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Pharoah sent word to summon Joseph quickly from the dungeon, so they shaved his beard, changed his clothes, and then sent him straight to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPrisonersShavingPrisonsAccommodationsChanging ClothesIndividuals RunningClean ClothesKings SummoningPeople Set Free By PeopleEtiquette

Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand, placed it on Joseph's hand, had him clothed in fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

Verse ConceptsFingersNecksequipping, physicalClothingChainsGoldLinenOrnamentsRingsRobesSeals

Then he provided him with a chariot as his second-in-command, outfitted with a group of people who shouted out in front of him, "Bow your knees!" And that's how Pharaoh set Joseph over the entire land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSalutationsBowing Before JosephAuthority Delegated To People

Pharaoh also changed Joseph's name to Zaphenath-paneah and gave Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On, to him as his wife. And that's how Joseph gained authority over the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningChanged NamesPeople Renaming PeopleAuthority Delegated To People

Meanwhile, Joseph continued to be ruler over the land, in charge of selling to everyone in the land. Joseph's brothers appeared and bowed down to him, face down.

Verse ConceptsBowingGovernorsBowing Before Joseph

But Joseph had already recognized his brothers, even though they had not recognized him.

Verse ConceptsRecognising PeopleNot Recognising Peoplevulnerability

When he returned, he spoke with them, but then he took Simeon away from them and had him placed under arrest right in front of them. After this, Joseph gave orders to fill up their sacks with grain, to return each man's money to his own sack, and to supply each of them with provisions for their return journey. All of this was done for them.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyPeople Providing Food

As soon as they had returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

But we told him, "No! We're honest men! We're not spies!

Verse ConceptsSpying

"Feel free to put my own two sons to death," Reuben responded to his father, "if I don't bring him back to you. Trust me I'll bring him back to you."

Verse ConceptsTwo Sons

But Jacob replied, "My son isn't going back with you, since his brother is dead and he's the only one left. If something should harm him as you travel, then it'll be death for me and my sad, gray hair!"

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

But Judah reminded him, "The man distinctly warned us: "You'll never see my face unless your brother comes with you.'

Verse ConceptsNot With People

But if you don't send him, we're not going, because the man told us, "You'll never see my face unless your brother is with you.'"

Verse ConceptsNot With People

I'll even offer myself to guarantee that I'll be responsible for him. If I don't bring him back and present him to you, I'll personally bear the consequences forever.

Verse ConceptsSafetyEternal Evil

The men were terrified as they were being taken to Joseph's palace. "It's because of that money that was returned to our sacks the first time we were brought to him," they reasoned. "He's seeking an excuse to attack us, enslave us, and confiscate our donkeys!"

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

So they approached Joseph's palace manager and talked with him at the palace entrance.

When Joseph arrived at his palace, his brothers brought to him their gifts that they had carried with them and bowed to the ground in front of him.

Verse ConceptsSalutationsBowing Before Joseph

As Joseph looked up and recognized his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother about whom you spoke to me?" And he addressed him directly, "May God be gracious to you, my son."

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessDivine FavourSalutationsThe Youngest ChildSeeing PeopleMothers And Sons

Joseph's staff served him by himself, his brothers separately, and the Egyptian staff members by themselves, because the Egyptians wouldn't take their meal with the Hebrews, since doing so was detestable for the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, PracticesPeople PartingNo DealingsHating Peoples

Then place my cup the silver one in the top of the sack belonging to the youngest one, along with the money he brought to buy grain." So the manager did precisely what Joseph told him to do.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Joseph was waiting for them back at his palace when his brothers returned. They fell to the ground in front of him,

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

But Judah approached him and begged him, "Your Excellency, please allow your servant to speak to you privately. Please don't be angry with your servant, since you are equal to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

and we answered Your Excellency, "We have an aged father and a younger child who was born when he was old. His brother is now dead, so he's the only surviving son of his mother. His father loves him.'

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

"But then you ordered your servants, "Bring him here to me so I can see him for myself.'

