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The Story of the Book of Genesis - The Story of Creation and God_s People _ Bible Stories · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered how it all began? Where did
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  Speaker 1: we come from? And why are we here? The Book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is not
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  Speaker 1: just an ancient account, but the very narrative of our existence.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine a world where God speaks and reality takes shape,
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  Speaker 1: where dust becomes life and a rib turns into companionship.
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  Speaker 1: A world where temptation alters the destiny of all humanity.
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  Speaker 1: What mysteries lie behind the Tower of Babel, What secrets
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  Speaker 1: does noahs are cold? From the first light to Joseph's
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  Speaker 1: tears in Egypt, Genesis is an epic journey of faith, betrayal,
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  Speaker 1: love and redemption. It is the drama of imperfect families
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  Speaker 1: chosen for perfect purposes. Join us today on this journey
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  Speaker 1: through time, where we will discover how a small people
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  Speaker 1: became the seed of a blessing for all nations, where
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  Speaker 1: impossible promises turned into tangible miracles. This is the story
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  Speaker 1: of our beginnings, the story that explains who were we
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  Speaker 1: are and where we are going. Welcome to Genesis, the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Beginnings. In the beginning, God created the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and
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  Speaker 1: darkness covered the face of the deep, but the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God hovered over the waters. Then God said, let
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  Speaker 1: there be light, and there was light. He saw that
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  Speaker 1: the light was good and separated it from the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: calling the light day and the darkness night. This was
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  Speaker 1: the first day of creation. On the second day, God
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  Speaker 1: made the firmament, separating the waters below from the waters above.
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  Speaker 1: On the third day, he gathered the waters together, allowing
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  Speaker 1: dry land to appear, which he called earth, and the
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  Speaker 1: waters he called seas. He also caused vegetation to sprout
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  Speaker 1: from the land, seed bearing plants and fruit trees. On
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  Speaker 1: the fourth day, he created the sun to govern the
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  Speaker 1: day and the moon to govern the night, along with
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  Speaker 1: the stars to serve as signs for seasons, days and years.
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  Speaker 1: On the fifth day, God created the great sea, creatures
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  Speaker 1: all living beings that swim in the waters, and every
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  Speaker 1: bird that flies in the sky. He blessed them, saying,
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  Speaker 1: be fruitful and multiply fill the waters of the seas,
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  Speaker 1: and let the birds multiply on the earth. On the
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  Speaker 1: sixth day, God created land animals according to their kinds,
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  Speaker 1: and finally, he said, let us make man in our
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  Speaker 1: image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over
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  Speaker 1: the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky,
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  Speaker 1: the live stock all the earth, and every creeping thing
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  Speaker 1: that moves on the ground. So God created man in
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  Speaker 1: his own image, in the image of God. He created
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  Speaker 1: them male and female. He created them. God blessed them
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  Speaker 1: and said, be fruitful and multiply fill the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea, the
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  Speaker 1: birds of the sky, and every creature that moves on
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Then he said, see, I have given you
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  Speaker 1: every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth,
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  Speaker 1: and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
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  Speaker 1: They will be yours for food. God formed man from
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  Speaker 1: the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
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  Speaker 1: the breath of life, and man became a living being.
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  Speaker 1: He planted a garden in Eden in the east, and
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  Speaker 1: placed the man he had formed there. He caused every
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  Speaker 1: tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for
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  Speaker 1: food to grow from the ground, including the tree of
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  Speaker 1: life in the middle of the garden, and the tree
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  Speaker 1: of the knowledge of good and evil. God placed man
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  Speaker 1: in the garden to work it and take care of it,
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  Speaker 1: commanding him, you may eat freely from every tree in
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  Speaker 1: the garden. But from the tree of the knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: good and evil you must not eat, for in the
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  Speaker 1: day that you eat from it, you will surely die.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing that it was not good for man to be
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  Speaker 1: a life, God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him.
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  Speaker 1: He took one of his ribs and fashioned it into
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  Speaker 1: a woman, Presenting her to the man, Adam exclaimed, this
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  Speaker 1: is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
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  Speaker 1: She shall be called woman, for she was taken out
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  Speaker 1: of man. That is why a man leaves his father
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  Speaker 1: and mother and is united to his wife, and they
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  Speaker 1: become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked,
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  Speaker 1: yet they felt no shame. On the seventh day, God
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  Speaker 1: had finished all his work and rested. He blessed the
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  Speaker 1: seventh day and made it holy, for on it he
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  Speaker 1: rested from all the work of creation. Now the serpent,
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  Speaker 1: more cunning than any beast of the field, approached the
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  Speaker 1: woman and questioned God's command. Did God really say you
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  Speaker 1: must not eat from any tree in the garden. Eve
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  Speaker 1: replied that they could eat from any tree except the
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  Speaker 1: one in the middle of the garden, about which God
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  Speaker 1: had said, you must not eat from it nor touch it.
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  Speaker 1: Or you will die. The serpent contradicted God's word. You
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  Speaker 1: will not surely die, for God knows that when you
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  Speaker 1: eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you
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  Speaker 1: will be like God, knowing good and evil. Seduced by
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  Speaker 1: the fruit's appearance desirable for gaining wisdom, Eve took and
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  Speaker 1: ate it. She also gave some to Adam, who was
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  Speaker 1: with her, and he ate. Immediately their eyes were opened,
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  Speaker 1: and they realized they were naked. They sewed fig leaves
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  Speaker 1: together and made coverings for themselves. When they heard the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in
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  Speaker 1: the cool of the day, they hid among the trees.
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  Speaker 1: God called to the man, where are you? Adam replied,
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  Speaker 1: I heard your voice in the garden, and I was
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  Speaker 1: afraid because I was naked, so I hid. God asked,
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  Speaker 1: who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten
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  Speaker 1: from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from.
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  Speaker 1: Adam tried to shift the blame the woman you gave me.
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  Speaker 1: She gave me the fruit, and I ate. The woman
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  Speaker 1: also justified herself. The serpent deceived me and I ate.
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  Speaker 1: Then God pronounced the consequences of this act of disobedience
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  Speaker 1: to the serpent, He said, cursed are you above all
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  Speaker 1: live stock and wild animals. You will crawl on your
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  Speaker 1: belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
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  Speaker 1: I will put enmity between you and the woman, between
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  Speaker 1: your offspring and hers. He will crush your head and
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  Speaker 1: you will strike his heel. This is the first promise
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  Speaker 1: of redemption in the Bible. To the woman, God said,
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  Speaker 1: I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth. With painful labor.
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  Speaker 1: You will give birth to children. Your desire will be
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  Speaker 1: for your husband, and he will rule over you. To
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  Speaker 1: the man, he declared, cursed is the ground because of you,
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  Speaker 1: through painful toil, you will eat from it all the
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  Speaker 1: days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles
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  Speaker 1: for you, and you will eat the plants of the
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  Speaker 1: field by the sweat of your brow. You will eat
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  Speaker 1: your food until you return to the ground, for from
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  Speaker 1: it you were taken. For dust you are, and to
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  Speaker 1: dust you will return. Adam named his wife Eve, which
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  Speaker 1: means life, because she would become the mother of all
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  Speaker 1: the living. God made garments of skin for Adam and
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  Speaker 1: Eve and clothed them, demonstrating his mercy even in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of judgment. To prevent them from eating from the
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  Speaker 1: Tree of life and living forever, God expelled them from
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  Speaker 1: the garden of Eden. He placed Cherubim to the east
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  Speaker 1: of the garden and a flaming sword that turned in
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  Speaker 1: every direction to guard the way to the Tree of Life.
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  Speaker 1: Outside the garden, Adam knew his wife Eve, and she
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  Speaker 1: conceived and gave birth to Cain. Later, she gave birth
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  Speaker 1: to Abel. Abel became a shepherd while Cain was a farmer.
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  Speaker 1: Over time, i'me both brought offerings to the Lord, Cain
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  Speaker 1: from the fruit of the ground and Abel from the
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  Speaker 1: first born of his flock. The Lord looked with favor
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  Speaker 1: on Abel and his offering, but he did not accept
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  Speaker 1: Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and his
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  Speaker 1: face fell. The Lord asked him, why are you angry?
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  Speaker 1: If you do what is right, will you not be accepted.
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  Speaker 1: But if you do not do what is right, sin
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  Speaker 1: is crouching at your door. It desires to have you,
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  Speaker 1: but you must rule over it. Consumed by jealousy, Cain
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  Speaker 1: spoke with Abel, and when they were in the field,
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  Speaker 1: he attacked and killed his brother. When the Lord asked
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  Speaker 1: Cain where Abel was, he defiantly replied, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: am I my brother's keeper. God, who sees all, said,
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  Speaker 1: what have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to
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  Speaker 1: me from the ground. God cursed Cain. When he tilled
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  Speaker 1: the ground, it would no longer yield its strength to him,
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  Speaker 1: and he would become a restless wanderer on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Fearing for his life, Cain received a mark of divine
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  Speaker 1: protection and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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  Speaker 1: Cain's lineage contributed to civilization. Enoch, Cain's son had a
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  Speaker 1: city built in his name. Jubal became the father of
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  Speaker 1: those who play the harp and flute. Tubalcane became a
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  Speaker 1: craftsman in bronze and iron. However, this lineage drifted away
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  Speaker 1: from God. Adam and Eve had another son, Seth, as
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  Speaker 1: a replacement for Abel. Seth's lineage preserved faith in the
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  Speaker 1: true God. Seth's son Enosh, marked the time when people
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  Speaker 1: began to call on the name of the Lord. Seth's
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  Speaker 1: genealogy continued. Enosh fathered Keenan, who fathered Mahalalel, who fathered Jared,
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  Speaker 1: who fathered Enoch. Enoch walked with God and at three
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  Speaker 1: and sixty five years old. He was no more because
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  Speaker 1: God took him without experiencing death. Enoch fathered Methuselah, who
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  Speaker 1: lived nine hundred and sixty nine years, the longest life
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  Speaker 1: span recorded in the Bible. Methuselah fathered Lamech, and Lamech
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  Speaker 1: fathered Noah, whose name means rest, for his father said,
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  Speaker 1: he will comfort us in the labor and painful toil
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  Speaker 1: of our hands caused by the ground. The Lord has cursed.
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  Speaker 1: As mankind multiplied, the sons of God saw that the
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  Speaker 1: daughters of men were beautiful and took them as wives.
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  Speaker 1: In those days, there were nephelim giants on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Human wickedness increased, and every thought of man's heart was
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  Speaker 1: continually evil. God regretted creating humanity and decided to destroy it. However,
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  Speaker 1: Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord, for
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  Speaker 1: he was a righteous and blameless man. In his generation,
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  Speaker 1: Noah walked with God and had three sons, shem Ham
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  Speaker 1: and Jafath. The earth was corrupt and filled with violence.
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  Speaker 1: God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has
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  Speaker 1: come before me. Because the earth is filled with violence.
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  Speaker 1: I will destroy them along with the earth. God instructed
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  Speaker 1: Noah to build an ark of gopher wood with compartments
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  Speaker 1: coated inside and out with pitch. The ark would be
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  Speaker 1: three hundred cubits long, fifty wide, and thirty high, approximately
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty x seventy five forty five feet
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  Speaker 1: or one hundred and thirty seven x twenty three x
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  Speaker 1: fourteen meters. God announced that he would bring a flood
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  Speaker 1: to destroy all flesh, but established his covenant with Noah. He,
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  Speaker 1: his family, and pears of animals would enter the ark
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  Speaker 1: for preservation. Noah obeyed all of God's commands. When Noah
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  Speaker 1: was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of
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  Speaker 1: the second month, the springs of the Great Deep burst forth,
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  Speaker 1: and the windows of the heavens were opened. Rain fell
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  Speaker 1: upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. That
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  Speaker 1: same day, Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their
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  Speaker 1: wives entered the ark, along with pairs of every kind
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  Speaker 1: of animal, and the Lord shut the door of the ark.
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  Speaker 1: The waters rose and lifted the ark above the earth.
