Day 13, 14, & 15

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Day thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen

Day 13: Deuteronomy 1:1 - 7:26
Day 14: Deuteronomy 8:1 - 23:25
Day 15: Deuteronomy 24:1 - 34:12


Although modern criticisms maintain that Deuteronomy is of later origin than the previous four books, the unity of the Pentateuch is generally admitted. The fact is that Moses was its author is distinctly declared (31:19) and the NEW TESTAMENT expressly states that it is the work of Moses (Matt 19:7-8, Mark 10:2-9, Act 3:22, 7:37). The style is more emotional and oratorical than the other four books, and its tone is more spiritual and ethical; but this does not argue against the Mosaic authorship. These facts are due to the circumstances, occasion and purpose of the utterances recorded. The account of the death of Moses, of course, was added by another hand, but this doesn’t discredit the Mosaic authorship of the balance of the material.

The crisis facing Israel in the occupation of idolatrous and corrupted Canaan was quite certainly the occasion of these addresses of Moses. Supreme emphasis upon the inflexible and exacting nature of GOD’S Law constituted the purpose. The key to the whole series of instruction is found in Chapter 28 to 30:9

Moses’ farewell message is usually divided on the basis of three addresses, but, topically, seven divisions are better
1) Summary of Israel’s history in the wilderness (1-3)
2) A restatement of the Law with exhortations and warnings (4-11)
3) Sundry Laws and instructions with warnings and predictions (12-27)
4) Significant prophecies summarizing the history of Israel to the Second Advent of CHRIST Embracing the notable covenant (28-30)
5) Farewell counsels to Priests, Levites, and Joshua (31)
6) The song of Moses and the pronouncements of blessings on the Twelve Tribes (32-33)
7) Death of Moses

Asleep In Christ

What on Earth, do those words [1] mean?
Of what precisely, do they make you dream?
Well what they mean, is not that certain
For God has it covered, with a curtain

We know that when, we are asleep
Of reality, we do not weep
And things that in, our dreams we see
Are simply not, reality

God chooses words, so carefully
We must presume, ‘sleep’ means free…
Of seeing what, we’ve left behind
And knowing what, befalls our kind

Our loved one is, in Him asleep
They can no longer, see us weep
They feel no pain, and see no plight
They cause no fear, nor feel a fright

So if you feel, your loved one near
Don’t be so sure, it’s them you hear
The Deceiver wants, to you confuse
Your loved one’s memories, he’ll gladly use

To fool you into thinking he [2]
Can influence you eternally
To have you look, away from God
With familiar spirits [3], he may prod

Your prayers [4] to them, should not be [5]
For God says you ‘should worship Me’ [6]
So tell your God, let Him be
Fully in charge, of you, spiritually

When something good occurs to you
Give God the glory, keep it true
Know His peace and patient be
You’ll meet again, in eternity

See....
[1] 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
[2] He or She, depends on your loved one’s gender
[3] Familiar… As in a form that looks like, or represents, someone we have seen before
[4] Prayers… As in requests or questions
[5] Leviticus 19:31
[6] Luke 4:8

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Halloween and the Forces of Darkness

Halloween and the Forces of Darkness

Where did it all come from? October 31st is a day of ghosts, witches, goblins, and grotesque creatures. It is also a day of orange and black, of candles and jack-o-lanterns. Costume parties and strange customs occupy the minds of western civilization, and all of this seems to be intensifying every year. Children wearing every kind of costume imaginable, and some unimaginable, have been going for door to door for years at the end of October saying “trick or treat” and collecting bags full of treats. In recent years, many people have been decorating their yards as cemeteries and making their houses look spooky. Even churches have Halloween parties and set up “haunted houses” as fund raising projects. Where did it all come from, and what does it all mean? Most people would say it is all harmless fun. Some would venture to say, “If there is any witchcraft in it, it is white witchcraft.” In order to truly answer both of the questions where did it come from and what does it mean, we must go clear back to the origin of it all.