Verse ConceptsSeeing People

Later on, after we had gone back to your servant, my father, we told him what Your Excellency had said.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

"But we told him, "We can't go back there. If our youngest brother accompanies us, we'll go back, but we cannot see the man's face again unless our youngest brother accompanies us.'

Verse ConceptsNot With People

One of them left me, so I concluded "I'm certain that he has been torn to pieces," and I haven't seen him since then.

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesNot Seeing People

If you take this one from me, too, and then something harmful happens to him, then it will be death for me and my sad, gray hair!'

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolAfflicted To DeathGrey

Also, your servant pledged his own life as a guarantee of the young man's safety. I told my father, "If I don't bring him back to you, you can blame me forever.'

Verse ConceptsGuaranteeSafetyEternal Evil

At this point, Joseph could not control his emotions any longer, so he cried out to everyone who was standing nearby, "Everybody! Leave me!" As a result, none of his staff was anywhere near him when he revealed himself to his brothers.

Verse ConceptsActing AloneGroups Sent AwayPeople Made KnownIdentity

He cried so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, including Pharaoh's household.

Verse ConceptsIdentity

Joseph blurted out, "I'm Joseph! Is my father really alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, because they had become terrified to be in his presence.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfGuilty FearThis Is MeLiving OnOthers Not AnsweringFear Of IndividualsIdentity

So hurry up, go back to my father, and tell him that his son Joseph tells him, "God has made me master of all of Egypt. Hurry up! Come live with me!'

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPeople Who DelayedHurrying Others On

So go tell my father about all of my splendor in Egypt. Tell him about everything that you've seen. Be quick about it, and bring my father down here!"

Verse ConceptsHurrying Others On

He kissed all of his brothers and wept with them, too, and then his brothers were able to talk with him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingLove to Others, Examples OfConversation

However, as soon as his sons had told him everything Joseph had said, and after he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent along to carry him, their father Jacob's spirit was encouraged.

Verse ConceptsRevival, Personalrevival

"It's enough," Israel replied. "My son Joseph is still alive. I'm going to go see him before I die!"

Verse ConceptsBefore DeathLiving On

They took their livestock and their household property that they had acquired in the land of Canaan and traveled to Egypt. Jacob and all of his descendants went with him

including his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters every one of his descendants accompanied him to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

Joseph's sons born in the land of Egypt were Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On, bore for him.

Verse ConceptsOccupations

Joseph had two sons born to him in Egypt, and all of Jacob's household who went to Egypt numbered 70.

Verse ConceptsSeventiesSeventyTwo Sons

Joseph prepared his chariot and went to meet his father Israel in Goshen. As soon as Jacob appeared in his presence, he embraced him and wept for a long time as he held on to him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingChariotsGreetingsLove, And The WorldChildren, Good KidsChildren, Good Examples OfMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimePreparing To Travel

you are to tell him, "Your servants have been taking care of livestock since we were youths. We and our ancestors have taken care of livestock.' That way, you'll be able to live in the Goshen territory, since shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."

Verse ConceptsAbominationsWork From YouthThose Who Kept StockHating PeoplesStock Keeping

Later, Joseph brought his father Jacob to Pharaoh and introduced him. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsPeople Who Blessed Others

The following year, they came to him and reminded him, "We won't hide from you, your Excellency, that we've spent all of our money, and that our livestock all belong to you. There's nothing left to trade with you, your Excellency, except our bodies and our territories.

Verse ConceptsBodyHerdsLimitations Of The BodyIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodThings Revealed

As the time approached for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and addressed him. "Please," he asked, "if you're happy with me, make a solemn promise that you'll treat me fairly and kindly by not burying me in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsKindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

Some time later, somebody informed Joseph, "Your father is ill!" So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him to visit Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDeathbedsSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfGoing TogetherSick Individuals

Now Israel's eyesight had become poor from age. Because he couldn't see well, Joseph brought them close to him, and Israel kissed them both and embraced them.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingOld Age, DisabilitiesArmsKissingOld Age, Attainment OfVisionDimness Of VisionKissesLimitations Of Old People

But Joseph observed that his father had laid his right hand on Ephraim's head. That displeased him, so he grabbed his father's hand and started to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

Judah is a lion cub. My son, you have gone up from the prey. Crouching like a lion, he lies down, Like a lioness, who would dare rouse him?

