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circa 1900–1700 BC

Jacob, Joseph & Egypt

Jacob wrestles with God and becomes Israel; Joseph is sold into slavery yet rises to save the world from famine.

840 verses · 1 book covered

Verses from This Period

  1. Genesis 50:12c. 1689 BC

    And his sons do to him so as he commanded them,

  2. Genesis 50:13c. 1689 BC

    and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre.

  3. Genesis 50:14c. 1689 BC

    And Joseph turneth back to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father.

  4. Genesis 50:15c. 1689 BC

    And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, `Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.'

  5. Genesis 50:16c. 1689 BC

    And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, `Thy father commanded before his death, saying,

  6. Genesis 50:17c. 1689 BC

    Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him.

  7. Genesis 50:18c. 1689 BC

    And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we are to thee for servants.'

  8. Genesis 50:19c. 1689 BC

    And Joseph saith unto them, `Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

  9. Genesis 50:20c. 1689 BC

    As for you, ye devised against me evil--God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

  10. Genesis 50:21c. 1689 BC

    and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.

  11. Genesis 50:22c. 1689 BC

    And Joseph dwelleth in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph liveth a hundred and ten years,

  12. Genesis 50:23c. 1689 BC

    and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third generation ; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.

  13. Genesis 50:24c. 1689 BC

    And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'

  14. Genesis 50:25c. 1689 BC

    And Joseph causeth the sons of Israel to swear, saying, `God doth certainly inspect you, and ye have brought up my bones from this place .'

  15. Genesis 50:26c. 1689 BC

    And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.