Halloween has its origin in the British Isles about 1300 years ago. In those days, there were many men and women who practiced a so-called “nature religion” known as Wicca. (The word “Wicca” means “wise ones.” The word “witch” is derived from “Wicca.”) The witches worked their spells and magic as individuals or sometimes in groups of 13 known as Covens. Sometimes the witches and wizards worked as a triumvirate or power of three. The female Wiccan was known as a witch, and the male Wiccan was known as a wizard. The word “warlock” was not used by witches to identify themselves. It is actually a Scotch-Gaelic word that means “traitor.” Satanists use the word “warlock.”

The Wiccans were worshippers of the “Earth Mother”, the sun, the moon, and stars. Witches do not believe in Satan. The Wiccans or witches meet every Friday night at a gathering called an “esbat.” They draw a magic circle with a six-pointed star in it called a “hexagram”, from which we get the word “hex.” The coven of 13 stand “sky clad” or naked in the hexagram and work spells by chanting and doing rituals such as “drawing down the moon.” The full moon is sacred to witches, especially if it is on a Friday. It is considered to be even greater if the Friday is the 13th day of the month.

Eight times each year, the witches celebrated a sabat and the ritual work and spell casting was always done on the eve of the sabat. The sabats are Imbolc on February 2nd, the spring equinox on March 22nd, Beltaine on May 1st, the summer solstice on June 22nd, Lugnahsaid on July 31st, the fall equinox on September 22nd, Samhain on October 31st, and the winter solstice on December 22nd, which is also known as Yule.
 

Witches have special ways of celebrating for each sabat, and even though they do not believe in Satan, it is Satan who gives them the experiences they have and deceives them into thinking it is the forces of nature they are tapping into. Halloween is the most important of the eight sabats in witchcraft and is known to the witches by the Scotch-Gaelic word “Samhain”, which is pronounced “SOW-EEN.” It is believed that on that night, the barrier between this world and the next, known as the astral plane, becomes very thin. The witches believe that this allows spirits of departed ones to travel freely back and forth between the earth and the spirit realm. Thus, Halloween is the highest day in Wiccan witchcraft. On that night for many centuries, witches would work their magic and then have wild parties all through the darkness of that night. They would play games, such as bobbing for apples, because witches regard the apple as sacred. The witches would also tell stories from their personal diaries of spells known as their “book of shadows.” These ghost stories would start when the hosting High Priest or Priestess would say, “A witches’ tale and a cup of ale for the host of our guests unseen.”
 

In those early days in England, there was another kind of witchcraft known as Druidism. The Druids were called “men of the oaks” and were a strange clan of men who dressed in white robes. The Druids worshipped Cernnunos, the “horned hunter of the night.“ Halloween was sacred to the Druids because their sun-god receded to the underworld on October 31st, which is why darkness increased and light decreased according to their reckoning.

As darkness set in on October 31st, the clan of Druids would put on their white robes and hoods. They would carry sickles and Celtic crosses as they began a torchlight procession. At the beginning of the procession, a male slave was killed and dragged by a rope fastened to his left ankle. The Druids would walk until they came to a house or a village where they shouted the equivalent of “trick or treat.” The treat was a slave girl or any female to be given to the Druids. If the people refused to a girl as a “treat”, blood was taken from the dead slave and used to draw a hexagram or six-pointed star on the door or wall of the village. Spirits of the “horned hunter of the night” were invoked by the Druids to kill someone in that house or village by fear that night.
 

If the house or village gave a girl as a “treat”, the Druids put a pumpkin with a face carved in it in front of the door or gate of that place. Inside the pumpkin was a candle made of human tallow to keep evil spirits away. Thus, the Jack-O-Lantern was and is a sign that you have cooperated with Satan.

 The treats, or female victims, were taken to Stonehenge where they were raped and killed and then sacrificed on the sacred bonefire until only glowing embers were left. The “bonefire” is the origin of the modern day bonfire. As a matter of luck for winter survival, all villagers were expected to use the glowing embers of the bonefire to light their hearths.

