Genesis 41-Exodus 10 (p.150 in my Bible)

Holy Ghost Teach me....

I am amazed at the way time has travelled since beginning this literary adventure!  It has been 10 days since my last writing.  Constantly I find myself battling against "should be's" and imaginations of what it should look like reading the Bible in one year.  It is okay not to follow a booklet.  It is okay to not have daily readings but do weekly lump sum readings.  It is okay to finish one week in 10 days and the next week in 4 (which will be the case this week.)  I will not be graded at the end of the year.  No jury.  No final.  No pulling all-nighters to hope all the answers are stowed away somewhere inside my subconscious.  Just the simple pleasure of reading to be reading.  Without judgment.  Without trying to prepare for a sermon.  That's a big one.  Already so many times I read and I think, "Man that will PREACH!"  But I have to just keep going.  And I want to!

Perceptions: 

1. Dreams.  Wow, dreams really begin to be seen with Joseph and Pharoah. 
2. Egyptian priests:  (Gen.41:45) Just dawned on me that many faiths have "priests," even the ancient Egyptians.  Joseph was given the daughter of one as a wife.
3. Manasseh & Ephraim had the same situation as their grandfather, Grandaddy Jacob, with his brother Esau, in the sense that the younger got the elder's birthright.
4. Simeon had to wait in jail until the family back home finished that load of corn they brought from Egypt and decided to come back with Benjamin. (Gen.45:36)
5. Hebrews & Egyptians couldn't eat together.  It was an abomination to Egyptians! (Gen.43:32)

Definition of divine as a verb when used by Joseph to challenge his brothers that had come to him for food in Egypt (as in Gen.44:15): H.5172: 

1) to practice divination, divine, observe signs, learn by experience, diligently observe, practice fortunetelling, take as an omen

a) (Piel)

1) to practice divination

2) to observe the signs or omens

7.  Jacob calls his life a pilgrimage when speaking to Pharoah.  (Gen.47:9)
8.  They had couches in the Bible!  (Gen.49:4)
9.  I love how this so elegantly expresses crossing over.  Allow me to just quote and see for yourself:  And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. (Gen.49:33)
10.  Appalling that Pharoah would be so heartless to ask the midwives, who delivered babies, to kill baby boys.  Shocking.  I am so happy they refused!  (Ex.1)
11.  Moses had a son!  It seems obvious, but never pondered it.  His life was so profound.  The sons' name was Gershom (meaning foreigner in Hebrew) because Moses felt to be a stranger.  (Ex.2:22)
12.  God had respect for the children of Israel.  (Ex.2:25)
13.  Zipporah's possible case of culture shock, as Egyptians didn't practice circumcision (Ex.4:25-26)
14.  There is a huge distinction between Joseph making a way for the Israelites in Goshen (drawing near in Hebrew) and where the Israelites found themselves in the generation of Moses. Joseph told his family to request Goshen from Pharoah, and then in Moses' time Goshen was where the flies did not swarm because it was still the land of the Israelites.
15.  At this point Moses seems to win the prize for the longest conversations with God, at least that we find written in Scripture.  Makes sense since he wrote the first 5 books of the Bible.

Praise the Lord!  I can't wait to keep reading.  Plagues are next and the famous Exodus story of leaving Egypt. 

This week (in the next 4 days) I will be reading through page 123 in my Bible.  (Exodus 11-30)