again, saying
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  Speaker 1: because the Lord thy God brought it to me. He
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  Speaker 1: used God's name to cover his deception, but Isaac was
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  Speaker 1: not convinced. Something felt wrong. The voice did not sound
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  Speaker 1: like Esau's. Genesis twenty seven twenty one to twenty three
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  Speaker 1: describes what happened, and Isaac said, unto Jacob, come near,
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  Speaker 1: I pray THEE that I may feel THEE, my son,
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  Speaker 1: whether thou be my very son Esai or not. And
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  Speaker 1: Jacob went near unto Isaac, his father, and he felt
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  Speaker 1: him and said, the voice is Jacob's voice, but the
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  Speaker 1: hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him
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  Speaker 1: not because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands,
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  Speaker 1: so he blessed him. The touch convinced Isaac where the
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  Speaker 1: voice had failed. He felt the hairy's skin on Jacob's
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  Speaker 1: hands and neck. He smelled the outdoor scent on the clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac asked one more time in Genesis twenty seven twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: art thou my very son, Esau, and Jacob answered I am.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac then said, in Genesis twenty seven twenty five, bring
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  Speaker 1: it near to me, and I will eat of my
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  Speaker 1: son's venison, that my soul may bless thee Jacob brought
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  Speaker 1: the food close, and Isaac ate. He also brought wine,
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  Speaker 1: and Isaac drank. Then, as Genesis twenty seven twenty six
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven records, Isaac said to him, come near now
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  Speaker 1: and kiss me, my son. And he came near and
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  Speaker 1: kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his raiment
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  Speaker 1: and blessed him. The blessing flowed from Isaac's lips. Jenesis
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven twenty seven to twenty nine preserves these powerful words.
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  Speaker 1: See the smell of my son is as the smell
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  Speaker 1: of a field which the Lord hath blessed. Therefore, God
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  Speaker 1: give thee of the due of Heaven, and the fatness
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  Speaker 1: of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Let
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  Speaker 1: people serve THEE, and nations bow down to THEE. Be
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  Speaker 1: Lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow
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  Speaker 1: down to THEE. Cursed be every one that curseth THEE,
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  Speaker 1: and blessed be he that blesseth THEE. It was done,
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  Speaker 1: The blessing had been spoken, and in that culture it
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  Speaker 1: could not be taken back. Jacob had stolen his brother's
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  Speaker 1: birthright through deception. Jacob left his father's tent just in time,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty seven thirty tells us. And it came to
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  Speaker 1: pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of
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  Speaker 1: blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from
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  Speaker 1: the presence of Isaac his father that Esau, his brother,
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  Speaker 1: came in from his hunting. Esau had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: had just happened. He had successfully hunted game, prepared the
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  Speaker 1: savory meat his father loved, and now carried it eagerly
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  Speaker 1: to receive his blessing. Genesis twenty seven thirty one thirty
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  Speaker 1: two shows us Esau's confidence. And he also had made
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  Speaker 1: savory meat and brought it unto his father, and said,
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  Speaker 1: unto his father, let my father arise and eat of
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  Speaker 1: his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. And
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  Speaker 1: Isaac his father said, unto him, who art thou? And
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  Speaker 1: he said, I am thy son, thy first born Esau.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac's body went cold. Genesis twenty seven thirty three describes
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  Speaker 1: his reaction. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, who
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  Speaker 1: where is he that hath taken venison and brought it me?
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  Speaker 1: And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and
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  Speaker 1: have blessed him yea, and he shall be blessed. The
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  Speaker 1: old man shook violently. He realized he had been tricked,
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  Speaker 1: but the blessing had been given. It was sealed. Esau
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  Speaker 1: understood immediately what had happened. Genesis twenty seven thirty four
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  Speaker 1: captures his anguish. And when Esau heard the words of
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  Speaker 1: his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry,
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  Speaker 1: and said, unto his father, bless me even me also, O,
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  Speaker 1: my father. This was not just disappointment. This was the
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  Speaker 1: sound of a man's future being torn away from him.
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  Speaker 1: Everything he had expected, everything he had been promised as
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  Speaker 1: the first born was gone. Esau begged for an explanation.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty seven thirty five or thirty six records the
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  Speaker 1: painful conversation. And he said, thy brother came with subtlety,
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  Speaker 1: and hath taken away thy blessing? And he said, is
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  Speaker 1: not he rightly named Jacob? For he hath supplanted me
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  Speaker 1: these two times he took away my birthright? And behold
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  Speaker 1: now he hath taken away my blessing. The name Jacob
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  Speaker 1: meant heal, grabber or deceiver, and Esau now felt the
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  Speaker 1: full weight of that meaning. This was the second time
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  Speaker 1: Jacob had taken something precious from him. Esaw pleaded desperately.
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  Speaker 1: Jenesis twenty seven thirty six thirty eight continues, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? And Isaac
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  Speaker 1: answered and said, unto Esau, behold, I have made him
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  Speaker 1: thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to
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  Speaker 1: him for servants, And with corn and wine have I
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  Speaker 1: sustained him? And what shall I do now unto thee
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  Speaker 1: my son. And Esau said, unto his father, hast thou
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  Speaker 1: but one blessing? My father bless me even me also
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  Speaker 1: o my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
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  Speaker 1: A grown man, a hunter, a warrior, stood weeping before
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  Speaker 1: his father. Isaac did give Esau a blessing, but it
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  Speaker 1: was nothing like what Jacob had received. Genesis twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine forty records Isaac's words to Esau, Behold, thy
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  Speaker 1: dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and of
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  Speaker 1: the dew of heaven from above. And by thy sword
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  Speaker 1: shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother. And it
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  Speaker 1: shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion
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  Speaker 1: that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
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  Speaker 1: Esau would live by the sword and serve his brother.
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  Speaker 1: The pain turned to rage. Genesis twenty seven forty one
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  Speaker 1: reveals what grew in Esau's heart. And Esau hated Jacob
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  Speaker 1: because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. And
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  Speaker 1: Esau said in his heart, the days of mourning for
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  Speaker 1: my father are at hand. Then will I slay my
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  Speaker 1: brother Jacob? He would wait until Isaac died, observe the
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  Speaker 1: proper morning period, and then he would kill Jacob. The
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  Speaker 1: family was shattered. Word traveled fast in a family tent.
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca heard about Esau's murderous plan, and she knew her son,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob was in immediate danger. Genesis twenty seven forty two
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  Speaker 1: forty five shows us her urgent warning. And these words
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  Speaker 1: of Esau, her eldest son, were told to Rebecca, and
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  Speaker 1: she sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said,
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  Speaker 1: unto him, behold thy brother, Esau, as touching THEE, doth
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  Speaker 1: comfort himself purposing to kill THEE. Now, therefore, my son,
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  Speaker 1: obey my voice, arise, flee thou to Laban, my brother
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  Speaker 1: to Haran, and tarry with him a few days until
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  Speaker 1: thy brother's fury turn away, until thy brother's anger turn
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  Speaker 1: away from THEE, and he forget that which thou hast
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  Speaker 1: done to him. Then I will send and fetch THEE
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  Speaker 1: from thence, why should I be deprived also of you
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  Speaker 1: both in one day. Rebecca thought this would be temporary,
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  Speaker 1: just a few days until Esau's anger cooled. She had
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  Speaker 1: no idea she would never see Jacob again, but she
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  Speaker 1: needed a reason to send Jacob away that Isaac would accept.
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  Speaker 1: She could not tell him about Esau's death threat directly,
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  Speaker 1: so she used a different approach. Genesis twenty seven forty
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  Speaker 1: six records what Rebeccah said to Isaac. And Rebeccah said
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  Speaker 1: to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of Heath. If Jacob take a wife of
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of Heath such as these, which are of
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of the land, what good shall my life
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  Speaker 1: do me? She complained about the local Canaanite women, the
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  Speaker 1: same kind Esau had married, and how miserable they made
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  Speaker 1: her life. This gave Isaac a respectable reason to send
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  Speaker 1: Jacob away. It worked. Genesis twenty eight one to two
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  Speaker 1: tells us Isaac's response. And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him,
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  Speaker 1: and charged him, and said, unto him, thou shalt not
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  Speaker 1: take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go
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  Speaker 1: to Padanaram, to the house of Bethule, thy mother's father,
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  Speaker 1: and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters
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  Speaker 1: of Laban, thy mother's brother. Isaac blessed Jacob again and
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  Speaker 1: sent him to Mesopatea to Rebeccah's family to find a
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  Speaker 1: wife there. Jenesis twenty eight three four records Isaac's blessing,
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  Speaker 1: and God Almighty, bless THEE, and make THEE fruitful, and
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  Speaker 1: multiply THEE, that thou mayest be a multitude of people.
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  Speaker 1: And give THEE the blessing of Abraham to THEE and
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  Speaker 1: to thy seed with THEE, that thou mayest inherit the
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  Speaker 1: land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Jacob had obtained the earlier blessing through deception,
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  Speaker 1: Isaac now confirmed it openly and added the blessing of
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  Speaker 1: Abraham to it. Jenesis twenty eight five shows us Jacob's departure,
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  Speaker 1: and Isaac sent away Jacob and he went to padanaram
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  Speaker 1: unto Laban, son of Bethule the Syrian, the brother of Rebeccah,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's and Esau's mother. Jacob left everything behind, his home,
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  Speaker 1: his family, his father's wealth, all the comfort and security
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  Speaker 1: he had known. He walked alone into unknown territory, heading
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  Speaker 1: northeast toward Haran, my journey of about five hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: on foot. He was running for his life, but he
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  Speaker 1: was also walking into God's plan. Jacob traveled north through
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  Speaker 1: the hill country. The days were long, and the nights
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  Speaker 1: brought the cold desert air. He had no tent, no servants,
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  Speaker 1: no caravan, just himself, whatever supplies he could carry, and
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  Speaker 1: the weight of everything that had happened. Genesis twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: ten to eleven describes his first night away from home.
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
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  Speaker 1: And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there
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  Speaker 1: all night because the sun was set. And he took
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  Speaker 1: of the stones of that place and put them for
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  Speaker 1: his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The sun had set and Jacob needed to stop. He
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  Speaker 1: was in the middle of nowhere, just rocks and open ground.
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  Speaker 1: He took one of the stones and used it as
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  Speaker 1: a pillow. This was not comfortable, This was survival. The
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  Speaker 1: man who had lived in tent, who had stayed close
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  Speaker 1: to home while his brother roamed the fields, was now
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  Speaker 1: completely alone in the wilderness. No mother to protect him,
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  Speaker 1: no father to bless him, just the hard ground, a
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  Speaker 1: stone for his head, and the vast darkness above. But
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  Speaker 1: this uncomfortable, lonely place was exactly where God chose to
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  Speaker 1: meet him. Sometimes God speaks loudest when everything else is
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  Speaker 1: stripped away. Jacob closed his eyes on that stone pillow,
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  Speaker 1: exhausted from travel and weighed down by the chaos he
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  Speaker 1: had left behind. He had no idea that this night
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  Speaker 1: would mark him forever. The place seemed ordinary, even desolate,
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  Speaker 1: But Jacob was about to discover that God can show
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  Speaker 1: up anywhere. As he drifted into sleep, Heaven was preparing
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  Speaker 1: to open. In his sleep, Jacob began to dream. But
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  Speaker 1: this was not an ordinary dream. Genesis twenty eight twelve
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  Speaker 1: tells us exactly what he saw. And he dreamed, and
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  Speaker 1: behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the
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  Speaker 1: top of it reached to Hea Heaven. And behold the
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  Speaker 1: angels of God ascending and descending on it. Right there,
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  Speaker 1: in that empty place, Jacob saw a stairway. It stood
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  Speaker 1: firmly on the ground where he lay, but it stretched
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  Speaker 1: upward into the sky until it reached Heaven itself. Angels
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  Speaker 1: were moving on this ladder. They were going up and
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  Speaker 1: coming down, as if this place was a gateway between
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  Speaker 1: Earth and Heaven. Jacob was seeing something humans are not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to see, the connection between the natural and supernatural worlds.
