Genesis 50 Cross References - ISV

¹ Joseph Mourns for His FatherThen Joseph embraced his father, cried over him, and kissed him. ² After this, he issued orders to his physician servants to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel. ³ It took 40 days to complete the process, the normal period required for embalming. Meanwhile, the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days. ⁴ At the conclusion of the mourning period, Joseph addressed Pharaoh’s household. “If you’re satisfied with me, would you please take this message to Pharaoh for me? Tell him, ⁵ ‘My father told me, “Look! I’m about to die. Bury me in my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” So please let me travel to bury my father. I’ll be right back.’”
⁶ “Please go,” Pharaoh replied. “Bury your father, as he asked you to do.”
⁷ Joseph Mourns in CanaanSo Joseph got up and went to bury his father, accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s servants, all of the elders of Egypt, ⁸ all of Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. They left behind in the territory of Goshen only their youngest children, their flocks, and their herds. ⁹ Chariots and horsemen also accompanied Joseph, so there were a lot of people. ¹⁰ When they arrived at Atad’s threshing floor, which is located beyond the Jordan River, they held a great and mournful memorial service, during which Joseph spent seven days mourning for his father. ¹¹ As soon as the Canaanites who lived in the land observed the mourning going on at Atad’s threshing floor, they commented “This is a significant time of mourning for the Egyptians.” That’s why the place, which is located beyond the Jordan River, became known as Abel-mizraim.
¹² The Burial at MachpelahAnd so Israel’s sons did what he had instructed them to do: ¹³ they carried him to the territory of Canaan and buried him in the cave in Machpelah field near Mamre that Abraham had purchased as a cemetery from Ephron the Hittite. ¹⁴ After he had buried his father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt, along with everyone who had gone with him to attend the burial.
¹⁵ Later, after Joseph’s brothers faced the reality of their father’s death, they asked themselves, “What happens if Joseph decides to hold a grudge against us? What if he pays us back in full for all the wrong things we did to him?”
¹⁶ So they sent this message to Joseph: ¹⁷ “Before he died, your father left some instructions. He told us, ‘Tell Joseph, “Please forgive your brothers’ offenses. I beg you, forgive their sins, because they wronged you.”’ So please forgive the transgression of the servants of your father’s God.”
Joseph wept when they talked to him. ¹⁸ So Joseph’s brothers went to visit him, fell prostrate in front of him, and declared, “Look! We’re your servants.”
¹⁹ “Don’t be afraid,” Joseph responded. “Am I sitting in God’s place? ²⁰ As far as you’re concerned, you were planning evil against me, but God intended it for good, planning to bring about the present result so that many people would be preserved alive. ²¹ So don’t be afraid! I’ll take care of you and your little ones.” So Joseph kept on comforting them, speaking to the needs of their hearts.
²² Joseph’s Death and BurialJoseph continued to live in Egypt, along with his father’s household, until he was 110 years old. ²³ Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children, as well as the children who had been born to Manasseh’s son Machir, whom he adopted as his own. ²⁴ Later, Joseph told his brothers, “I’m going to die soon, but God will certainly provide for you and bring you up from this land to the land that he promised with an oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” ²⁵ So Joseph made all of Israel’s other children make this promise: “Because God is certainly going to take care of you, you are to carry my bones up from here.”
²⁶ Some time later, Joseph died at the age of 110 years, and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

² She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

⁴ I’m going down with you to Egypt, and I’m certainly going to bring you back again. And Joseph himself will be with you when you die.”

⁷ Teach them repeatedly to your children. Talk about them while sitting in your house or walking on the road, and as you lie down or get up. ⁸ Tie them as reminders on your forearm, bind them on your forehead,

¹⁴ Elisha Predicts Partial Victory for JoashWhen Elisha fell ill with the sickness from which he was about to die, king Joash of Israel came down to see him, wept in his presence, and told him, “My father, Israel’s chariots and horsemen!”

³⁸ When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly. ³⁹ He entered the house and asked them, “Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn’t dead. She’s sleeping.”

³⁵ Jesus burst into tears.
³⁶ So the Jewish leaders said, “See how much he loved him!”
³⁷ But some of them said, “Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn’t he?”
³⁸ Jesus Brings Lazarus Back to LifeGroaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of it.

² Devout men buried Stephen as they mourned loudly for him.

⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

¹³ Comfort about Christians who Have DiedBut we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.

