WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.970 Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.083 --> 00:00:03.773 Day 100 00:00:04.130 --> 00:00:08.810 as they neared their destination, Jacob sent Judah ahead to meet Joseph and 00:00:08.810 --> 00:00:12.980 get directions to the region of Goshen, and when they finally arrived there, 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:17.240 Joseph prepared his chariot and traveled to Goshen to meet his father Jacob. 00:00:18.170 --> 00:00:21.620 When Joseph arrived, he embraced his father and wept, 00:00:22.220 --> 00:00:24.050 holding him for a long time. 00:00:24.830 --> 00:00:30.170 Finally, Jacob said to Joseph, Now I am ready to die since I have seen your 00:00:30.170 --> 00:00:33.080 face again and know you are still alive. 00:00:34.370 --> 00:00:38.750 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's entire family, I will go 00:00:38.750 --> 00:00:43.370 to Pharaoh and tell him, my brothers and my father's entire family have 00:00:43.370 --> 00:00:45.710 come to me from the land of Canaan. 00:00:46.430 --> 00:00:49.250 These men are shepherds and they raise livestock. 00:00:49.730 --> 00:00:53.630 They have brought with them their flocks and herds and everything they own. 00:00:54.260 --> 00:00:58.490 Then he said, when Pharaoh calls for you and asks you about your occupation, 00:00:58.790 --> 00:01:04.070 you must tell him we, your servants have raised livestock all our lives, 00:01:04.310 --> 00:01:06.290 as our ancestors have always done. 00:01:06.890 --> 00:01:10.370 When you tell him this, he will let you live here in the region of Goshen 00:01:10.820 --> 00:01:12.800 for the Egyptians despise shepherds. 00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:18.170 Then Joseph went to see Pharaoh and told him, my father and my brothers 00:01:18.170 --> 00:01:19.820 have arrived from the land of Canaan. 00:01:20.645 --> 00:01:24.515 They have come with all their flocks and herds and possessions, and they 00:01:24.515 --> 00:01:26.045 are now in the region of Goshen. 00:01:27.215 --> 00:01:30.035 Joseph took five of his brothers with him and presented them to 00:01:30.035 --> 00:01:33.995 Pharaoh, and Pharaoh asked the brothers, what is your occupation? 00:01:34.655 --> 00:01:39.455 They replied, we your servants are shepherds, just like our ancestors. 00:01:40.025 --> 00:01:43.535 We have come to live here in Egypt for a while, for there is no 00:01:43.535 --> 00:01:45.395 pasture for our flocks in Canaan. 00:01:45.935 --> 00:01:48.065 The famine is very severe there. 00:01:48.665 --> 00:01:52.685 So please, we request permission to live in the region of Goshen. 00:01:53.915 --> 00:01:58.325 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, now that your father and brothers have joined 00:01:58.325 --> 00:02:02.615 you here, choose any place in the entire land of Egypt for them to live. 00:02:03.095 --> 00:02:05.375 Give them the best land of Egypt. 00:02:06.005 --> 00:02:10.295 Let them live in the region of Goshen, and if any of them have special skills, 00:02:10.475 --> 00:02:12.575 put them in charge of my livestock too. 00:02:13.565 --> 00:02:17.615 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh. 00:02:18.290 --> 00:02:19.820 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:21.560 How old are you? 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:22.610 Pharaoh asked him. 00:02:23.030 --> 00:02:28.970 Jacob replied, I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years, but 00:02:28.975 --> 00:02:31.940 my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors. 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.050 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh again before leaving his court. 00:02:37.010 --> 00:02:42.410 So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt, the region of Rames to his father and 00:02:42.410 --> 00:02:44.690 his brothers, and he settled them there. 00:02:44.900 --> 00:02:46.490 Justice Pharaoh had commanded. 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:51.620 And Joseph provided food for his father and his brothers, and amounts appropriate 00:02:51.620 --> 00:02:55.400 to the number of their dependents, including the smallest children. 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.680 Meanwhile, the famine became so severe that all the food was used up 00:03:01.250 --> 00:03:04.400 and people were starving throughout the lands of Egypt and Canaan 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:06.680 by selling grain to the people. 00:03:07.010 --> 00:03:10.730 Joseph eventually collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan, and he 00:03:10.730 --> 00:03:12.530 put the money in Pharaoh's treasury. 