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  Speaker 1: This was God pulling back the curtain to show Jacob
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  Speaker 1: that heaven and Earth are not as far apart as
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  Speaker 1: we think. But the dream was not finished. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight thirteen continues, And behold the Lord stood above it
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  Speaker 1: and said, I am the Lord, God of Abraham, thy father,
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  Speaker 1: and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest
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  Speaker 1: to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
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  Speaker 1: At the top of the ladder stood the Lord himself,
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  Speaker 1: not an angel, not a message. God Almighty was speaking
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  Speaker 1: directly to Jacob. God identified himself by connecting to Jacob's
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  Speaker 1: family line. He was the God of Abraham, Jacob's grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: and the God of Isaac, Jacob's father. This was personal.
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  Speaker 1: This was the same God who had made promises to
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  Speaker 1: Abraham decades earlier, and now he was speaking those promises
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  Speaker 1: to Jacob, the deceiver, the one running away from the
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  Speaker 1: consequences of his lies. God told Jacob that the very
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  Speaker 1: ground he was sleeping on would belong to him and
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  Speaker 1: his descendants. This was not just comfort. This was destiny
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  Speaker 1: being spoken over a man who had nothing at that
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  Speaker 1: moment except a rock for a pillow. God continued speaking
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  Speaker 1: and his words expanded beyond just the land. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight fourteen records the promise, and thy seed shall be
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  Speaker 1: as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread
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  Speaker 1: abroad to the west, and to the east, and to
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  Speaker 1: the north, and to the and in thee. And in
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  Speaker 1: thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's descendants would be countless, like dust that covers the earth.
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  Speaker 1: They would spread in every direction, and through Jacob's family line,
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  Speaker 1: every nation on Earth would be blessed. This was the
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  Speaker 1: same promise God had given to Abraham. Now it was
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  Speaker 1: being passed directly to Jacob, not because Jacob deserved it,
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  Speaker 1: not because he had earned it through good behavior, but
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  Speaker 1: because God had chosen him. And God's choices are not
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  Speaker 1: based on human merit. Then God gave Jacob something he
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  Speaker 1: desperately needed in that moment. Personal assurance. Genesis twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: fifteen shows us God's intimate promise. And behold, I am
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  Speaker 1: with THEE and will keep THEE in all places whither
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  Speaker 1: thou goest, and will bring THEE again into this land.
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  Speaker 1: For I will not leave THEE until I have done
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  Speaker 1: that which I have spoken to THEE. Of God promised
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  Speaker 1: to be with Jacob everywhere he went. God God would
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  Speaker 1: protect him. God would bring him back home, and God
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  Speaker 1: would not abandon him until every promise was fulfilled. Think
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  Speaker 1: about what Jacob needed to hear right then. He was alone, afraid,
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  Speaker 1: running from a brother who wanted him dead. He had
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  Speaker 1: just deceived his father and torn his family apart. He
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what waited for him in Haran or
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  Speaker 1: if he would ever see his home again. And into
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  Speaker 1: that fear and uncertainty, God spoke, peace, I am with you,
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  Speaker 1: I will keep you, I will bring you back. I
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  Speaker 1: will not leave you. This was not a blessing Jacob earned.
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  Speaker 1: This was grace meeting him in the wilderness. God was
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  Speaker 1: establishing a covenant with a man who had proven himself
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  Speaker 1: to be a liar and a cheat. That is the
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  Speaker 1: mystery of how God works. He chooses broken people and
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  Speaker 1: makes them into something they could never be on their own.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob woke up suddenly. Genesis twenty eight sixteen captures his
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  Speaker 1: first reaction, and Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: his sad said, surely the Lord is in this place,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew it not. Fear and wonder filled him
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  Speaker 1: God had been right there, and Jacob had not known it.
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  Speaker 1: When he lay down to sleep. He had thought this
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  Speaker 1: was just an empty spot in the wilderness, a random
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  Speaker 1: place to rest, But it was wholly ground. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight seventeen shows us how deeply this affected him. And
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  Speaker 1: he was afraid, and said, how dreadful is this place?
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  Speaker 1: This is none other but the house of God, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the gate of Heaven. The word dreadful here
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  Speaker 1: means full of awe, the kind of fear that comes
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  Speaker 1: when you realize you are standing in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: something infinitely greater than yourself. Jacob understood that this place
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  Speaker 1: was a doorway between Earth and Heaven. He knew he
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  Speaker 1: needed to mark this moment. Genesis twenty eight eighteen tells
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  Speaker 1: us what Jacob did next. And Jacob rose up early
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and took the stone that he had
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  Speaker 1: put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar,
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  Speaker 1: and poured oil upon the top of it. He took
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  Speaker 1: the stone he had slept on and stood it upright
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  Speaker 1: as a memorial. Then he poured oil on it, setting
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  Speaker 1: it apart as sacred, as a witness to what God
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  Speaker 1: had done there. Genesis twenty eight nineteen records what Jacob
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  Speaker 1: named the place, and he called the name of that
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  Speaker 1: place Bethel, but the name of that city was called
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  Speaker 1: Loose at the first. The town was originally called Loose,
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  Speaker 1: but Jacob renamed it Bethel, which means house of God.
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  Speaker 1: From that day forward, this place would be remembered not
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  Speaker 1: for what it looked like, but for what happened there.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jacob made a vow. Genesis twenty eight twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two preserves his words. And Jacob vowed a vow saying,
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  Speaker 1: if God will be with me and will keep me
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  Speaker 1: in this way that I go, and will give me
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  Speaker 1: bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that
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  Speaker 1: I come again to my father's house in peace, then
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  Speaker 1: shall the Lord be God. And this stone which I
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  Speaker 1: have set for a pillar, shall be God's house. And
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  Speaker 1: of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely
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  Speaker 1: give the tenth unto thee. Jacob promised that if God
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  Speaker 1: would protect him, provide for him, and bring him home safely,
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  Speaker 1: then the Lord would be his God. He would make
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  Speaker 1: that stone pillar into a place of worship, and he
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  Speaker 1: would give back to God a tenth of everything he received.
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  Speaker 1: This vow was Jacob's response to God's promise. God had
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  Speaker 1: already committed to Jacob unconditionally, but Jacob was now choosing
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  Speaker 1: to commit himself back to God. He got up from
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  Speaker 1: that place, picked up his journey, and continued toward Haran.
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  Speaker 1: But he was different. Now he had met God face
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  Speaker 1: to face, and nothing would ever be the same. Jacob
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: continued his journey toward Haran, walking through unfamiliar lands with
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the promises God had spoken to him at Bethel.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: After many days of travel, Genesis twenty nine one tells us,
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  Speaker 1: then Jacob went on his journey and came into the
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  Speaker 1: land of the people of the East. He had finally
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  Speaker 1: reached the territory where his mother's family lived. As he traveled,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob came across an open field, and there in the
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  Speaker 1: distance he saw something important. Genesis twenty nine two to
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  Speaker 1: three describes what he found. And he looked and behold
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  Speaker 1: a well in the field. And lo, there were three
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  Speaker 1: flocks of sheep lying by it. For out of that
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  Speaker 1: well they watered the flocks. And a great stone was
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  Speaker 1: upon the well's mouth, And thither were all the flocks gathered,
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  Speaker 1: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth and
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  Speaker 1: watered the sheep and put the stone again upon the
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  Speaker 1: well's mouth in his place. This was a community well
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  Speaker 1: where shepherds brought their flocks to drink. A large stone
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  Speaker 1: covered the opening, and it took several people working together
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  Speaker 1: to move it. Jacob walked up to the shepherds resting
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  Speaker 1: by the well with their sheep. He wanted information. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine four FI shows us their conversation. And Jacob said,
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  Speaker 1: unto them, my brethren, whence be ye? And they said,
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  Speaker 1: of haaren are we? And he said, unto them, know
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  Speaker 1: ye Laban, the son of Nahor? And they said, we
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  Speaker 1: know him. Jacob's heart must have jumped. These shepherds knew
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  Speaker 1: his uncle Laban. He was in the right place. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: asked them another question in Genesis twenty nine six, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, unto them, is he well? And they said
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  Speaker 1: he is well? And behold Rachel his daughter cometh with
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  Speaker 1: the sheep. Laban was alive and well, and even better,
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  Speaker 1: his daughter Rachel was coming right now with her father's flock.
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  Speaker 1: The timing was perfect. Genesis twenty nine seven date shows
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  Speaker 1: us what happened next. And he said, lo, it is
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  Speaker 1: yet high day. Neither is it time that the cattle
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  Speaker 1: should be gathered together, water ye the sheep, and go
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  Speaker 1: and feed them. And they said, we cannot until all
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  Speaker 1: the flocks be gathered together, until they roll the stone
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  Speaker 1: from the well's mouth, then we water the sheep. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: suggested they water their sheep and move on, since there
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  Speaker 1: was still plenty of daylight left for grazing, but the
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  Speaker 1: shepherds explained their custom. They had to wait until all
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  Speaker 1: the flocks arrived. Then everyone would work together to roll
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  Speaker 1: away the heavy stone. While they were still talking, someone appeared.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty nine nine records the moment, and while he
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  Speaker 1: yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep,
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  Speaker 1: for she kept them there. She was Rachel, Laban's daughter,
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  Speaker 1: approaching with her father's flock, Jacob's cousin, his kinswoman, the
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  Speaker 1: woman who would change everything. The moment Jacob saw Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: something powerful happened inside him. Genesis twenty nine ten tells
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  Speaker 1: us his immediate reaction, and it came to pass when
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  Speaker 1: Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother,
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  Speaker 1: and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob
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  Speaker 1: went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth
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  Speaker 1: and watered the flock of Laban. His mother's brother. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: did not wait for the other shepherds. He did not
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  Speaker 1: follow their custom of waiting for everyone to arrive. He
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  Speaker 1: walked straight to that well, and by himself he rolled
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  Speaker 1: away the massive stone that normally required multiple men to move.
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  Speaker 1: This was not just helpfulness. This was a man showing
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  Speaker 1: his strength, his capability, his desire to serve this woman
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  Speaker 1: he had just seen. Adrenaline and emotion gave him supernatural strength.
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  Speaker 1: In that moment, he watered all of Laban's sheep right
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  Speaker 1: there in front of Rachel. Then something even more intense happened.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty nine eleven describes it. And Jacob kissed Rachel
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  Speaker 1: and lifted up his voice and wept. Jacob kissed her.
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  Speaker 1: This was a family greeting, a kiss of kinship, but
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  Speaker 1: it was also loaded with emotion. And then Jacob, this
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  Speaker 1: grown Anne, who had traveled hundreds of miles alone, who
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  Speaker 1: had wrestled with deception and fear, broke down and cried
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  Speaker 1: out loud. All the loneliness, all the relief of finding family,
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  Speaker 1: all the overwhelming feeling of meeting this beautiful woman, It
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: poured out of him in tears. Genesis twenty nine twelve
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  Speaker 1: shows us what Jacob told her. And Jacob told Rachel
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  Speaker 1: that he was her father's brother, and that he was
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  Speaker 1: Rebeccah's son, and she ran and told her father. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: explained who he was the son of Rebeccah, which made
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  Speaker 1: him Laban's nephew. Rachel immediately understood the significance. She left
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  Speaker 1: her sheep and ran home to tell her father that
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  Speaker 1: his sister's son had arrived. News traveled fast. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine thirteen records Laban's response, and it came to pass
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  Speaker 1: when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob, his sister's son,
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  Speaker 1: that he ran to meet him and embraced him and
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  Speaker 1: kissed him and brought him to his house. And he
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  Speaker 1: told Laban all these things. Laban ran out to meet Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: hugged him, kissed him, and brought him into his home.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob recounted everything, his journey, his family, why he had come.