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  Speaker 1: They prevailed greatly, covering even the highest mountains. Every living
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  Speaker 1: creature perished, birds, live stock, wild animals, crawling creatures, and
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  Speaker 1: all mankind, Only Noah and those with him in the
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  Speaker 1: Ark survived. The waters covered the earth for one hu
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty days. Then God remembered Noah and all
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  Speaker 1: the creatures in the Ark. He sent a wind over
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  Speaker 1: the earth, closed the springs of the deep and the
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  Speaker 1: windows of heaven, and the waters began to recede. In
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  Speaker 1: the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the
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  Speaker 1: mountains of Aararat. By the tenth month, the tops of
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  Speaker 1: the mountains became visible. After four days, Noah opened the
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  Speaker 1: ark's window and sent out a raven, which kept flying
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  Speaker 1: back and forth until the waters dried up. Then he
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  Speaker 1: sent a dove, but it returned finding no place to rest.
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  Speaker 1: After seven days, he sent the dove again, and it
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  Speaker 1: returned with an olive leaf, indicating that the waters had receded.
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  Speaker 1: After another seven days, he sent the dove once more,
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  Speaker 1: and it did not return. In the six hundred first
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  Speaker 1: year of Noah's life, the waters dried up. God commanded Noah,
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  Speaker 1: his family, and the animals to leave the Ark and
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  Speaker 1: repopulate the earth. Noah built an altar and offered burnt
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  Speaker 1: offerings to the Lord. God smelled the pleasing aroma and said,
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  Speaker 1: never again will I curse the ground because of humans,
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  Speaker 1: nor will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
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  Speaker 1: As long as the earth endures see time and harvest,
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  Speaker 1: cold and heat, summer and winter, night will never cease.
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  Speaker 1: God blessed Noah and his sons, commanding them to be
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  Speaker 1: fruitful and fill the earth. He gave them all animals
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  Speaker 1: for food, but forbade them from eating meat with its blood.
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  Speaker 1: He also established a law against murder. Whoever sheds human
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  Speaker 1: blood by humans, shall their blood be shed. For in
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  Speaker 1: the image of God has God made mankind. God made
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  Speaker 1: a covenant with Noah, his descendants, and all living creatures,
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  Speaker 1: promising never again to destroy the earth with a flood.
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  Speaker 1: As a sign of this covenant, he set the rainbow
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth
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  Speaker 1: and the rainbow appears, I will remember my covenant, and
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  Speaker 1: the waters will never again become a flood to destroy
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  Speaker 1: your life. Noah's sons who came out of the ark
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  Speaker 1: were shem Ham and Japith, and from them the whole
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  Speaker 1: earth was populated. Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.
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  Speaker 1: He drank the wine, became drunk and lay uncovered inside
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  Speaker 1: his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's
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  Speaker 1: nakedness and told his brothers. Shem and Japath took a garment,
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  Speaker 1: walked backward, and covered their father's nakedness without looking at him.
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  Speaker 1: When Noah awoke and learned what Ham had done, he said,
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  Speaker 1: cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants. Shall he be
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  Speaker 1: to his brothers. He blessed Shem and Jafith. Blessed be
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Shem. May Canaan be his servant.
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  Speaker 1: May God enlarge Japhath, and may he dwell in the
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  Speaker 1: tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: ten presents the table of nations listing the descendants of
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  Speaker 1: Noah's sons. Japhith's descendants mainly populated Europe and Asia minor
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  Speaker 1: Ham's descendants settled in Africa, Canaan and parts of Mesopotamia,
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  Speaker 1: and Shem's descendants inhabited in the Middle East, including the Hebrews.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, humanity spoke a single language. Moving eastward,
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  Speaker 1: they settled in the plain of Sheinar, Mesopotamia. They decided
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  Speaker 1: to build a city and a tower that reached the
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  Speaker 1: heavens to make a name for themselves and avoid being
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  Speaker 1: scattered across the earth. The Lord came down to see
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  Speaker 1: the city and the tower and said, behold, the people
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  Speaker 1: are one, and they all have the same language. Now
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  Speaker 1: nothing they planned to do will be impossible for them. Come,
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  Speaker 1: let us go down and confuse their language. Thus the
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  Speaker 1: Lord confused the language of the whole earth and scattered
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  Speaker 1: them over its face. The place was called Babel Confusion.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis continues with Shem's genealogy up to Abram. Shem fathered Arfaxad,
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  Speaker 1: who fathered Salah, who fathered Aber, from whom the name
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews possibly originates. The lineage continued to Terra, who fathered Abram,
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  Speaker 1: Nehor and Haran. Haran fathered Lot, but died in Ur
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  Speaker 1: of the Chaldeans. Terra left Or with Abram Sarai, Abram's wife,
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  Speaker 1: and Lot, to go to Canaan, but they settled in Haran,
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  Speaker 1: where Terra died. After Terra's death, Abram received a divine calling,
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  Speaker 1: go from your land, your relatives, and your father's house
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  Speaker 1: to the land that I will show you. I will
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  Speaker 1: make you into a great nation, and I will bless you.
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  Speaker 1: I will make your name great, and you will be
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and
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  Speaker 1: curse those who curse you. Through you, all the families
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  Speaker 1: of the earth will be blessed. This calling marks the
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  Speaker 1: transition from universal history to the history of God's chosen people,
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  Speaker 1: through whom salvation would come. The threefold promise to Abram
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  Speaker 1: involved land, numerous descendants, and universal blessing. Abram departed as
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  Speaker 1: the Lord had commanded, taking Lot with him. He was
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  Speaker 1: seventy five years old when he left Haran with Sarai,
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Lot, and all their possessions and people they
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  Speaker 1: had acquired. Arriving in Canaan, Abram traveled through the land
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  Speaker 1: to Shekem. The Lord appeared to him and said, to
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  Speaker 1: your offspring, I will give this land. Abram built an
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  Speaker 1: altar to the Lord there. Then Abram moved to a
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  Speaker 1: mountain east of Bethel, where he also built an altar
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  Speaker 1: and called on the Lord's name. He continued his journey
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  Speaker 1: toward the Negev southern region. Due to a famine in
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  Speaker 1: the land, Abram went down to Egypt. Fearing for his life,
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  Speaker 1: He asked SARAHI to present herself as his sister. Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: official saw Serai, praised her, and she was taken into
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's house. Because of Sarai, Pharaoh treated Abram well, giving
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  Speaker 1: him sheep, cattle, and servants, but the Lord afflicted Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: and his household with plagues. Upon discovering the truth, Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: rebuked Abram and sent him away with all he had.
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  Speaker 1: Abram returned to the Negev, then back to Bethel, wealthy
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  Speaker 1: in live stock, silver and gold. As Abram and Lot
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  Speaker 1: had large flocks, disputes arose between their herders. Abram proposed separation,
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  Speaker 1: allowing Lot to choose first. Lot selected the fertile Jordan Valley,
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  Speaker 1: resembling the Garden of the Lord, and settled near Sodom.
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  Speaker 1: Abram remained in Canaan. The Lord renewed his promise to Abram,
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  Speaker 1: all the land that you see I will give to
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  Speaker 1: you and your descendants forever. I will make your offspring
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  Speaker 1: as numerous as the dust of the earth. Abram moved
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  Speaker 1: his tent to the oaks of Mamray in Hebron and
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  Speaker 1: built an altar there. During this time, Shador Laomer, king
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  Speaker 1: of Elam, and his allied kings waged war against the
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  Speaker 1: kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, and neighboring cities. After defeating them,
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  Speaker 1: they took captives and plundered goods, including Lot. When Abram
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  Speaker 1: heard this, he armed three hundred eighteen trained men born
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  Speaker 1: in his household and pursued the kings to Dan. Dividing
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  Speaker 1: his forces, he attacked at night, recovering Lot, the captives,
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  Speaker 1: and all the possessions. On his return, Abram was met
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  Speaker 1: by Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High,
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  Speaker 1: who brought bread and wine and blessed him. Abram gave
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  Speaker 1: him a tythe of everything. The king of Sodom offered
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  Speaker 1: Abram the goods, but Abram refused, swearing not to take
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  Speaker 1: anything for himself. Later, the Lord appeared to Abram in
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  Speaker 1: a vision, saying, do not be afraid. I am your
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  Speaker 1: shield and your reward will be very great. Abram questioned,
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  Speaker 1: what will you give me since I remained childless. God
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  Speaker 1: took him outside and said, look at the heavens and
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  Speaker 1: count the stars. If you can, so shall your descendants be.
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  Speaker 1: Abram believed the Lord, and it was credited to him
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  Speaker 1: as righteousness. God made a formal covenant with Abram, promising
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  Speaker 1: to give the land to his descendants. Since SARAHI was barren,
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  Speaker 1: she gave her Egyptian servant, Hagar, to Abram as a wife.
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  Speaker 1: Hagar conceived and began to despise Sarai. When Sarai mistreated her,
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  Speaker 1: Hagar fled to the wilderness. The Angel of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: found her and told her to return and submit to Sarai,
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  Speaker 1: promising to multiply her offspring. Hagar gave birth to Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: when Abram was eighty six years old. At ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said, I
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  Speaker 1: am God Almighty, walk before me and be blameless. God
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  Speaker 1: changed his name to Abraham, Father of many Nations, and
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  Speaker 1: Sarai's name to Sarah Princess, promising she would bear a son.
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  Speaker 1: He established circumcision as the sign of the covenant, and
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  Speaker 1: all the males in Abraham's household were circumcised. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: later appeared to Abraham near the oaks of Mamray in
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  Speaker 1: the form of three men. Abraham welcomed them with hospitality,
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  Speaker 1: offering water, rest and food. One of them announced, I
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  Speaker 1: will surely return to you this time next year, and
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  Speaker 1: Sarah will have a son. Sarah, listening at the tent entrance,
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  Speaker 1: laughed to herself due to her old age. The Lord asked,
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  Speaker 1: is anything too difficult for the Lord? Before departing, The
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  Speaker 1: Lord revealed to Abraham his plan to destroy Sodom and
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  Speaker 1: Gomorrah due to the gravity of their sin. Abraham interceded,
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  Speaker 1: will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked? If
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  Speaker 1: there are fifty righteous people in the city, will you
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  Speaker 1: still destroy it? The Lord agreed to spare the city
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of fifty righteous people. Abraham continued to negotiate,
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  Speaker 1: reducing the number down to ten, and the Lord agreed
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  Speaker 1: not to destroy the city if he found ten righteous people.
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  Speaker 1: Two angels arrived in Sodom, where Lot welcomed them into
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  Speaker 1: his house. The men of the city surrounded the house,
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  Speaker 1: demanding to know the visitors. Lot offered his daughters instead
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  Speaker 1: of the guests, but the men attempted to break down
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  Speaker 1: the door. The angel struck the men with blindness and
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  Speaker 1: instructed Lot to gather his family and leave the city,
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord had sent them to destroy it. The
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  Speaker 1: next morning, the angels urged Lot to hurry. Since he hesitated,
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  Speaker 1: they took him by the hand, along with his wife
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  Speaker 1: and daughters, and led them out of the city. An
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  Speaker 1: angel said, flee for your life. Do not look back.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord reigned down sulfur and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  Speaker 1: Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar
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  Speaker 1: of salt. Lot and his daughters took refuge in a cave,
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  Speaker 1: believing that no men remained on the earth. The daughters
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  Speaker 1: made their father drunk and lay with him. From these
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  Speaker 1: acts were born Moab from the father and Benami, son
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  Speaker 1: of my people, ancestors of the Moabites and Ammonites. Abraham
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  Speaker 1: moved to Jerah, where he once again said that Sarah
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  Speaker 1: was his sister. King a Bimelech took her, but God
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  Speaker 1: warned him in a dream. A Bimelek returned Sarah to
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  Speaker 1: Abraham and compensated him with gifts. The Lord visited Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: and she conceived and bore Isaac. Laughter in Abraham's old age,
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  Speaker 1: when he was one hundred years old, Sarah said, God
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  Speaker 1: has made me laugh. Every one who hears will laugh
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  Speaker 1: with me. On the day Isaac was weaned, Sarah saw
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  Speaker 1: Ishmael mocking him and asked Abraham to send Hagar and
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  Speaker 1: her son away. Abraham was troubled but God told him
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  Speaker 1: listen to Sarah, for through Isaac, your offspring will be named.
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  Speaker 1: But I will also make a nation of the servant's son.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham sent Hagar away with a skin of water and bread.
