“Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and left his presence.” -Genesis 47:10 After Joseph presents five of his brothers to Pharaoh, he then introduces his father Jacob to Pharaoh. What happens next is both interesting and odd. Jacob blesses Pharaoh. Now this may seem strange. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Isn’t this a reversal of […]

“They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”-Genesis 47:4 Genesis Chapter 47 is a treasure trove of spiritual principles […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 47. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here.  “He took five of his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.” -Genesis 47:2 At the close of the last chapter, we witnessed Joseph reunite with his father Jacob after 22 years in a scene that […]

 “The sons of Joseph, born to him in Egypt, were two in number. Thus all the people in Jacob’s family who entered Egypt numbered seventy.“-Genesis 46:27 There is something important you need to know about numbers in Hebrew literature. In the Bible, numbers can be both precise and symbolic. For example, we are told in […]

Let’s face it. Whenever we come to the genealogy portions in our Bibles, we tend to do one of the following. Skip over the whole darn thing. Quickly gloss over them like we do with the fine print on a credit card application. Or read them as a substitute for sleeping pills. However, we shouldn’t […]