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  Speaker 1: Laban welcomed him as family. Genesis twenty nine fourteen confirms
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  Speaker 1: their relationship, and Laban said to him, surely, thou art
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  Speaker 1: my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him
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  Speaker 1: the space of a month, Laban acknowledged Jacob as his
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  Speaker 1: own blood relative. Jacob stayed with Laban's household, settling into
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  Speaker 1: the rhythm of their daily life, but during that whole month,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob could not stop thinking about Rachel. After a month
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  Speaker 1: of living with Laban's family and working alongside them, Laban
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  Speaker 1: approached Jacob with a proposal. Genesis twenty nine fifteen shows
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  Speaker 1: us what Laban said, and Laban said, unto Jacob, because
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  Speaker 1: thou art my brother, show'dst thou therefore serve me for nought,
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  Speaker 1: tell me what shall thy wages be. Laban did not
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  Speaker 1: want Jacob working for free just because they were relatives.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to know what payment Jacob desired. Jacob knew
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he wanted. Genesis twenty nine to sixteen eighteen
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  Speaker 1: tells us about Laban's daughters and Jacob's answer. And Laban
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  Speaker 1: had two daughters. The name of the elder was Lea,
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  Speaker 1: and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was
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  Speaker 1: tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. And
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  Speaker 1: Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve thee seven
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  Speaker 1: years for Rachel, thy younger daughter. Laban had two daughters.
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  Speaker 1: The older one was Lea, and the Bible mentions she
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  Speaker 1: had tender eyes, but Rachel, the younger one, was beautiful
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  Speaker 1: in form and appearance. Jacob had fallen completely in love
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  Speaker 1: with Rachel, and he made an incredible offer. He would
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  Speaker 1: work seven years for the right to marry her. Seven
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  Speaker 1: years was an enormous bride price, far more than was customary,
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  Speaker 1: but Jacob did not care. He wanted Rachel and he
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  Speaker 1: was willing to work for her. Genesis twenty nine nineteen
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  Speaker 1: shows us Laban's response, and Laban said, it's better that
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  Speaker 1: I give her to THEE than that I should give
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  Speaker 1: her to another man. Abide with me. Laban agreed to
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  Speaker 1: the deal. He said it was better to give Rachel
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  Speaker 1: to Jacob than to some other man. Jacob would stay
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  Speaker 1: and work, and at the end of seven years, Rachel
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  Speaker 1: would be his wife. So Jacob began his years of labor.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty nine twenty describes those seven years with one
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  Speaker 1: beautiful sentence. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and
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  Speaker 1: they seemed unto him but a few days for the
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  Speaker 1: love he had to her. Seven years of hard work,
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  Speaker 1: seven years of waiting, seven years of serving. Laban but
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  Speaker 1: because of how much Jacob loved Rachel, those years felt
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  Speaker 1: like just a few days. Time flew by when he
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  Speaker 1: thought about her. Every day of work brought him one
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  Speaker 1: day closer to making her his wife. Finally, the seven
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  Speaker 1: year years were completed. Genesis twenty nine twenty one shows
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  Speaker 1: us Jacob's request, and Jacob said, unto Laban, give me
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  Speaker 1: my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may
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  Speaker 1: go in unto her, Jacob had fulfilled his part of
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  Speaker 1: the agreement. He had worked faithfully for seven years. Now
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  Speaker 1: he wanted what had been promised to him his wife, Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: Laban agreed to hold the wedding. Genesis twenty nine twenty
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  Speaker 1: two tells us what he did, and Laban gathered together
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  Speaker 1: all the men of the place and made a feast.
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  Speaker 1: Laban organized a huge celebration, inviting everyone from the area.
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  Speaker 1: There was food, drink, music, and dancing. This was the
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  Speaker 1: moment Jacob had been waiting for through seven long years
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  Speaker 1: of labor. The feast continued into the evening. In that culture,
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  Speaker 1: wedding celebrations were elaborate and the bride remained veiled throughout
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  Speaker 1: the ceremony and festivities. As night fell, the moment came
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  Speaker 1: for the marriage to be completed. Genesis twenty nine twenty
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  Speaker 1: three records what happened, And it came to pass in
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  Speaker 1: the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought
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  Speaker 1: her to him, and he went in unto her in
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  Speaker 1: the darkness of the wedding tent. Laban brought his daughter
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  Speaker 1: to Jacob, but it was not Rachel. It was Leah,
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  Speaker 1: the older sister. Jacob consummated the marriage without realizing he
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  Speaker 1: had been given the wrong woman. Genesis twenty nine twenty
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  Speaker 1: four adds a detail, and Laban gave unto his daughter
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  Speaker 1: Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. Laban even gave
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  Speaker 1: Leah a servant as part of her marriage, making everything
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  Speaker 1: seem official and proper. Morning came. Genesis twenty nine twenty
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  Speaker 1: five captures one of the most shocking moments in Jacob's life.
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  Speaker 1: And it came to pass that in the morning, behold
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  Speaker 1: it was Lea. And he said to Laban, what is
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  Speaker 1: this thou hast done unto me? Did not I serve
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  Speaker 1: with thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
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  Speaker 1: When the sun rose and Jacob could finally see clearly,
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  Speaker 1: he discovered the woman lying beside him was Lea, not Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: The deception was complete. Jacob was furious. He confronted Laban immediately.
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  Speaker 1: What have you done to me? He demanded? Did I
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  Speaker 1: not work for you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me?
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  Speaker 1: The word beguiled means to trick or deceive. Jacob, the
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  Speaker 1: man who had once deceived his own father, was now
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  Speaker 1: on the receiving end of deception. He knew exactly how
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  Speaker 1: betrayal felt. Laban had his answer ready. Genesis twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: twenty six shows us his justification, and Laban said it
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  Speaker 1: must not be so done in our country to give
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  Speaker 1: the younger before the first born. Laban claimed it was
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: against their custom to marry off the younger daughter before
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  Speaker 1: the older one. This was a cultural rule Jacob had
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  Speaker 1: not known about. Laban had used Jacob's ignorance against him.
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  Speaker 1: But Laban was not finished. Genesis twenty nine twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: records his proposal, fulfill her week, and we will give
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  Speaker 1: thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve
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  Speaker 1: with me. Yet seven other years, Laban told Jacob to
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  Speaker 1: complete the bridle week with Lea. The traditional seven days
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  Speaker 1: of celebration following a wedding. After that week was finished,
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  Speaker 1: Laban would give him Rachel as well, but there was
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  Speaker 1: a price. Jacob would have to work another seven years.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob was trapped. He had already consummated the marriage with
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  Speaker 1: Lea in that culture that made her his wife permanently.
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  Speaker 1: He could not undo what had happened. If he wanted Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: the woman he had loved and worked for, he would
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  Speaker 1: have to agree to Laban's terms. Genesis twenty nine twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight tells us what Jacob decided. And Jacob did so
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  Speaker 1: and fulfilled her week, and he gave him Rachel his
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  Speaker 1: daughter to wife. Also completed the week of celebration with Lea.
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  Speaker 1: Then after just seven days, Laban gave him Rachel as
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  Speaker 1: his second wife. Genesis twenty nine twenty nine ads and
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  Speaker 1: Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid, to
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  Speaker 1: be her maid. Rachel also received a servant, a young
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  Speaker 1: woman named Bilha. Then Genesis twenty nine thirty describes what
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  Speaker 1: happened next, And he went in also unto Rachel. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: he loved also Rachel more than Lea, and served with him.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yet seven other years Jacob married Rachel and loved her
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  Speaker 1: more than Lea. Everyone knew it. Lea knew it, Rachel
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  Speaker 1: knew it, Laban knew it, and Jacob committed himself to
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  Speaker 1: another seven years of work to pay for the woman
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  Speaker 1: he truly wanted. Jacob had wanted to escape the consequences
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  Speaker 1: of his own deception back home. Now he was living
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  Speaker 1: under the deception of someone else, working fourteen years to
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  Speaker 1: time total for a wife, trapped in a marriage he
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  Speaker 1: had not chosen, and bound to a father in law
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: who had manipulated him, but he stayed because of love.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob had two wives, but his heart belonged to only
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  Speaker 1: one of them. This created a painful situation in his household.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty nine thirty one shows us how God responded,
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  Speaker 1: and when the Lord saw that Lea was hated, he
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  Speaker 1: opened her womb, but Rachel was baron. The Lord saw
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  Speaker 1: that Lea was unloved, even hated, and he had compassion
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  Speaker 1: on her. God gave Lea the ability to have children,
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  Speaker 1: but Rachel remained baron. Lea became pregnant and gave birth
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  Speaker 1: to her first son. Genesis twenty nine thirty two records
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  Speaker 1: the moment and Lea conceived and bare a son, and
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  Speaker 1: she called his name Reuben, for she said, surely the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Hath looked upon my affliction. Now therefore my husband
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  Speaker 1: will love me. She named him Reuben, which means see a.
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  Speaker 1: Leah believed that giving Jacob a son would make him
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  Speaker 1: love her. She was crying out for affection through child bearing,
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  Speaker 1: but it did not change Jacob's heart. Lea became pregnant
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  Speaker 1: again Genesis twenty nine thirty three tells us and she
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  Speaker 1: conceived again and bear a son, and said, because the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore
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  Speaker 1: given me this son also, and she called his name Simeon.
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  Speaker 1: She named her second son Simeon, which means heard, because
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  Speaker 1: the Lord had heard that she was unloved, and gave
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  Speaker 1: her another son. Leah conceived a third time. Genesis twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine thirty four describes her hope. And she conceived again
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  Speaker 1: and bear a son, and said, now this time will
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  Speaker 1: my husband be joined unto me? Because I have borne
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: him three sons. Therefore was his name called Levi. She
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: named this son Levi, meaning attached or joined, believing that
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: she surely, now after giving Jacob three sons, he would
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  Speaker 1: finally become attached to her emotionally. Then Leah had a
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  Speaker 1: fourth son. Something shifted in her heart. Genesis twenty nine
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: thirty five shows us her change in perspective. And she
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  Speaker 1: conceived again and bear a son. And she said, now
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  Speaker 1: will I praise the Lord? Therefore she called his name
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  Speaker 1: Judah and left bearing. She named him Judah, which means praise.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: For the first time, Lea was not focused on winning
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Jacob's love. She was praising God. Then after Judah, she
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: stopped having children for a time. Meanwhile, Rachel remained childless.
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  Speaker 1: She watched her sister give Jacob four sons while her
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: own wombs stayed empty. The pain was unbearable. Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: one captures Rachel's desperation, and when Rachel saw that she
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: baar Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said,
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  Speaker 1: unto Jacob, give me children, or else I die. Rachel
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  Speaker 1: was so desperate for children that she felt like she
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  Speaker 1: would die without them. She begged Jacob to give her children.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's anger flared at her. Genesis thirty two records his response,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: am I in God's stead? Who hath withheld from thee
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  Speaker 1: the fruit of the womb. Jacob shot back at her,
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  Speaker 1: asking if he was God, he could not control who
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  Speaker 1: had children and who did not. That was in God's hands,
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  Speaker 1: not his. The household was filled with tension. Two sisters,
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  Speaker 1: one loved but barren, one unloved but fruitful. Both were
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  Speaker 1: in pain, and both were locked in an unspoken competition
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  Speaker 1: for their husband's love and attention. Rachel came up with
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  Speaker 1: a plan. In that culture, if a wife could not
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  Speaker 1: have children, she could give her servant to her husband,
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  Speaker 1: and any children born through that servant would legally belong
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  Speaker 1: to the wife. Genesis thirty three four shows us Rachel's decision.
