Jacob Finally Meets Joseph - NAS

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 Now when the news was heard in Pharaoh's house that Joseph's brothers had come, it ____________ Pharaoh and his ______________. [17] Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go to the land of Canaan, [18] and take your father and your __________________ and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat of the land.' [19] "Now you are ____________, 'Do this: take __________ from the land of Egypt for your __________ ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come. [20] 'Do not ____________ yourselves with your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.' "

Genesis 45:21-24 Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them __________________ for the journey. [22] To each of them he gave changes of garments, but to ______________ he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments. [23] To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and __________________ for his father on the journey. [24] So he sent his ______________ away, and as they ______________, he said to them, "Do not ____________ on the journey."

Genesis 45:25-28 Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob. [26] They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." But he was ____________, for he did not ____________ them. [27] When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the __________ of their father Jacob ____________. [28] Then Israel said, "It is __________; my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him __________ I die."

Genesis 46:1-4 So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered __________________ to the God of his father Isaac. [2] God spoke to Israel in ____________ of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." [3] He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great __________ there. [4] "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also __________ bring you up again; and __________ will _________ your 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 Then Jacob arose from ________________; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. [6] They took their ________________ and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him: [7] his sons and his ________________ with him, his ________________ and his grand________________, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Genesis 46:26-29 All the persons ________________ to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct ___________________, not including the wives of ____________ sons, were sixty-six persons in all, [27] and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were ____________. [28] Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. [29] Joseph ______________ his ____________ and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he ______________ before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.

Genesis 46:30-34 Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive." [31] Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me; [32] and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have ____________ their __________ and their herds and all that they have.' [33] "When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your __________________?' [34] you shall say, 'Your ______________ have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ____________,' that you may live in the land of __________; for every shepherd is ________________ to 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 went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen." [2] He took five men from among his brothers and ________________ them to Pharaoh. [3] Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your __________________?" So they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are ________________, both we and our ____________." [4] They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to ____________ in the land, for there is no ____________ for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, ________________, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen." [5] Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. [6] "The land of Egypt is at your ______________; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any ____________ men among them, then put them in __________ of my ________________."

Genesis 47:7-10 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and ________________ him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. [8] Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many years have you lived?" [9] So Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my sojourning are one ____________ and thirty; few and __________________ have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my ____________ lived during the days of their sojourning." [10] And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from his ______________.

Genesis 47:11-12 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a __________________ in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered. [12] Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father's ________________ with food, ________________ to their little ones.

Genesis 47:27-28 Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were ______________ and became very ______________. [28] Jacob lived in the land of Egypt ________________ years; so the length of Jacob's life was one hundred and forty-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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