Glancing Through the Scriptures!

 (KJV.) GENESIS 48:1-8

Jacob and Joseph's sons.

(1)  AND IT came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph,  Behold, thy father is sick, and he took with him his two sons,  Manasseh and Ephraim.

(2)  And one told Jacob, and said,  Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee; and Israel strengthened himself, and wait upon the bed.

(3)  And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me.

(4)  And said unto me,  Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

(5)  And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine, as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

(6)  And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

(7)  And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.

(8)  And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said,  Who are these? 

ADDENDUM

Why did Jacob declare Joseph's two sons as his?

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EL ELOHIM MINISTRIES-The End Times: Glancing Through the Scriptures!:  GENESIS 47:23-31 Jacob and Joseph's sons: (23)  Then Joseph said unto the people,  Behold,  I have bought you this day and your land fo...

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 GENESIS 47:23-31

Jacob and Joseph's sons:

(23)  Then Joseph said unto the people,  Behold,  I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh;  lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

(24)  And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed, of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

(25)  And they said,  Thou hast saved our lives:  let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

(26)  And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

(27)  And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

(28)  And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

(29)  And the time drew nigh that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him,  If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me;  bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.

(30  But I will lie with my father, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.  And he said,  I will do as thou hast said.

(31)  And he said,  Swear unto me.  And he sware unto him.  And Isreal bowed himself upon the bed's head.

ADDENDUM

Why was the land of the Priests preserved and not sold into slavery?

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EL ELOHIM MINISTRIES-The End Times: Glancing Through the Scriptures!:   GENESIS 47:15-22 Joseph and the famine. (15)  And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians cam...

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 GENESIS 47:15-22

Joseph and the famine.

(15)  And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came into Joseph, and said,  Give us bread:  for why should we die in thy presence?  for the money faileth.

(16)  And Joseph said,  Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle if money fail.

(17)  And they brought their cattle to Joseph:  and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses;  and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

(18)  When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him,  We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent, my lord also hath our herds of cattle;  there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

(19)  Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?  buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh:  and give us seed, that we may live, and not die that the land be not desolate.

(20)  And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh;  for the Egyptians sold every man his field because the famine prevailed over them:  so the land became Pharaoh's.

(21)  And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

(22)  Only the land of the rest bought he not;  for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them:  wherefore they sold not their lands.

ADDENDUM

Strangers can be powerful instruments of blessings to you!  Is there a stranger in your household today?