As we can clearly see, Halloween is not harmless. Satan has people in our modern era mimicking the witches and Druids of old. All of this is cursed of God. We live in a time when witchcraft is being revived. Movies are filled with witchcraft and numerous television programs such as “Charmed” are teaching witchcraft to millions. The Harry Potter books are likewise furthering the cause of Satan! Halloween is no joke and is not harmless fun! This evil holiday has no part in the life of a Christian. The Roman Catholic Church borrowed Halloween from the witches, which shows how blind they are. 

May God help you as you read this tract to avoid Halloween and warn others that it is strictly the invention of Satan and can never be anything but evil of the first magnitude! 

Pastor David J. Meyer
(A former astrologer and occultist)

Related Bible Verses:

• Deuteronomy 18:9 –12
• Galatians 5:19 – 21
• Revelation 9:21
• Revelation 21:8

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  WARNING:
The darkness and evil of Halloween persists today. There are "witches workshops," "wicca studies," and "druid training," online.  Watch your curious teenagers and children. Be aware of their location too, as there are many who come up missing this time of the year.

Halloween

Halloween practices, from dressing in costumes to bobbing for apples, were once part of pagan worship. These actions are repeated today by people who are unaware or simply don’t care about their true meaning. 

Some see Halloween as a harmless time of fun and others, a ghastly and demonically inspired night to be avoided. As Christians, we should "test everything." Read your Bible, pray, and get answers.

How did Halloween become part of the current society? Does the history of Halloween matter?

Should it concern us that the customs involved in Halloween were once used to worship demons?

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 – Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Ephesians 5:11 - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Time may have passed, but the origins and true purpose of Halloween remains the same. The history of Halloween as an evil day of Satanic worship can’t be denied. It is an historical fact. Halloween may not seem evil to you, but how do you think the Almighty would view this day?

Christians should sway from such practices and create a distinction in the world. Bible believers have been called to be, “in the world but not of the world.” Some professing Christians who do celebrate holidays such as Halloween are (often) off on other biblical fundamentals. Following apostasy (a standing away from, falling away, abandonment) in any area of Christianity means we are not on the narrow path that leads to eternal life.

Halloween is an excellent opportunity to take a stand for righteousness and be a light to society. Ephesians 5:8 - For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

Some churches openly celebrate this evil day. Others compromise with Halloween alternatives like harvest festivals or Biblical costume parties. New Christian meanings given to ancient pagan practices…. “Christianizing” pagan practices. Is this acceptable to the Almighty? The Savior warns us not to go in the way of the pagans.

Is this allowed by the Scriptures? Pagan practices cannot be transformed into holy deeds. Paganism cannot be redeemed. Paganism can only be avoided.

The truth about Halloween can be found in encyclopedias, internet searches, and even on the History channel television network. This holiday is evil and should be avoided by those who claim to worship the Almighty of the Bible.

1 Corinthians 10:21 - You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.    which will you choose?

Romans 12:2 - Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:9 - Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 - But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.

1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.


Use this Halloween as an opportunity for the Lord Jesus.
". . . The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;"
Matthew 9:37
"And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire. . ."
Jude 1:23

Day 10, 11, & 12

Read the Bible in 90 days..... 
Day ten and day eleven summary.

Day 10 - Numbers 1:1 - Numbers 12:16
Day 11 - Numbers 13:1 - Numbers 24:25
Day 12 - Numbers 25:1 - Numbers 36:13

 Fourth Book of Pentateuch, written by Moses, takes its name from the enumeration of Israel at Sinai and at Moab.
 
The book of Numbers takes up the story of Israel’s journey from Egypt to the border of Canaan where they deflected at Kadesh Barnea and refused to enter the Land of Promise. It then continues with their wanderings in the wilderness for thirty-eight years under the judgement of GOD, until the entire nation twenty years old and older had died, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, and a new generation grew up and was developed. While the book is a history of more than thirty-eight years, comparatively little is recorded of those weary, disciplinary wanderings; the greater portion of the record deals with the happenings of the last year. It brings Israel to Kadesh-Barnea for the second time, then to Moab east of the Jordan.

