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Day 100 and 1
Then Jacob called together all his sons and said, gather around me and
I will tell you what will happen to each of you in the days to come.
Come and listen.
You sons of Jacob, listen to his Israel.
Your father Ruben.
You are my firstborn, my strength, the child of my vigorous youth.
You are first in rank and first in power.
But you are as unruly as a flood and you will be first no longer
for you went to bed with my wife.
You defiled my marriage couch.
Simeon and Levi are too of a kind.
Their weapons are instruments of violence.
May I never join in their meetings.
May I never be a party to their plans for in their anger, they murdered men
and they crippled oxen just for sport.
A curse on their anger for it is fierce.
A curse on their wrath for it is cruel.
I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob.
I will disperse them throughout Israel.
Judah, your brothers will praise you.
You will grasp your enemies by the neck.
All your relatives will bow before you.
Judah.
My son is a young lion that has finished eating its prey like a lion.
He CROs and lies down like a lion is who dares to rouse him.
The scepter will not depart from Judah nor the ruler staff from his descendants until
the coming of the one to whom it belongs, the one whom all nations will honor.
He ties his fold to a grapevine, the cult of his donkey, to a choice vine.
He washes his clothes and wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
Zebulon will settle by the seashore and will be a harbor for ships.
His borders will extend to siden.
A car is a sturdy donkey resting between two saddle packs.
When he sees how good the countryside is and how pleasant the land, he
will bend his shoulder to the load and submit himself to hard labor.
Dan will govern his people like any other tribe in Israel, a Dan will be a snake
beside the road, a poisonous viper along the path that bites the horse's hooves.
So its rider is thrown off.
I trust in you for salvation.
Oh Lord.
Gad will be attacked by Mooting bands, but he will attack them when they retreat.
Asher will dine on rich foods and produce food fit for kings.
Naftaly is a dough set free that bears beautiful.
Vaughns.
Joseph is the full of a wild donkey, the full of a wild donkey at a spring,
one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.
Archers attacked him savagely.
They shot at him and harassed him, but his bow remained taught and
his arms were strengthened by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob by
the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
May the God of your father help you.
May the Almighty bless you with the blessings of the heavens above and
blessings of the watery depths below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.
May my fatherly blessings on you.
Surpass the blessings of my ancestors reaching to the
heights of the eternal hills.
May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, who is a prince among his
brothers, Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring his enemies in the morning
and dividing his plunder in the evening.
These are the 12 tribes of Israel, and this is what their father
said as he told his sons goodbye.
He blessed each one with an appropriate message.
Then Jacob instructed them.
Soon I will die and join My ancestors bury me with my father and grandfather in the
cave in the field of Ephron, the Hitite.
This is the cave in the field of Ma Pilla near Mammary in Canaan that
Abraham bought from Ephron, the Hitite as a permanent burial site there.
Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried.
There.
Isaac and his wife Rebecca are buried, and there I buried Leah.
It is the plot of land and the cave that my grandfather
Abraham bought from the Hittites.
When Jacob had finished this charge to his sons, he drew his feet into
the bed, breathed his last, and joined his ancestors in death.
Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father's
body, so Jacob was embalmed.
The embalming process took the usual 40 days, and the Egyptians
mourned his death for 70 days, and the period of mourning was over.
Joseph approached Pharaoh's advisors and said, please do me this favor
and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf.
Tell him that my father made me swear an oath.
He said to me, listen, I am about to die.
Take my body back to the land of Canaan and bury me in the tomb.
I prepared for myself, so please allow me to go and bury my father after his burial.
I will return without delay.
Pharaoh agreed to Joseph's request.
Go and bury your father as he made you promise.
He said, so.
Joseph went up to bury his father.
He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh's officials, all the senior
members of Pharaoh's household and all the senior officers of Egypt.
Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households,
but they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
A great number of chariots and cherry hitters accompanied Joseph
when they arrived at the threshing floor of aad near the Jordan River.
They held a very great and solemn memorial service.
With a seven day period of mourning for Joseph's father, the local residents,
the Canaanites watched them mourning at the threshing floor of aad.
Then they renamed that place, which is near the Jordan Abel Misam
for, they said, this is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.
So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them.
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in a cave in
the field of Ma Pilla near mammary.
This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron.
The Hitite.
After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had
accompanied him to his father's burial.
But now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became fearful.
Now Joseph will show his anger and pay us back for all the wrong we did to him.
They said, so they sent this message to Joseph.
Before your father died, he instructed us to say to you, please
forgive your brothers for the great wrong they did to you for their
sin in treating you so cruelly.
So we the servants of the God of your father beg you to forgive our sin.
When Joseph received the message, he broke down and wept.
Then his brothers came and threw themselves down before
Joseph, look we are your slaves.
They said, But Joseph replied, don't be afraid of me.
Am I God that I can punish you?
You intended to harm me, but God intended at all for good.
He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.
No, don't be afraid.
I will continue to take care of you and your children.
So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them.
So Joseph and his brothers and their families continued to live in Egypt.
Joseph lived to the age of 110.
He lived to see three generations of descendants of his son Rai,
and he lived to see the birth of the children of Manasas son make
here whom he claimed as his own.
Soon I will die.
Joseph told his brothers.
But God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt.
He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to
Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.
Then Joseph made the Sons of Israel swear an oath and he said, when God
comes to help you and lead you back, he must take my bones with you.
So Joseph died at the age of 110.
The Egyptians embalmed him and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
This concludes today's Immer reading experience.
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