Verse ConceptsHuntingLions, Figurative Use OfLionsYoung AnimalVigourCrouchingLike Creatures

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor a ruler's staff from between his feet, until the one comes, who owns them both, and to him will belong the allegiance of nations.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalSceptreStaffUnity, God's Goal OfProphecies Concerning ChristMessianic PropheciesGathered By God

Even though enemies attacked him, shooting at him and pursuing him viciously,

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelBitternessharassment

It took 40 days to complete the process, the normal period required for embalming. Meanwhile, the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days.

Verse ConceptsLossForty DaysMore Than One MonthTwo To Four MonthsPreparation For Burial

At the conclusion of the mourning period, Joseph addressed Pharaoh's household. "If you're satisfied with me, would you please take this message to Pharaoh for me? Tell him,

they carried him to the territory of Canaan and buried him in the cave in Machpelah field near Mamre that Abraham had purchased as a cemetery from Ephron the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsempiresCavesTombsCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahCaves Used As Graves

After he had buried his father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt, along with everyone who had gone with him to attend the burial.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their land

Later, after Joseph's brothers faced the reality of their father's death, they asked themselves, "What happens if Joseph decides to hold a grudge against us? What if he pays us back in full for all the wrong things we did to him?"

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

Joseph wept when they talked to him. So Joseph's brothers went to visit him, fell prostrate in front of him, and declared, "Look! We're your servants."

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

"When you help the Hebrew women give birth," he said, "watch them as they deliver. If it's a son, kill him; but if it's a daughter, let her live."

Verse ConceptsInfantsSuffering, Nature OfInfanticideKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesBirthKilling Israelites

Later, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a beautiful child, and hid him for three months.

Verse ConceptsTwo To Four MonthsPeople Hiding PeopleWomen's Beauty

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus container, coated it with asphalt and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers

Then his sister positioned herself some distance away in order to find out what would happen to him.

Verse ConceptsStanding At A DistanceLooking Intently At PeopleNamed Sisters

When she opened it and saw the child, the little boy suddenly began crying. Filled with compassion for him, she exclaimed, "This is one of the Hebrew children!"

Verse ConceptsCompassion, Examples OfBabiesThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersOthers MourningPeople Showing Mercyempathy

Pharaoh's daughter instructed her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I'll pay you a salary." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Verse ConceptsNursesbaby

After the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, because she said, "I drew him out of the water."

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofMoses, Life OfSonsGrowing UpAdoptionBringing People Out Of Other PlacesPeople With Apt Names

Looking around and seeing no one else, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Verse ConceptsSandInadequate BurialsUnseenLooking And SeeingSand And Gravel

Going out the next day, Moses noticed two Hebrew men fighting right in front of him. He told the one who was at fault, "Why did you strike your companion?"

Verse ConceptsFighting One AnotherTwo Other Men

"Then where is he?" He asked his daughters. "Why did you leave the man behind? Go invite him to have something to eat."

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfInvitationsHospitalityTravellersWhere Are People?

Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, because he used to say, "I became an alien in a foreign land."

Verse ConceptsSojourningReckoned As ForeignersPeople With Apt Names

the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flaming fire from the center of a bush. As Moses continued to watch, amazingly the bush kept on burning, but was not consumed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfAngel of the LordMetaphysicsFireTheophanyGod's Glory RevealedGod, Presence OfGod AppearingNot Destroyed

When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from the center of the bush, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."

Verse ConceptsCalling, Of IndividualsDuplicating WordsThis Is Me

"The elders of Israel will listen to you, and then you and they are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, "The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now, let us take a three-day journey into the desert to sacrifice to the LORD our God.'

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessPaying Attention To People

"What's that in your hand?" the LORD asked him. Moses answered, "A staff."

Verse ConceptsSmall Things God UsesWhat Is This?

Again the LORD told him, "Put your hand into your bosom." He put his hand into his bosom and as soon as he brought it out it was leprous, like snow.

Verse ConceptsSnowMiracles Of Moses And AaronWhite Spots

Then God asked him, "Who gives a person a mouth? Who makes him unable to speak, or deaf, or able to see, or blind, or lame? Is it not I, the LORD?

Verse ConceptsDeafnessdisabilitiesMutenessNatureVisionGod BlindingDumbnessWho Is God?DumbSpeaking With The MouthThe Faculty Of SightBlindness

You're to speak to him and tell him what to say. I'll help both you and him with your speech, and I'll teach both of you what you are to do.

Verse ConceptsGod As Our TeacherGod TeachingGod Will Be With YouSpeaking The Word God Gives

He is to speak to the people for you as your spokesman and you are to act in the role of God for him.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenMen As GodsSpeaking With The Mouth

Moses left and returned to his father-in-law Jethro. Moses told him, "Please let me go and return to my own people in Egypt so I can see whether they're still alive." Jethro told Moses, "Go in peace."

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

And I say to you, "Let my son go so he may serve me. If you refuse to let him go, then I will kill your firstborn son.'"'"

Verse ConceptsFirstbornServanthood, And Worship Of GodDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingWorshipping GodGod Killed The Peoples

But later on, at the lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.

Verse ConceptsInnsOpposition, To Sin And EvilMeeting GodGod KillingStaying TemporarilyGod Killing Individuals

Then the LORD withdrew from him, and she said, ""a bridegroom of blood because of circumcision."

Verse ConceptsCovered With Blood

The LORD told Aaron, "Go meet Moses in the desert." So Aaron went, found him at the mountain of God, and embraced him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingKissesIsrael In The WildernessMeeting People

Moses told Aaron all of the LORD's messages that he had sent with Moses, and all of the signs that he commanded him to do.

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTelling Of God

So Moses returned to the LORD and asked him, "LORD, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why have you sent me here?

Verse ConceptsGod Sending ProphetsGod TroublingWhy Does God Do This?

Then Aaron married Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon. She bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyNamed Sisters

Aaron's son Eleazar married one of Putiel's daughters, and she bore him Phineas. These are the heads of the ancestors of the descendants of Levi, according to their families.

You are to speak everything that I've commanded you, and then your brother Aaron will speak to Pharaoh, telling him to let the Israelis go out of his land.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Position

Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he's going down to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile River and meet him. Be sure to take with you the staff that was turned into a snake.

Verse ConceptsMorningWaitingRodsMeeting PeopleThings Changed

Then say to him, "The LORD God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you. He says, "Let my people go so they may serve me in the desert, but until now you haven't obeyed."'

Verse ConceptsA Feast In The WildernessWorshipping God

he told Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, "This is what the LORD says: "Let my people go so they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsPreaching, Content OfServanthood, And Worship Of GodWorshipping God

The LORD told Moses, "Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he's going down to the water. You are to say to him, "This is what the LORD says: "Let my people go so they can serve me.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationMorningRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping God

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, "This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: "Let my people go so they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsWorshipping GodProblem People

Then the LORD told Moses, "Get up early in the morning, present yourself to Pharaoh, and say to him, "This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: "Let my people go so they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsMorningThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping GodEarly Rising

Moses told him, "When I leave the city I'll spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease and the hail won't continue, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodKnowing God, Nature OfPlaguesPrayer, Practicalities OfProperty, LandStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings StoppingAll Things Belong To God

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, "This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: "How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so they may serveme.

Verse ConceptsHumilityBefore People ActWorshipping GodHumbling Oneself

Then the officials of Pharaoh told him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go so they may serve the LORD their God! Don't you realize yet that Egypt is about to be destroyed?"

Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God