Numbers begins with a census- hence the book’s name. Fourteen months after the Israelites escape Egypt, they number 603,550 men, not including the Levites. The mass of people, the newly formed nation of Israel, begins a march of approximately two hundred miles to the “promised land” of Canaan- a journey that will take decades to complete. The delay is God’s punishment of the people, who complain about food and water, rebel against Moses, and hesitate to enter Canaan because of powerful people already living there. God decrees that this entire generation will die in the wilderness, leaving the Promised Land to a new generation of more obedient Israelites.

    

 

Day 8 & 9

Read the Bible in 90 days.....
Day eight and day nine summary.

 Day 8 - Leviticus 1 - Leviticus 14 
 Day 9 - Leviticus 15 - Leviticus 27

Leviticus receives its name from the Septuagint (the pre-Christian Greek translation of the OT) and means "relating to the Levites." Its Hebrew title, wayyiqra', is the first word in the Hebrew text of the book and means "And he [i.e., the Lord] called." Although Leviticus does not deal only with the special duties of the Levites, it is so named because it concerns mainly the service of worship at the tabernacle, which was conducted by the priests who were the sons of Aaron, assisted by many from the rest of the tribe of Levi. Exodus gave the directions for building the tabernacle, and now Leviticus gives the laws and regulations for worship there, including instructions on ceremonial cleanness, moral laws, holy days, the sabbath year and the Year of Jubilee. These laws were given, at least for the most part, during the year that Israel camped at Mount Sinai, when God directed Moses in organizing Israel's worship, government and military forces. 



Throughout Leviticus, Israel remains encamped at Mount Sinai while God appears in the Tent of Meeting, dictating to Moses his specifications regarding the Jewish ceremonial laws. The laws are extremely detailed, outlining every aspect of how and when religious offerings are to be presented to God. God gives the instructions himself, and his voice comprises the majority of the text. A brief narrative interlude describes the anointing of Aaron and his sons as Israel’s priests. At the ceremony, God appears and engulfs the altar in a burst of flames, eliciting shouts of joy from the people. Soon after, God also sends fire to consume two of Aaron’s sons when they neglect to make the right preparations for approaching the altar.

God lists various types of forbidden sexual behavior and discusses foods and physical conditions that can make a person unclean. Uncleanliness can result from things such as bodily discharge or touching a dead carcass. An unclean person must leave the Israelite camp or undergo physical cleansing, waiting periods, and religious sacrifices. Typically, sexual sins are punishable by death, but God also instructs the Israelites to kill a man who blasphemes, or curses God’s name. Of all his restrictions, God places particular emphasis on the prohibition against eating meat with blood still in it: doing so will result in banishment, not only from Israel but from God’s graces as well.

In the end, God promises to give Israel great abundance and success if it obeys these laws. If Israel is disobedient, though, God will send destruction and famine and “abhor” the Israelites (26:30). But the laws in Leviticus also set aside an annual Day of Atonement during which the priest is to offer sacrifices for the forgiveness of the entire nation. As long as the Israelites confess and repent for their sins, God promises to keep his covenant and never leave them.

Day 5, 6, and 7

Read the Bible in 90 days.....
  Day five, six, and seven summary.

Day 5 - Exodus 1-15. 
Day 6 - Exodus 16-28.
Day 7 - Exodus 29-40.

The second book of the Bible is Exodus. Exodus is a very powerful story. It is about the rise of the Israelites and watching them become a nation of God's people.


While Genesis explains the origins of the world and of humanity, Exodus is the theological foundation of the Bible. Exodus explains the origins of Torah—the law of the Jewish people and the tradition surrounding that law. Torah is not merely a list of laws, but, rather, the notion of law as a way of life. Indeed, the law exists as a way of life for Moses and his people. Although portions of Exodus are devoted to legal matters, the declaration of law in Exodus always comes in the form of a story, relayed by discussions between God and Moses, and between Moses and the people.

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The Book of Exodus begins more than four hundred years after Joseph, his brothers, and the Pharaoh he once served have died. The new leadership in Egypt—feeling threatened by Jacob’s descendants, who have increased greatly in size — embarks on a campaign to subdue the Israelites, forcing them into slavery and eventually decreeing that all Hebrew boys must be killed at birth in the Nile River. The Hebrew women resist the decree, and one woman opts to save her newborn son by setting him afloat on the river in a papyrus basket. Fortunately, Pharaoh’s daughter discovers the abandoned child and raises him after he has been nursed, naming him Moses. 