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  Speaker 1: And she said, behold my maid, Bilhah, go in unto her,
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  Speaker 1: and she shall bear upon my knees that I may
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  Speaker 1: also have children by her. And she gave him Bilha,
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  Speaker 1: her handmaid to wife, and Jacob went in unto her.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel gave her servant, Bilha to Jacob as a wife,
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  Speaker 1: hoping to have children through her. The plan worked. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty five six tells us and Billah conceived and bear
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  Speaker 1: Jacob a son, and Rachel said, God hath judged me
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  Speaker 1: and Hath also heard my voice, and hath given me
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  Speaker 1: a son. Therefore called she his name Dan. Bilhah gave
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  Speaker 1: birth to a son, and Rachel named him Dan, meaning judged,
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  Speaker 1: because she felt God had judged in her favor and
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  Speaker 1: heard her cry. Bilhh conceived again Genesis thirty seven to
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  Speaker 1: eight records, and Bilhah, Rachael's maid, conceived again and bear Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: a second son. And Rachel said, with great wrestlings, have
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  Speaker 1: I wrestled with my sister and I have prevailed? And
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  Speaker 1: she called his name Naftali. Rachel named the second son Naphtali,
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  Speaker 1: meaning my wrestling, because she felt she had been in
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  Speaker 1: an intense struggle with her sister and had finally won.
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  Speaker 1: Leah saw what was happening. She had stopped having children,
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  Speaker 1: and now Rachel was gaining ground through her servant. Lea
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  Speaker 1: was not going to let Rachel get ahead. Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine tells us Lea's response. When Lea saw that she
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  Speaker 1: had left bearing, she took zilpa her maid, and gave
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  Speaker 1: her Jacob to wife. Leah took her own servant, Zilpam,
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  Speaker 1: and gave her to Jacob as another wife. Zilpah quickly
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  Speaker 1: became pregnant. Jenesis thirty ten eleven records and Zilpah Lea's
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  Speaker 1: maid bear Jacob a son, and Leah said, a troop cometh,
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  Speaker 1: and she called his name Gad. Leah named him Gad,
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  Speaker 1: meaning good fortune. Celebrating this new addition to her count,
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  Speaker 1: Zilpah had another son. Genesis thirty twelve thirteen tells us
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  Speaker 1: and Zilpa Leah's maid bear Jacob a second son, and
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  Speaker 1: Leah said, happy, am I, for the daughters will call
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  Speaker 1: me blessed, and she called his name Asher. Leah named
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  Speaker 1: this son Asher, meaning happy or blessed, because she believed
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  Speaker 1: other women would now call her blessed. Jacob now had
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  Speaker 1: four wives, two full wives, and two concubines, and the
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  Speaker 1: competition between the sisters had pulled every one into the chaos.
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  Speaker 1: The household was growing, but so was the tension. Years passed,
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  Speaker 1: Lea continued to have more children, eventually bearing Jacob two
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  Speaker 1: more sons and a daughter, but Rachel remained barren. Despite
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  Speaker 1: all her prayers and tears, She watched every one around
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  Speaker 1: her have baby after baby while she had none of
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  Speaker 1: her own. Then something changed. Genesis thirty twenty two marks
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  Speaker 1: a turning point, and God remembered Rachel. And God hearkened
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  Speaker 1: to her and opened her womb. God rems remembered Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: He heard her prayers, and finally he opened her womb.
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  Speaker 1: This was not luck or chance. This was God responding
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  Speaker 1: to her years of heartbreak and longing. Genesis thirty twenty
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  Speaker 1: three twenty four describes what happened. And she conceived and
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  Speaker 1: bear a son, and said, God hath taken away my reproach.
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  Speaker 1: And she called his name Joseph, and said the Lord
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  Speaker 1: shall add to me another son. Rachael gave birth to
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  Speaker 1: a son. She named him Joseph, which means may he add,
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  Speaker 1: expressing two meanings at once. First, God had taken away
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  Speaker 1: her shame and reproach. In that culture, barrenness was seen
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  Speaker 1: as a disgrace. Second, she was already hoping for more,
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  Speaker 1: praying that the Lord would add yet another son to her.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's birth was not just another child being born into
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's large family. This was the son of the woman
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  Speaker 1: Jacob loved most. Born after years of waiting and pain,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph came into a complicated family system where his half
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  Speaker 1: brothers had different mothers, where jealousy and competition had shaped
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  Speaker 1: the household and where he would immediately be set apart
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  Speaker 1: as special. Joseph grew up in a household filled with tension.
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  Speaker 1: He had ten older brothers from different mothers, and everyone
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  Speaker 1: could see that their father, Jacob, loved Joseph differently than
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  Speaker 1: the rest. Genesis thirty seven three explains why now Israel
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  Speaker 1: loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was
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  Speaker 1: the son of his old age, and he made him
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  Speaker 1: a coat of many colors. Jacob loved Joseph more than
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  Speaker 1: all his other sons because Joseph was born to him
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  Speaker 1: when he was old, the firstborn son of Rachel, the
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  Speaker 1: wife he had always loved, and Jacob did not hide
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  Speaker 1: his favoritism. He made Joseph a special coat, a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: garment with long sleeves and many colors. This coat was
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  Speaker 1: not just clothing, It was a symbol. It was the
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  Speaker 1: kind of robe worn by royalty, or by sons who
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  Speaker 1: were not do hard labor in the fields. It announced
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  Speaker 1: to every one that Joseph was special, that he was
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  Speaker 1: set apart, that his father saw him as more important
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  Speaker 1: than his brothers. The brothers noticed, how could they not
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  Speaker 1: Every time Joseph wore that coat. It was a reminder
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  Speaker 1: that their father loved him more. Genesis thirty seven four
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  Speaker 1: shows us their reaction. And when his brethren saw that
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  Speaker 1: their father loved him more than all his brethren, they
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  Speaker 1: hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him. They
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  Speaker 1: hated Joseph. The hatred was so deep that they could
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  Speaker 1: not even have a normal conversation with him. They could
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  Speaker 1: not speak kindly to him or be at peace with him.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph was probably seventeen years old at this time, according
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  Speaker 1: to Genesis thirty seven too. He was young, perhaps unaware
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  Speaker 1: of how deeply his brothers resented him, or maybe he
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  Speaker 1: knew but did not understand the danger brewing in their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, he continued to live as the favored son,
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  Speaker 1: wearing his special coat, enjoying his father's love, while his
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  Speaker 1: brothers burned with jealousy. One night, Joseph had a dream.
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  Speaker 1: It was vivid and strange, and when he woke up,
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  Speaker 1: he could not keep it to himself. Genesis thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: five seven records what happened. And Joseph dreamed a dream,
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  Speaker 1: and he told it his brethren, and they hated him
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  Speaker 1: yet the more. And he said unto them. Here I
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  Speaker 1: pray you this dream which I have dreamed for. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my
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  Speaker 1: sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves
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  Speaker 1: stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: told his brothers about his dream. In it, they were
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  Speaker 1: all out in the field tying up bundles of grain.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly Joseph's bundle stood up straight and tall, and all
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  Speaker 1: of his brother's bundles gathered around his bundle and bowed
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  Speaker 1: down to it. The meaning was clear, and the brother's
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  Speaker 1: under stood it immediately. This dream suggested that Joseph would
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  Speaker 1: rule over them, that they would one day bow down
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  Speaker 1: to him. Genesis thirty seven eight captures their fury, and
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  Speaker 1: his brethren said to him, shalt thou indeed reign over us?
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  Speaker 1: Or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they
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  Speaker 1: hated him yet the more for his dreams and for
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  Speaker 1: his words. They were outraged. Are you really going to
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  Speaker 1: be our king? They demanded? Are you actually going to
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  Speaker 1: rule over us? Their hatred grew even stronger because of
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  Speaker 1: his dream, and because he had been foolish enough to
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  Speaker 1: tell them about it. Joseph should have kept quiet. He
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  Speaker 1: should have realized that sharing this dream would only make
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  Speaker 1: things worse. But he was young and perhaps naive, not
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  Speaker 1: yet understanding that some truths are dangerous to speak aloud.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had another dream, and once again he shared it.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seventy nine tells us what he saw. And
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  Speaker 1: he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren,
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  Speaker 1: and said, behold, I have dreamed a dream more. And
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  Speaker 1: behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars
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  Speaker 1: made obeisance to me. This dream was even more dramatic
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  Speaker 1: than the first. Joseph saw the sun, the moon, and
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  Speaker 1: eleven stars all bowing down to him. The symbolism was unmistakable.
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  Speaker 1: The sun and moon represented his father and mother, and
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  Speaker 1: the eleven stars represented his eleven brothers. This time, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: told the dream not just to his brothers, but also
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  Speaker 1: to his father. Genesis thirty seven ten shows us Jacob's response.
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  Speaker 1: And he told it to his father and to his brethren.
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  Speaker 1: And his father rebuked him and said, unto him, what
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  Speaker 1: is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and
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  Speaker 1: thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to thee to the earth. Even Jacob was upset.
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  Speaker 1: He rebuked Joseph, asking him what kind of dream this was?
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  Speaker 1: Was Joseph's suggesting that his father, his mother, and all
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  Speaker 1: his brothers would one day bow down to him. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven eleven reveals two different reactions. And his brethren
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  Speaker 1: envied him, but his father observed the saying the brothers
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  Speaker 1: were filled with envy, consumed by jealousy at the idea
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  Speaker 1: that Joseph might rise above them. But Jacob, though he
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  Speaker 1: had rebuked Joseph publicly, kept the dream in his mind.
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  Speaker 1: He pondered it, wondering if perhaps there was something to
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  Speaker 1: these dreams. After all, Joseph had now made himself a target.
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  Speaker 1: His special coat had already marked him as the favorite.
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  Speaker 1: His dreams had made him appear arrogant and ambitious. The
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  Speaker 1: combination was deadly. Time passed, and one day Jacob sent
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  Speaker 1: Joseph on an errand his brothers had taken the flocks
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  Speaker 1: far from home to find pasture, and Jacob wanted to
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  Speaker 1: know how they were doing. Genesis thirty seven thirteen to
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  Speaker 1: fourteen records the conversation, and Israel said, unto Joseph, do
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  Speaker 1: not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem. Come and
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  Speaker 1: I will send thee unto them. And he said to him,
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  Speaker 1: here am I, And he said to him, go, I
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  Speaker 1: pray THEE see whether it be well with thy brethren
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  Speaker 1: and well with the flocks, and bring me word again.
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  Speaker 1: So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron,
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  Speaker 1: and he came to Shachem. Jacob told Joseph to go
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  Speaker 1: check on his brothers and the flocks and bring back
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  Speaker 1: a report. Joseph agreed and left from Hebron. When Joseph
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  Speaker 1: arrived at Shechem, his brothers were not there. Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven fifteen to seventeen tells us what happened next. And
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  Speaker 1: a certain man found him, And behold, he was wandering
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  Speaker 1: in the field. And the man asked him, saying, what
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  Speaker 1: seekest thou, And he said, I seek my brethren. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me I pray THEE where they feed their flocks. And
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  Speaker 1: the man said, they are departed. Hence, for I heard
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  Speaker 1: them say, let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went
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  Speaker 1: after his brethren and found them in Dothan. Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: wandering around looking for them, when a man told him
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  Speaker 1: they had moved on to Dothan, so Joseph continued his
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  Speaker 1: journey until he found them. The brothers saw him coming
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  Speaker 1: from a distance. That colorful coat made him easy to spot.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven eighteen reveals what went through their minds
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  Speaker 1: and when they saw him afar off even before he
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  Speaker 1: came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
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  Speaker 1: Before Joseph even reached them, they began plotting to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: The hatred that had been building for years suddenly erupted
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  Speaker 1: into murderous intent. Genesis thirty seven nineteen to twenty shows
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  Speaker 1: us their plan. And they said, one to another, behold
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  Speaker 1: this dreamer cometh, Come now therefore, and let us slay
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  Speaker 1: him and cast him into some pit. And we will
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: say some evil beast hath devoured him, and we shall
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: see what will become of his dreams. They mocked him,
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  Speaker 1: calling him this dreamer. Their plan was simple and cruel.