²⁶ Some time later, Joseph died at the age of 110 years, and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

¹⁴ and he was buried in his own tomb that he had prepared for himself in the City of David. He was laid out on a bier that had been filled with various spices prepared by morticians, and the mourners built a massive bonfire to honor his memory.

¹² When she poured this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for burial.

⁸ She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

¹ Jesus is Raised from the Dead
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus.

¹ Jesus is Raised from the Dead
But at early dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

⁷ Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

³⁹ Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra. ⁴⁰ They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths along with spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

¹⁰ When they arrived at Atad’s threshing floor, which is located beyond the Jordan River, they held a great and mournful memorial service, during which Joseph spent seven days mourning for his father.

²⁹ When the entire community saw that Aaron had died, they mourned in memory of Aaron for 30 days.

¹³ Remove her prisoner’s clothing and let her remain for a month in your house, mourning her parents. After that, you may become her husband and she is to become your wife.

⁸ The Israelis mourned for Moses at the desert plain of Moab for 30 days, after which the period of mourning for Moses was completed.

³ “My lords,” he told them, “if I have found favor with you, please don’t leave your servant.

² He came as far as the front of the king’s gate, because no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

¹⁹ You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you’re buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You’re made from dust and you’ll return to dust.”

²⁹ As the time approached for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and addressed him. “Please,” he asked, “if you’re happy with me, make a solemn promise that you’ll treat me fairly and kindly by not burying me in Egypt. ³⁰ Instead, when I’ve died, as my ancestors have, you are to carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb.”
“I’ll do what you’ve asked,” Joseph replied.
³¹ “Promise me,” Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

²¹ Then Israel told Joseph, “Pay attention! I’m about to die, but God will be with you. He’ll bring you back to the land that belongs to your ancestors.

²⁹ In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: “I’m about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite. ³⁰ It’s the cave in the field near Mamre at Machpelah in the land of Canaan that Abraham bought to serve as a cemetery.

²⁴ Later, Joseph told his brothers, “I’m going to die soon, but God will certainly provide for you and bring you up from this land to the land that he promised with an oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

²² I’m going to die in this land and I won’t cross the Jordan River, but you’re about to cross over to possess that good land.

⁴³ Saul told Jonathan, “Tell me what you’ve done.”
So Jonathan spoke to him: “I did taste a little honey from the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I’m ready to die!”

²³ I know that you’re about to kill me, so I’m about to go to the house that’s appointed for all the living.”

³ to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.

³ A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long—but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn’t receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

⁵ At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.

⁷ then man’s dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

¹⁶ ‘What are you doing here, and who are your relatives here that you could carve out a grave for yourself here—cutting out a tomb at the choicest location, chiseling out a resting place for yourself out of solid rock?

²¹ Then another of his disciples told him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
²² But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

⁶⁰ Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he left,

⁵⁹ He told another man, “Follow me.”
But he said, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
⁶⁰ But he told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

¹⁶ He recovered all the goods and brought back his nephew Lot, together with his possessions, the women, and the other people.

⁸ Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh and he told them, “Go, serve the LORD your God. But exactly who will go?”
⁹ Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and our daughters, with our sheep and our cattle, because it’s a festival to the LORD for us.”

²⁶ And even our livestock must go with us. Not a hoof will be left behind because we will use some of them to serve the LORD our God, and until we get there we won’t know what we need to serve the LORD.”

²⁴ So after you’ve built cities for your families and corrals for your cattle, be sure to keep your promises.”
²⁵ Moses Assigns the TerritoryThen the descendants of Gad and descendants of Reuben spoke up. “Your servants will do exactly what our master has commanded.” They said. ²⁶ “Our children, wives, flocks, and all our cattle will be settled in the cities of Gilead, ²⁷ but every soldier that we’ve equipped for battle will cross the Jordan River in the presence of the LORD, as our master has spoken.”

⁴³ Then he provided him with a chariot as his second-in-command, outfitted with a group of people who shouted out in front of him, “Bow your knees!” And that’s how Pharaoh set Joseph over the entire land of Egypt.

²⁹ Joseph prepared his chariot and went to meet his father Israel in Goshen. As soon as Jacob appeared in his presence, he embraced him and wept for a long time as he held on to him.

⁷ He took 600 of the best chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers in charge of each one.

¹⁷ Even now I’m hardening the heart of the Egyptians so they’ll go after the Israelis. Then I’ll receive honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.

²⁸ The water returned, covering the chariots and the horsemen of Pharaoh’s entire army that had pursued the Israelis into the sea. Not a single one of them remained.