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  Speaker 1: When the water ran out, she placed the boy under
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  Speaker 1: a bush and moved away weeping. God heard the boy's cries,
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  Speaker 1: and an angel called to Hagar. Do not be afraid,
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  Speaker 1: for God has heard the boy's voice. I will make
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  Speaker 1: him into a great nation. God opened her eyes and
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  Speaker 1: she saw a well Ishmael grew up in the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: of Paran and became an archer. Later, God tested Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: commanding him, take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom
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  Speaker 1: you love, and go to Mariah offer him as a
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  Speaker 1: burnt offering. Abraham rose early, prepared his you donkey, and
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  Speaker 1: took Isaac and two servants. On the third day, he
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  Speaker 1: saw the place from afar and told the servants wait
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  Speaker 1: here the boy and I will go worship and return.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham placed the wood on Isaac and took the fire
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  Speaker 1: and the knife. On the way, Isaac asked, where is
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  Speaker 1: the lamb for the burnt offering. Abraham replied, God will
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  Speaker 1: provide the lamb. Upon reaching the place, Abraham built an altar,
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  Speaker 1: arranged the wood bound Isaac, and placed him on the altar.
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  Speaker 1: As he stretched out his hand to sacrifice him, the
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  Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord called out, do not lay a
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  Speaker 1: hand on the boy, for now I know that you
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  Speaker 1: fear God, since you have not withheld your only son.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a
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  Speaker 1: thicket and offered it in place of Isaac. The Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord called Abraham again and said, I swear
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  Speaker 1: by myself that because you have done this, I will
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  Speaker 1: bless you and multiply your descendants like the stars in
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  Speaker 1: the sky. Through your offspring, all nations of the earth
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  Speaker 1: will be blessed because you obeyed my voice. Sarah died
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  Speaker 1: at one hundred and twenty seven years old. In Hebron,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite
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  Speaker 1: for four hundred shekels of silver to his wife. This
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  Speaker 1: became the family tomb. Abraham, now old, instructed his senior
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  Speaker 1: servant to find a wife for Isaac among his relatives
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  Speaker 1: in Haran, not among the Canaanites. The servants swore to
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  Speaker 1: do so and departed with ten camels and gifts. Arriving
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  Speaker 1: at a well outside Nahor's city, he prayed, Lord, let
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  Speaker 1: the girl to whom I ask for water and who
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  Speaker 1: offers water to my camels be the chosen one for Isaac.
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  Speaker 1: Before he finished praying, Rebeccah arrived, the daughter of Bethwell,
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  Speaker 1: son of Milka and Nahor, Abraham's brother. The servant asked
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  Speaker 1: for water, and she not only gave him water, but
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  Speaker 1: also offered to water his camels. Recognizing God's answer, the
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  Speaker 1: servant gave her a gold pendant and two bracelets and
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  Speaker 1: asked if there was lodging in her father's house. Rebeccah
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  Speaker 1: led him home and told everything to her brother Laban.
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  Speaker 1: The servant explained his mission to Rebeccah's facs amily, who
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged it as the lord's will. Rebecca agreed to go,
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  Speaker 1: and the servant took her to Isaac. Isaac received her
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  Speaker 1: as his wife, loved her, and was comforted. After his
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  Speaker 1: mother's death, Abraham took another wife, Katura, who bore him
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  Speaker 1: six more sons. However, he gave all that he had
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  Speaker 1: to Isaac, while he gave gifts to the sons of
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  Speaker 1: his concubines and sent them away eastward. Abraham died at
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five years old at a good
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  Speaker 1: old age, full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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  Speaker 1: His sons, Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave
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  Speaker 1: of Machpela. Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebeccah.
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  Speaker 1: Since she was baron, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her,
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  Speaker 1: and she conceived. Feeling a struggle within her womb, she
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  Speaker 1: inquired of the Lord, who answered, two nations are in
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  Speaker 1: your womb. Two peoples will be separated from within you.
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  Speaker 1: One people will be stronger than the other, and the
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  Speaker 1: older will served. The younger twins were born. The first,
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  Speaker 1: red and hairy, was named Esau Harry. The second, who
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  Speaker 1: grasped Esau's heel, was named Jacob Supplanter. Esau became a
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  Speaker 1: skilled hunter and a man of the field, while Jacob
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  Speaker 1: was quiet and lived in tents. Isaac loved Esau for
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  Speaker 1: his taste for game, but Rebeccah loved Jacob. One day,
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  Speaker 1: as Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field. Exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: Esau asked for some of the red stew, and Jacob said,
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  Speaker 1: sell me your birthright now, Esau replied, I'm about to die.
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  Speaker 1: What good is my birthright to me? Jacob made Esau swear,
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  Speaker 1: and he sold his birthright for a bowl of lentils. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: Esau despised his birthright. There was a famine in the land,
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  Speaker 1: and Isaac went to Jarah. The Lord appeared to him
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  Speaker 1: and told him not to go down to Egypt, but
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  Speaker 1: to remain in the land, renewing the promises made to Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Like his father, Isaac said that Rebeccah was his sister,
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  Speaker 1: fearing that he might be killed. When Abimelech saw Isaac
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  Speaker 1: caressing Rebeccah, he realized she was his wife and ordered
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  Speaker 1: his people not to touch them. Isaac sowed in that
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  Speaker 1: land and reaped a hundredfold because the Lord blessed him.
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  Speaker 1: He prospered so much that the Philistines envied him. Abimelech
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  Speaker 1: asked him to leave, so Isaac moved to the valley
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  Speaker 1: of Jerah, where he reopened the wells of Abraham. There
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  Speaker 1: were disputes over several wells until Isaac dug one that
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  Speaker 1: was not contested, naming it Rehoboth Wide Spaces. Eventually, he
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  Speaker 1: went up to be Aesheba, where the Lord appeared to
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  Speaker 1: him and renewed his promises. Isaac built an altar there
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  Speaker 1: and called upon the name of the Lord. At the
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  Speaker 1: age of forty, Esau took two Hittite wives, Judith and Basemath,
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  Speaker 1: who became a source of grief for Isac as Rebeccah.
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  Speaker 1: When Isaac grew old and his eyesight weakened, he called
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  Speaker 1: Esau and asked him to hunt and prepare a tasty
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  Speaker 1: dish so that he could bless him before he died.
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca overheard and instructed Jacob to disguise himself as Esau.
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  Speaker 1: She slaughtered two young goats, prepared a dish the way
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  Speaker 1: Isaac liked, covered Jacob's arms and neck with the skins,
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  Speaker 1: and sent him to his father with the food. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: presented himself as Esau. Isaac was puzzled by the voice,
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  Speaker 1: but when he touched Jacob's arms covered in fur, he
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  Speaker 1: was convinced it was Esau. He ate drank and blessed
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  Speaker 1: Jacob with the dew of heaven, the richness of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: dominion over nations, and supremacy over his brothers. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as Jacob left, Esau arrived with his hunt. When the
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  Speaker 1: deception was discovered, Isaac trembled greatly, but confirmed I have
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  Speaker 1: blessed him, and he will indeed be blessed. Esau or
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  Speaker 1: cried out bitterly for a blessing. Isaac said, your brother
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  Speaker 1: and came deceitfully and took your blessing. Esau exclaimed, isn't
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  Speaker 1: he rightly named Jacob? He has deceived me twice already.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac then told Esau that he would live by the
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  Speaker 1: sword serve his brother, but one day break free from
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  Speaker 1: his yoke. Esau hated Jacob and planned to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: After Isaac's death, Rebeccah sent Jacob to her brother Laban's
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  Speaker 1: house in Haran, until Esau's anger subsided. Thus, Jacob fled
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  Speaker 1: from his father's house, heading to Haran. On his journey
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  Speaker 1: from Beersheba to Haran, Jacob reached a place where he
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  Speaker 1: spent the night. Using a stone as a pillow, he
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  Speaker 1: lay down to sleep. While sleeping, he had an extraordinary dream.
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  Speaker 1: He saw a ladder set on the earth, with its
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  Speaker 1: top reaching the heavens, and the angels of God ascending
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  Speaker 1: and descending on it. At the top stood the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: who said, I am the Lord, the God of Abera,
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  Speaker 1: your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on
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  Speaker 1: which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
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  Speaker 1: Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: spreading westward, eastward, northward, and southward. Through you and your descendants,
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  Speaker 1: all the families of the earth will be blessed. I
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  Speaker 1: am with you and will watch over you wherever you go,
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  Speaker 1: and will bring you back to this land. I will
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  Speaker 1: not leave you until I have fulfilled what I have
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  Speaker 1: promised you. Waking from his sleep, Jacob exclaimed, surely the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is in this place, and I was unaware of it.
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  Speaker 1: Filled with awe, he added, how awesome is this place.
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  Speaker 1: This is none other than the House of God, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the gate of heaven. The next morning, Jacob
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  Speaker 1: took the stone he had used as a pillow, set
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  Speaker 1: it up as a pillar, and poured oil on it.
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  Speaker 1: He called that place Bethel, meaning house of God. There
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  Speaker 1: Jacob made a solemn vow. If God will be with me,
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  Speaker 1: watch over me on this journey, provide me with food
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  Speaker 1: and clothing, and bring me back safely to my father's house,
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  Speaker 1: then the Lord will be my God. This stone that
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  Speaker 1: I have set up as a pillar will be God's house,
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  Speaker 1: and of all that you give me, I will surely
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  Speaker 1: give you a tenth. Continuing his journey, Jacob arrived in
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  Speaker 1: the land of the Eastern peoples. He saw a well
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  Speaker 1: in the field where three flocks of sheep lay resting.
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  Speaker 1: For the well was used to water the flocks. A
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  Speaker 1: large stone covered the mouth of the well, and only
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  Speaker 1: when all the flocks gathered did the shepherds roll the
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  Speaker 1: stone away, water the sheep and replace the stone. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: asked the shepherds, my brothers, where are you from. They replied,
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  Speaker 1: we are from Haran. He asked, do you know Laban,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Nahor? They answered we do. Jacob continued,
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  Speaker 1: is he well? They said yes, yes, and here comes
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  Speaker 1: his daughter Rachel with the sheep. When Rachel arrived with
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  Speaker 1: her father's flock, for she was a shepherdess, Jacob approached,
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  Speaker 1: rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered Laban's sheep.
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  Speaker 1: Then he kissed Rachel, lifted his voice and wept. He
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  Speaker 1: told her that he was Rebeccah's son, her father's sister's son.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel ran to tell Laban, who came running to meet
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  Speaker 1: Jacob embraced him kissed him and brought him to his house.
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  Speaker 1: After Jacob had stayed with Laban for a month, Laban
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  Speaker 1: said to him, because you are my relative, should you
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  Speaker 1: work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages
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  Speaker 1: should be. Laban had two daughters, Leah, the older one,
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  Speaker 1: who had delicate eyes, and Rachel, the younger, who was
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  Speaker 1: beautiful in form and appearance. Jacob loved Rachel and proposed,
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  Speaker 1: I will serve you for seven years for Rachel, your
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  Speaker 1: younger daughter. Laban replied, it is better that I give
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  Speaker 1: her to you than to another man. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, but they seemed
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  Speaker 1: like only a few days to him because of his
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  Speaker 1: love for her. When the seven years were completed, Jacob
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  Speaker 1: said to Laban, give me my wife, for my time
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  Speaker 1: is up and I want to be with her. Laban
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  Speaker 1: gathered all the men of the place and held a feast,
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  Speaker 1: But at night he took his daughter Leah and gave
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  Speaker 1: her to Jacob, and Jacob lay with her. Laban also
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  Speaker 1: gave his servant Zilpah, to Leah as her maid. In
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  Speaker 1: the morning, when Jacob realized it was Lea, he said
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  Speaker 1: to Laban, what have you done to me. Wasn't it
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  Speaker 1: for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?
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  Speaker 1: Laban replied, it is not our custom here to give
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  Speaker 1: the younger before the first born. Complete the week with
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  Speaker 1: this one, and we will also give you the other
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  Speaker 1: in return for another seven years of service. Jake agreed,
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  Speaker 1: completed Lea's bridal week, and Laban gave him his daughter
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  Speaker 1: Rachel as his wife. Laban also gave Rachel his servant
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  Speaker 1: Bill her as her maid. Jacob lay with Rachel as well,
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  Speaker 1: and he loved her more than Lea, and he served
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  Speaker 1: Laban for another seven years. Seeing that Lea was despised,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord opened her womb, but Rachel was baron. Lea conceived,
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  Speaker 1: gave birth to a son and named him Reuben, meaning
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  Speaker 1: behold a son, saying the Lord has seen my affliction.
