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The Jeffersons – the Complete First Season
By Paul Benedict, Franklin Cover, Zara Cully, Damon Evans, Mike Evans
Here Jacob (aka the patriarch-intermittently-known-as-Israel ©) and the whole family move on up to Egypt to live in prosperity thanks to Joseph.
God calls out to Jacob in dreams or "visions", saying "Jacob, Jacob" (46:2, NASB). Jacob doesn't reply "But I thought you renamed me Israel!", or if he does it's not reported here. God tells him his descendants will be great, and that he'll die after he sees Joseph again.
We have a long list of who comes with that I'll spare you, other than to mention that without Playstation back then, I guess he had to keep busy by having 70 children and grandchildren through all his various polygamous encounters.
In verse 28, Jacob sends Judah to get directions (gee God, couldn't you have included those in one of those visions?) so Jacob and Joseph can meet up in Goshen. When they meet, guess what: they cry. If we didn't know all that led up to it, and didn't think about the fact that Joseph didn't let his dad know all those years he was alive, then it might be touching.
Now that Jacob/Israel has seen Joseph alive again, he's ready to die. Joseph will tell the Pharaoh that his family are shepherds, so they can settle in Goshen. Egyptians apparently don't like shepherds, so the shepherds live in Goshen. Why, we're not told, unless we'll find out in Genesis 47 when they get to meet Pharaoh.
PS Scripture quotations taken from the NASB as indicated in this post and the few previous ones. I see that their site requires such a notice on web pages that quote from them. I've put the notice here, linked to their site in the previous posts I used their translation. Please do not take this as an endorsement of the NASB or the Lockman Foundation; I have been trying out various Bible versions. I have updated previous posts now as well on my own initiative respecting the guidelines as I understand them for a non-saleable, non-commerical blog only quoting snippets here and there. I see now why some sites opt to cite the King James Version...I'll have to think about what I'll do from here on out when I quote.
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