11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He clearly knew he wasn’t an Egyptian. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing…
Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. Remember the killing. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got…
These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. The Lord catching…
400 years have passed since Israel settled in Egypt under the protection of Joseph. Oral tradition would have been passed down, but that only does so much when it’s hard to see past your new circumstances, with a completely new group of people on the scene. There’s a new Pharoah…
22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years 23 and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.[c] The best thing Joseph could hope for at the end…
So Israel set out with all that was his, Remember, he’s going to Egypt to see Jose and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. A reminder that God was faithful to Jacob’s dad too. 2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision…