Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Genesis Chapters 1 to 50)

[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 49:27 (NLT)

27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring his enemies in the morning and dividing his plunder in the evening.”


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[Pastor Gary]

Genesis 49:28 (NLT) - 28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said as he told his sons good-bye. He blessed each one with an appropriate message.


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[Pastor Gary]

Genesis 49:29 (NLT) - 29 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 Hittite.


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[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 49:30 (NLT)

30 This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a permanent burial site.


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[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 49:31 (NLT)

31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah.


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[Pastor Gary]

Genesis 49:32 (NLT) - 32 It is the plot of land and the cave that my grandfather Abraham bought from the Hittites.”


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[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 49:33 (NLT)

33 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.


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[Cosia]

Genesis 50:1 (NLT)
Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 50:2 (NLT)
Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father's body; so Jacob was embalmed.

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 50:3 (NLT)
The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 50:4 (NLT)
When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh's advisers and said, "Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 50:5 (NLT)
Tell him 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."

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 50:6 (NLT)
Pharaoh agreed to Joseph's request. "Go and bury your father as he made you promise," he said.

 

[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 50:7 (NLT)

7 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.


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[Pastor Gary]

Genesis 50:8 (NLT) - 8 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.


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[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 50:9 (NLT)

9 A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.


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[bobinfaith]

Genesis 50:10, 10 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father. - NLT

 

[Pastor Gary]

Genesis 50:11 (NLT) - 11 The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place (which is near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim, for they said, “This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”


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[Cosia]

Genesis 50:12 (NLT)
So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them.

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 50:13 (NLT)
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hitite.