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  Speaker 1: Now my husband will love me. She conceived again, gave
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  Speaker 1: birth to a son, and said, the Lord heard that
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  Speaker 1: I was despised, and gave me this one also, and
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  Speaker 1: she named him Simeon heard. She conceived yet again, gave
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  Speaker 1: birth to a son, and said, now this time my
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  Speaker 1: husband will be attached to me, because I have given
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  Speaker 1: him three sons. So she named him Levi atached, She
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  Speaker 1: conceived once more, gave birth to another son, and said,
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  Speaker 1: this time I will praise the Lord. So she named
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  Speaker 1: him Judah Praise. Then she stopped having children. Seeing that
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  Speaker 1: she bore no children for Jacob, Rachel envied her sister
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  Speaker 1: and said, give me children or I will die. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: became angry with Rachel and replied, am I in the
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  Speaker 1: place of God who has withheld from you the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the womb. Rachel said, here is my servant, Bilha.
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  Speaker 1: Go to her so that she may give birth on
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  Speaker 1: my knees, and through her, I too may have children.
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  Speaker 1: So Rachel gave her servant, Bilha, to Jacob as a wife,
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  Speaker 1: and he lay with her. Bilha conceived and gave birth
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  Speaker 1: to a son for Jacob. Then Rachel said, God has
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  Speaker 1: judged me, heard my voice, and given me a son.
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  Speaker 1: So she named him Dan Judge Bilhah, Rachel's servant conceived
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  Speaker 1: again and gave birth to a second son for Joe Bacob.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel said, with mighty struggles, I have contended with my sister,
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  Speaker 1: and I have prevailed. So she named him Naftali my struggle.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing that she had stopped bearing children, Leah took her servant, Zilpa,
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  Speaker 1: and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Zilpa, Leah's servant,
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  Speaker 1: bore a son for Jacob. Then Leah said, good fortune
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  Speaker 1: has come, so she named him gad Fortune or good luck. Later, Zilpah,
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  Speaker 1: Lea's servant, bore another son for Jacob. Lea said, how
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  Speaker 1: happy I am. The women will call me blessed, so
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  Speaker 1: she named him Asher happy or blessed. During the wheat harvest,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and brought them
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  Speaker 1: to his mother, Leah. Rachel said to Lea, please give
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  Speaker 1: me some of your son's mandrakes. Leah replied, is it
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  Speaker 1: not enough that you have taken my husband? Will you
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: take my son's mandrakes too. Rachel proposed, very well, he
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  Speaker 1: will sleep with you to night in exchange for your
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: son's mandrakes. When Jacob returned from the fields in the
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  Speaker 1: e evening, Leah went out to meet him and said,
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  Speaker 1: you must sleep with me to night, for I have
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  Speaker 1: hired you with my son's mandrakes. So he lay with
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  Speaker 1: her that night. God listened to Leah and she conceived
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  Speaker 1: and bore Jacob a fifth son. She said, God has
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  Speaker 1: rewarded me because I gave my servant to my husband,
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  Speaker 1: So she named him Isakar reward or wages. Leah conceived
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  Speaker 1: again and bore Jacob a sixth son. She said, God
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  Speaker 1: has given me a good gift. Now my husband will
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  Speaker 1: live with me because I have borne him six sons.
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  Speaker 1: So she named him Zebulun dwelling. After that, she gave
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  Speaker 1: birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. Then God
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  Speaker 1: remembered Rachel, listened to her and opened her womb. She conceived,
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  Speaker 1: gave birth to a son, and said, God has taken
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  Speaker 1: away my disgrace. She named him Joseph. He will add, saying,
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  Speaker 1: may the Lord add to me another son. After Rachel
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  Speaker 1: gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, send me
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  Speaker 1: away so that I may return to my home land.
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  Speaker 1: Give me my wives and my children for whom I
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  Speaker 1: have served you, and let me go. You know the
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  Speaker 1: service I have given you. But Laban said to him,
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  Speaker 1: if I have found favor in your eyes, stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: I have learned by experience that the Lord has blessed
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  Speaker 1: me because of you. He continued, Set your wages and
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  Speaker 1: I will pay them. Jacob replied, you know how I
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: have served you, and how your live stock has fared
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  Speaker 1: with me. What little you had before I came has
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: greatly increased, and the Lord has blessed you because of me.
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  Speaker 1: But now when will I provide for my own household? Laban?
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  Speaker 1: As to what shall I give you, Jacob replied, you
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  Speaker 1: shall give me nothing if you will do this one
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  Speaker 1: thing for me. I will continue to shepherd and guard
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: your flock. To day. I will pass through all your flock,
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  Speaker 1: removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep, every dark
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  Speaker 1: colored lamb, and every speckled and spotted goat. These shall
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: be my wages. My honesty will testify for me in
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: the future when you come to check on my wages.
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  Speaker 1: If you find in my possession any goat that is
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  Speaker 1: not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not
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  Speaker 1: dark colored, it will be counted as stolen. Laban agreed.
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  Speaker 1: Let it be as you have said. That same day,
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  Speaker 1: he removed all the streaked and spotted male goats, all
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: the speckled and spotted female goats, every one that had
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: white on it, and all the dark colored lambs, and
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: placed them in the care of his sons. Then he
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: set a three day journey between himself and Jacob, while
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban's flocks. Jacob, however,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: took fresh cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees
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  Speaker 1: and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white inner wood.
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  Speaker 1: He placed the peeled branches in the watering troughs in
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  Speaker 1: front of the flocks where they came to drink, and
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  Speaker 1: when they drank, they mated. The flocks mated in front
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  Speaker 1: of the branches, and the young they bore were streaked, speckled,
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  Speaker 1: and spotted. Jacob set the young apart from Laban's flock
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  Speaker 1: and made them face the streaked and dark colored animals
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: in Laban's herd. He kept his own flock separate and
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: did not mix them with Laban's flock. Whenever the stronger
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: females were in heat, Jacob placed the branches in the
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  Speaker 1: troughs in front of the flocks so that they would
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: mate near the branches, But if the animals were weak,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: he did not place them there, so the weak ones
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: belonged to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. In
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: this way, Jacob grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own
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  Speaker 1: large flocks, female and male servants, camels, and donkeys. Jacob
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: heard that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken everything
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  Speaker 1: our father owned, and has gained all this wealth from
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: what belonged to our father. Jacob also noticed that Laban's
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: attitude toward him was not as it had been before.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Jacob, return to the land
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  Speaker 1: of your father's and your kindred, and I will be
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: with you. So Jacob sent for Rachel and Lea to
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: come to the field where his flock was, and he
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: said to them, I see that your father's countenance toward
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: me is not as it was before. But the God
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: of my father has been with me. You yourselves know
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: that I have served your father with all my strength.
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  Speaker 1: Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: ten times. However, God did not allow him to harm me.
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  Speaker 1: If he said the speckled one shall be your wages,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: then all the flock bore speckled ones, And if he
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: said the striped ones shall be your wages, then all
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the flock bore striped ones. So God has taken away
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: your father's live stock and given them to me. It
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: happened that at the time when the flock was breeding.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream that
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the male goats mating with the flock were striped, speckled,
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  Speaker 1: and spotted. Then the Angel of God said to me
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: in a dream, lift your eyes and see that all
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: the male goats mating with the flock are striped, speckled,
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  Speaker 1: and spotted. For I have seen all that Laban has
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: done to you. I am the God of Bethel, where
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me.
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  Speaker 1: Now arise, leave this land and return to your native land.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel and Lea answered him. Do we still have any
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: share or inheritance in our father's house? Does he not
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: regard us as foreigners? For he has sold us and
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: consumed all our money. All the wealth that God has
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: taken from our father belongs to us and our children.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: So now do whatever God has told you. Then Jacob
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: arose and set his sons and his wives on camels.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: He took all his live stock and all his possessions
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: that he had acquired in paddan Aram to go to Isaac,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: his father in the land of Canaan. Now Laban had
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: gone to shear his sheep and Rachael stole her father's
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  Speaker 1: household idols Teraphim, and Jacob deceived Laban the Aramian by
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: not telling him that he was fleeing, so he fled
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: with all that he had arose, crossed the Euphrates River
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  Speaker 1: and headed toward the hill country of Gilead. On the
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled, so
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: he took his relatives with him and pursued him for
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: seven days, and he caught up with him in the
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: hill country of Gilead. But that night God appeared to
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Laban the Aramian in a dream and said to him,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: be careful not to say anything to jail Jacob, either
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: good or bad. When Laban reached Jacob, Jacob had already
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: his relatives camped near by. Then Laban said to Jacob,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: what have you done? You have deceived me and carried
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: off my daughters like captives taken in war. Why did
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: you flee secretly and deceive me? Why did you not
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: tell me so that I could have sent you away
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: with joy and with songs, with tambourine and harp. You
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: did not even allow me to kiss my grandchildren and
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: my daughters. Good bye. You have acted foolishly. I have
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the power to harm you. But last night the god
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: of your father said to me, be careful not to
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: say anything to Jacob, either good or bad. Now you
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: have gone away because you longed for your father's house.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: But why did you steal my gods? Jacob answered, I
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: was afraid, for I thought you might take your daughters
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: from me by force. But if you find anyone who
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: has your odds, that person shall not live in the
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: presence of our relatives. See for yourself what is yours
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: among my belongings, and take it now. Jacob did not
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: know that Rachel had stolen them, so Laban went into
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Jacob's tent, then into Lea's tent, and then into the
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: tents of the two female servants, but he found nothing.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: After leaving Lea's tent, he entered Rachel's tent. Now Rachel
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: had taken the household idols and put them in the
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: saddle of the camel and was sitting on them. Laban
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: searched through everything in the tent but found nothing. She
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: said to her father, do not be angry, my lord,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: that I cannot stand up in your presence, for I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: am having my monthly period. So he searched, but did
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: not find the idols. Then Jacob became angry and rebuked Laban, saying,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: what is my transgression? What is my sin that you
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: have so hotly pursued me. You have searched all my belongings.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: What have you found of your household's possessions? Set it
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: here before my relatives and yours, and let them judge
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  Speaker 1: between the two of us. These twenty years, I have
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: been with you. Your sheep and goats have never miscarried,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: I bore the loss myself. You demanded payment from me
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: for anything stolen by day or by night. This was
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: my situation. The heat consumed me in the daytime and
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I have been in your household for twenty years. Fourteen
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: years I worked for you in exchange for your two daughters,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: and six years for your flocks, and you changed my
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: wages ten times. If the God of my father, the
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had not
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: been with me, you would surely have sent me away
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: empty handed. But God has seen my affliction and the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Laban answered Jacob, the daughters are my daughters, The children
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: are my children. The flocks are my flocks. Everything you
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: see is mine. Yet what can I do to day
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: about my daughters or the children they have borne. Now come,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: let us make a covenant, you and I, and let
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: it serve as a witness between us. So Jacob took
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: a stone and set it up as a pillar. Then
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Jacob said to his relatives, gather stones. They took stones
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and piled them up in a heap, and they ate
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: there by the heap Laban called it jagar Sahadutha, and
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Jacob called it Galid. Laban said, this heap is a
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: witness between you and me to day. That is why
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: it was called galid. It was also called mizpah because
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Laban said, may the Lord watch between you and me
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: when we are out of each other's sight. If you
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: mistreat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: even though no one is with us, remember them that
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: God is a witness between you and me. Laban also
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: said to Jacob, here is this heap, and here is
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: this pillar I have set up between you and me.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness.
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  Speaker 1: That I will not go past this heap to harm you,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: and that you will not go past this heap and
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: this pillar to harm me. May the God of Abraham
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: and the God of nahor the God of their father
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: judge between us. So Jacob swore, by the fear of
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: his father Isaac. He offered a sacrifice on the mountain
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: and invited his relatives to eat. After they had eaten,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: they spent the night there. Early the next morning, Laban arose,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: kissed his grandchildren and his daughters, and blessed them. Then
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Laban departed and returned home. Jacob also went on his way,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw them,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: he said, this is God's camp. So he named that
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: place Mahanaim. Jacob sent messengers head of him to his
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: brother Esau, to the land of Sea, the territory of Edom.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: He instructed them, saying, this is what you are to
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: say to my lord Esau. This is what Jacob, your
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: servant says. I have stayed with Laban and remained there
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: until now I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, male and female servants.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: I am sending this message to my lord so that
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: I may find favor in your eyes. The messengers returned
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: to Jacob, saying, we went to your brother Esau, and
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: he is also coming to meet you with four hundred men.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: with him, along with the flocks, herds, and camels, into
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: two groups. He thought, if Esau comes and attacks one group,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: the other group may escape. Jacob prayed, O, God of
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, oh lord
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: who said to me, return to your country and to
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: your relatives, and I will make you prosper. I am
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: unworthy worthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: shown to your servant. I had only my staff when
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two groups.