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  Speaker 1: Killed Joeoseph, throw his body into a pit. Tell their
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  Speaker 1: father a wild animal had killed him, and see what
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  Speaker 1: happened to his dreams. Then, but one brother objected. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven twenty one to twenty two tells us about
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  Speaker 1: Reuben's intervention, and Reuben heard it, and he delivered him
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  Speaker 1: out of their hands, and said, let us not kill him.
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  Speaker 1: And Reuben said, unto them, shed no blood, but cast
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  Speaker 1: him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and
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  Speaker 1: lay no hand upon him, that he might rid him
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  Speaker 1: out of their hands to deliver him to his father. Again, Reuben,
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  Speaker 1: the oldest brother, spoke up. He told them not to
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  Speaker 1: kill Joseph directly. Instead, they should throw him into a
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  Speaker 1: pit in the wilderness and not lay a hand on him.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Reuben's secret plan was to come back later, pull Joseph
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  Speaker 1: out and return him safely to their father. He was
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  Speaker 1: trying to save Joseph's life without directly opposing all the
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  Speaker 1: other brothers. Joseph finally reached his brother's completely unaware the
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  Speaker 1: danger he was in. Genesis thirty seven twenty three describes
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  Speaker 1: what they did to him. And it came to pass
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  Speaker 1: when Joseph was come unto his brethren that they stripped
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  Speaker 1: Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors
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  Speaker 1: that was on him. The moment Joseph arrived, they attacked
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  Speaker 1: him and tore off his special coat, the very symbol
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  Speaker 1: of their father's favoritism. They ripped it from his body violently.
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  Speaker 1: Then Genesis thirty seven twenty four tells us what happened next.
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  Speaker 1: And they took him and cast him into a pit,
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  Speaker 1: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
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  Speaker 1: They grabbed Joseph and threw him into a cistern, a
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  Speaker 1: deep hole dug into the ground used for collecting rain water.
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  Speaker 1: This one was empty and dry. Joseph was trapped at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom, unable to climb out, probably calling up to
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  Speaker 1: his brothers begging them to let him go, but they
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  Speaker 1: ignored him. Genesis thirty seven twenty five shows us what
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  Speaker 1: the brothers did while Joseph was in the pit. And
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  Speaker 1: they sat down to eat bread, And they lifted up
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  Speaker 1: their eyes and looked, and behold a company of Ishmaelites
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  Speaker 1: came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm
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  Speaker 1: and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. They
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  Speaker 1: sat down to eat a meal as if nothing was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: as if their brother was not trapped in a hole nearby.
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  Speaker 1: While they were eating, they looked up and saw a
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  Speaker 1: caravan approaching. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders coming
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  Speaker 1: from Gilead, their camels loaded with spices, balm, and Myrrh.
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  Speaker 1: They were traveling merchants heading south to Egypt to sell
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  Speaker 1: their goods. The sight of these traders gave one of
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  Speaker 1: the brothers an idea. Judah looked at the caravan and
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  Speaker 1: then at his brothers. Genesis thirty seven twenty six twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven records his suggestion, and Judah said, unto his brethren,
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  Speaker 1: what profit is it if we slay our brother and
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  Speaker 1: conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to
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  Speaker 1: the Ishmielites, and let not our hand be upon him,
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  Speaker 1: for he is our brother and our flesh. And his
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  Speaker 1: brethren were content. Judah pointed out that killing Joseph would
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  Speaker 1: not benefit them at all. Why not sell him to
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  Speaker 1: these traders instead. That way they would make some money,
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  Speaker 1: and they would not have his blood on their hands.
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  Speaker 1: After all, Judah reasoned, Joseph was still their brother, their
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  Speaker 1: own flesh and blood. The other brothers agreed to this plan.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven twenty eight tells us what happened. Then
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  Speaker 1: there passed by Midia knights merchantmen, and they drew and
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  Speaker 1: lifted up Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph
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  Speaker 1: to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they
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  Speaker 1: brought Joseph into Egypt. They pulled Joseph up out of
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  Speaker 1: the pit. Imagine his relief, thinking perhaps they had changed
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  Speaker 1: their minds and were letting him go. But instead they
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: handed him over to the traders and received twenty pieces
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  Speaker 1: of silver in payment. The Ishmaelites took Joseph and added
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  Speaker 1: him to their Carriyavn, heading south toward Egypt. Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: being taken away from everything he knew, sold like an animal,
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  Speaker 1: betrayed by his own brothers. But the brothers still needed
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  Speaker 1: to cover up what they had done. Genesis thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty one shows us their plan. And they took Joseph's
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  Speaker 1: coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped
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  Speaker 1: the coat in the blood. They took Joseph's beautiful coat
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  Speaker 1: of many colors, slaughtered a young goat and soaked the
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: coat in its blood. They made it look like Joseph
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  Speaker 1: had been attacked and killed by a wild animal. Jenesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven thirty two describes what they did next. And
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  Speaker 1: they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought
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  Speaker 1: it to their father and said, this have we found
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  Speaker 1: know now whether it be thy son's coat? Or no.
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  Speaker 1: They brought the bloodied coat to Jacob, but did not
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: tell him directly what had happened. Instead, they presented it
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  Speaker 1: to him and asked him to identify whether it was
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's coat or not. They were letting Jacob draw his
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  Speaker 1: own conclusion, letting him believe the lie without them having
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: to speak it directly. Jacob looked at the coat and
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: recognized it immediately. Genesis thirty seven thirty three captures his
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  Speaker 1: horrified response. And he knew it and said, it is
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: my son's coat. An evil beast hath devoured him. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: is without doubt rent in pieces. Jacob knew it was
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: Joseph's coat. He concluded exactly what the brothers wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to believe, that a wild animal had attacked and killed
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  Speaker 1: his beloved son. Joseph had been torn to pieces. The
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: grief hit Jacob like a crushing wave. Genesis thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty four describes his reaction, and Jacob rent his clothes
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Many days. Jacob tore his own clothes, a sign of
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: extreme grief and mourning. In that culture, he put on sackcloth,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: rough cloth worn during times of deep sorrow, and he
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: mourned for Joseph day after day. His family tried to
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: comfort him. Genesis thirty seven thirty five tells us, and
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  Speaker 1: all his sons and all his daughters rose up to
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: for I will go down into the grave unto my
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. All of
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: Jacob's children, including the very sons who had sold Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: came to comfort their father, but Jacob refused their comfort.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: He said he would mourn for Joseph until the day
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: he died, and went down to the grave himself. Jacob
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: wept bitterly for his lost son. The brothers had to
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: live with what they had done. They had to watch
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  Speaker 1: their father's heart break every single day, knowing they were responsible.
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  Speaker 1: They had to listen to him, weep and refuse comfort,
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  Speaker 1: and they had to keep their terrible secret. Meanwhile, Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven thirty six gives us an update on Joseph
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  Speaker 1: and the Midian knights sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar,
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  Speaker 1: an officer of Fi Pharos and captain of the guard
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the traders who bought Joseph took him all the way
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: to Egypt and sold him there. His buyer was a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: man named Potiphar, who was an officer of Pharaoh and
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: the captain of the God, a high ranking official in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had gone from being the favored son in his
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  Speaker 1: father's house to being a slave in a foreign land.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's life had been turned upside down. One day, he
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  Speaker 1: was wearing a coat of many colors, the beloved son
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  Speaker 1: of a wealthy shepherd. The next day he was standing
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  Speaker 1: in an Egyptian slave market, being sold to strangers, in
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  Speaker 1: a land where he did not speak the language, did
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  Speaker 1: not know the customs, and had no rights. He was
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: utterly alone. But Joseph was not truly alone. Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine one two tells us something crucial, And Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: captain of the God, an Egyptian, bought him of the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: hands of the Ishmilites, which had brought him down thither.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a
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  Speaker 1: prosperous man. And he was in the house of his master.
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  Speaker 1: The Egyptian the Lord was with Joseph, even in slavery,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: even in Egypt, even after everything that had happened, God
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: had not abandoned him. And because the Lord was with Joseph,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: he prospered even in his master's house. Genesis thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: three shows us what Potiphar noticed and his master saw
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Potiphar could see there was something different about Joseph. Everything
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Joseph did succeeded. Everything he touched seemed to work out well.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Partiphar recognized that Joseph's God was blessing him. Joseph gained
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Partiphar's trust. Genesis thirty nine four tells us, and Joseph
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  Speaker 1: found grace in his sight, and he served him, and
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: he made him overseer over his house, and all that
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: he had he put into him his hand. Joseph found
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  Speaker 1: favor with Potiphar. He served him well, and Potiphar promoted him,
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  Speaker 1: putting him in charge of his entire household. Joseph went
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  Speaker 1: from being a common slave to being the manager of
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: everything Potiphar owned. The blessing continued to flow. Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine to five describes what happened, and it came to
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  Speaker 1: pass from the time that he had made him overseer
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  Speaker 1: in his house and over all that he had, that
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake, And
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: had in the house and in the field. From the
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: moment Potiphar put Joseph in charge, God blessed Potiphar's house.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Because of Joseph, everything in Potiphar's possession, both in his
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: house and in his fields, prospered. Joseph's presence brought blessing
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: to everyone around him. Potiphar trusted Joseph completely. Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine six sums it up. And he left all that
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  Speaker 1: he had in Joboseph's hand, and he knew not aught
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: he had, save the bread, which he did eat. And
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  Speaker 1: Joseph was a goodly person and well favored. Potiphar put
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  Speaker 1: everything he owned under Joseph's management and did not worry
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: about any of it. The only thing Potiphar concerned himself
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  Speaker 1: with was the food he ate. Everything else Joseph handled.