²⁴ How can you refuse even one official from the least of my master’s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

⁹ My darling, I compare you to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

⁴ At the conclusion of the mourning period, Joseph addressed Pharaoh’s household. “If you’re satisfied with me, would you please take this message to Pharaoh for me? Tell him,

¹¹ As soon as the Canaanites who lived in the land observed the mourning going on at Atad’s threshing floor, they commented “This is a significant time of mourning for the Egyptians.” That’s why the place, which is located beyond the Jordan River, became known as Abel-mizraim.

¹¹ Purification for Contact with the Dead“Whoever comes in contact with the body of a dead person is to remain unclean for seven days.

¹ The Setting of the CovenantThese are the words that Moses spoke to the assembly of Israel east of the Jordan River, in the Arabah desert, opposite Suph between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

¹³ They took their bones, buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

¹⁷ David’s Song for Saul and JonathanSo David intoned this song of lament about Saul and his son Jonathan,

¹³ and sat with Job on the ground for a full week without saying a word, since they could see the great extent of his anguish.

¹⁵ Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, along with the Hittites, ¹⁶ the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
Later, the Canaanite families were widely scattered. ¹⁹ The Canaanite border extended south from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and east toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

⁷ There was strife between the herdsmen in charge of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen in charge of Lot’s livestock. Also, at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.

⁶ “Make sure not to take my son there,” Abraham replied.

³⁰ Then Jacob told Simeon and Levi, “You have certainly stirred up trouble for me! You’ve made me despised by the Canaanites and the Perizzites who live in this territory. Because I have only a few men with me, they’re going to gather themselves together and attack me until I am totally destroyed, along with my entire household!”

²⁵ Let me cross over that I may see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River—the good hill country—as well as Lebanon.’

²⁷ Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift your eyes toward the west, north, south, and east. Look with your own eyes, since you won’t be able to cross this Jordan River.

³⁰ They’re across the Jordan River to the west, aren’t they, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

¹⁸ The gold mice represented the number of all the Philistine towns belonging to the five lords, both fortified towns and unwalled villages. The large stone, beside which they put the Ark of the LORD, is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.

²⁹ In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: “I’m about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite. ³⁰ It’s the cave in the field near Mamre at Machpelah in the land of Canaan that Abraham bought to serve as a cemetery. ³¹ It’s where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, where Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and where I buried Leah. ³² Both the field and the cave that’s in it were purchased from the Hittites.”

¹² “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.ו

¹⁶ They were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought at a high price from Hamor’s descendants in Shechem.

¹ Advice for Children and ParentsChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

¹⁶ Abraham agreed with Ephron, so he weighed out to Ephron the money to which he had agreed publicly while the Hittites were listening: 400 shekels of silver at the current merchant rate.
¹⁷ That’s how Ephron’s field in Machpelah, east of Mamre—the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were within the boundaries of the field—came to be deeded ¹⁸ to Abraham in the presence of all the Hittites and everyone who was entering the city gate.

²⁰ And so the field with its cave was deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

⁹ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite’s son Ephron.

²⁷ The Death of IsaacSo Jacob reached his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

²⁹ when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

²⁹ In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: “I’m about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite. ³⁰ It’s the cave in the field near Mamre at Machpelah in the land of Canaan that Abraham bought to serve as a cemetery. ³¹ It’s where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, where Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and where I buried Leah.

¹⁸ Manasseh died, as did his ancestors, and he was buried in the garden at his home in the Garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.

⁴¹ So Esau harbored animosity toward Jacob because of the way his father had blessed him. Esau kept saying to himself, “The time to mourn for my father is very near. That’s when I’m going to kill my brother Jacob.”
⁴² Eventually, what Rebekah’s older son Esau had been saying was reported to her, so she sent for her younger son Jacob and warned him, “Look! Your brother is planning to get even by killing you.

²⁸ As the Midianite merchants were passing through, they extracted Joseph from the cistern and sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who then took Joseph down to Egypt.

¹⁷ Then Joseph locked them all together in prison for three days.

²¹ Joseph’s Brothers Mull over Their Predicament“We’re all guilty because of what we did to our brother!” they told each other. “We kept on watching his suffering while he pleaded with us! We’re in this mess because we wouldn’t listen!”
²² “Didn’t I tell you!” Reuben replied. “‘Don’t wrong the kid!’ I said, but would you listen? No! Now it’s payback time!”