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  Speaker 1: Save me, I pray from the hand of my brother Esau,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: for I am afraid he will come and attack me,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: and also the mothers with their children. But you said,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I will surely make you prosper, and make your descendants
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: as numerous as the sand of the sea, which cannot
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: be counted that night Jacob stayed there. From what he
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: had with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: ewes and twenty rams, thirty female camels with their young,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: male donkeys. He entrusted them to his servants, each heard separately,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: and instructed them go ahead of me and keep some
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: distance between the herds. He told the first servant, when
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: my brother Esau meets you and asks whose servant are you,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: where are you going? And whose animals are these before you?
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Then you shall say they belong to your servant Jacob.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: It is a gift sent to my lord Esau, and
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: he himself is coming behind us. He gave the same
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: instructions to the second, the third, and all who followed
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: the herds. This is what you are to say to
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Esau when you meet him, and you shall also say
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: your servant Jacob is coming behind us. For he thought,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: I will pacify him with this gift that goes ahead
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: of me, and afterward, when I see him, perhaps he
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: will accept me. So Jacob's gift went on ahead of him,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: but he himself spent that night in the camp. That
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: same night, he got up and took his two wives,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: the ford of the Jabbuk. He took them and sent
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: them across the stream, along with all his possessions. Jacob
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: When the man saw that he could not overpower him,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: hip was wrenched as he wrestled with him. Then the
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: man said, let me go, for the dawn is breaking,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: but Jacob replied, I will not let you go unless
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: you bless me. The man asked him, what is your name? Jacob?
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: He answered. Then the man said, your name will no
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: God and with men and have prevailed. Jacob said, please
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: tell me your name, But he replied, why do you
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: ask my name? Then he blessed him. There Jacob called
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the place Peniel, saying I have seen God face to face,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: and yet my life was spared. The sun rose upon
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: him as he passed Peniel, limping because of his hip
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with four hundred men,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: two female servants. He placed the female servants and their
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: children in front, Leah and her children next to Rachel
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: and Joseph last. Then Jacob himself went on ahead and
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: but Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, threw his
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: arms around his neck, and kissed him, and they wept.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: When Esau looked up and saw the women and children,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: he asked, who are these with you? Jacob answered, these
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: are the children whom God has graciously given your servant.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Then the female servants and their children came forward and
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: bowed down. Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Finally,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down. Esau asked,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: what do you mean by all these herds I met.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Jacob replied, to find favor in the eyes of my lord.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: But Esau said, I have plenty, my brother, Keep what
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: you have for yourself. Jacob insisted, no, if I have
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from my
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: hand for seeing your faces like seeing the face of God.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Now that you have received me favorably, please accept the
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: gift that was brought to you. For God has been
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: gracious to me and I have all I need. And
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it. Then Esau said, let
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: us be on our way, and I will go ahead
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: of you. But Jacob said, my Lord knows that the
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: children are weak, and that I have nursing sheep and
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: cattle with me. If they are driven hard for even
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: one day, all the flocks will die. Let my lord
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: go ahead of his servant. I will proceed slowly at
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the pace of the live stock and the children until
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: I come to my lord in Sere. Eso said, then
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: let me leave some of my men with you, but
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Jacob replied, why do that, Just let me find favor
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: in the eyes of my lord. So that day Esau
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: started back on his way to Seyr, but Jacob traveled
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: to Sukoth, where he built a house for himself and
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: shelters for his live stock. That is why the place
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: was called Sukoth. Jacob arrived safely in the city of
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: Shechem in the land of Canaan after coming from padan Aram,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and he camped near the city. He bought the peace
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: of Land where he had pitched his tent, from the
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: pieces of silver. There he set up an altar and
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: called it El Elohe Israel. At that time, Dinah, the
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: daughter Leir had borne to Jacob, went out to visit
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: the daughters of the land. Shechem, the son of Hamor,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, took her,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: lay with her, and humiliated her. But his heart was
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: to his father Hamore, saying, get me this girl as
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: my wife. When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: live stock, so he kept silent until they returned. Hamour
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: went to speak with Jacob while his sons were returning
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: from the field. When they heard what had happened, Jacob's
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: sons were indignant and furious because Shechem had committed an
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, something that
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: should never have been done. Hammer spoke to them, my son,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Shechem is deeply in love with your daughter. Please give
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: her to him as his wife in to marry with us.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Give us your daughters, and take ours in return. Dwell
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: among us. The land is before you settle in it,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: trade in it, and acquire property. Shechem also pleaded, let
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  Speaker 1: me find favor in your eyes, and I will give
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  Speaker 1: whatever you ask. Set the bride price and gift as
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  Speaker 1: high as you wish. I will pay whatever you demand.
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  Speaker 1: Just give me the girl as my wife. Jacob's sons
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  Speaker 1: answered Shechem and amor deceitfully, for Shekhm had disgraced their
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  Speaker 1: sister Dinah. They said to them, we cannot give our
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  Speaker 1: sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that would
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  Speaker 1: be a disgrace to us. We will only agree on
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  Speaker 1: one condition that you become like us by circumcising every
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  Speaker 1: male among you. Then we will give you our daughters,
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  Speaker 1: take yours in return, dwell among you, and become one people.
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  Speaker 1: But if you do not listen to us and refuse
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  Speaker 1: to be circumcised, we will take our sister and leave.
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  Speaker 1: These words pleased Hamer and Shechem, who wasted no time
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  Speaker 1: in complying. For Shechem loved Jacob's daughter and was the
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  Speaker 1: most respected in his father's household. They went to the
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  Speaker 1: city gate and spoke to their fellow townsmen, persuading them
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  Speaker 1: to accept the proposal all the men of the city
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  Speaker 1: should be circumcised, so that the Israelites could dwell among
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  Speaker 1: them in to marry and share in their wealth. The
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  Speaker 1: men agreed and were all circumcised. On the third day,
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  Speaker 1: when they were in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon
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  Speaker 1: and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, entered the
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  Speaker 1: unsuspecting city and killed every male, including Hamor and Shechem.
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  Speaker 1: They took Dinah from Shechem's house and left. The other
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  Speaker 1: sons of Jacob came upon the dead and plundered the city,
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  Speaker 1: seizing flocks, cattle, donkeys, everything in the city and the fields,
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  Speaker 1: all their wealth, women and children. Jacob said to Simeon
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  Speaker 1: and Levi, you have brought trouble on me, making me
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  Speaker 1: obnoxious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and Perizites.
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  Speaker 1: We are few in number, and if they unite against me,
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  Speaker 1: they will attack and dis destroy me and my household.
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  Speaker 1: But they replied, should he have treated our sister like
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  Speaker 1: a prostitute. God said to Jacob, arise, go up to
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  Speaker 1: Bethel and settle there. Build an altar to the God
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  Speaker 1: who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob said to his household, get rid of the foreign
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  Speaker 1: gods among you, purify yourselves and change your garments. Let
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  Speaker 1: us arise and go to Bethel, where I will build
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  Speaker 1: an altar to the God who answered me in my
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  Speaker 1: distress and was with me wherever I went. They gave
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  Speaker 1: Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the ear
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  Speaker 1: rings from their ears, and he buried them under the
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  Speaker 1: oak tree near Shechem. As they set out, the terror
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  Speaker 1: of God fell upon the surrounding cities, and no one
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  Speaker 1: pursued Jacob's sons. They arrived at Loose, that is Bethel,
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  Speaker 1: in the land of Canaan. There Jacob built an altar
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  Speaker 1: and called the place El Bethel, because God had revealed
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  Speaker 1: himself to him there when he fled from his brother.
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  Speaker 1: During their stay, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried
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  Speaker 1: under an oak below Bethel, which was named Alan Baccuth,
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  Speaker 1: Oak of Weeping. God appeared to Jacob again upon his
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  Speaker 1: return from padan Aram and blessed him. He said, your
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  Speaker 1: name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: Your name will be Israel, and he named him Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Then he said, I am God Almighty, be fruitful and
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  Speaker 1: multiply a nation. Indeed, a multitude of nations will come
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  Speaker 1: from you, and kings will descend from you. The land
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  Speaker 1: I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to
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  Speaker 1: you and to your descendants. After you leaving Bethel, while
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  Speaker 1: still some distance from Ephrath, Rachael went into difficult labor.
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  Speaker 1: Amid her pain. The midwife said to her, do not
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  Speaker 1: be afraid, for you have another son. But as her
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  Speaker 1: life faded away, for she died, she named him Benoni,
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  Speaker 1: son of my sorrow, but his father called him Benjamin,
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  Speaker 1: son of the right hand. Rachel died and was buried
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  Speaker 1: on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. Jacob set
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  Speaker 1: up a pillar over her grave, which stands to this day.
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  Speaker 1: Israel continued his journey and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Iida.
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  Speaker 1: While living in that land, Reuben lay with Bilhah, his
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  Speaker 1: father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Leah Reuben, the first born Simeon Levi, Judah,
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  Speaker 1: Isakar and Zebulun. The sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Bilhah Rachel's maid servant Dan and Naftali.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid servant, Gad and Asher.
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  Speaker 1: These were the sons born to Jacob in Padanaram. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: went to his father Isaac in Mamre, near kyriath Arba,
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  Speaker 1: which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac lived to be one hundred and eighty years old.
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  Speaker 1: He breathed his last, died, and was gathered to his people,
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  Speaker 1: old and full of years. His sons, Esau and Jacob
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  Speaker 1: buried him. Genesis thirty six records the generations of Esau,
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  Speaker 1: who is Edom, and how he settled in Mount Sair,
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  Speaker 1: separating from Jacob because their possessions were too great for
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  Speaker 1: them to dwell together. The chapter details his descendants and
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  Speaker 1: the chiefs that came from him. Jacob settled in the
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  Speaker 1: land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph at the age of seventeen, was tending the flock
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, and
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  Speaker 1: he brought a bad report about them to his father. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he
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  Speaker 1: was the son of his old age, and he made
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  Speaker 1: him a coat of many colors. His brothers, seeing that
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  Speaker 1: their father loved him more than them, hated him and
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  Speaker 1: could not speak peaceably to him. Joseph had a dream
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  Speaker 1: and told it to his brothers, which made them hate
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: him even more. He said to them, listen to this
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: dream I had. We were binding sheaves in the field,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine. His brothers
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  Speaker 1: said to him, will you indeed reign over us? Will
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: you actually rule us? And they hated him even more
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  Speaker 1: because of his dreams and his words. Joseph had another
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  Speaker 1: dream and told it to his brothers. I had yet
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  Speaker 1: another dream, and behold the sun, the moon, and eleven
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  Speaker 1: stars were bowing down before me. He also told his father,
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  Speaker 1: who rebuked him, what kind of dream is this? Shall
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  Speaker 1: I your mother and your brothers indeed come and bow
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  Speaker 1: down to the ground before you. His brothers envied him,
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  Speaker 1: but his father kept the matter in mind. When his
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  Speaker 1: brothers went to pasture their father's flock in Shechem, Israel
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  Speaker 1: sent Joseph to check on them. A man found him
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  Speaker 1: wandering in the field and told him that his brothers
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: had gone to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: found them there, seeing him from a distance. Before he
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: even reached them, they conspired to kill him. They said
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  Speaker 1: to one another, here comes the dreamer. Come, let's kill
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: him and throw him into a cistern. We'll say a
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: wild beast devoured him, and then we'll see what becomes
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  Speaker 1: of his dreams. Reuben, hearing this, tried to rescue him, saying,
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  Speaker 1: let's not take his life. He added, do not shed blood,
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  Speaker 1: throw him into this cistern in the wilderness, but do
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  Speaker 1: not lay a hand on him. He said this to
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  Speaker 1: rescue him and return him to his father. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his robe,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: the multicolored robe he was wearing, and threw him into
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: an air empty cistern with no water. Then they sat
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: down to eat. Lifting their eyes, they saw a caravan
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with their camels loaded with spices,
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  Speaker 1: balm and myrrh, on their way to Egypt. Then Judah
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  Speaker 1: said to his brothers, what prophet is there in killing
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  Speaker 1: our brother, in covering up his blood. Come, let's sell
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  Speaker 1: him to the Ishmaelites. After all, he is our brother,
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  Speaker 1: our own flesh. His brothers agreed. When the Midianite merchants
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: passed by, they pulled Joseph out of the cistern and
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  Speaker 1: sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver,
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  Speaker 1: and they took him to Egypt. When Reuben returned to
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  Speaker 1: the cistern and did not find Joseph there, he tore
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  Speaker 1: his clothes. In despair. He returned to his brothers and said,
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  Speaker 1: the boy is gone, and I where shall I go?
