Jacob Finally Meets Joseph - RSV

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 When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it ____________ Pharaoh and his ______________ well. [17] And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back 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 shall eat the fat of the land.' [19] ____________ them also, 'Do this: take __________ from the land of Egypt for your __________ ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. [20] Give no ____________ to your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

Genesis 45:21-24 The sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. [22] To each and all of them he gave festal garments; but to ______________ he gave three hundred ____________ of silver and five festal garments. [23] To his father he sent as ____________: ten asses loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey. [24] Then he sent his ______________ away, and as they ______________, he said to them, "Do not ____________ on the way."

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

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

Genesis 46:26-29 All the persons ________________ to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including ____________ sons' wives, 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, that came into Egypt, were ____________. [28] He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to appear before him in Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. [29] Then Joseph made ready his ____________ and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen; and he ________________ ____________ to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Genesis 46:30-34 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know 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 __________, have come to me; [32] and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; 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 cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our ____________,' in order that you may dwell in the land of __________; for every shepherd is an abomination 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 So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they ____________, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen." [2] And from among his brothers he took five men and ________________ them to Pharaoh. [3] Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your __________________?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are ________________, as our ____________ were." [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; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell 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 before you; __________ your father and your brothers in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know any able men among them, put them in __________ of my __________."

Genesis 47:7-10 Then Joseph ____________ in Jacob his __________, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. [8] And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?" [9] And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are a ____________ and __________ years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my __________s in the days of their sojourning." [10] And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the ______________ of Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:11-12 Then 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 Ram'eses, as Pharaoh had commanded. [12] And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, ________________ to the number of their __________________.

Genesis 47:27-28 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained ___________________ in it, and were fruitful and __________________ ___________________. [28] And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a 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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