Jacob Finally Meets Joseph - KJV

1. The Brothers Go Home to Tell Their Father That Joseph Is Alive. They Had Not Known until Now. Perhaps They Thought He Had Died as a Slave. Now They Have Some Explaining to Do.

Genesis 45:16-20 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaohs house, saying, Josephs brethren are come: and it ____________ Pharaoh well, and his ______________. [17] And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; [18] And take your father and your __________________, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. [19] Now thou art ________________, this do ye; take you __________ out of the land of Egypt for your __________ ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. [20] Also __________ not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

Genesis 45:21-24 And the ______________ of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the ___________________ of Pharaoh, and gave them ________________ for the way. [22] To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to ______________ he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. [23] And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. [24] So he sent his ______________ away, and they ______________: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

Genesis 45:25-28 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, [26] And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacobs heart ____________, for he ______________ them not. [27] And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the __________ of Jacob their father ____________: [28] And Israel said, It is __________; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him __________ I die.

Genesis 46:1-4 And Israel took his ____________ with all that he had, and came to ________________, and offered __________________ unto the God of his father Isaac. [2] And God spake unto Israel in the ____________ of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. [3] And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: [4] I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also __________ bring thee up again: and __________ shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

1. Why do you think Joseph gave Benjamin more clothes than he gave his other brothers? ________________________

2. Did God want Jacob to leave Canaan and move to Egypt? _____________

2. Jacob Took Everything and Went to Egypt. There He Saw Joseph for the First Time in Nearly Thirty Years.

Genesis 46:5-7 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel ____________ Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which ____________ had sent to carry him. [6] And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had __________ in the land of __________, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: [7] His sons, and his sons sons with him, his daughters, and his sons daughters, and all his seed ____________ he with him into Egypt.

Genesis 46:26-29 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, ____________ Jacobs sons wives, all the souls were threescore and six; [27] And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. [28] And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to __________ his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. [29] And Joseph made ready his ____________, and went up to meet __________ his __________, to Goshen, and ________________ ____________ unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Genesis 46:30-34 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, ____________ thou art yet alive. [31] And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his fathers house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my fathers house, which were in the land of __________, are come unto me; [32] And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have ____________ their __________, and their herds, and all that they have. [33] And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your __________________? [34] That ye shall say, Thy ______________ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of __________; for every shepherd is an ___________________ unto the ________________.

1. Do you think Joseph's brothers had to tell their father how Joseph went to Egypt? ___________

2. Do you think the joy of telling Jacob that Joseph was alive outweighed the fear of telling what they had done to Joseph? ________________

3. How many people does the Bible say went down to Egypt in Jacob's family? ___________

3. Joseph Took Some of His Family to Meet Pharaoh, the King of Egypt.

Genesis 47:1-6 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. [2] And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and ________________ them unto Pharaoh. [3] And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your __________________? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are ________________, both we, and also our ____________. [4] They said ____________ unto Pharaoh, For to ____________ in the land are we come; for thy servants have no ____________ for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now ________________, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. [5] And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: [6] The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou ____________ any men of ______________ among them, then make them rulers over my __________.

Genesis 47:7-10 And Joseph ____________ in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. [8] And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? [9] And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an ____________ and __________ years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not ______________ unto the days of the years of the life of my ____________ in the days of their pilgrimage. [10] And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:11-12 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a __________________ in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. [12] And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his fathers ________________, with bread, ________________ to their families.

Genesis 47:27-28 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had ___________________ therein, and grew, and __________________ ___________________. [28] And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

1. How old was Jacob when he met Pharaoh? ______________

2. How old was Jacob when he died? ________________

Joseph realized that God had used the experience of being sold as a slave to prepare him to save his family from the famine. He was forgiving and never held against his brothers what they had done to him by selling him as a slave. After their father died, the brothers worried that Joseph would then take revenge. But he never did. He loved them and all was well with Jacob's children, and their children, until Joseph died and another Pharaoh came to power who did not remember Joseph and what he had done for Egypt.

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