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: They took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a young goat and dipped
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  Speaker 1: the robe in its blood. They sent the multi colored
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: robe to their father, saying, we found this, see if
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  Speaker 1: it is your son's robe. Jacob recognized it and said
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  Speaker 1: it is my son's robe. A wild animal has devoured him.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph has been torn to pieces. He tore his clothes,
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  Speaker 1: put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.
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  Speaker 1: All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but
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  Speaker 1: he refused to be comforted, saying, I will go down
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  Speaker 1: to the grave in mourning for my son, and his
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  Speaker 1: father wept for him. Meanwhile, the Midia Knights sold Joseph
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: of the guard. The Lord was with Joseph, and he
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: became a prosperous man in the house of his Egyptian master.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Seeing that the Lord was with him and made all
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: that he did prosper Potiphar put Joseph in charge of
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: his household and entrusted him with everything he owned. From
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: that moment, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: The Lord's blessing was on everything he had, both in
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: the house and in the field. Potiphar left everything he
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: owned in Joseph's hands, not concerning himself with anything except
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: the food he ate. Now, Joseph was handsome and well built.
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  Speaker 1: After some time, Potiphar's wife began to desire Joseph and said,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: lie with me, but he refused, saying, my master has
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  Speaker 1: entrusted me with everything in this house and does not
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: concern himself with anything. No one is greater in this
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me
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  Speaker 1: except you, because you are his wife. How then could
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I commit such a great evil and sin against God?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: She pursued Joseph day after day, but he refused to
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: listen to her, to lie with her, or even be
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: near her. One day, when he went into the house
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: to do his work and none of the household servants
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: were there, she grabbed his garment and said, lie with me,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: But he left his guard moment in her hands, fled
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  Speaker 1: and ran outside. Seeing that he had left his garment
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: in her hands and had run away, she called the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: men of the house and said, look, this Hebrew man
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  Speaker 1: has been brought here to mock us. He came to
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  Speaker 1: lie with me, but I screamed loudly. When he heard
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: me raise my voice and scream, he left his garment
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: with me and ran outside. She kept Joseph's garment with
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: her until his master came home. Then she told him
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: the same story. The Hebrew servant you brought to us
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: came to dishonor me. But when I raised my voice
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: and screamed. He left his garment with me and ran outside.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: When Potiphar heard his wife's words, he burned with anger.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: He took Joseph and threw him into the prison where
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: the king's prisoners were confined, and there Joseph remained, but
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: the Lord was with Joseph. He showed him kindness and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: The warden put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: and he managed everything that was done there. The warden
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  Speaker 1: did not worry about anything under Joseph's care, because the
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Lord was with him and made everything he did prosper.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: Some time later, the King of Egypts cupbearer and baker
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: offended their master Pharaoh. Pharaoh was angry with his two
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: officials and had them put in the custody of the
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: Captain of the Guard in the prison where Joseph was confined.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: he served them. They remained in custody for some time.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: Both of them had a dream on the same night,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: each with its own interpretation. In the morning, Joseph saw
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: that they were troubled and asked them, why do you
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: look so sad to day. They replied, we have had
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: a dream, but there is no one to interpret it.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Joseph said to them, do not interpretations belong to God.
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  Speaker 1: Please tell me your dreams. The chief cupbearer told his dream,
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  Speaker 1: I dreamed that there was a vine before me. On
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  Speaker 1: the vine were three branches that budded, blossomed, and produced
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: clusters of ripe grapes. I had Pharaoh's cup in my hand,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: so I took the grapes, squeezed them into the cup,
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  Speaker 1: and placed it in Pharaoh's hand. Joseph interpreted, the three
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: branches are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will lift
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  Speaker 1: up your head and restore you to your position, and
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: you will place Pharaoh's cup in his hand, as you
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: used to when you were his cup bearer. But remember me,
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  Speaker 1: when things go well for you, show kindness to me
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  Speaker 1: and mention me to Pharaoh, so that I may be
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: brought out of this place. For indeed, I was stolen
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: have done nothing to be put in this dungeon. Seeing
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: that the interpretation was favorable, the chief baker also told
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: his dream, I dreamed that there were three baskets of
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: white bread on my head. In the top basket were
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh. But the birds
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: were eating the mout of the basket on my head.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Joseph answered, this is the interpretation. The three baskets are
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  Speaker 1: three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will lift up your
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: head by removing it from you and hang you on
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh. On
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, he held a feast for
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: all his servants. He lifted up the head of the
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: chief cupbearer and the chief baker among his servants. He
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: restored the chief cupbearer to his position so that he
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: could once again place the cup in Pharaoh's hand, But
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted. However,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. He forgot about him.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: After two full years, Pharaoh had a dream. He was
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: standing by the river when seven cows, beautiful and fat,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: came up from the river and grazed in the field.
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  Speaker 1: Then seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up after
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: them and stood beside the first ones on the river bank.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: The ugly thin cows ate up the seven fat, healthy cows.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh woke up. He fell asleep again and had
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: a second dream. Seven heads of grain, full and good
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: were growing on a single stalk. After them, seven thin
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: heads of grain, scorched by the east wind sprouted up.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven full,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: healthy heads. Then Pharaoh woke up. It was just a dream.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: In the morning, his spirit was troubled. He sent for
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: them for him. Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: to day, I remember my faults. Pharaoh was angry with
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: his servants, and he put me and the chief baker
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: in custody in the house of the Captain of the Guard.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: We each had a dream the same night, and each
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: dream had its own interpretation. There was a young hebrew
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: man there with us, a servant of the Captain of
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: the God. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: them for us, giving each of us the meaning of
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: his dream. And just as he interpreted, so it happened.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: I was restored to my position, and he was hanged.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: out of the dungeon. He shaved, changed his clothes, and
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: came before Pharaoh. Pharaoh said to him, I had a dream,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: and no one can interpret it. But I have heard
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: it said of you that when you hear a dream,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: you can interpret it. Joseph replied, it is not in me.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace. Pharaoh recounted
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: his dreams to Joseph, and Joseph said, Pharaoh's dreams are
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: one and the same. God has shown Pharaoh what he
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: and the seven good heads of grain are seven years.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: The dream is one. The seven thin and ugly cows
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: that came up after them are seven years, and so
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: are the seven empty heads of grain scorched by the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: east wind. They represent seven years of famine. It is
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: just as I told Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: he is about to do. Seven years of great abundance
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: are coming throughout all the land of Egypt. But after them,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: will be forgotten in Egypt, and the famine will ravage
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: the land. The abundance in the land will not be
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: remembered because of the famine that follows it will be
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: very severe. The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: in two forms is that the matter has been firmly
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: decided by God, and he will do it soon. Therefore,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh should select a discerning and wise man and set
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh appoint overseers
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: over the land and take one fifth of the produce
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. Let them
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: gather all the food from these good years that are
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: coming and store up grain under Pharaoh's authority, keeping it
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  Speaker 1: in the cities for food. This food will serve as
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  Speaker 1: a reserve for the land during the seven years of
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the land
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: will not perish because of the famine. This proposal pleased
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh and all his officials. So Pharaoh asked them, can
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: we find anyone like this man in whom is the
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: spirit of God? Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, since God
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: has made all this known to you, there is no
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: one as discerning and wise as you. You shall be
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: in charge of my house, and all my people shall
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: submit to your orders. Only in regard to the throne,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: will I be greater than you. Pharaoh also said to Joseph,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: see I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: put it on Joseph's hand. He dressed him in fine
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: linen robes and put a gold chain around his neck.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: He had him ride in his second chariot, and men
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: called out before him, bow the knee. Thus he was
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: placed over all the land of Egypt. Pharaoh said to Joseph,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I am Pharaoh, but without your word, no one will
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: lift a hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphanath Panaea, and gave him Asanath,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: daughter of potifera priest Avonn, as his wife. So Joseph
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: went throughout the land of Egypt. Joseph was thirty years
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: old when he entered the service of Pharaoh, King of Egypt.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout Egypt.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: During the seven years of abundance, the land produced plentifully.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: He gathered all the food from the seven years of
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: each city he put the food gathered from the surrounding fields.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: of the sea, so much that he stopped keeping records
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: because it was beyond measure. Before the first year of
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: famine came, Joseph had two sons born to him by Asanath,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: daughter of potifera priest of a. Joseph named the first
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: born Manassah, saying, because God has made me forget all
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: my trouble and all my father's household. The second son
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: he named Ephraim, saying, because God has made me fruitful
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: in the land of my affliction. The seven years of
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: and the seven years of famine began. Just as Joseph
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: had said, there was famine in all the lands, but
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: in the entire land of Egypt there was bread. When
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: the whole land of Egypt began to suffer from hunger,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: the Egyptians, go to Joseph, do whatever he tells you.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: As the famine spread throughout the land, Joseph opened all
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. Because the
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: famine was severe in Egypt, people from all lands came
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: to Egypt to buy from Joseph, for the famine had
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: struck every land. The famine that Joseph had foreseen in
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: his interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams, extended beyond Egypt's borders, reaching
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: the land of Canaan as well. In the face of scarcity,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt and said
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: to his sons, why do you stand around looking at
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: each other. I have heard that there is grain in Egypt.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Go down there and buy some for us, so that
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: we may live and not die. So ten of Joseph's
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: brothers set out for Egypt to buy grain. However, Jacob
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: did not allow Benjamin, Joseph's youngest brother, to go with them,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: fearing that some disaster might befall him. Benjamin was the
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: only remaining son of his beloved Rachel, for Jacob believed
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: Joseph was dead. When the brothers arrived in Egypt, they
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: went directly to Joseph, as he was the governor of
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: the land and in charge of selling grain to everyone.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: As they presented themselves before him. They bowed with their
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: faces to the ground. Joseph immediately recognized his brothers, but
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: they did not recognize him. More than twenty years had passed.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: Joseph was now a mature man, dressed as an Egyptian noble,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: speaking the Egyptian language, and looking completely different from the
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: seventeen year old they had sold. Remembering the dreams he
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: had in his youth about his brothers bowing before him,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: Joseph decided not to reveal himself Immediately, he spoke harshly
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: to them through an interpreter. Where do you come from,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: they answered, from the land of Canaan to buy food.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: Joseph accused them, you are spies. You have come to
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: see the weak points of this land. They protested, No,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: my Lord, your servants have come to buy food. We
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: are all sons of the same man. We are honest men,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: not spies. But Joseph insisted, no, you have come to
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: scout the weak spots of the land. They explained their
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: family situation. We your servants, are twelve brothers, sons of
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: the same man in the land of Canaan. The youngest
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: is now with our father, and one is no longer
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: with us. Joseph responded, it is just as I said.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: You are spies, and this is how you will be
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: tested by Pharaoh's life. You will not leave this place
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: unless your youngest brother comes here. Send one of you
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: to bring your brother, while the rest of you remain imprisoned.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: This will prove whether you are telling the truth. Otherwise,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: by Pharaoh's life, you are surely spies. And he kept
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: them in custody for three days. On the third day,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: Joseph said to them, do this and you will live,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: for I fear God. If you are honest men, let
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: one of your brothers remain in prison while the rest
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: of you take grain to relieve your family's hunger. Then
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: may be verified, and you will not die. They agreed.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: The brothers said to one another, not knowing that Joseph
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: understood them. Surely we are being punished for what we
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: did to our brother. We saw his distress when he
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: pleaded with us, but we did not listen. That is
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: why this trouble has come upon us. Reuben replied, did
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: I not tell you not to sin against the boy?
