Israel to Egypt bible study Genesis 45 through Exodus 2

            Here is a bible study after Joseph fully reveals himself to his brethren, has them go back and bring Jacob and all his come down so they all can live together in an area that Joseph sets up for them with the current Pharaoh’s approval. They indeed all go down there, and then they would end up spending no less than 430 years there. After Joseph’s death the Egyptians start treating the Israelis harsher and harsher as the Israelis have exploded in population size and were then at that time considered a threat to Egypt and its well being. This study is a continuation and conclusion of Joseph’s life and a continuation of the last study which is found at this link:

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            In Genesis chapter 45 both Joseph and the Pharaoh tell the brethren to load up wagons and go back to bring their father Jacob and all his to Egypt to live there with Joseph and Pharaoh. They then go back to Canaan but Jacob/Israel does not believe the news of Joseph being alive but then they persuade him and then their father agrees to go to Egypt

(Genesis 45:1)  Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

(Genesis 45:2)  And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.

(Genesis 45:3)  And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.

(Genesis 45:4)  So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

(Genesis 45:5)  And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

(Genesis 45:6)  For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

(Genesis 45:7)  And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

(Genesis 45:8)  So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

(Genesis 45:9)  Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.

(Genesis 45:10)  You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

(Genesis 45:11)  There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'

(Genesis 45:12)  And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

(Genesis 45:13)  You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here."

(Genesis 45:14)  Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

(Genesis 45:15)  And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.

(Genesis 45:16)  When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.

(Genesis 45:17)  And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,

(Genesisesis 45:18)  and take your father and your households, 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.'

(Genesis 45:19)  And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

(Genesis 45:20)  Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

(Genesis 45:21)  The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

(Genesis 45:22)  To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.

(Genesis 45:23)  To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.

(Genesis 45:24)  Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."

(Genesis 45:25)  So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.

(Genesis 45:26)  And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.

(Genesis 45:27)  But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.

(Genesis 45:28)  And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."

In Genesis chapter 46 Israel first goes to Beersheba and offers sacrifices then God who then appears to Israel (Jacob) by a dream and then also tells him and all his to go to Egypt promising to bring him out at the right time. The text then lists all those people who are going to Egypt, and the journey to Egypt is then made, then the father and the son are indeed reunited

(Genesis 46:1)  So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

(Genesis 46:2)  And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."

(Genesis 46:3)  Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.

(Genesis 46:4)  I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."

(Genesis 46:5)  Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

(Genesis 46:6)  They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

(Genesis 46:7)  his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

(Genesis 46:8)  Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,

(Genesis 46:9)  and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

(Genesis 46:10)  The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

(Genesis 46:11)  The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

(Genesis 46:12)  The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

(Genesis 46:13)  The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron.

(Genesis 46:14)  The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

(Genesis 46:15)  These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

(Genesis 46:16)  The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

(Genesis 46:17)  The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

(Genesis 46:18)  These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob--sixteen persons.

(Genesis 46:19)  The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

(Genesis 46:20)  And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.

(Genesis 46:21)  And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

(Genesis 46:22)  These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob--fourteen persons in all.

(Genesis 46:23)  The sons of Dan: Hushim.

(Genesis 46:24)  The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

(Genesis 46:25)  These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob--seven persons in all.

(Genesis 46:26)  All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all.

(Genesis 46:27)  And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

(Genesis 46:28)  He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

(Genesis 46:29)  Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

(Genesis 46:30)  Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."

(Genesis 46:31)  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.

(Genesis 46:32)  And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'

(Genesis 46:33)  When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your occupation?'

(Genesis 46:34)  you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

In Genesis chapter 47 then Joseph and some of the brothers see Pharaoh along with the father then are settled in Goshen. Eventually, money, and even livestock and land would run out, all of the money, livestock and land all needed to purchase the grain to survive the severe ongoing famine but Joseph came up with a settlement of 1/5 of the harvest to go to Pharaoh then Jacob has Joseph promise him to carry his body off to his homeland when he dies.

(Genesis 47:1)  So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."

