Personal Devotions ⁽¹⁰³⁸⁾

Passage Read: Genesis 49 - Exodus 2 Meditation Verse: Exodus 1:22 Pharaoh wanted the male babies of the Israelites killed, but the Hebrew midwives wouldn't do it. So he ordered all the Egyptians, that if they discovered a male child, they were to throw him…

Passage Read: Genesis 44-48 Meditation Verses: 45:5-8 Joseph had already pieced together that he had been sent ahead of his family to Egypt for their preservation, so he wasn't bitter at all, despite more than twelve years of servitude and imprisonment. Most people today would…

Passage Read: Genesis 41-44 Meditation Verse: 42:16 How have I never seen this? Joseph remembers his dreams as a youth and realizes how close he is to fulfilling the first dream, only Benjamin is missing. So this whole ruse is to see that first dream…

Passage Read: Genesis 37-40 Meditation Verse: 40:1 The way the story about Judah, his sons and Tamar is inserted between Joseph's sale into Egypt and his imprisonment suggest that a very long time passed for Joseph in Egypt. Joseph had no idea what God intended…

Passage Read: Genesis 33-36 Meditation Verses: 33:3-4 The response of these two brothers is interesting. Jacob left twenty years earlier, fleeing because Esau was consoling himself with the thought of killing Jacob after his father died. Turns out, his father lived quite a long time,…