³⁶ “As for the remnants among you, I’ll bring despair in their hearts in the land of their enemies so that even the sound of a blown leaf will chase them and they flee as though pursued by the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.

²¹ Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him. ²² He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword.

⁵ There they are seized with terror, because God is with those who are righteous.

⁵ There the Israelis were seized with terror, when there was nothing to fear. For God scattered the bones of those who laid siege against you— you put them to shame, for God rejected them.

¹ Contrasting Good and Evil The wicked flee, though no one pursues, but the righteous are bold like a lion.

¹⁵ They show that what the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

²⁵ Fearing any human being is a trap, but confiding in the LORD keeps anyone safe.

⁴² If the God of my father—the God of Abraham, the God whom Isaac feared—had not been with me, you would have sent me away empty handed. But God saw my misery and how hard I’ve worked with my own hands—and he rebuked you last night.”

²¹ Joseph’s Brothers Mull over Their Predicament“We’re all guilty because of what we did to our brother!” they told each other. “We kept on watching his suffering while he pleaded with us! We’re in this mess because we wouldn’t listen!”
²² “Didn’t I tell you!” Reuben replied. “‘Don’t wrong the kid!’ I said, but would you listen? No! Now it’s payback time!”
²³ Meanwhile, they had no idea that Joseph could understand them, since he was talking to them through an interpreter. ²⁴ He turned away from them and began to weep.
Joseph Arrests SimeonWhen he returned, he spoke with them, but then he took Simeon away from them and had him placed under arrest right in front of them.

⁴ Joseph implored his brothers, “Please come close to me.” So they did.
“I’m your brother Joseph, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt!” he told them. ⁵ “But don’t be distressed or angry at yourselves because you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you all in order to deliver us.

⁸ As a result, it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God himself! He established me as a father-figure to Pharaoh himself! I’m in charge of his entire palace and ruler over the entire land of Egypt.

²⁵ by your father’s God who helps you, by the Almighty who will keep on blessing you with blessings from heaven above, with blessings from the deepest ocean, with blessing from the breasts and the womb.

²⁰ As far as you’re concerned, you were planning evil against me, but God intended it for good, planning to bring about the present result so that many people would be preserved alive.

²⁷ The Song of the Ransomed“He’ll sing to mankind with these words: ‘I’ve sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve. ²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit; my life will see the light.’

¹¹ Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

¹³ Whoever hides his transgressions will not succeed, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.

¹² and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.

¹⁴ Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive people their offenses, your Father will not forgive your offenses.”

⁴² I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple will never lose his reward.”

³⁵ This is how my heavenly Father will treat each one of you unless you forgive your brother from your hearts.”

⁴⁰ The king will answer them, ‘I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.’

⁴¹ When the ten other disciples heard this, they began to be furious with James and John.

³ “Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and comes back to you seven times and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

¹⁰ So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let’s practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.

¹⁶ Now may peace be on all those who live by this principle, and may mercy be on the Israel of God.

³² And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. ¹³ Be tolerant of one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also should forgive.

⁸ Paul’s Plea for OnesimusFor this reason, although in the Messiah I have complete freedom to order you to do what is proper, ⁹ I prefer to make my appeal on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an old man and now a prisoner of the Messiah Jesus, ¹⁰ appeal to you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. ¹¹ Once he was useless to you, but now he is very useful both to you and to me. ¹² As I send him back, it’s like I’m coming along with him. ¹³ I wanted to keep him with me so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel. ¹⁴ Yet I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be something forced, but voluntary. ¹⁵ Perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you could have him back forever, ¹⁶ no longer as a slave but better than a slave—as a dear brother, especially to me, but even more so to you, both as a person and as a believer.
¹⁷ So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. ¹⁸ If he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account. ¹⁹ I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. (I will not mention to you that you owe me your very life.) ²⁰ Yes, brother, I desire this favor from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Messiah!

¹⁶ Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

²⁹ May people serve and bow before you; may you be master over your brothers; may your mother’s sons bow before you; may anyone who curses you be cursed; and may anyone who blesses you be blessed.”

⁷ “We were tying sheaves together out in the middle of the fields, when all of a sudden, my sheaf stood up erect! And then your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf!”
⁸ At this, his brothers replied, “Do you really think you’re going to rule us or lord it over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his interpretations of them.
⁹ But then he had another dream, and he proceeded to tell his brothers about that one, too. “I had another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and eleven of the stars were bowing down before me!”
¹⁰ When Joseph told his father about this, his father rebuked him and asked him, “What kind of dream is that? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come to you and bow down to the ground in front of you?” ¹¹ As a result, his brothers became more envious of him. But his father kept thinking about all of this.