(Genesis 47:2)  And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.

(Genesis 47:3)  Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."

(Genesis 47:4)  They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

(Genesis 47:5)  Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

(Genesis 47:6)  The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."

(Genesis 47:7)  Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

(Genesis 47:8)  And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

(Genesis 47:9)  And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 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 fathers in the days of their sojourning."

(Genesis 47:10)  And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

(Genesis 47:11)  Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

(Genesis 47:12)  And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

(Genesis 47:13)  Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.

(Genesis 47:14)  And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

(Genesis 47:15)  And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."

(Genesis 47:16)  And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone."

(Genesis 47:17)  So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.

(Genesis 47:18)  And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.

(Genesis 47:19)  Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."

(Genesis 47:20)  So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's.

(Genesis 47:21)  As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

(Genesis 47:22)  Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

(Genesis 47:23)  Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

(Genesis 47:24)  And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones."

(Genesis 47:25)  And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."

(Genesis 47:26)  So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.

(Genesis 47:27)  Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

(Genesis 47:28)  And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.

(Genesis 47:29)  And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,

(Genesis 47:30)  but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."

(Genesis 47:31)  And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.

In chapter 48 of Genesis Jacob then blesses both Joseph and his two sons, promising good things for all of them but has a better blessing for the younger of Joseph’s sons versus the older one.

(Genesis 48:1)  After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

(Genesis 48:2)  And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.

(Genesis 48:3)  And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

(Genesis 48:4)  and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.'

(Genesis 48:5)  And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

(Genesis 48:6)  And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

(Genesis 48:7)  As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

(Genesis 48:8)  When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?"

(Genesis 48:9)  Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them."

(Genesis 48:10)  Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

(Genesis 48:11)  And Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also."

(Genesis 48:12)  Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

(Genesis 48:13)  And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him.

(Genesis 48:14)  And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).

(Genesis 48:15)  And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

(Genesis 48:16)  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

(Genesis 48:17)  When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

(Genesis 48:18)  And Joseph said to his father, "Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head."

(Genesis 48:19)  But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."

(Genesis 48:20)  So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.'" Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

(Genesis 48:21)  Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

(Genesis 48:22)  Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."

In Genesis 49 Jacob then blesses and prophesies various different things over each and every one of his sons, who would eventually multiply enough to be the tribes of Israel, then having done that he then dies

(Genesis 49:1)  Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.

(Genesis 49:2)  "Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.

(Genesis 49:3)  "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

(Genesis 49:4)  Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it--he went up to my couch!

(Genesis 49:5)  "Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.

(Genesis 49:6)  Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.

(Genesis 49:7)  Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

(Genesis 49:8)  "Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.

(Genesis 49:9)  Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?

(Genesis 49:10)  The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

(Genesis 49:11)  Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.

(Genesis 49:12)  His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

(Genesis 49:13)  "Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.

(Genesis 49:14)  "Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.

(Genesis 49:15)  He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor.

(Genesis 49:16)  "Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

(Genesis 49:17)  Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.

(Genesis 49:18)  I wait for your salvation, O LORD.

(Genesis 49:19)  "Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.

(Genesis 49:20)  "Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal delicacies.

(Genesis 49:21)  "Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns.

(Genesis 49:22)  "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.

(Genesis 49:23)  The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely,

(Genesis 49:24)  yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

(Genesis 49:25)  by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

(Genesis 49:26)  The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

(Genesis 49:27)  "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil."

(Genesis 49:28)  All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.

(Genesis 49:29)  Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

(Genesis 49:30)  in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

(Genesis 49:31)  There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah--

(Genesis 49:32)  the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites."

(Genesis 49:33)  When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

In Genesis chapter 50 Joseph prepares his father’s body for burial then takes many with him to do so, both his brethren and the Egyptians, and they do bury him. His brothers ask forgiveness for what happened much earlier but Joseph reassures them it was God’s plan. Then Joseph asked the same favor of his sons, that his father Jacob had asked of him, and that what was one, which is  to be buried in Canaan, his homeland then he would die at 110 years old

(Genesis 50:1)  Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.