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:17.120 When the people of Egypt and Canaan ran out of money, all the Egyptians 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.730 came to Joseph, our money is gone. 00:03:19.730 --> 00:03:23.900 They cried, but please give us food or we will die. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:28.340 Before your very eyes, Joseph replied, since your money is 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:30.620 gone, bring me your livestock. 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:33.590 I will give you food in exchange for your livestock. 00:03:34.340 --> 00:03:37.220 So they brought their livestock to Joseph in exchange for food. 00:03:37.880 --> 00:03:41.210 In exchange for their horses, flocks of sheep and goats, 00:03:41.450 --> 00:03:43.160 herds of cattle and donkeys. 00:03:43.670 --> 00:03:48.500 Joseph provided them with food for another year, but that year ended and 00:03:48.500 --> 00:03:52.790 the next year they came again and said, we cannot hide the truth from you. 00:03:52.790 --> 00:03:53.510 My Lord. 00:03:54.170 --> 00:03:58.280 Our money is gone and all our livestock and cattle are yours. 00:03:58.790 --> 00:04:01.940 We have nothing left to give, but our bodies and our land. 00:04:02.480 --> 00:04:04.850 Why should we die before your very eyes? 00:04:05.450 --> 00:04:06.860 By us and our land. 00:04:06.860 --> 00:04:11.630 In exchange for food, we offer our land and ourselves as slaves. 00:04:11.630 --> 00:04:15.620 For Pharaoh, just give us grain so we may live and not die. 00:04:16.280 --> 00:04:19.370 And so the land does not become empty and desolate. 00:04:20.270 --> 00:04:23.360 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. 00:04:24.020 --> 00:04:27.950 All the Egyptians sold him their fields because the famine was so severe. 00:04:28.580 --> 00:04:30.830 And soon all the land belonged to Pharaoh. 00:04:31.655 --> 00:04:36.215 As for the people, he made them all slaves from one end of Egypt to the other. 00:04:37.055 --> 00:04:40.295 The only land he did not buy was the land belonging to the priests. 00:04:40.835 --> 00:04:44.105 They received an allotment of food directly from Pharaoh, so they 00:04:44.105 --> 00:04:45.545 didn't need to sell their land. 00:04:46.355 --> 00:04:50.375 Then Joseph said to the people, look, today I have bought you 00:04:50.375 --> 00:04:51.785 and your land for Pharaoh. 00:04:52.325 --> 00:04:55.325 I will provide you with seed so you can plant the fields. 00:04:55.865 --> 00:04:59.585 Then when you harvest it, one fifth of your crop will belong to Pharaoh. 00:05:00.485 --> 00:05:04.265 You may keep the remaining four fifths as seed for your fields and as food for 00:05:04.265 --> 00:05:06.815 you, your household and your little ones. 00:05:07.655 --> 00:05:09.305 You have saved our lives. 00:05:09.305 --> 00:05:10.205 They exclaimed. 00:05:10.715 --> 00:05:14.225 May it please you, my Lord, to let us be pharaoh's servants. 00:05:15.035 --> 00:05:18.275 Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt 00:05:18.755 --> 00:05:19.895 that Pharaoh should receive. 00:05:19.900 --> 00:05:22.325 One fifth of all the crops grown on his land. 00:05:23.165 --> 00:05:26.285 Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh. 00:05:27.995 --> 00:05:31.865 Meanwhile, the people of Israel settled in the region of Goshen in Egypt. 00:05:32.765 --> 00:05:36.065 There they acquired property and they were fruitful, and 00:05:36.070 --> 00:05:37.715 their population grew rapidly. 00:05:38.375 --> 00:05:44.645 Jacob lived for 17 years after his arrival in Egypt, so he lived 147 years and all. 00:05:45.595 --> 00:05:50.195 As the time of his death, drew near Jacob, called for his son Joseph, and 00:05:50.195 --> 00:05:55.715 said to him, Please do me this favor, put your hand under my thigh and swear 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:59.495 that you will treat me with unveiling love by honoring this last request. 00:06:00.125 --> 00:06:02.825 Do not bury me in Egypt when I die. 00:06:03.095 --> 00:06:07.055 Please take my body out of Egypt and bury me with my ancestors. 00:06:07.715 --> 00:06:12.995 So Joseph promised I will do as you ask, swear that you will do it. 00:06:13.355 --> 00:06:14.315 Jacob insisted. 00:06:14.735 --> 00:06:18.875 So Joseph gave his oath and Jacob bowed humbly at the head of his bed. 00:06:20.435 --> 00:06:25.595 One day, not long after this word came to Joseph, your father is failing rapidly. 00:06:26.255 --> 00:06:31.685 So Joseph went to visit his father and he took with him his two sons and Raam. 00:06:32.765 --> 00:06:37.145 When Joseph arrived, Jacob was told Your son Joseph has come to see you. 00:06:38.015 --> 00:06:40.955 So Jacob gathered his strength and sat up in his bed. 00:06:41.765 --> 00:06:46.175 Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty, appeared to me at Lu in the 00:06:46.175 --> 00:06:48.335 land of Canaan and blessed me. 