⁶ Joseph’s Brothers Encounter JosephMeanwhile, Joseph continued to be ruler over the land, in charge of selling to everyone in the land. Joseph’s brothers appeared and bowed down to him, face down.

¹⁴ Joseph Confronts His BrothersJoseph was waiting for them back at his palace when his brothers returned. They fell to the ground in front of him,

³ Joseph blurted out, “I’m Joseph! Is my father really alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, because they had become terrified to be in his presence.

² That made Jacob angry with Rachel, so he asked her, “Can I take God’s place, who has not allowed you to conceive?”

⁵ “But don’t be distressed or angry at yourselves because you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you all in order to deliver us.

³⁵ To me belong vengeance and recompense. In due time their feet will slip, because their time of calamity is near and the things prepared for them draw near.

⁷ When the king of Israel read the letter, he ripped his clothes and cried out, “Am I God? Can I kill and give life? Is this man sending me a request to heal a man’s leprosy? Let’s think about this—he’s looking for a reason to start a fight with me!”

¹⁹ Who isn’t partial to princes? Who doesn’t give preference to the nobles over the poor? Nevertheless, all of them are his handiwork. ²⁰ “They die suddenly, in the middle of the night; people suffer seizures and pass away; even valiant men can be taken away— and not by human hands. ²¹ Yes, Job, his eyes constantly watch the behavior of human beings; he carefully observes their every step. ²² There’s no such thing as darkness to him— not even deep darkness— that can conceal those who practice evil. ²³ He won’t examine mankind further, that they would go before God to judgment. ²⁴ He shatters valiant men without a need to investigate, and he raises others in their place. ²⁵ Thus he acknowledges their behavior, and overcomes them; when night time comes, they are crushed. ²⁶ “He strikes the wicked among them in a place where they can be seen ²⁷ because they’ve abandoned their pursuit of him and had no respect for any of his ways. ²⁸ As a result, the cries of the poor have reached him and he has heard the cry of the afflicted. ²⁹ “If he remains silent, who will condemn him? If he conceals his face, who can see him? He watches over both nation and individual alike,

²⁷ “Have courage!” Jesus immediately told them. “It’s me. Stop being afraid!”

³⁷ They were startled and terrified, thinking they were seeing a ghost. ³⁸ But Jesus told them, “What’s frightening you? And why are you doubting?

¹⁹ Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord.”

³⁰ For we know the one who said, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

⁴ When Joseph’s brothers realized that their father loved him more than all of his brothers, they hated him so much that they were unable to speak politely to him.

¹⁸ Joseph’s Brothers Plot to Kill HimNow as soon as they saw him approaching from a distance, before he arrived they plotted together to kill him. ¹⁹ “Look!” they said. “Here comes the Dream Master! ²⁰ Come on! Let’s kill him and toss him into one of the cisterns. Then we’ll report that some wild animal devoured him and wait to see what becomes of his dreams!”

⁵ “But don’t be distressed or angry at yourselves because you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you all in order to deliver us. ⁶ That’s because this famine has been going on for two years now in this region, and there are still five years left, during which there won’t be any plowing or harvesting. ⁷ God sent me ahead of you to keep you alive on the earth, and to save you all in a magnificent way. ⁸ As a result, it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God himself! He established me as a father-figure to Pharaoh himself! I’m in charge of his entire palace and ruler over the entire land of Egypt.

⁵ All day long people distort what I say; all their schemes against me are for evil purposes.

¹⁰ Even human anger praises you; you will wear the survivors of your wrath as an ornament.

¹⁶ He declared a famine on the land; destroying the entire food supply. ¹⁷ He sent a man before them— Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.

⁷¹ It was for my good that I was humbled; so that I would learn your statutes.

⁷ But this is not what he intends, and this is not what he thinks in his mind; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut down many nations.

²³ After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the God of our ancestors—has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and rejected in the presence of Pilate, even though he had decided to let him go. ¹⁴ You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you, ¹⁵ and you killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses to that.

²⁶ When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways.”

²⁸ And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.

³ He was attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, since he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

¹⁰ You are to live in the land of Goshen, near where I am—you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything that you own. ¹¹ I’ll provide for you there, since there are still five years of famine left to go, and you, your households, and everything you own would have otherwise become impoverished.