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: But you did not listen. Now we must account for
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: his blood. Joseph, hearing this, turned away from them and wept.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: When he returned, he took Simeon and had him bound
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: before their eyes. Joseph then ordered that their sacks be
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: filled with grain, that each man's money be secretly returned
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: in his sack, and that they be given provisions for
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: their journey. And so it was done. As they loaded
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: their donkeys with the grain and set off, one of
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: them opened his sack at a resting place to feed
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: his donkey and saw his money at the top of
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: the sack. He said to his brothers, my money has
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: been returned. It is here in my sack. Their hearts
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: sank and trembling, they asked one another, what is this
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: that God has done to us? When they arrived at
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: their father, Jacob's house, they recounted everything that had happened
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: to them, how the governor had spoken harshly to them,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: accused them of being spies, and demanded that they bring
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: Benjamin as proof of their honesty. As they emptied their sacks,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: each of them found his bag of money, and they
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: and their father were terrified. Jacob lamented, you have me
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: of my children. Joseph is no more. Simeon is imprisoned,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Reuben said, you may put my two sons to death
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: him to me, and I will return him. But Jacob refused,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: my son will not go down with you. His brother
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: is dead, and he alone is left to me. If
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: any harm comes to him on the journey, you will
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: bring my gray hairs down to the grave in sorrow. However,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: the famine remained severe in the land. When they had
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, Jacob
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: said to his sons, go back and buy us a
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: little more food. Judah replied. The man warned us solemnly,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: you will not see my face unless your brother is
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: with you. If you send our brother with us, we
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: will go and buy food for you. But if you
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: do not send him, we will not go. Because the
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: man said, you will not see my face unless your
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: brother is with you. Israel asked, why did you bring
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: this trouble upon me by telling the man you had
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: another brother, They replied, the man questioned us closely about
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: ourselves and our family. Is your father still alive? Do
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: you have another brother? We answered? His questions. Truthfully, how
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: could we have known that he would say, bring your
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: brother here? Then Judah said to Israel, let the boy
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: go with me, so that we may go and survive
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: rather than die, we you and our children. I will
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: take full responsibility for him. You may hold me accountable
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: if I do not bring him back I will bear
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: thee blame before you forever. If we had not delayed
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: so long, we could have gone and returned twice by now.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: Israel yielded and said, if it must be so, then
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: do this. Take some of the best products of the
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: land in your bags and offer them as a gift
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: to that man. A little balm, a little honey, spices,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: myrh pistachios, and almonds. Take double the money with you
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: to return what was placed in the mouths of your sacks.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it was a mistake. Also, take your brother and
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: go back to that man. May God Almighty grant you
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: mercy before him, so that he may release your other
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I must lose
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: my children, then so be it. The men took the gifts,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: the double amount of money and Benjamin. They traveled down
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: to Egypt and presented themselves before Joseph. When Joseph saw
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: Benjamin with them, he said, to the steward of his house,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: take these men to my house, slaughter an animal, and
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: prepare a feast, for they will dine with me at noon.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: The steward brought them to Joseph's house, and they became afraid.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: They thought, it is because of the money that was
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: returned in our sacks the first time that we are
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: being brought here to be accused, attacked and taken as
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: slaves along with our donkeys. Approaching the steward, they explained
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: the situation, but the money found in their sacks. The
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: steward replied, peace be with you. Do not be afraid.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Your god, the god of your father, has given you
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: treasure in your sacks. I received your money. Then he
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: brought Simeon out to them. When Joseph arrived, his brothers
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: presented him with the gifts they had brought and bowed
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: before him. Joseph asked how they were, and said, is
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: your old father of whom you spoke well, Is he
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: still alive? They replied, your servant, our father is well.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: He is still alive, and they bowed down in respect.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: Joseph looked up and saw Benjamin, his own mother's son,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: and asked, is this your youngest brother, the one you
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: told me about? Then he said, may God be gracious
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: to you, my son. Deeply moved at the sight of
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: his brother, Joseph hurried out, looking for a place to wei.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: He went into his room and wept there. After washing
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: his face, he came out, controlling himself, and said, serve
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: the meal. They served Joseph separately, his brothers separately, and
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: the Egyptians who ate with him separately, for Egyptians could
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: not eat with Hebrews, as that was detestable to them.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: The brothers were seated before Joseph in order of age,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: from the oldest to the youngest, and they looked at
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: one another in astonishment. Joseph sent them portions from his
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: own table, but Benjamin's portion was five times larger than
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: the others. They drank and feasted with him. Then Joseph
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: ordered the steward of his house. Filled these men's sacks
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: with as much food as they can carry, and put
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: each man's silver in the mouth of his sack. Also
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: place my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: the youngest one's sack, along with his grain money. The
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: steward did as Joseph commanded. At dawn, the men were
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: sent on their way with their donkeys. They had left
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: the city, but had not gone far when Joseph said
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: to his steward, go after those men, and when you
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: catch up with them, say to them, why have you
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: repaid good with evil? Isn't this the cup my master
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: drinks from and uses for divination. What you have done
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: is wrong. When the steward caught up with them, he
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: repeated these words. They responded, why does my lord say
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: such things? Far be it from your servants to do
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: such a thing. The money we found in the mouths
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: of our sacks we brought back from Canaan, Why then
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: would we steal silver or gold from your master's house.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: If any of your servants is found with the cup,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: he will die, and the rest of us will become
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: my lord's slaves. The steward replied, very well, then, let
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: it be as you have said. The one who is
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: found with the cup will become my slave. The rest
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: of you will be free. Each of them quickly lowered
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: his sacked to the ground and opened it. The steward searched,
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. At this they
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: Judah and his brothers went to Joseph's house, where he
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: was still present, and threw themselves to the ground before him.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: Joseph said to them, what have you done? Do you
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: not know that a man like me can surely divine
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: the truth? Judah replied, what can we say to my lord?
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: What can we say? How can we prove our innocence?
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: God has exposed the guilt of your servants. We are
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: now my lord's slaves. We ourselves and the one who
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: was found with the cup. But Joseph said, far be
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: it from me to do such a thing. Only the
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: man who was found with the cup will be my slave.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: The rest of you go back in peace to your father.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: Then Judah stepped forward and said, please, my Lord, let
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: your servants speak word to you. Do not be angry
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. My
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: lord asked his servants, do you have a father or
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: a brother? We answered, we have an old father and
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: a younger brother. The child of his old age. His
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: brother is dead and he alone is left of his
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: mother's children, and his father loves him. Then you said
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: to your servants, bring him down to me, so that
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: I may see him for myself. We told my lord
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: the boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves, his
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: father will die. But you told your servants, unless your
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: youngest brother comes with you, you will not see my
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: face again. When we returned to your servant, our father,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: we told him what my lord had said. Our father said,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: go back and by us a little more food. But
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: we replied, we cannot go down unless our youngest brother
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: goes with us. We cannot see the man's face unless
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: our youngest brother is with us. Then your servant my
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: father said, you know that my wife bore me two sons.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: One of them went away, and I said, surely he
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: has been torn to pieces. I have not seen him since.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: If you take this one too, and harm comes to him,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: you will bring my gray head down to the grave
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: in sorrow. So now, if I return to your servant
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: my father and the boy is not with us, since
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: his life is bound up with the boy's life, when
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: he sees that the boy is not there, he will die.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Your servants will have brought the gray head of our
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: father down to the grave in grief. Moreover, your servant
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: guaranteed the boy's safety to my father, saying, if I
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: do not bring him back, I will bear the blame
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: before my father all my life. Now, therefore, please let
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: For how can I go back to my father if
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: the young man is not with me. I do not
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: want to see the misery that would come upon my father.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: Moved by Judah's heart felt plea, Joseph could no longer
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: restrain himself. He ordered every one who was with him
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: to leave so that no one else was present. When
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: he revealed himself to his brothers, he wept so loudly
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: that the Egyptians heard him, and the news reached Pharaoh's household.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Is my
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: father still alive? But his brothers could not answer him,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: for they were stunned in his presence. Then Joseph said,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: come closer to me. They approached, and he continued, I
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: am Joseph, your brother whom you sold into Egypt. But
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: do not be distressed or angry with yourselves for selling
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: me here, because it was to preserve lives that God
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: sent me ahead of you. For two years now there
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: has been famine in the land, and for the next
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: five years there will be no plowing or harvesting. God
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: said me ahead of you, to preserve a remnant for
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: you on earth, and to save your lives by a
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: great deliverance. So it was not you who sent me here,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: lord of his entire household, and ruler over all Egypt.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: Joseph then instructed them to return quickly to their father
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: and tell him that his son Joseph was alive and
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: was the governor of all Egypt. He urged them to
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  Speaker 1: bring their father to Egypt, where they would live in
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  Speaker 1: the land of Goshen and be provided for during the
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  Speaker 1: remaining five years of famine. Behold your own eyes and
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of my brother Benjamin can see that it
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  Speaker 1: is my own mouth speaking to you. Tell my father
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  Speaker 1: about all the honor I have in Egypt and everything
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  Speaker 1: you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph threw his arms around Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: wept as well, embracing him. Then Joseph kissed all his
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  Speaker 1: brothers and wept over them. After that, his brothers finally
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  Speaker 1: spoke with him reconciled. The news that Joseph's brothers had
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: arrived quickly spread and reached Pharaoh's ears, and he was pleased.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh said to Joseph, tell your brothers, load your animals
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  Speaker 1: and return to the land of Canaan. Bring your father
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  Speaker 1: and your families, and come to me. I will give
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  Speaker 1: you the best of the land of Egypt, and you
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  Speaker 1: will eat from the abundance of the land. Pharaoh also
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  Speaker 1: commanded do this, take carts from Egypt for your children
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  Speaker 1: and your wives, and bring your father here. Do not
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  Speaker 1: worry about your belongings, because the best of all the
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt will be yours. Joseph provided his brothers
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  Speaker 1: with carts as Pharaoh had ordered, and gave them provisions
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  Speaker 1: for their journey. He gave each of them new garments,
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  Speaker 1: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver
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  Speaker 1: and five sets of clothes. To his father, he sent
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  Speaker 1: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt and ten
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  Speaker 1: female donkeys carrying grain, bread and other provisions for the journey.
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  Speaker 1: As he sent his brothers off, he instructed them do
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  Speaker 1: not quarrel on the way. Upon arriving in Canaan, Jacob's
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  Speaker 1: sons told him Joseph is still alive. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: is the governor of all Egypt. Jacob's heart stood still,
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  Speaker 1: for he could not believe them. But when they repeated
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  Speaker 1: all of Joseph's words and he saw the carts Joseph
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  Speaker 1: had sent to carry him, his spirit revived. Then Israel said, enough,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: my son, Joseph is still alive. I will go and
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  Speaker 1: see him before I die. Israel set out with everything
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  Speaker 1: he had and reached Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: the god of his father Isaac. That night, God spoke
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  Speaker 1: to him in a vision. Jacob Jacob he answered, here,
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  Speaker 1: I am God, said, I am God, the God of
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  Speaker 1: your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: for there I will make you into a great nation.
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  Speaker 1: I will go down with you to Egypt, and I
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  Speaker 1: will surely bring you back again, and Joseph will place
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  Speaker 1: his hand on your eyes. This divine message was decisive,
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  Speaker 1: assuring Jacob that moving to Egypt was part of God's
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  Speaker 1: plan and that the promises made to him and his
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  Speaker 1: ancestors would continue to be fulfilled even outside the promised land.
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  Speaker 1: Leaving Beersheba, the sons of Israel took Jacob, their father,
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  Speaker 1: their children, and their wives in the carts Pharaoh had sent.
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  Speaker 1: They also brought their livestock and all the possessions they
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  Speaker 1: had acquired in Canaan. Thus, Jacob entered Egypt with all
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  Speaker 1: his descendants, his sons, grandsons, daughters, and granddaughters. The Book
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: of Genesis meticulously lists all the descendants of Jacob who
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: entered Egypt, the sons of Lea, the sons of Zilpah,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Rachel, and the sons of Bilha. In total,
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: seventy members of Jacob's household arrived in Egypt, including Joseph
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  Speaker 1: and his two sons, who were already there. Jacob sent
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: Judah ahead to Joseph to guide them to Goshen. When
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  Speaker 1: they arrived in the region of Goshen, Joseph prepared his
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  Speaker 1: chariot and went up to meet his father Israel. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as he saw him, he threw himself around his
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  Speaker 1: father's neck and wept for a long time in his arms.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: Israel said to Joseph, now I can die, since I
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  Speaker 1: have seen your face and know that you are still alive.
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  Speaker 1: It was a moment of deep emotion, for twenty two
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: years had passed since Joseph was sold as a slave.
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  Speaker 1: The son whom Jacob had believed to be dead was
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  Speaker 1: not only alive, but held a position of great power
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  Speaker 1: and honor. Joseph then instructed his brothers and his father's household,
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  Speaker 1: I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and say
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  Speaker 1: to him, my brothers and my father's household, who were
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: in the land of Canaan, have come to me. They
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  Speaker 1: are shepherds and keepers of live stock, and they have
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  Speaker 1: brought their flocks, their herds, and everything they own. When
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh calls you and asks what is your occupation, you
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  Speaker 1: shall answer, your servants have been keepers of live stock
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  Speaker 1: from our youth until now, both we and our fathers.
