Survey of Genesis

Survey of Genesis Patriarchal History God’s Covenant with Abraham – Descendents in Egypt

Patriarchal History 2560 B.C. Pyramid Khufu Joseph ~2550 B.C. Sphinx

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Prophetic Dreams (37:1-11) • Jacob lived in Canaan • Joseph gives a bad report on his brothers (37:2) • Joseph favored by his father, many colored coat • Joseph's brothers hated him to such an extent they could not speak to him in a friendly manner (37:4) • Joseph's dream of sheaves: his brothers' sheaves bow down to his • Joseph's dream of eleven stars, sun, and moon bow down to him • Brothers hated him even more because of his dreams • Jacob doubted Joseph’s dreams but kept them in mind (37:10-11)

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph Sold into Slavery (37:12-36) • Jacob sends Joseph to check on his brothers at Shechem but finds them in Dothan • Brothers plot to kill Joseph but Ruben convinces them to throw him in a pit with the idea of rescuing him later • The brothers see some Ishmaelite traders so they sell Joseph, at Judah's urging, to them for 20 pieces of silver • The brothers tare up the coat and dip it in animal blood to take to their father • Jacob morns and will not be comforted saying, "go down to sheol in mourning." (37:35) Sheol = death • Joseph is sold to Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh‘s bodyguards

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Judah and Tamar (38:1-30) • Judah takes a wife from the Canaanites, Shua (38:1-4) • Her first son was Er; next two were Onan and Shelah • Judah took a wife for Er, Tamar (38:6-11) • Er did evil and God took him (7) • Onan was to take her for his wife and raise and offspring for his brother but he refused (wasted his seed) • This was displeasing to God and so God took his life (10) • Judah worries about losing his last son so he sends Tamar back to her father until Shelah is of age (probably not intending to keep his promise)

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Tamar tricks Judah to get and offspring (38:12-26) • After Judah's wife dies (12), Judah’s daughter-in-law, Tamar, dresses as a temple prostitute to get pregnant by Judah since he had not given her to Shelah as he promised (13-14) • Judah does not have a goat by which to pay so she asks for his signet ring, cord, and staff as a pledge but could not find her later (15-23) • Three months later Judah is informed that Tamar "has played the harlot” and Judah says she is to be burned(24); • Tamar sends the things she got from Judah and says it is the owner of those things that is the father (25); Judah says she is more righteous than he. He did not keep his agreement with her (26) • The levirate marriage allowed for the father in law to provide the child if the brother in laws did not

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Tamar gives birth (38:27-30) • Twins are born, one sticks his hand out first and they tie a scarlet thread on his finger, Zerah (dawning or brightness) • Perez is the first born (means breach) • Why this story? • Follow the line of Judah to the Messiah, Christ • Follows with Perez (Matt. 1:3)

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph Blessed in Egypt (39:1-41:57) • Joseph in Potiphar's service (39:1-20) • God blesses Joseph and Potiphar's household • Potiphar's wife causes problems • Joseph's response; "How could I do evil and sin against God." (39:9) • Joseph is put in jail

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph stay in prison (39:21-40:23) • God blesses Joseph and the jailer put Joseph in charge of the prisoners • The Lord made everything Joseph did prosper • Pharaoh’s cupbearer's and baker's sent to prison • They had offended Pharaoh • They were under Joseph's care • Joseph interprets the cupbearer's dream

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph stay in prison (39:21-40:23) • Joseph interprets the cupbearer's dream • Vine with three branches, produced grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup • Joseph interprets to mean in three days he will be in his same position • Joseph asks him to remember him to Pharaoh to get him out of prison, sense he had been kidnapped and had done nothing to deserve imprisonment

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph stay in prison (39:21-40:23) • Joseph interprets the baker's dream • Baker noted that Joseph had given the cupbearer a favorable interpretation so he was hopeful for a favorable one also • Three baskets on his head with bread and the birds were eating the baked food from the top basket • Joseph interpreted the three baskets as three days and that pharoah would hang him from a tree and the birds would eat his flesh • Pharoah's birthday three days later what Joseph said came to pass • The cupbearer did not remember Joseph • God works things overtime