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  Speaker 1: The verse also notes that Joseph was handsome and good looking.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had been thrown into a pit by his brothers,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: sold as a slave, taken to a foreign country, and
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: forced to serve in someone else's house. But through it
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: all God was with him. Joseph did not give up,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: he did not become bitter. He worked faithfully wherever he was,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: and God honored that faithfulness. Joseph had gone from the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: bottom of a pit to the top of an Egyptian household.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: His circumstances had changed, but one thing remained constant. The
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Lord was with him. Joseph's success in Potiphar's house did
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: not go unnoticed by everyone in the household. Potiphar's wife
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: began to look at Joseph with desire. Day after day
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: she watched this handsome young man managing her husband's affairs.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty nine seven tells us what happened. And it
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: came to pass after these things that his master's wife
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, lie with me.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: She made her intentions clear and direct. She wanted Joseph
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: to sleep with her, but Joseph refused. Genesis thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: eight to nine shows us his response. But he refused
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  Speaker 1: and said, unto his master's wife. Behold, my master, wotteth
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  Speaker 1: not what is with me in the house, And he
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  Speaker 1: hath committed all that he hath to my hand. There
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  Speaker 1: is none greater in this house than I. Neither hath
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: he kept back anything from me but thee because thou
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: art his wife? How then can I do this great
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: wickedness and sin against God? Joseph explained his reasoning. Potiphar
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  Speaker 1: trusted him with everything. He had been given authority over
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: the entire household. The only thing Potiphar had kept from
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Joseph was his own wife. How could Joseph betray that trust?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: And more importantly, how could he commit such a terrible
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: sin against God? But Potiphar's wife did not give up,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty nine ten tells us. And it came to
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  Speaker 1: pass as she spake to Joseph day by day that
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  Speaker 1: he hearkened not unto her to lie by her or
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: to be with her. She kept asking him day after day,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: but Joseph refused every single time. He would not even
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: spend time alone with her. Then one day Genesis thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine eleven twelve describes what happened. And it came to
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: pass about this time that Joseph went into the house
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: to do his business, and there was none of the
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: men of the house there within, and she caught him
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: by his garment, saying, lie with me. And he left
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: his garment in her hand, and fled and got him out.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Joseph came into the house to do his work, and
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: none of the other servants were around. Potiphar's wife grabbed
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: his cloak and demanded again that he sleep with her.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Joseph's response was immediate. He pulled away so quickly that
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: his cloak stayed in her hand, and he ran out
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: of the house. The woman's desire turned to rage. She
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: had been rejected and humiliated. Genesis thirty nine thirteen fifteen
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  Speaker 1: shows us her revenge. And it came to pass when
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: she saw that he had left his garment in her
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: hand and was fled forth. She called unto the men
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: of her house and spake unto them, saying, see, he
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: hath brought in a Hebrew unto us, to mochus. He
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: came in unto me to lie with me. And I
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: cried with a loud voice. And it came to pass
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: when he heard that, I lifted up my voice and
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: cried that he left his garment with me. And fled
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: and got him out. She still had Joseph's cloak in
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: her hands, and she used it as false evidence. She
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: called the household servants and told them a lie that
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Joseph had tried to psalter, that she had screamed, and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: that he had run away, leaving his cloak behind. When
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Potiphar came home, she told him the same story. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine seventeen eighteen records her accusation, and she spake
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: unto him according to these words, saying, the Hebrew servant
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: to mock me. And it came to pass as I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: lifted up my voice and cried that he left his
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: garment with me and fled out. She blamed her husband
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: for bringing this Hebrew slave into their home, and claimed
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: Joseph had tried to force himself on her. Genesis thirty nine,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: nineteen to twenty tells us Potiphar's reaction, And it came
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: to pass when his master heard the words of his wife,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: which she spake unto him, saying, after this manner did
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: thy servant to me, that his wrath was kindled, and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: a place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: was there in the prison. Potiphar's anger burned, and he
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: had Joseph thrown into prison, specifically the prison where the
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: king's prisoners were kept. Joseph had done nothing wrong. He
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: had honored God, refused temptation, and maintained his integrity, and
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: his reward was prison. But even in prison, something remained constant.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Genesis thirty nine twenty one twenty three tells us, But
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy and
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: that was under his hand, because the Lord was with him,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: The Lord was still with Joseph, God showed him mercy
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: and gave him favor even with the prison warden. The
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: and the warden did not even need to supervise anything
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Joseph managed, because the Lord was with Joseph and made
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: everything he did succeed. Time passed and Joseph adjusted to
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: life in prison. Then something significant happened. Genesis forty one
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: three tells us. And it came to pass after these
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: things that the butler of the King of Egypt and
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: his baker had offended their lord, the King of Egypt,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: and Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: the bakers, and he put them in ward in the
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: house of the Captain of the guard, into the prison
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: the place where Joseph was bound. Two of Pharaoh's officials,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: his cupbearer, and his baker did something that offended the king.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh became angry with them and had them thrown into
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: the same prison where Joseph was being held. Genesis forty
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  Speaker 1: four continues, And the captain of the guard charged dud
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Joseph with them, and he served them, and they continued
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: a season in ward. The captain of the guard assigned
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Joseph to take care of these two men, and they
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: remained in prison for some time. One night, both men
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: had dreams. Genesis forty five to eight describes what happened.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: And they dreamed a dream, both of them, each man
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: his dream in one night, each man according to the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: interpretation of his dream. The butler and the baker of
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: the King of Egypt, which were bound in the prison,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: And Joseph came in unto them in the morning and
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: looked upon them, and behold they were sad. And he
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: of his lord's house, saying, wherefore look ye so sadly
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: to day? And they said, unto him, we have dreamed
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: Joseph said, unto them, do not interpretations belong to God?
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Tell me them, I pray you. Both officials had troubling
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: dreams on the same night, and the next morning Joseph
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: could see they were upset. When he asked why, they
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: explained they had both dreamed but had no one to
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: interpret their dreams. Joseph told them that interpretations belonged to
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: God and asked them to share their dreams with him.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: The cup bearer went first. Genesis forty nine eleven records
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: his dream and the chief butler told his dream to
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Joseph and said to him, in my dream, behold, a
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: vine was before me, and in the vine were three branches,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand. And I took
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. In his dream, the
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: cup eerer saw a vine with three branches that budded, blossomed,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: and produced ripe grapes. He squeezed the grapes into Pharaoh's
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: cup and handed the cup to Pharaoh. Joseph gave him
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: the interpretation Genesis forty twelve to thirteen tells us, and
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Joseph said unto him, this is the interpretation of it.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: The three branches are three days. Yet within three days
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: shall Pharaoh lift up thine head and restore thee unto
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: thy place, And thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: hand after the former manner when thou wast his butler,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: the three branches represented three days. Within three days, Pharaoh
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: would restore the cup bearer to his former position, and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: he would serve Pharaoh's cup again just as he used to.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: This was good news for the cup bearer, and Joseph
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: saw an opportunity. Genesis forty fourteen fifteen shows us Joseph's request,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: But think on me when it shall be well with
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: THEE and show kindness. I pray THEE unto me, and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: of this house. For indeed I was stolen away out
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Joseph asked the cup bearer to remember him when he
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: was restored to Pharaoh's service. He asked him to show
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: kindness by mentioning Joseph to Pharaoh and helping get him
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: out of prison. Joseph explained that he had been kidnapped
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: from his homeland and that he had done nothing in
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: Egypt to deserve being thrown into prison. When the baker
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: heard that the cupbearer's interpretation was positive, he wanted his
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: dream interpreted too. Genesis forty sixteen to seventeen records what
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  Speaker 1: the baker said when the chief baker saw that the
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: interpretation was good. He said, unto Joseph, I also was
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: in my dream, and behold, I had three white baskets
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: on my head, and in the uppermost basket there was
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: of all manner of bake meats for Pharaoh, and the
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: In his dream, the baker was carrying three white baskets
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: on his head, filled with baked goods for Pharaoh, but
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: birds were eating the food from the top basket. Joseph's
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: interpretation was grim. Genesis forty eighteen to nineteen tells Us,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: and Joseph answered and said, this is the interpretation thereof
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: the three baskets are three days. Yet within three days
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds shall
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: eat thy flesh from off thee. The three baskets also
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: represented three days, but the outcome was terrible. Within three days,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh would execute the baker by hanging, and birds would
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: eat his flesh. Three days later, it was Pharaoh's birthday.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Genesis forty twenty twenty two describes what happened, and it
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: came to pass the third day which was Pharaoh's birthday,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: that he made a feast unto all his servants, and
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: he lifted up the head of the chief butler and
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: of the chief baker among his servants. And he restored
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: the chief butler unto his butlership again, and he gave
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: the cup into Pharaoh's hand, but he hanged the chief
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: baker as Joseph had interpreted to them. Everything happened exactly
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: as Joseph had said. Pharaoh restored the cupbearer to his position,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: and the cupbearer once again served Pharaoh's cup, But Pharaoh
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: had the baker executed by hanging. Joseph's interpretations had been
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: perfectly accurate, but there was a problem. Genesis forty twenty
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: three tells us, Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: but forgat him. The cupbearer did not remember Joseph. He
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: forgot all about the man who had interpreted his dream,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: and asked for help. Joseph remained in prison forgotten for
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: two more full years. Two years past, Joseph continued serving
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: in prison, faithful but forgotten. Then Pharaoh himself had a dream.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Genesis forty one point one four describes it, And it
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: came to pass at the end of two full years,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: and behold, there came up out of the river seven
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: well favored kine and fat fleshed, and they fared in
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: a meadow. And behold, seven other kind came up after
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: them out of the river, ill favored and lean fleshed,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: and stood by the other kind upon the brink of
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: the river. And the ill favored and lean fleshed kine
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: did eat up the seven well favored and fat kine.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: So Pharaoh awoke. Pharaoh dreamed he was standing by the
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Nile river. Seven healthy, fat cows came up out of
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the river and grazed in the meadow. Then seven ugly
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: thin cows came up and stood beside them. The thin
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: cows ate the fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. He
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: fell asleep again and had a second dream. Genesis forty
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: one five seven records it. And he slept and dreamed
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: the second time, And behold, seven ears of corn came
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: up upon one stalk, rank and good, And behold seven
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: thin ears, and blasted with the east wind sprung up
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: after them, and the sevenths devoured the seven rank and
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: full ears. And Pharaoh awoke and behold it was a dream.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: This time Pharaoh saw seven full, healthy heads of grain
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: growing on a single stalk. Then seven thin heads of grain,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them. The thin
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: heads of grain swallowed up the full heads. Pharaoh woke
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: up again and realized it was a dream. Morning came
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: and Pharaoh was deeply troubled. Genesis forty one eight tells us.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: And it came to pass in the morning that his
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: spirit was troubled. And he sent and called for all
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men thereof,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: and Pharaoh told them his dream but there was none
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: that could interpret them. Unto Pharaoh. Pharaoh called for all
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  Speaker 1: the magicians and wise men in Egypt. He told them
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  Speaker 1: his dreams, but not one of them could tell him
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  Speaker 1: what the dreams meant. Then the cup bearer finally remembered.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis forty one nine thirteen shows us what he said.
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  Speaker 1: Then spain the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do
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  Speaker 1: remember my faults. This day. Pharaoh was wroth with his
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: servants and put me in ward in the captain of
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: the Guard's house. Both me and the chief Baker, and
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: we dreamed, each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
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  Speaker 1: And there was there with us a young man and
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew servant to the captain of the guard. And we
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  Speaker 1: told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams to
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: each man according to his dream. He did interpret, and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: it came to pass as he interpreted to us. So
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  Speaker 1: it was me he restored unto mine office, and him
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  Speaker 1: he hanged. The cupbearer confessed that he remembered his faults
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: and told Pharaoh about Joseph. He explained how he and
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: the baker had both dreamed in prison, and a young
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: Hebrew slave had interpreted their dreams accurately. The cup bearer
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  Speaker 1: was restored and the baker was executed, exactly as Joseph
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: had said. Genesis forty one fortyeen En describes what happened next.
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  Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
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  Speaker 1: hastily out of the dungeon. And he shaved himself and
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: changed his raiment and came in unto Pharaoh. Pharaoh immediately
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: sent for Joseph. They rushed him out of the prison.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: He shaved, changed his clothes to make himself presentable, and
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  Speaker 1: was brought before Pharaoh. Joseph stood before the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: man in Egypt. Genesis forty one fifteen sixteen records their
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  Speaker 1: first exchange, and Pharaoh said, unto Joseph, I have dreamed
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  Speaker 1: a dream, and there is none that can interpret it.
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  Speaker 1: And I have heard say of thee that thou canst
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  Speaker 1: understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: saying it is not in me. God shall give Pharaoh
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: an answer of peace. Pharaoh told Joseph he had heard
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: that Joseph could interpret dreams. Joseph's response was humble and direct.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: He could not do it himself, but God would give
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh the eyes so he needed. Pharaoh then described both
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: dreams to Joseph in detail, telling him about the seven
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  Speaker 1: fat and seven thin cows and the seven full and
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: seven thin heads of grain, and noting that he had
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: told the magicians but none could explain it. Joseph gave
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh the interpretation. Genesis forty one twenty five to twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven records his words, and Joseph said, unto Pharaoh, the
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: dream of Pharaoh is one. God hath showed Pharaoh what
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: he is about to do. The seven good kind are
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  Speaker 1: seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years.
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  Speaker 1: The dream is one, and the seven thin and ill
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  Speaker 1: favored kind that came up after them are seven years,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind
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  Speaker 1: shall be seven years of famine. Both dreams had the
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: same meaning. God was showing Pharaoh what was about to happen.
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  Speaker 1: The seven good cows and seven good heads of grain
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  Speaker 1: represented seven years of great abundance. The seven thin cows
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: and seven thin heads of grain represented seven years of
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: famine that would follow. Joseph continued explaining Genesis forty one
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: twenty eight thirty two tells us, this is the thing
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  Speaker 1: which I have spoken unto Pharaoh, what God is about
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: to do. He showeth unto Pharaoh. Behold, there comes seven
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  Speaker 1: years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine,
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  Speaker 1: and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land, and
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: the plenty shall not be known in the land by
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  Speaker 1: reason of that famine following, for it shall be very grievous.
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  Speaker 1: And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice.
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  Speaker 1: It's because the thing is established by God, and God
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: will shortly bring it to pass. Joseph explained that seven
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: years of abundance were coming to all of Egypt, followed
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: by seven years of severe famine. The famine would be
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: so bad that people would forget the years of plenty.
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  Speaker 1: The reason Pharaoh had the dream twice was because the
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: matter was firmly decided by God, and God would make
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: it happen soon. Then Joseph did something remarkable. He did
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: not just interpret the dream. He gave advice. Genesis forty
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  Speaker 1: one thirty three to thirty six shows us Joseph's council. Now, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and
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  Speaker 1: set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: and let him appoint officers over the land, and take
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  Speaker 1: up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the
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  Speaker 1: food of those good years that come, and lay up
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  Speaker 1: corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: food in the cities, and that food shall be for
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: store to the land against the seven years of famine
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: land perish not through the famine. Joseph advised Pharaoh to
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: appoint a wise man to oversee Egypt during the seven
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: good years. This person should collect one fifth of all
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: the crops and store the grain in the cities. That
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: stored food would save Egypt during the seven years of famine.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh and his officials were impressed. Genesis forty one thirty
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: seven to thirty nine records their response. And the thing
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said, unto his servants,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: can we find such a one as this is a
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: man in whom the spirit of God is? And Pharaoh said,
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  Speaker 1: unto Joseph, forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: there is none so discreet and wise as thou art.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh recognized that God's spirit was in Joseph. Since God
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  Speaker 1: had revealed all this to Joseph, Pharaoh concluded that no
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: one was wiser than Joseph himself. Then Pharaoh made an
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: astounding decision. Genesis forty one forty forty four tells us,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt be o my house, And according unto thy word,
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  Speaker 1: Shall all my people be ruled only in the throne?
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  Speaker 1: Will I be greater than thou? And Pharaoh said, unto Joseph, Sea,
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  Speaker 1: I have set THEE over all the land of Egypt.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: And he made him to ride in the second chariot
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: which he had, and they cried before him, bow the knee.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: And he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh said, unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: THEE shall no man lift up his hand or foot
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: in all the land of Egypt. Pharaoh appointed Joseph to
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: be in charge of his palace and all of Egypt.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: Only Pharaoh himself would be greater than Joseph. Pharaoh gave
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: Joseph his signet ring, dressed him in fine linen robes,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: put a gold chain around his neck, and had him
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: ride in the second royal chairriot people bowed before Joseph
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: as he passed. He had become the second most powerful
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: man in all of Egypt. Genesis forty one forty six
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  Speaker 1: tells us Joseph's age, and Joseph was thirty years old
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Joseph was
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: thirty years old. He had been seventeen when his brothers
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: sold him into slavery. Thirteen years had passed, years of slavery,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: false accusation, imprisonment, and waiting. But now in a single day,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: God had lifted him from the prison to the palace.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: The seven years of abundance came just as Joseph had
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: predicted Genesis forty one forty seven forty nine tells Us.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: And in the seven plenteous years, the earth brought forth
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: by handfuls, and he gathered up all the food of
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: the seven years which were in the land of Egypt,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: and laid up the food in the cities. The food
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: of the field, which was round about every city, laid
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: he up in the same And Joseph gathered corn as
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: the sand of the sea, very much until he left numbering,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: for it was without number. Joseph traveled throughout Egypt, organizing
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: the storage of grain. He stored up so much grain
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: that they stopped measuring it because it was beyond counting.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: Then the seven years of famine began. Genesis forty one
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  Speaker 1: fifty four to fifty seven describes what happened. And the
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: had said. And the dearth was in all lands, but
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: in all the land of Egypt there was bread. And
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said, unto all
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: the Egyptians, go unto Joseph what he saith to you do.
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  Speaker 1: And the famine was over all the face of the earth.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: And Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold unto the Egyptians.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: And the famine waxed soar in the land of Egypt,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: and all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for tobai
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: The famine spread everywhere, but Egypt had bread because of
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Joseph's planning. Pharaoh directed everyone to Joseph, and people from
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: all countries came to Egypt to buy grain. The famine
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: reached Canaan, where Jacob and his family lived. Genesis forty
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  Speaker 1: two one two shows us what Jacob said to his sons.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: Jacob said unto his sons, why do ye look one
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: upon another? And he said, behold, I have heard that
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: there is corn in Egypt. Get you down thither and
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: buy for us from thence that we may live and
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: not die. Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt and
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: told his sons to go buy food so the family
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: would not starve. Genesis forty two three four tells us
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  Speaker 1: what happened. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: corn in Egypt, but Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob, sent not
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: with his brethren, for he said, lest peradventure mischief befall him.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: Ten of Joseph's brothers went to Egypt to buy grain,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: but Jacob kept Benjamin at home because he was afraid
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: something bad might happen to him. Benjamin was Joseph's only
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: full brother born to Rachel, and after losing Joseph, Jacob
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: could not bear to risk Benjamin. The brothers arrived in
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: Egypt and came before Joseph. Genesis forty two six describes
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: the moment. And Joseph was the governor over the land,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: and he it was that sold to all the people
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: of the land, and Joseph's brethren came and bowed down
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: themselves before him, with their faces to the earth. Joseph
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: was in charge of selling grain to every one. His
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: to the ground. The dream Joseph had as a young man,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: the dream where his brother's sheaves bowed to his sheaf,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: was now coming true. Jenesis forty two seven eight tells
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: us what Joseph saw. And Joseph saw his brethren, and
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: spake roughly unto them. And he said unto them, whence
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: come ye? And they said, from the land of Canaan
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: to buy food. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: knew not him. Joseph recognized his brothers immediately, but they
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: did not recognize him. How could they. The last time
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: they saw him, he was seventeen years old, wearing a
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: colorful coat, speaking Hebrew, and crying as they sold him
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: to traders. Now he was thirty nine years old, dressed
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: in Egyptian royal robes, speaking Egyptian through an interpreter, and
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: holding absolute power over them. They had no idea. They
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: were standing before their own brother, Joseph decided to test
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: his brothers. He wanted to know if they had changed,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: if they felt any remorse for what they had done.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: Genesis forty two nine shows us what Joseph said. And
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: unto them, ye are spies. To see the nakedness of
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: the land, ye are come. Joseph accused them of being
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: spies who had come to find Egypt's weak points. The
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: brothers were terrified. Genesis forty two ten thirteen records their defense.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, unto him, nay, my Lord, but to
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: buy food? Are thy servants come? We are all one
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: man's sons. We are true men. Thy servants are no spies.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: And he said, unto them, nay, But to see the
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: nakedness of the land, ye are come. And they said,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: in the land of Canaan. And behold, the youngest is
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: this day with our father, and one is not. They
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: insisted they were honest men, all sons of one father,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: who had only come to buy food. They explained they
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: were twelve brothers total, The youngest was still home with
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: their father, and one brother was no longer alive. They
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: were referring to Joseph when they said one is not
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: assuming he was dead. Joseph pressed them harder. Genesis forty two,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: fourteen seventeen shows us his plan. And Joseph said, unto them,
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: that is it that I spake unto you, saying ye
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: are spies. Hereby ye shall be proved by the life
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: of Pharaoh. Ye shall not go forth. Hence, except your
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: youngest brother come hither, Send one of you and let
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison,
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: that your words may be prov'd, whether there be any
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: truth in you or else, by the life of Pharaoh.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: Surely ye are spies. And he put them all together
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: into ward three days. Joseph told them they would have
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: to prove their story by bringing their youngest brother to Egypt.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: He would keep them all in prison while one went
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: back to get Benjamin. Then Joseph threw all of them
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: into prison for three days. On the third day, Joseph
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: changed his terms slightly. Genesis forty two, eighteen twenty records
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: what he said, and Joseph said, unto them, the third day,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: this do and live, for I fear God. If ye
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: be true, men, let one of your brethren be bound
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: in the house of your prison. Go ye carry corn
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: for the famine of your houses. But bring your youngest
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: brother unto me. So shall your words be verified, and
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: ye shall not die. And they did so. Joseph told
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: them that because he feared God, he would let most
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: of them go. One brother would stay as a hostage,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: while the others took grain home, but they must bring
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: their youngest brother back to prove they were telling the truth.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: The brothers began talking among themselves in Hebrew, not realizing
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: Joseph could understand them. Genesis forty two twenty one twenty
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: two shows us their conversation. And they said, one to another,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: we are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we
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  Speaker 1: saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: and we could not hear. Therefore, is this distress come
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: upon us? And Reuben answered them, saying, spake I not
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: unto you, saying do not sin against the child, and
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: ye would not hear. Therefore, behold also his blood is required.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: The brothers admitted their guilt about Joseph. They remembered how
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: he had begged them for mercy and they had ignored him.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: Reuben reminded them that he had warned them not to
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: harm Joseph, but they had not listened. Genesis forty two
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: twenty four tells us Joseph's reaction. And he turned himself
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: about from them and wept, and returned to them again,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: and communed with them, and took from them Simeon and
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: bound him before their eyes. Joseph had to turn away
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: because he began to cry. He composed himself, turned back,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: and chose Simeon to be the one who would stay behind.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: Joseph had Simeon bound right in front of the brothers.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: Then Joseph did something they did not expect. Genesis forty
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  Speaker 1: two twenty five describes it. Then Joseph as if commanded
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: man's money into his sack, and to give them provision
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: for the way. And thus did he unto them. Joseph
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: ordered his servants to fill their bags with grain, but
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: also to secretly put each brother's money back into his sack.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: He gave them food for their journey home. The brothers
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: loaded their donkeys and left. Genesis forty two twenty seven
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: twenty eight tells us what one of them discovered. And
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: as one of them opened his sack to give his
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: ass provender in the inn, he espied his money. For behold,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: it was in his sack's mouth, and he said, unto
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: his brethren, my money is restored, and lo, it is
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: even in my sack. And their heart failed them, and
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: they were afraid, saying one to another, what is this
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: that God hath done unto us? Num When one brother
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: opened his sack to feed his donkey at their resting place,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: he found his money. They were all frightened, wondering what
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: God was doing to them. They arrived home and told
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Jacob everything. Genesis forty two thirty five thirty six continues,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: And when both they and their father saw the bundles
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: of money, they were afraid. And Jacob, their father, said,
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: unto them me, have ye bereaved of my children? Joseph
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: is not and Simeon is not, and ye will take
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: Benjamin away. All these things are against me. As they
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: emptied all their sacks. Every single brother found his money returned.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: Both the brothers and Jacob were terrified. Jacob cried out
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: that they had taken his children from him. Joseph was gone,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: now Simeon was gone, and they wanted to take Benjamin.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: Everything seemed to be against him. Genesis forty two thirty
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: eight shows us Jacob's decision, and he said, my son
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: and he alone is left. If mischief befall him by
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  Speaker 1: the way in the which ye go, then shall ye
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  Speaker 1: bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob said Benjamin would not go. Joseph was dead, and
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin was the only son of Rachel he had left.
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  Speaker 1: If anything happened to Benjamin, Jacob would die of grief.
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  Speaker 1: Time passed, and the family ate the grain they had
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  Speaker 1: brought from Egypt. When it was gone, the famine still raged.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis forty three one to two tells us, and the
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  Speaker 1: famine was sore in the land. And it came to
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  Speaker 1: pass when they had eaten up the corn which they
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  Speaker 1: had brought out of Egypt. Their father said, unto them,
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  Speaker 1: go again, buy us a little food Jacob told his
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  Speaker 1: sons to go back to Egypt to buy more food,
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  Speaker 1: but Judah reminded him of the Egyptian governor's demand. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: forty three three to five records what Judah said, and
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  Speaker 1: Judah spake unto him, saying, the man did solemnly protest
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  Speaker 1: unto us, saying, ye shall not see my face except
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  Speaker 1: your brother be wait you. If thou wilt send our
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  Speaker 1: brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food.
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  Speaker 1: But if thou wilt not send him, we will not
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  Speaker 1: go down. For the man said unto us, ye shall
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  Speaker 1: not see my face. Accept your brother be with you.