¹² Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, proportionate to the number of young children.

² “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her heavy service has been completed, that her penalty has been paid, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.”

⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

¹⁴ Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

²⁰ But “if your enemy is hungry, feed him. For if he is thirsty, give him a drink. If you do this, you will pile burning coals on his head.” ²¹ Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

¹⁵ Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Instead, always pursue what is good for each other and for everyone else.

⁹ Do not pay others back evil for evil or insult for insult. Instead, keep blessing them, because you were called to inherit a blessing.

³ Rachel responded, “Here’s my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her.”

¹⁹ But his father refused. “I know,” he said. “I know. He’s going to produce a large nation, and he’s going to be very great. However, his younger brother will become even greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”

¹² His eyes are darker than wine and his teeth whiter than milk.”

³³ So Moses gave to the descendants of Gad, to the descendants of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Joseph’s son Manasseh the kingdom of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the whole land with its cities, and even the territories surrounding it.

³⁹ The descendants of Manasseh’s son Machir attacked Gilead and then captured and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

¹ Manasseh’s AllocationThe territorial allotment for the tribe of Manasseh, the firstborn of Joseph, was allocated first to Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of Gilead. Since he had been a man of war, Gilead and Bashan were allocated to him.

¹⁶ Job lived 140 years after this, and saw his children and grandchildren to the fourth generation.

⁶ And may you see your children’s children! Peace be on Israel!

⁷ Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I’ll give this land to your descendants.” So Abram built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

¹⁵ because I’m going to give you and your descendants all of the land that you see—forever!

¹⁷ Get up! Walk throughout the length and breadth of the land, because I’m going to give it to you.”

⁷ The LORD spoke to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance.”

¹⁴ However, I will judge the nation that they serve, and later they will leave there with many possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, you’ll die peacefully, join your ancestors, and be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course.”

¹⁸ That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: “I’m giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—

⁸ I’ll give to you and to your descendants the land to which you have traveled—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession. I will be their God.”

¹ Isaac is BornThe LORD came to Sarah, just as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

³ Remain in this land, and I’ll be with and bless you by giving all these lands to you and to your descendants in fulfillment of my solemn promise that I made to your father Abraham.

¹³ And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, “I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I’m Isaac’s God, too. I’m giving you and your descendants the ground on which you’re sleeping.

¹² Now as for the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I’m giving it to you and to your descendants who come after you. I’m giving the land to you!”

⁵ ‘My father told me, “Look! I’m about to die. Bury me in my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” So please let me travel to bury my father. I’ll be right back.’”

¹⁶ “Go and gather the elders of Israel. Tell them, ‘The LORD God of your ancestors, appeared to me—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and he said, “I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt. ¹⁷ I have said that I will bring you out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

³¹ The people believed and understood that the LORD had paid attention to the Israelis and had seen their affliction. They bowed their heads and prostrated themselves in worship.

¹ The LORD Instructs Israel to LeaveThe LORD told Moses, “Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought out of Egypt, to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob saying, ‘I’ll give it to your descendants.’

¹¹ ‘Not one of the men who went up from Egypt, from 20 years old and above, will see the land that I promised to give to their ancestors, that is, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because none of them followed me wholeheartedly,

⁸ Look! I’ve given you the land that lies ahead. Go in and possess the land that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as to their descendants.’”

¹⁰ Serve the LORD Only“When the LORD your God brings you to the land that he promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he will give you large and beautiful cities that you didn’t build,

¹² Death in Adam, Life in the MessiahJust as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

²⁷ Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

²² By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelis and gave them instructions about burying his bones.

¹⁹ Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelis take this solemn oath: “God will certainly take notice of you, and then you must carry my bones up with you from here.”

³² They also buried the bones of Joseph, which the Israelis brought up from Egypt, in the parcel of ground at Shechem that Jacob had purchased from the descendants of Shechem’s father Hamor, for 100 pieces of silver. It became part of the inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

⁹ “I’m 130 years old,” Jacob replied. “My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven’t yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth.”

²⁸ He lived for seventeen more years in Egypt, until he was 147 years old.

² After this, he issued orders to his physician servants to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel. ³ It took 40 days to complete the process, the normal period required for embalming. Meanwhile, the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days.

²² Joseph’s Death and BurialJoseph continued to live in Egypt, along with his father’s household, until he was 110 years old.

²⁹ The Death of Joshua
Some time later, Joshua servant of the LORD died at the age of 110 years, and