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams (41:1-36) • Pharaoh had dreams two full years later (41:1) • Seven fat cows from the Nile eaten by seven skinny cows • Seven plump ears of grain on a single stalk then seven ears of thin scorched by the east wind which swallowed up the seven plump • Pharaoh's spirit was troubled so called his magicians and wise men • Pharaoh told them his dreams but they could not interpret them • The cupbearer remembers Joseph as the interpreter of his dream and the baker's accurately

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams (41:1-36) • Pharaoh calls for Joseph to interpret the dreams • Joseph cleans up, shaves and changes before meeting Pharaoh • Joseph states that the interpretation is from God not himself (16) • Pharaoh repeats his dreams to Joseph • Joseph states they are both the same • God has told Pharaoh what he is about to do (25) • Seven good years of abundant crops followed by seven years of sever famine • Repeating of the dream means God will bring it about quickly

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams (41:1-36) • Joseph's advice to Pharaoh to prepare for the famine • Joseph suggest Pharaoh put a wise and discerning man over Egypt to prepare the land • The man should exact a fifth of the produce from the land in the seven years of abundance • Store the grain and guard it for the years of famine so as not to starve

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph made ruler of Egypt (41:37-57) • Pharaoh notes that since God had informed Joseph of these matters, what better person to oversee the work (39-40) • Joseph made second to Pharaoh over the land of Egypt • Gave Joseph his signet ring, fine linen, and a gold chain around his neck • Joseph rode in the second chariot and people bowed to him • Pharoah named Joseph Zaphenath-paneah (God speaks) • Pharoah gave him the daughter (Asenath) of Potiphera priest of On (Heliapolis?) as his wife

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph made ruler of Egypt (41:37-57) • Joseph's work and family (41:46-52) • Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh • Joseph gather a great deal of grain and stored it near the cities where it was harvested - so much he stopped measuring it • Two sons born to him, Manasseh (making to forget) because God made him to forget his troubles and Ephraim (fruitfulness) because God made him fruitful in the land of his affliction (41:50-52)

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph made ruler of Egypt (41:37-57) • The seven years of famine arrive (41:53-57) • When peoples food ran out they went to Phara0h who sent them to Joseph • They were to do what Joseph said to do • Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to people • People from "all over the earth" came to Egypt

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Events of the first meeting (42:1-38) • Jacob sends all his sons but Benjamin to buy food in Egypt. • Joseph recognizes them as they bow down to him as in his dream • They do not recognize him • Joseph claims they are spies to find the undefended parts of the land • They say they are brothers, sons of one man but the younger brother is at home

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Events of the first meeting (42:1-38) • Joseph says they will stay in prison until one of them goes to bring the youngest brother to prove what they say is true; puts them in prison for three days. After three days Joseph keeps Simeon and sends the others back to bring Benjamin. • Brothers discuss that their problems are due to how the treated their brother, Joseph • One of them finds his money returned in his sack while feeding the donkeys, later all find their money in their sacks of grian • They tell their father, Jacob, what happened in Egypt • Jacob does not want Benjamin to go

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Preparation to go back to Egypt (43:1-15) • After finishing the food from their first trip to Egypt, Israel (Jacob) tells them to go back for more food. • Judah warns him that the man over the food will not see them if they don't take Benjamin. • Judah offers himself a surety for Benjamin &bear the blame • Israel tells them to take double their money back and gifts • They take Benjamin with them to Egypt

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Events of second meeting with Joseph (43:16-34) • Joseph has them taken to his home for a feast which made them afraid because of the money they found in there grain sacks • They bring their worries to Joseph's steward at his house as they are waiting for Joseph • Simeon is brought out to them and Joseph asks them about their father after he arrives for the meal • Joseph sees his younger brother and goes out to weep • They were seated according to their birth which surprised them and Benjamin's portion was five time the others but Joseph eats separate as Egyptian would do when with non-Egyptians

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Joseph frames Benjamin for stealing (44:1-34) • Joseph tells his steward to put their money in their sacks and his silver cup in Benjamin's sack • They left a first light and Joseph tells his steward to pursue them and ask them why they repaid evil for good and stole his cup of divination. He overtakes them and they tell him to search and he finds it in Benjamin's sack • They tore their clothes and returned to the city and bowed down before Joseph in fear • Joseph tells them they have done a bad deed and besides did they not know he "can practice divination." (44:15).