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  Speaker 1: This way you may dwell in the land of Goshen.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph selected five of his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: When Pharaoh asked them about their occupation, they responded as
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: Joseph had instructed, adding that they had come to Egypt
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  Speaker 1: because of the famine in Canaan. Pharaoh said to Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: your father and your brothers have come to you. The
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and
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  Speaker 1: your brothers in the best part of the land. Let
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  Speaker 1: them live in the land of Goshen, and if any
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  Speaker 1: among them are capable, men them in charge of my
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  Speaker 1: live stock. Joseph also presented his father to Pharaoh, and
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: Jacob blessed Pharaoh. When Pharaoh asked Jacob how old he was,
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  Speaker 1: he replied, the e days of my pilgrimage are one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty years. Few and difficult have been the
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  Speaker 1: days of my life, and they have not reached the
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  Speaker 1: years of my ancestors in their days of pilgrimage. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: blessed Pharaoh again and withdrew. Joseph settled his father and
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  Speaker 1: his brothers, giving them property in the best part of
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  Speaker 1: the land, in the region of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
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  Speaker 1: He provided for his father, his brothers, and his fathers
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  Speaker 1: entire household, supplying them with food according to the number
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: of their dependants. The famine was severe, and there was
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: no bread in all the land. Joseph collected all the
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  Speaker 1: money that was in Egypt and Canaan through the sale
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: of grain and deposited it in Pharaoh's treasu. When the
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  Speaker 1: money was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: give us bread. Why should we die before your eyes?
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: Our money is gone. Joseph replied, if your money is gone,
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  Speaker 1: bring me your live stock, and I will give you
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  Speaker 1: bread in exchange for it. So they brought their animals
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: to Joseph, and he gave them bread in exchange for horses, sheep, cattle,
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: and donkeys, sustaining the people that year. The following year
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: they returned and said to Joseph, we cannot hide from
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: my lord that our money is gone, and that our
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  Speaker 1: live stock now belongs to my lord. We have nothing
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  Speaker 1: left before my Lord except our bodies and our land.
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  Speaker 1: Why should we perish before your eyes? We and our
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: land alike. By us and our land in exchange for bread,
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  Speaker 1: and we, along with our land, will become Pharaoh's servants.
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  Speaker 1: Give us seed so that we may live and not die,
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  Speaker 1: and so that the land does not become desolate. So
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  Speaker 1: Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: every Egyptian sold his field. Because the famine was severe
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: upon them, the land became Pharaoh's property, and Joseph moved
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  Speaker 1: the people to the cities, from one end of Egypt's
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: territory to the other. However, he did not buy the
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: land of the priests, for they had an allotment from
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh and lived on the portion Pharaoh gave them. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: said to the people to day, I have bought you
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  Speaker 1: and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: So the land. At harvest time you shall give one
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  Speaker 1: fifth to Pharaoh, and the remaining four parts shall be
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: yours for seed, for the field, for your sustenance, for
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: those in your household, and for feeding your children. They responded,
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  Speaker 1: you have saved our lives. May we find favor in
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: Joseph established it as a law in Egypt, which remains
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: to this day. One fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's property.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Israel lived in Egypt in the land of Goshen. They
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: acquired property, were fruitful, and multiplied greatly. Jacob lived seventeen
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: years in Egypt, reaching the age of one hundred and
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: forty seven years as the time approached for him to die,
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: Israel called for Joseph and said, if I have found
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: favor in your eyes, place your hand under my thigh
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: and promise to deal with me in kindness and faithfulness.
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  Speaker 1: Do not bury me in Egypt when I rest with
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: in their tomb. Joseph answered, I will do as you
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: have said, but Jacob insisted swear to me, and Joseph
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: swore to him. Some time later, Joseph was told your
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: father is ill. He went to visit him, taking with
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  Speaker 1: him his two sons, Manassah and Ephraim. When Jacob was
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: informed that his son Joseph was coming, Israel gathered his
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: strength and sat up in bed. Jacob said to Joseph,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: the Almighty God appeared to me in loose in the
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: land of Canaan and blessed me. He said to me,
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  Speaker 1: I will make you fruitful and multiply you. I will
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  Speaker 1: make you a congregation of peoples, and give this land
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  Speaker 1: to your descendants as an everlasting possession. Now, your two sons,
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  Speaker 1: who were born to you in Egypt before I came here,
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  Speaker 1: are mine. Ephraim and Manassa shall be mine, just as
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: Reuben and Simeon are. But the children you have after
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: them will be yours. They will be called by the
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: name of their brothers in their inheritance. When Israel saw
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: Joseph's sons, he asked, who are these. Joseph replied, they
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: are my sons whom God has given me. Here, Jacob said,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: bring them to me so that I may bless them.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: Israel's eyes were weak with age, and he could barely see.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: Joseph brought his sons near, and Jacob kissed and embraced them.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: Israel said, Joseph, I never expected to see your face again,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: and now God has even allowed me to see your descendants.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: Joseph took his sons from his father's knees and bowed
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: with his face to the ground. Then he took both
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manassa
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: in his left hand toward Israel's right, and brought them
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: close to him. But Israel stretched out his right hand
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: and placed it on Ephraim's head though he was the younger,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: and his left hand on Manassa's head, crossing his hands.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: Even though Manasseh was the first born, he blessed Joseph, saying,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: the God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac walked,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: the God who has been my shepherd all my life
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: to this day, the Angel who has delivered me from
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: all harm. May he bless these boys. May my name
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: and the names of my father's Abraham and Isaac be
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: invoked upon them, and may they grow into a great
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: multitude on the earth. When Joseph saw that his father
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: had placed his right hand on Ephram's head, he was displeased.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: He took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's
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  Speaker 1: head to Manassa's, saying, not so, my father, this one
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  Speaker 1: is the first born. Put your right hand on his head.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: But his father refused, saying I know, my son. I
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: know he too will become a people, and he too
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: will be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: That day he blessed them, saying, through you, Israel will
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: pronounce blessings, saying, may God make you like Ephram and Manasseh.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: Thus he put Ephraim before Manassa. Israel said to Joseph, behold,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: I am about to die, but God will be with
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: you and will bring you back to the land of
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: your father's I give you one portion more than your brother's,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: the one I took from the Amorites with my sword
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: and my bou Jacob called his sons together and said,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: gather around, so that I may tell you what will
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: happen in the days to come. In a prophetic poem,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: he blessed each of his twelve sons for telling the
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: destiny of their tribes. To Reuben the first born, he
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: announced the loss of pre eminence for having defiled his
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: father's bed. To Simeon and Levi, he rebuked their violence
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: and cruelty, declaring that they would be scattered in Israel.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: For Judah, he reserved a special blessing for seeing that
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: the scepter and the staff of command would remain with him.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: He said that Zebulun would dwell by the sea shore.
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  Speaker 1: Issachar would be strong, but would submit to forced labor.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: Dan would judge his people, Gad would be attacked but
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: would counterattack. Asher would enjoy rich food, Naftali would be
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: like a free dear speaking beautiful words. And Joseph would
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: be fruitful and extraordinarily blessed regarding Benjamin, he he prophesied
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: that he would be like a ravenous wolf, devouring the
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: prey in the morning and dividing the spoils in the evening.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: Among all the blessings, Judahs stood out for its messianic significance. Judah,
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  Speaker 1: your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: down before you. Judah is a young lion from the prey,
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: my son, you have gone up. He crouches. He lies
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: down like a lion, and like a lioness who will
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: rouse him. The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: the ruler's staff from between his feet until Shiloh comes,
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  Speaker 1: and to him shall be the obedience of the people's
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: This prophecy foretold that the royal lineage would come from Judah,
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  Speaker 1: and that from it would arise a ruler to whom
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: the nations would submit, a clear reference to the future Messiah. Indeed,
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: centuries later, King David would come from the tribe of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus Christ would be borne from this very royal lineage.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: After blessing each of his sons with the appropriate blessing
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: Jacob instructed them, I am about to be gathered to
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: in the field of Ephron the Hittite. The cave in
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: the field of Machpelah near Mamray in the land of Canaan,
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  Speaker 1: which Abraham brought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial property.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. There, Isaac
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: and his wife Rebecca were buried, and there I buried Lea.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: The field and the cave in it were purchased from
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: the sons of Heth. When Jacob had finished giving these
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: instructions to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: breathed his last, and was gathered to his people. Joseph
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: threw himself upon his father's face, wept over him and
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: kissed him. He then ordered the physicians in his service
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: to embalm his father, and they embalmed Israel. Forty days
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: were required for this, for that is the time needed
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him. Seventy days. After
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's household,
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: if I have found favor in your eyes. Please speak
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh on my behalf. My father made me swear
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: an oath. I am about to die, bury me in
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: my tomb that I dug for myself in the land
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: of Canaan. Now please allow me to go up and
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: bury my father, and then I will return. Pharaoh responded,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: go up and bury your father as he made you swear.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: him went all of Pharaoh's officials, the elders of his household,
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: and all the elders of the land of Egypt, as
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: well as all of Joseph's household, his brothers, and his
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: herds were left in the land of Goshen. Chariots and
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: horsemen also went up with him, forming a very large procession.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, beyond the Jordan,
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: they held a great and solemn mourning ceremony. Joseph observed
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: seven days of mourning for his father. When the inhabitants
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: of the land the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: threshing floor of Atad, they said, this is a solemn
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: mourning for the Egyptians. That is why the place was
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: named Abel Misraim, which is beyond the Jordan. Jacob's sons
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: did as he had commanded them. They carried him to
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had purchased from
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: Efron the Hittite as a burial site near Mamray. After
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: burying their father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: and all who had gone up with him to bury
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: his father. When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: they said, what if Joseph holds a grudge against us
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: and pays us back for all the wrongs we did
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: to him. So they sent word to Joseph, saying, before
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: he died, your father gave this command. Tell Joseph, please
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: they did you wrong. Now please forgive the transgression of
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: the servants of the God of your father. When their
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: message came to him, Joseph wept. His brothers then came
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: and threw themselves before him, saying, we are your servants.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: But Joseph said to them, do not be afraid, am
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: I in the place of God. You intended to harm me,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: But God intended it for good, to accomplish what is
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: now being done, the saving of many lives. So do
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: not be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. Joseph
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: remained in Egypt with his father's household, and he lived
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten years. He saw the children of
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: Ephraim to the third generation. Also, the children of Makir,
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  Speaker 1: son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees. Whencing his
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  Speaker 1: approaching death, Joseph said to his brothers, I am about
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  Speaker 1: to die, but God will surely visit you and bring
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  Speaker 1: you up from this land to the land he promised
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  Speaker 1: on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Joseph made
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites swear an oath saying God will surely visit you,
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  Speaker 1: and you must carry my bones up from this place.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten.
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  Speaker 1: They embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Thus the cycle of the patriarchs came to an end
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  Speaker 1: with God's promise of return to the Promised Land, remaining
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  Speaker 1: alive in the hearts of Israel's people even during their
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  Speaker 1: long stay in Egypt. Joseph's request for his bones to
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  Speaker 1: be taken to Canaan would be fulfilled centuries later, when
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  Speaker 1: Moses carried Joseph's bones during the Exodus Exodus thirteen nineteen
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  Speaker 1: and Joshua finally buried them in Shechem, in the land
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  Speaker 1: Jacob had given to Joseph josh u Are twenty four
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. In this way, Divine Providence orchestrated events to
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  Speaker 1: fulfill his promises, transforming the tragedy of Joseph's sale into
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  Speaker 1: an instrument of salvation for his chosen people, preparing the
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  Speaker 1: stage for the next chapters in Israel's history. There growth
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt, enslavement, the Exodus, and the conquest of the
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  Speaker 1: Promised Land. We have now reached the end of the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Genesis, this incredible journey that took us from
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  Speaker 1: the creation of the world to the establishment of Jacob's
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  Speaker 1: family in Egypt. We have seen how God worked through
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  Speaker 1: imperfect people, fulfilling his promises and revealing his plan of
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  Speaker 1: redemption across generations. From Adam to Joseph, we have witnessed
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  Speaker 1: God's faithfulness even in the most difficult moments. But the
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  Speaker 1: story does not end here. It is only the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the great Biblical narrative that continues in the Book
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