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