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:53.390 He said to me, I will make you fruitful and I will multiply your descendants. 00:06:53.960 --> 00:06:57.860 I will make you a multitude of nations and I will give this land 00:06:57.860 --> 00:07:02.450 of Canaan to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession. 00:07:03.500 --> 00:07:08.270 Now I am claiming is my own sons, these two boys of yours, Ry Am and 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:12.050 Manasa, who were born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.670 They will be my sons just as Ruben and Simeon are. 00:07:17.705 --> 00:07:21.605 But any children born to you in the future will be your own, and they will 00:07:21.605 --> 00:07:25.925 inherit land within the territories of their brothers, Rahi and Manasa. 00:07:26.855 --> 00:07:32.435 Long ago, as I was returning from Padden, Arum, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. 00:07:33.215 --> 00:07:37.625 We were still on the way some distance from F Rath, that is Bethlehem. 00:07:38.135 --> 00:07:42.065 So with great sorrow, I buried her there beside the road to F Rath. 00:07:43.055 --> 00:07:44.975 Then Jacob looked over at the two boys. 00:07:45.965 --> 00:07:47.135 Are these your sons? 00:07:47.315 --> 00:07:49.175 He asked, yes. 00:07:49.235 --> 00:07:52.505 Joseph told him, these are the sons God has given me here in 00:07:52.505 --> 00:07:57.695 Egypt, and Jacob said, bring them closer to me so I can bless them. 00:07:58.895 --> 00:08:03.395 Jacob was half blind because of his age and could hardly see, so Joseph 00:08:03.395 --> 00:08:07.235 brought the boys close to him and Jacob kissed and embraced them. 00:08:08.705 --> 00:08:13.235 Then Jacob said to Joseph, I never thought I would see your face again. 00:08:13.850 --> 00:08:16.700 But now God has let me see your children too. 00:08:17.960 --> 00:08:22.430 Joseph moved the boys who were at their grandfather's knees, and he 00:08:22.430 --> 00:08:24.440 bowed with his face to the ground. 00:08:25.610 --> 00:08:29.150 Then he positioned the boys in front of Jacob with his right hand. 00:08:29.150 --> 00:08:33.200 He directed Raim toward Jacob's left hand, and with his left hand 00:08:33.410 --> 00:08:35.660 he put at Jacob's right hand. 00:08:36.590 --> 00:08:40.490 But Jacob crossed his arms as he reached out to lay his hands on the boy's heads. 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.490 He put his right hand on the head of Raim. 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:48.170 Though he was the younger boy and his left hand on the head of Manasa, 00:08:48.350 --> 00:08:49.790 though he was the first born. 00:08:50.690 --> 00:08:55.610 Then he blessed Joseph and said, may the God before whom my grandfather 00:08:55.615 --> 00:09:00.020 Abraham and my father Isaac, walked the God who has been my shepherd 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:02.600 all my life to this very day. 00:09:03.245 --> 00:09:07.865 The angel who has redeemed me from all harm, may he bless these boys. 00:09:08.195 --> 00:09:12.725 May they preserve my name and the names of Abraham and Isaac, and 00:09:12.730 --> 00:09:15.815 may their descendants multiply greatly throughout the earth. 00:09:17.225 --> 00:09:20.255 But Joseph was upset when he saw that his father placed his 00:09:20.255 --> 00:09:21.995 right hand on Ephraim's head. 00:09:22.355 --> 00:09:26.405 So Joseph lifted it to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasses head. 00:09:27.050 --> 00:09:31.070 No, my father, he said, this one is the firstborn. 00:09:31.400 --> 00:09:35.480 Put your right hand on his head, but his father refused. 00:09:36.170 --> 00:09:39.590 I know my son, I know he replied. 00:09:40.310 --> 00:09:44.630 Manso will also become a great people, but his younger brother will become 00:09:44.635 --> 00:09:48.380 even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations. 00:09:49.670 --> 00:09:52.490 So Jacob blessed the boys that day with this blessing. 00:09:53.210 --> 00:09:55.730 The people of Israel will use your names. 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:00.380 When they give a blessing, they will say, may God make you as prosperous 00:10:00.380 --> 00:10:06.230 as Ephraim and Manasa in this way, Jacob put Ephraim ahead of Manasa. 00:10:07.220 --> 00:10:12.380 Then Jacob said to Joseph, look, I am about to die, but God will be 00:10:12.380 --> 00:10:16.730 with you and will take you back to Canaan, the land of your ancestors. 00:10:17.345 --> 00:10:19.265 And beyond what I have given your brothers. 00:10:19.625 --> 00:10:22.715 I am giving you an extra portion of the land that I took from the 00:10:22.715 --> 00:10:24.875 Amorites with my sword and bow. 00:10:26.795 --> 00:10:29.645 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:10:29.795 --> 00:10:30.995 Thank you for joining us.