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Joseph frames Benjamin for stealing (44:1-34) • They respond by stating God had found out the iniquity of your servants" and they all are his slave • Joseph says only the one in who's bag the cup was found will be a slave • Judah talks to Joseph and explains that the loss of the youngest son will kill their father because he has already lost and earlier son • Judah asks to stay in place of Benjamin

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Joseph makes his identity known (45:1-8) • Joseph could not contain himself any longer, sent everyone out but his brothers and crying told them who he was • Egyptian overheard the weeping and Pharaoh heard about it • Brothers were very surprised • Joseph tells them not to be grieved or angry with themselves (5-7) • because God sent him before them to preserve life • the famine still has five years to go • to keep them alive by a "great deliverance" • it was not them who sent him to Egypt but God • God made him lord of Pharaoh's household and ruler of Egypt

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Joseph arranges for his family to live in Egypt (45:9-28) • Joseph tells them to go bring their father (Jacob/Israel) and all his clan to live in the land of Goshen as the famine will continue but in Egypt there will be plenty for them • They wept together and talked • Pharaoh offers them wagon from Egypt to use to bring their families as Pharaoh was happy for Joseph • Joseph gives them changes of garment but to Benjamin he gave five changes and 300 pieces of silver

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Joseph's Meets His Brothers (42:1-45:28) • Joseph arranges for his family to live in Egypt (45:9-28) • He gave them ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt for his father and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread • Tells them to go but not to quarrel on the way • Idea may be they are not to accuse each other of past sins • They arrive in Canaan and tell Jacob Joseph is alive and ruler over the land of Egypt • He could hardly believe it but saw the wagon and things that Joseph sent • Jacob plans to go to Egypt

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Israel & Family Settle in Egypt (46:1-47:12) • Israel (Jacob) set out for Egypt (46:1-7) • They leave and arrive at Beersheba and offer a sacrifice (46:1) • God speaks to Jacob in a vision (46:2-4) • Tells him not to be afraid to go to Egypt • He will be made a great nation there • God will go with them and bring them out again • Joseph will close Jacob's eyes • This fulfill what God had told Abraham when He made a covenant with him

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Israel & Family Settle in Egypt (46:1-47:12) • The generations of the sons of Israel (46:8-27) • All the sons of Jacob and their families came. Sixty-six from Canaan and four from Joseph and his family

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Israel & Family Settle in Egypt (46:1-47:12) • Jacob & his family settle in land of Goshen (46:28-47:12) • Jacob sent Judah ahead to point the way to the land of Goshen • Joseph goes out in his chariot to meet his father and family and weeps on meeting his father • Jacob/Israel is happy and ready to die • Joseph says he will tell pharaoh that they have arrived • Joseph tells them to tell Pharaoh their occupation of keepers of the flock • Keepers of the flock is a "loathsome" job

Jacob/Israel and family given the land of Goshen in which to live Jacob’s sons travel to Egyptfrom Hebron and Beersheba, ~ 250 miles Pharaoh settled them in the land of Ramses • Norris, D. T. (1997). Logos Deluxe Map Set. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Israel & Family Settle in Egypt (46:1-47:12) • Jacob & his family settle in land of Goshen (46:28-47:12) • Five brothers presented to Pharaoh and he makes them feel welcomed • Pharaoh asks their occupation. They say shepherds and that the pasture land in Canaan was not good because of the famine • Pharaoh tells Joseph that his family can have the land in Goshen and if there are some capable men, put them in charge of his livestock • Jacob is presented to Pharaoh and blesses Pharaoh at the age of 130 years. They settled in the land of Ramses as Pharaoh ordered and they had enough food according to their little ones (1876 BC) • Separation from Egyptian may have been sought by Joseph because of their idolatry and staying faithful to the covenant

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Outcome of the Famine (47:13-26) • Joseph buys all the land for Pharaoh (47:13-20) • People from Egypt and Canaan spent all their money for food • Next Joseph receives their livestock in pay for food • People give their land and themselves as slaves for food • Joseph sets-up the administration of the land (47:21-26) • Joseph moves the people to the cities • Only the land of the priests were not bought because they lived off an allotment from Pharaoh • Joseph gives them seed for sowing in the land • Statute passed that they had to give 20% of the harvest (tax system)

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Jacob and family in Goshen (47:27-31) • They lived in the land of Goshen and gained property and were fruitful • Jacob lived in Goshen seventeen years and died at age 147 years • Jacob has Joseph swear to not bury him in Egypt but to take his body to his father's burial place

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Jacob blesses Joseph's sons (48:1-22) • Jacob makes Joseph's two sons (Manasseh and Ephraim) who were born before Jacob came to Goshen(adopts them as his own thus land inheritance) • Jacob blesses Manasseh and Ephraim but switches hands and puts his right hand on Ephraim's head but when Joseph tries to stop his father Jacob says the younger shall be greater than the older

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Jacob blesses Joseph's sons (48:1-22) • Jacob asks God’s blessings on Manasseh and Ephraim • God before whom Abraham and Isaac walked • God who has been his shepherd all his life • Angel who has redeemed him from evil • Bless the boys and his name will live through them along with Abraham's and Isaac's • May they grow into a multitude • Jacob know he is about to die and says God will bring them back to the land of their fathers. Joseph receives one more portion than his brothers

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Jacob Blesses His Sons (49:1-27) • Jacob assembles his sons for blessing • Ruben - will not be the leader since he "went up to his father's bed" • Simeon and Levi - slew men in anger so they will be dispersed in Jacob (among the tribes). Due to the killing of those associated with the rape of Dinah. Simeon will receive inheritance in Judah (see Jos. 19:1) • Judah - father's sons will bow down, Judah is a lion's welp (Ez. 19:5-7; Mic. 5:8), scepter will not depart from Judah nor the rulers staff until Shiloh comes (means until he comes to whom it belongs), to him (Jesus) will be the obedience of the peoples. (Shiloh means "rest bringer" per Smith)

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Jacob Blesses His Sons (49:1-27) • Jacob assembles his sons for blessing • Zebulun- will dwell or have access to the seashore • Issachar - strong donkey but lazy and eventually taken as slaves • Dan - Danites introduced idolatry • Gad - raiders shall raid him. East of the Jordan so invaders hit there first • Asher - food shall be rich • Naphtali – gives beautiful words • Joseph - fruitful blessing (Ephriam and Manassah strong & many) • Benjamin - ravenous wolf (warlike)

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Thirteen tribes of Israel (49:28) • Twelve would receive land • Levi would receive cities within the various tribes • Jacob/Israel’s Death and burial (49:29-50:14) • Jacob charges them to bury him at the cave at Machpelah where Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Leah were buried • Jacob dies and Joseph has him embalmed which takes forty days • Mourning was for seventy days • Joseph gets permission from Pharaoh to take Jacobs body back to Canaan • Servant of Pharaoh, elders of his household with chariots and horsemen went with them to bury Jacob and mourned for seven days

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Concerns of Joseph's Brothers (50:15-21) • Joseph's brother tell him that Jacob requested he not harm them for how they treated him • They come before him offering to be his servants • Joseph tells them not to fearas what they meant for evil God meant for good bring the present results and preserve the people • Joseph says he will provide for them and treated them kindly

Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History • Joseph (37:1-50:26) • Death of Joseph (50:22-26) • Joseph live to a 110 years • Held office for 80 years • Seventeen when taken to Egypt • Became Prime Minister at ager 30 • He saw the third generation of Ephraim's sons • Joseph tells his brothers that God will keep his promise and return them to Canaan • Joseph makes them promise to take his bones with them • He was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt

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