All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him. Genesis 49:28 When I was a kid, my dad announced to my brother, my sister, and me that we were going to get a weekly allowance. I…
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The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers. Genesis 49:26 At our Sunday morning jail Bible study recently, one of the…
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The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Genesis 49:10 Addicted to drugs, I once hid my secret life from my wife and when it tore our lives apart, her trust in me…
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Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men . . . Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! Genesis 49:5-7…
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Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power. Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it. Genesis 49:3-4 In my early adulthood, I had this naive belief that I could never…
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Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate. Genesis 47:19 While using opioids, I wanted to be sober. I would stop using for a few days, but…
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When Pharaoh calls you and says, “What is your occupation?” you shall say, “Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,” in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians. Genesis 46:33-34 When I…
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Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. Genesis 46:5 One winter when I was young, a buddy and I set out to make some money after a big snowstorm. We grabbed our…
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And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” Genesis 46:2 I’ve mentioned previously that for me, it was love at first sight when I first met my wife. I simply knew that she was the person with whom I wanted to spend the…
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