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Genesis 41:44-52

We saw that Pharaoh had given Joseph control over all of Egypt last week. Now, we see him clarifying that position by saying that nobody can make a move without Joseph's consent.

We hear of his new wife and his flawless execution of the plan to store food during the years of plenty. He built cities and storehouses near farms so they could store their portions every year as planned.

We also hear about his two sons the first being born. The first named "Manasseh" which means "forget" and the second being "Ephraim" meaning "to make fruitful". His words in Hebrew were Kee NaSHAnee and Kee He-feRAHnee respectively. These words both refer to their verbs but in the first person.

There are so many things happening as Joseph goes from being a slave to the life and power of a king. I could not decide which of the images from the movie 'Joseph' that I should include. It is also important to indicate that the name he had been given in Egyptian means "Savior" because Joseph is an archetype of Yeshua. They were both jailed and beaten then ascended and gained all the attributes of Pharaoh/God respectively. There are many aspects to the parallels, but I am giving the nutshell instance.

Today's reading

English

Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasheh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house." The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

Hebrew

The story continues next week as the famine starts...

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