Thursday, September 1, 2011

day 17 - Bible in a Year

today's reading: GENESIS 45:16-47:27

thoughts:

  • this footnote was interesting to me ( and reflects the information I realized while reading) Genesis 46:21 Benjamin, whom uninformed artists have frequently pictured as a mere youth when he met Joseph in Egypt, was in fact the father of 10 sons at this time. Joseph was 17 when his brothers sold him; he was in prison 13 years; he had been governor of Egypt during the 7 good years and through 2 years of the famine. So Joseph was 39 years of age at this time, and Benjamin was only a few years younger.
  • I also liked this information in another footnote Genesis 47:9 Abraham, Jacob's grandfather, had lived to be 175 years old; Isaac, his father, lived to be 180. Jacob lived seventeen years after making this statement to Pharaoh, in which time he had an opportunity to get a much more optimistic view of God's treatment of him. He died at 147, having said, "The redeeming Angel... has redeemed me continually from every evil" (Gen. 48:16).

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