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Genesis 43
Genesis 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9,10,11,12,13,
14, 15,
16, 17,
18, 19,
20,
21, 22, 23,
24, 25,
26, 27,
28, 29,
30, 31,
32, 33,
34, 35,
36, 37,
38, 39,
40, 41,
42,
43, 44,
45, 46,
47, 48,
49, 50
Genesis 43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought
out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us,
saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us,
Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether
ye had yet a brother?
7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred,
saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him
according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would
say, Bring your brother down?
8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise
and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little
ones.
9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him
not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take
of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a
present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and
almonds:
12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in
the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an
oversight:
13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your
other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and
Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house,
Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me
at noon.
17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's
house.
18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and
they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time
are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and
take us for bondmen, and our asses.
19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with
him at the door of the house,
20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and,
behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full
weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell
who put our money in our sacks.
23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father,
hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon
out unto them.
24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and
they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard
that they should eat bread there.
26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their
hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old
man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.
And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
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Genesis 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream,
and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a
dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven
stars made obeisance to me.
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Compare to = Revelation 12:1 And
there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her
feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
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Eleven stars = the eleven signs of the Zodiac,
Joseph being the twelfth.
29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son,
and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said,
God be gracious unto thee, my son.
30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he
sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on
bread.
32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the
Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might
not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the
Egyptians.
33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the
youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess
was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with
him.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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