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  Speaker 1: They could not return without Benjamin, the governor had made
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  Speaker 1: it absolutely clear. After much convincing, Jacob finally agreed. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: forty three eleven to fourteen shows us what Jacob said
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  Speaker 1: and their father Israel said unto them. If it must
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  Speaker 1: be so, now do this, Take of the best fruits
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  Speaker 1: in the land in your vessels, and carry down the
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  Speaker 1: man a present, a little balm and a little honey,
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  Speaker 1: spices and mrh nuts and almonds, And take double money
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  Speaker 1: in your hand, and the money that was brought again
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  Speaker 1: in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in
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  Speaker 1: your hand peradventure. It was an oversight. Take also your
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  Speaker 1: brother and arise, go again unto the man, and God
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  Speaker 1: Almighty give you more before the man, that he may
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  Speaker 1: send away your other brother and Benjamin. If I be
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  Speaker 1: bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. Jacob told them
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  Speaker 1: to take gifts, double the money and Benjamin. He prayed
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  Speaker 1: that God would give them mercy before the Egyptian governor.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever would happen would happen. The brothers returned to Egypt
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  Speaker 1: with Benjamin. When Joseph saw Benjamin, he told his steward
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  Speaker 1: to prepare a feast. Genesis forty three sixteen tells us
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  Speaker 1: And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to
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  Speaker 1: the ruler of his house, bring these men home and
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  Speaker 1: slay and make ready, for these men shall dine with
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  Speaker 1: me at noon. Joseph ordered a meal prepared because the
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  Speaker 1: brothers would eat with him. When Joseph came home, the
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  Speaker 1: brothers gave him their gifts and bowed before him. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: forty three twenty six to twenty eight describes the scene.
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  Speaker 1: And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present
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  Speaker 1: which was in their hand, into the house and bowed
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  Speaker 1: themselves to him, to the earth. And he asked them
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  Speaker 1: of their welfare, and said, is your father well, the
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  Speaker 1: old man of whom ye spake, is he yet alive?
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  Speaker 1: And they answered, thy servant, our father is in good health.
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  Speaker 1: He is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads
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  Speaker 1: and made obeisance. Joseph asked about their father, and they
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  Speaker 1: told him Jacob was still alive and well. They bowed again.
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  Speaker 1: Then Joseph saw Benjamin Genesis forty three twenty nine to
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  Speaker 1: thirty captures the moment. And he lifted up his eyes
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  Speaker 1: and saw his brother, Benjamin, his mother's son, and said,
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  Speaker 1: is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, God be gracious unto thee my son.
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph made haste for his bowels. Did yearn upon
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  Speaker 1: his brother, and he sought where to weep, and he
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  Speaker 1: entered into his chamber and wept there. Joseph looked at Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: his only full brother, and his emotions overwhelmed him. He
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  Speaker 1: quickly left the room and went to his private chamber,
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  Speaker 1: where he after composing himself, Joseph returned and the meal
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  Speaker 1: was served Genesis forty three thirty three thirty four tells us.
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  Speaker 1: And they sat before him, the first born according to
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  Speaker 1: his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. And
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  Speaker 1: the men marveled one at another, and he took and
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  Speaker 1: sent messes unto them from before him. But Benjamin's mess
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  Speaker 1: was five times so much as any of theirs, and
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  Speaker 1: they drank and were merry with him. Joseph seated them
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  Speaker 1: in perfect order, from oldest to youngest, which amazed them.
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  Speaker 1: He sent them food from his table, but Benjamin received
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  Speaker 1: five times more than any one else. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph put his plan into action. Genesis forty four one
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  Speaker 1: to two describes it. And he commanded the steward of
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  Speaker 1: his house, saying, fill the men's sacks with food as
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  Speaker 1: much as they can carry, and put every man's money
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  Speaker 1: in his sack's mouth, and put my cup, the silver
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  Speaker 1: cup in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his
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  Speaker 1: corn money. And he did according to the word that
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had spoken. Joseph had their sacks filled with grain,
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  Speaker 1: and their money returned again. But in Benjamin's sack he
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  Speaker 1: had his own silver cup hidden. The brothers left early
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  Speaker 1: in the morning Genesis forty four three four continues. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away,
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  Speaker 1: they and their asses. And when they were gone out
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  Speaker 1: of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said
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  Speaker 1: unto his steward, up follow after the men, And when
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  Speaker 1: thou dost overtake them, say unto them, wherefore have ye
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  Speaker 1: rewarded evil for good? As soon as they left the city,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph sent his steward after them with an accusation. The
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  Speaker 1: stewards searched their sacks, starting with the oldest. Genesis forty
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  Speaker 1: four eleven twelve describes it. Then they speedily took down
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  Speaker 1: every man his sack to the ground, and opened every
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  Speaker 1: man his sack. And he searched and began at the eldest,
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  Speaker 1: and left at the youngest, And the cup was found
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  Speaker 1: in Benjamin's sack. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis forty four thirteen tells us. Then they rent their
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  Speaker 1: clothes and lay did every man his ass, and returned
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  Speaker 1: to the city. They tore their clothes in grief and
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  Speaker 1: returned to the city. The brothers came back and fell
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  Speaker 1: before Joseph. Genesis forty four fourteen to sixteen records the
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  Speaker 1: scene and Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house,
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  Speaker 1: for he was yet there, And they fell before him
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. And Joseph said, unto them, what deed
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  Speaker 1: is this that ye have done? What ye not that
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  Speaker 1: such a man as I can certainly divine? And Judah said,
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  Speaker 1: what shall we say unto my lord? What shall we speak?
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  Speaker 1: Or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out
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  Speaker 1: the iniquity of thy servants. Behold, we are my Lord's servants,
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  Speaker 1: both we and he also with whom the cup is found.
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  Speaker 1: They threw themselves down before him. Judah admitted they had
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  Speaker 1: no defense. God had uncovered their guilt. They would all
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  Speaker 1: become Joseph's slaves, including Benjamin, But Joseph refused. Genesis forty
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  Speaker 1: four seventeen tells us and he said, God forbid that
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  Speaker 1: I should do so. But the man in whose hand
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  Speaker 1: the cup is found, he shall be my servant. And
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  Speaker 1: as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph said, only Benjamin would stay as his slave. The
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  Speaker 1: rest could go home. This was the moment of truth.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago, the brothers had sold Joseph into slavery without
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  Speaker 1: a second thought. Now would they abandon Benjamin the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Judah stepped forward. Genesis forty four eighteen thirty four contains
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  Speaker 1: his long emotional speech. He explained how their father loved Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: how Benjamin was the only son left from his beloved wife,
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: how their father had lost one son already and would
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: die if he lost Benjamin. Judah reminded Joseph that he
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  Speaker 1: had personally guaranteed Benjamin's safety to their father. Then Judah
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  Speaker 1: made an incredible offer. Genesis forty four thirty three thirty
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  Speaker 1: four records his words. Now, therefore, I pray thee let
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  Speaker 1: thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to
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  Speaker 1: my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren.
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  Speaker 1: For how shall I go up to my father and
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  Speaker 1: the lad be not with me? Lest peradventure I see
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  Speaker 1: the evil that shall come on my father. Judah offered
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  Speaker 1: himself as a slave in Benjamin's place. He could not
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  Speaker 1: return to his father without Benjamin. He could not watch
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  Speaker 1: his father die of grief. The brothers had changed. They
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  Speaker 1: were willing to sacrifice themselves for Benjamin, the favored son.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph could not hold back any longer. Genesis forty five
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  Speaker 1: one three describes what happened. Then Joseph could not refrain
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  Speaker 1: himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried,
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  Speaker 1: cause every man to go out from me, And there
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  Speaker 1: stood no man with him. While Joseph made himself no
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  Speaker 1: own unto his brethren, and he wept aloud, and the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said,
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  Speaker 1: unto his brethren, I am Joseph. Doth my father yet live?
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  Speaker 1: And his brethren could not answer him, for they were
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  Speaker 1: troubled at his presence. Joseph ordered every one out except
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  Speaker 1: his brothers. Then he wept so loudly that every one
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  Speaker 1: in Pharaoh's house heard him. He told his brothers, I
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  Speaker 1: am Joseph, is my father still alive? The brothers were
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  Speaker 1: terrified and could not answer. Genesis forty five four to
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  Speaker 1: eight continues, and Joseph said, unto his brethren, come near
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  Speaker 1: to me, I pray you. And they came near, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, I am Joseph, your brother whom ye sold
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  Speaker 1: into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved nor angry with
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  Speaker 1: yourselves that ye sold me hither, For God did send
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  Speaker 1: me before you to preserve life. For these two years
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  Speaker 1: hath the famine been in the land, and yet there
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: are five years in the which there shall neither be
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: earring nor harvest. And God sent me before you to
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  Speaker 1: preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save
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  Speaker 1: your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was
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  Speaker 1: not you that sent me hither, but God, and He
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  Speaker 1: hath made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of
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  Speaker 1: all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. Joseph told them not to be angry with themselves,
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  Speaker 1: because God had sent him to Egypt ahead of them
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  Speaker 1: to save lives. It was not really the brothers who
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  Speaker 1: sent him, it was God. Joseph told them to hurry
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: back to their father. Genesis forty five nine to thirteen
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  Speaker 1: records his message telling them to bring Jacob to Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: where the family would live in Goshen and Joseph would
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  Speaker 1: provide for them during the remaining five years of famine.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis forty five fourteen fifteen describes the reconciliation. And he
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  Speaker 1: fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: wept upon his neck. Moreover, he kissed all his brethren
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: and wept upon them. And after that his brethren talked
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: with him. Joseph hugged Benjamin and cried. Benjamin cried too.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: Then Joseph kissed all his brothers and wept with them.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: The brothers returned to Canaan with wagons full of supplies.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: Genesis forty five, twenty five twenty eight shows us Jacob's reaction.
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  Speaker 1: And they went up out of Egypt and came into
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he
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  Speaker 1: believed them not. And they told him all the words
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: of Joseph which he had said unto them. And when
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  Speaker 1: he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of Jacob their father revived, and Israel said,
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  Speaker 1: it is enough, Joseph, my son is yet alive. I
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  Speaker 1: will go and see him before I die. At first
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: Jacob did not believe them, but when he saw the wagons,
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  Speaker 1: his spirit came alive again. He would go see his
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: son before he died. Jacob took his entire family to Egypt.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: Genesis forty six, twenty eight thirty describes the reunion. And
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  Speaker 1: he sent Judah before him unto Joseph to direct his
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  Speaker 1: face unto Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to
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  Speaker 1: meet Israel, his father to Goshen, and presented himself unto him.
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  Speaker 1: And he fell on his neck and wept on his
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  Speaker 1: neck a good while, and Israel said, unto Joseph, now
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  Speaker 1: let me die, since I have seen thy face, because
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: thou art yet alive. Joseph prepared his chariot and went
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: to meet his father. When they saw each other, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: fell on Jacob's neck and wept for a long time.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: Jacob said he could now die in peace because he
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  Speaker 1: had seen Joseph's face. Jenesis forty six twenty seven tells
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: us and the sons of Joseph which were born him
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt were two souls. All the souls of the
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  Speaker 1: house of Jacob which came into Egypt were threescore and
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  Speaker 1: ten seventy people from Jacob's family came to Egypt. The
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  Speaker 1: family that had been torn apart by jealousy and betrayal
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  Speaker 1: was now together again. The son who had been sold
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  Speaker 1: as a slave, was now the savior of his entire family.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two years after Joseph had been thrown into a pit,
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  Speaker 1: father and son were reunited. This is the power of
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: God's plan. What man meant for evil God turned into good.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: Jacob's journey from deceiver to patriarch, Joseph's path from pit
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  Speaker 1: to pallace. These are not just ancient stories. They are
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: reminders that God is working even when we cannot see it,
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  Speaker 1: even in our darkest moments, even when everything seems lost.
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