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Genesis 47: Settling In
Joseph’s family moved to the land of Goshen, the Nile Delta. Joseph brought five of his brothers to Pharaoh and presented them. The Pharaoh agreed to them living in the land of Rameses and offered them jobs tending his royal flocks. Joseph also presented his father Israel who was 130 and said his days were…
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Genesis 41: Pharaoh’s Famine
Two whole years layer, the Pharaoh has a series of distressing dreams. In the first, seven attractive, plump cows come out of the Nile river followed by seven ugly, thin ones. The thin ones devour the plump ones. In the second dream, Pharaoh sees seven ears of grain growing from a stalk, followed by seven…
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Genesis 40: Grape & Grain
Joseph has now been in prison for a while. What’s a while? Five weeks? Five months? Something happens in the palace and Pharaoh angrily tosses two of his inner circle into prison: his chief baker and royal cup bearer. Did someone in the palace get food poisoning? The head of the prisoners, assigns Joseph to…
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Genesis 36: Everybody’s Kids
In Genesis 35:23-26 there is a summary of all the male children from Israel organized by mother starting with the sisters. Leah had Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. Rachel had Joseph and Benjamin. The servant Bilhah had Dan and Naphtali, and Zilpha had Gad and Asher for a total of twelve sons. Genesis…
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90s Summers
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Genesis 15: Dreams & Visions
Abram has a vision of God saying, “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” Instead of just accepting this, Abram questions God about his childlessness. He doesn’t understand how the promise of having countless descendants can be fulfilled without even having one kid. What gives? Now that his nephew Lot…
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Genesis 10: Nations
This chapter goes through the genealogies of the three sons of Noah. There are a 70 names listed, and several of them are the names of tribes and nations that later pop up in the Bible times and still today. Japheth has seven sons listed and of those sons, seven significant grandsons are also listed.…
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Genesis 5: Generations
This chapter repeats the part about God creating man, the word adam meaning of earth, “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.” Genesis 5:2 Then it says Adam lived another 800 years after Seth was born and had more daughters and sons. After Seth…
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Foreign War and Family Lore
Two weeks ago, Tim and I used the special computer down at the Brookwood Library that is dedicated to ancestry to search our family tree. Having a common last name like Adams makes it pretty challenging to search up at Tim’s family tree because there are literally hundreds of Adams, Adamses?, dotting the East Coast.…