Bible Study, Faith Sharing, Reflection and Prayer

Fall 2020

1:1-11:26 BEGINNING 11:27-23:20 ABRAHAM

Creation

Fall from Grace

Fratricide

Flood

Babel

The call

Covenant

Ishmael

Covenant /name change

Bargaining with God

Sodom and Gomorrah

Isaac

Testing

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24:1-27-46 ISAAC 28:1- 36:43 JACOB

Rebekah

Twins

Blessing

Deception and escape

Marriage to Leah andRachel

Dinah drama

Theophanies

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Source theory

Yahweh works with the flawed

Yahweh does not participate in revenge and other atrocities

Genesis tries to explain how we became and grew

The P source likes genealogies

God’s covenants are his love letters.

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Joseph is favored

Dreamer -- grain

The brothers’ point of view

Dreamer --stars

Joseph doesn’t read his brothers well

Shechem

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Reuben

Yet he has a plan

The Coat

They eat

Judah

Reuben returns

Uses the coat to explain

They didn’t have to lie

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Who is Tamar?

Is this chapter filler What’s going on

here?

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Who is Tamar?

Is this chapter filler She wear a garment

that is her identity

She takes it off

Judah attempt to do to Tamar what has been done to Joseph

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How many times did we hear about The Lord blessing Joseph?

He is in a home as a slave

He is good looking

Three times he is called to her bed

He’s got a new garment

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Mrs. Potiphar is not too happy and uses xenophobia to hurt Joseph

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And the dreams continue.

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Tension

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The cupbearer (butler) and baker are important

Joseph is resourceful enough to take care of “important” prisoners

Yahweh is with him

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Yet the chief cupbearer did not think of Joseph; he forgot him. (23)

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Two years later

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Two years later

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Interpreter

Yet he gives all the credit to God.

Speaks for his own advancement

Pharaoh gives him the number one spot.

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Joseph is Epyptianized adult

Given a bride

Two children

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Where in your life have you used God to lead you?

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1-16 JOURNEY TO EGYPT

They are ten brother of Joseph

They bow

We are 12 brothers

Then the testing begins Spies

Language

Simeon stays back

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27-38 JOURNEY BACK TO CANAAN

They recount their experiences

They had to bow down to the Egyptian

Edited story telling No jail time

Simeon in chains

Jacob poor me

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43:1—44:2 RETURN TO EGYPT

Famine continues

Returns money and other goodies

The men

Weeping

They eat separately

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THE SECOND JOURNEY TO EGYPT

Silver cup

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THIRD TRIP TO EGYPT

First, they go to Canaan

They must tell the truth

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Migration

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Jacob at Beer-shebahas a theophany

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Jacob meet Pharaoh

How old are you?

What has happened Tricked my brother

Homeless

I was tricked and married

Married my love

Worked 7 years

Had 13 children

Daughter was raped

Son died

Famine

Deception revealed

Migration

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Sometimes we do not know the end of Gods plans until much later like Jacob. Sometimes we do not see it fulfilled in our lives. Do you make your decisions on what God has done or what He has promised to do?

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THE FAMINE PERSISTSTHE FAMILY OF ISRAEL

SHINES

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THE PROMISE

To return his bones to Cannan

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MEMORIES

Bethlehem

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BLESSING

Foreign born Children of an Egyptian mother

Older second to younger

Dim eyes

Promise of the land

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THE BLESSINGS

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The largest medical center in the Middle East, the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center stands on a hilltop several miles from downtown Jerusalem. The center contains a

medical school, nursing school, hospital, dental and pharmacy schools, and various laboratory buildings. The hospital's synagogue contains Chagall's 12 exquisite stained-glass

windows depicting the blessings that Jacob, on his deathbed, bestowed to each of his 12 sons (Genesis 49:1-27). The sons of Jacob became the founders of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

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You, Reuben, my firstborn,

my strength and the first fruit of my vigor,

excelling in rank and excelling in power!

Turbulent as water, you shall no longer excel,

for you climbed into your father’s bed

and defiled my couch to my sorrow. 50

*“Simeon and Levi, brothers indeed,

weapons of violence are their knives.

Let not my person enter their council,

or my honor be joined with their company;

For in their fury they killed men,

at their whim they maimed oxen.

Cursed be their fury so fierce,

and their rage so cruel!

I will scatter them in Jacob,

disperse them throughout Israel.

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*“Simeon and Levi, brothers indeed,

weapons of violence are their knives.

Let not my person enter their council,

or my honor be joined with their company;

For in their fury they killed men,

at their whim they maimed oxen.

Cursed be their fury so fierce,

and their rage so cruel!

I will scatter them in Jacob,

disperse them throughout Israel.

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“You, Judah, shall your brothers praise

—your hand on the neck of your enemies;

the sons of your father shall bow down to you.

Judah is a lion’s cub,

you have grown up on prey, my son.

He crouches, lies down like a lion,

like a lioness—who would dare rouse him?

The scepter shall never depart from Judah,

or the mace from between his feet,

Until tribute comes to him,*

and he receives the people’s obedience.

He tethers his donkey to the vine,

his donkey’s foal to the choicest stem.

In wine he washes his garments,

his robe in the blood of grapes.*

His eyes are darker than wine,

and his teeth are whiter than milk.53

“Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore;

he will be a haven for ships,

and his flank shall rest on Sidon.

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“Issachar is a rawboned donkey,

crouching between the saddlebags.

When he saw how good a settled life was,

and how pleasant the land,

He bent his shoulder to the burden

and became a toiling serf.

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“Dan shall achieve justice for his people

as one of the tribes of Israel.

Let Dan be a serpent by the roadside,

a horned viper by the path,

That bites the horse’s heel,

so that the rider tumbles backward.

“I long for your deliverance, O LORD!

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“Gad shall be raided by raiders,

but he shall raid at their heels.

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“Asher’s produce is rich,

and he shall furnish delicacies for kings.

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“Naphtali is a hind let loose,

which brings forth lovely fawns.

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You, Reuben, my firstborn,

my strength and the first fruit of my vigor,

excelling in rank and excelling in power!

Turbulent as wat “Joseph is a wild colt,

a wild colt by a spring,

wild colts on a hillside.

Harrying him and shooting,

the archers opposed him;

But his bow remained taut,

and his arms were nimble,

By the power of the Mighty One of Jacob,

because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

The God of your father, who helps you,

God Almighty, who blesses you,

With the blessings of the heavens above,

the blessings of the abyss that crouches below,

The blessings of breasts and womb,

the blessings of fresh grain and blossoms,

the blessings of the everlasting mountains,

the delights of the eternal hills.

May they rest on the head of Joseph,

on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

and defiled my couch to my sorrow.

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“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;

mornings he devours the prey,

and evenings he distributes the spoils.”

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Joseph mourns his Father’s death

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Drama, Drama, Drama

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“Do not fear. Can I take the place of God? Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve this present end, the survival of many people. So now, do not fear. I will provide for you and for your children.”

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In the beginning

Dispersion of people

The flood

Lives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

The story of Joseph's career in Egypt

The chosen people

January 13 (Mark 1:1-13)

January 20 (Mark 1:14-9:32)

January 21(Mark 9:33-16:20)

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The New American Bible

Berit Olam Genesis: Cotter, David

Genesis: Viviano, Pauline

Jerome Biblical Commentary, Ed. Brown, Raymond et.al.

The Documentary Hypothesis: BC Resources

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