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Moses is aware of his Hebrew roots, and, one day, he kills an Egyptian who is beating an Israelite worker. Moses flees in fear to Midian, a town near Sinai, where he meets a priest named Jethro and marries the man’s daughter, beginning a new life as a shepherd. God, however, is concerned for the suffering of the Israelites, and he appears to Moses in the form of a burning bush. God speaks to Moses, informing him of his plan to return the Israelites to Canaan—to “a land flowing with milk and honey” (3:8)—and to send Moses back to Egypt to accomplish this task. Moses is timid and resists, citing his lack of eloquence and abilities, and refuses to go. God is angered but encourages Moses, presenting him with a staff for performing miracles and instructing Moses to take his brother, Aaron, with him as an aid. When Moses asks God what his name is, God replies, “I AM WHO I AM” (3:14).
 

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Moses and Aaron return to Egypt, where Moses organizes the Israelites and confronts the Pharaoh, demanding the release of the Hebrew people. Moses performs a miracle, turning his staff into a snake, but Pharaoh is unimpressed and only increases the workload for the Israelites. God responds by inflicting a series of ten plagues on Egypt. God turns the Nile River into blood, causes frogs to cover Egypt, turns all of the dust in Egypt to gnats, and causes swarms of flies to come into the houses of Pharaoh and his officials. God then strikes Egypt’s livestock with a disease, creates festering boils on humans and animals, and sends thunder, hail, and fire that destroy crops, livestock, and people. God sends swarms of locusts, and covers Egypt with “a darkness that can be felt” (10:21). Before each plague, Moses demands the Israelites’ release, and after each plague, God purposefully “hardens” Pharaoh so that he refuses the request (4:21, 7:22). The tenth and final plague kills all the firstborn males in Egypt. Before the plague, Moses instructs the Hebrew people to cover their door posts in the blood of a sacrificed lamb as a sign for God to protect their homes from his killings. Pharaoh relents and releases the more than 600,000 Israelites who, in turn, plunder the Egyptians’ wealth. Upon leaving, Moses enjoins the Israelites to commemorate this day forever by dedicating their firstborn children to God and by celebrating the festival of Passover, named for God’s protection from the final plague (12:14–43).

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Guided by a pillar of cloud during the day and by fire during the night, Moses and the Israelites head west toward the sea. Pharaoh chases them. The Israelites complain that Moses has taken them to die in the wilderness, and Moses, at God’s bidding, parts the sea for the people to cross. Pharaoh follows and Moses closes the waters back again, drowning the Egyptian army. Witnessing the miracle, the people decide to trust Moses, and they sing a song extolling God as a great but loving warrior. Their optimism is brief, and the people soon begin to worry about the shortage of food and water. God responds by sending the people food from heaven, providing a daily supply of quail and a sweet bread-like substance called manna. The people are required only to obey God’s commandments to enjoy this food. Soon thereafter, the Israelites confront the warring Amalekite people, and God gives the Israelites the power to defeat them. During battle, whenever Moses raises his arms, the Israelites are able to rout their opponents.
 

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Three months after the flight from Egypt, Moses and the Israelites arrive at Mount Sinai, where God appears before them, descending on the mountain in a cloud of thunder and lightning. Moses climbs the mountain, and God gives Moses two stone tablets with ten commandments inscribed on them regarding general, ethical behavior as well as an extended series of laws regarding worship, sacrifices, social justice, and personal property. God explains to Moses that if the people will obey these regulations, he will keep his covenant with Israel and will go with them to retrieve from the Canaanites the land promised to Abraham. Moses descends from the mountain and relates God’s commandments to the people. The people agree to obey, and Moses sprinkles the people with blood as a sign of the covenant. Moses ascends to the mountain again where God gives him more instructions, this time specifying in great detail how to build a portable temple called an ark in which God’s presence will dwell among the Israelites. God also emphasizes the importance of observing the Sabbath day of holy rest. 

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Moses comes down from the mountain after forty days, only to find that Aaron and the Israelites have now erected an idol—a golden calf that they are worshipping in revelry, in direct defiance of the ten commandments. Moses breaks the stone tablets on which God has inscribed the new laws, and God plans to destroy the people. Moses intercedes on the Israelites’ behalf, begging God to relent and to remember his covenant. Pleased with Moses, God is appeased and continues to meet with Moses face to face, “as one speaks to a friend,” in a special tent set aside for worship (33:11). God reaffirms his covenant with Moses, and, fashioning new stone tablets to record his decrees, God declares himself to be a compassionate, loving, and patient God. At Moses’s direction, the Israelites renew their commitment to the covenant by erecting a tabernacle to God according to the exact specifications God has outlined.

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Day 3 and 4

Read the Bible in 90 days.....
Day three and four summary.

Genesis 30: Rachel's maid, Bilhah, had sons for Jacob. Then Leah's maid, Zilpah, had sons. Leah had Jacob's fifth son. Finally Rachel had a son. Laban allowed Jacob flocks as wages to stay.

Genesis 31: The Lord told Jacob to return home. Jacob left in secret and Rachel took Laban's idols. Laban chased Jacob but they made a treaty.

Genesis 32: Jacob heard that Esau was coming to meet him. He was afraid and sent gifts. That night he wrestled with a man who renamed him Israel.

Genesis 33: Esau and his men arrived. Jacob bowed down but Esau ran to embrace him. Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. He bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money, and he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

Genesis 34: Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, raped Jacob and Leah's daughter, Dinah, and then asked to marry her. Jacob's sons told Shechem to circumcise his men, then Simeon and Levi killed them.

 

Genesis 35: Jacob went to Bethel and God renamed him Israel. They journeyed on. Rachel died having Israel's twelfth son. Isaac died in Hebron.

Genesis 36: Esau's sons were Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam and Korah. Esau and his family moved away to Seir. They became the Edomites.

 

Genesis 37:  Joseph was Israel's favorite son. He had dreams and his brothers were jealous so they sold him. He was bought by Potiphar in Egypt.

Genesis 38: Judah's sons Er and Onan died, leaving Tamar a widow. Judah sent her away but she put on a veil and he slept with her. She had twins.

Genesis 39: Potiphar put Joseph in charge of his house. His wife tried to seduce Joseph, then lied about it, so Potiphar put Joseph in prison.

Genesis 40:  Pharaoh put his cupbearer and baker in prison. Joseph interpreted their dreams. The cupbearer was restored but the baker was hanged.

Genesis 41: Pharaoh had a dream and called for Joseph to interpret it. The dream predicted a famine. Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of all Egypt.

Genesis 42: Joseph's brothers went to Egypt to buy grain but didn't recognize him. He kept Simeon in prison and sent the rest to fetch Benjamin.

Genesis 43:  When the grain ran out, Joseph's brothers went back to Egypt with Benjamin. Joseph invited them to his house and gave them a feast.

Genesis 44: Joseph hid his cup in Benjamin's sack, then sent a steward after his brothers. Judah offered himself as a slave instead of Benjamin.

Genesis 45: Joseph told his brothers who he was. They were afraid, but he told them, "God sent me here." His brothers went to fetch their father.

Genesis 46: Israel set out with all his household. God told him not to be afraid. Israel and all his family go to Egypt and Joseph met him.

Genesis 47: Pharaoh allowed Joseph's family to settle in Goshen. The famine continued and the Egyptians sold all they had to Pharaoh for food.

Genesis 48: Jacob became ill, so Joseph took his sons to see him. Jacob blessed Joseph's sons as his own, putting second son, Ephraim, ahead of first born, Manasseh.

Genesis 49:  Jacob gathered his sons and blessed each of them. He charged them to bury him with Abraham in the cave in Canaan, and then he died.

Genesis 50:  Pharaoh allowed Joseph to go and bury Jacob. Before Joseph died, he said that God would lead his people back to the promised land.