“Come together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the end of days” Genesis 49:1
“For your servant guaranteed for the lad, to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned to my father for all time’.” Genesis 44:32)
“When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognised them, but he acted like a stranger toward them” Genesis 42:7
“After a time, his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, ‘Lie with me’. But he refused” Genesis 39:7-8
“Said he, ‘Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed’” Genesis 32:29
Jacob is a man on the run, forced to flee from his parents home after he took the blessing intended for Esau. Whether or not the deception was justified, this was a turning-point in his life, and changed not only where Jacob could live, but who he became. In his early life Jacob had been an innocent, dwelling in tents, but now falsehood began to crowd into his life.
"My son... I have grown old, I do not know the day of my death. Now please... go out into the field and hunt me some game and make me a delicacy, such as I love" Genesis 27: 2-4
“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by the clans of its ancestral houses” Numbers 1:2
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