(Genesis 50:2)  And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

(Genesis 50:3)  Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

(Genesis 50:4)  And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

(Genesis 50:5)  My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."

(Genesis 50:6)  And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."

(Genesis 50:7)  So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

(Genesis 50:8)  as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

(Genesis 50:9)  And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

(Genesis 50:10)  When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

(Genesis 50:11)  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.

(Genesis 50:12)  Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,

(Genesis 50:13)  for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

(Genesis 50:14)  After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

(Genesis 50:15)  When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."

(Genesis 50:16)  So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,

(Genesis 50:17)  'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

(Genesis 50:18)  His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."

(Genesis 50:19)  But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?

(Genesis 50:20)  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

(Genesis 50:21)  So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

(Genesis 50:22)  So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.

(Genesis 50:23)  And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.

(Genesis 50:24)  And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

(Genesis 50:25)  Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

(Genesis 50:26)  So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

In Exodus chapter 1 after the death of Joseph, the population of Israel exploded and was so strong the Egyptians feared them, and then oppressed them too, fearing they would join and enemy and then escape Egypt, then they tried various plans but God basically thwarted all of those plans to put a check on Egypt, then they wanted baby boys thrown into the Nile river

(Exodus 1:1)  These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

(Exodus 1:2)  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

(Exodus 1:3)  Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

(Exodus 1:4)  Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

(Exodus 1:5)  All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.

(Exodus 1:6)  Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

(Exodus 1:7)  But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

(Exodus 1:8)  Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

(Exodus 1:9)  And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.

(Exodus 1:10)  Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."

(Exodus 1:11)  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.

(Exodus 1:12)  But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

(Exodus 1:13)  So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

(Exodus 1:14)  and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

(Exodus 1:15)  Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

(Exodus 1:16)  "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live."

(Exodus 1:17)  But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

(Exodus 1:18)  So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?"

(Exodus 1:19)  The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

(Exodus 1:20)  So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong.

(Exodus 1:21)  And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

(Exodus 1:22)  Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."

Exodus chapter 2 then is the story of Moses’ birth, who would eventually be used by God to deliver the Israelites from Egypt at God’s direction, then there were a couple of incidents that happened and then Moses had to flee Egypt and becomes a shepherd and dwells in Midian, getting married then God remembers his promise and hears the groaning of the Israelis in Egypt

(Exodus 2:1)  Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.

(Exodus 2:2)  The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

(Exodus 2:3)  When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

(Exodus 2:4)  And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

(Exodus 2:5)  Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it.

(Exodus 2:6)  When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

(Exodus 2:7)  Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"

(Exodus 2:8)  And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.

(Exodus 2:9)  And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

(Exodus 2:10)  When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."

(Exodus 2:11)  One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

(Exodus 2:12)  He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

(Exodus 2:13)  When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, "Why do you strike your companion?"

(Exodus 2:14)  He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."

(Exodus 2:15)  When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

(Exodus 2:16)  Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

(Exodus 2:17)  The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.

(Exodus 2:18)  When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, "How is it that you have come home so soon today?"

(Exodus 2:19)  They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock."

(Exodus 2:20)  He said to his daughters, "Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

(Exodus 2:21)  And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

(Exodus 2:22)  She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."

(Exodus 2:23)  During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

(Exodus 2:24)  And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

(Exodus 2:25)  God saw the people of Israel--and God knew.

This in turn is setting up the events for Moses to come and deliver his people from Egypt, God using Him for that purpose. to find out more on just how God used Moses free the children of Israel from their slavery in Egypt, please go to this note here  https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/moses-and-the-plagues-bible-study-exodus-chapters-3-through-12/10200695026991644

God is so wonderful and merciful that He did not spare His own son so we could have the perfect relationship with Him, and His Son, Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins, and willingly too, wanting a relationship with us. There is nothing that can compare to the love relationship with God, either. I am now including a prayer which can be said that would enable this love relationship to start or even restart it if you have drifted away for any reason. God is merciful and welcomes people back who may have strayed and who repent. Please pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours