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| [[File:Pharaoh.jpg|center|thumb|Joseph the vizier and would initiate all the people of Egypt including the sons of Jacob into a [[corvee]] system of [[Bondage|civil bondage]] except the priests. Eventually a [[Pharaoh]] who did not know Joseph may this system rigorous.]]
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|* [[Exodus 1]]:5 "And all the souls that came out of the loins<Ref name="yarek">{{03409}}</Ref> of Jacob were [[Sanhedrin|seventy souls]]: for Joseph was in Egypt [already]." ''Loins'' or ''thighs''?<Ref>[[Genesis 32]]:25  And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh <[[03409]]>; and the hollow of Jacob s thigh <[[03409]]> was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.</Ref>
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| In [[Egypt]] the people could eat of the [[One purse#Civic Flesh pots|flesh pots]] of the [[Pharaoh]].<Ref>[[Exodus 16]]:3 “And the children of [[Israel]] said unto them, 'Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the [[flesh pots]], [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.'”</Ref> Since the Egyptians were vegetarians, this reference to flesh pots<Ref>[[Ezekiel 11]]:3 “Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the [[caldron]], and we [be] the flesh.”</Ref> had nothing to do with their diet. This was a [[metaphor]] describing a [[social welfare]] system of the pharaoh as a ''[[benefactor]]'' who could [[exercise authority]] and it included the governmental structure of [[corvee|corvée]] and [[corban]] which God opposed.<Ref>[[Ezekiel 11]]:7 “ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; 'Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they [are] the flesh, and this [city is] the [[caldron]]: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.'”</Ref>
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|  The sons of Jacob had become entangled in [[Egypt]] and God said to never return there again.<Ref>[[Deuteronomy 17]]:16 “ ...nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”</Ref> Because they had chosen to throw their brother Joseph into a pit of slavery, they did not have their own provisions and rations when famine came.
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| [[Psalms 105]]:16  "Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. 17  He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a servant: 18  Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 19  Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him. 20  The king sent and loosed him; [even] the ruler of the people, and let him go free. 21  He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: 22  To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his [[02205|senators]] [[wisdom]]. 23  Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham(hot). 24  And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies."
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| V1 "that which shall '''befall you(sons of Israel) in the last days'''."
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| V2 Gather '''sons of Jacob'''; and hearken unto [[Israel]] your [[father]].
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| 3 [[Reuben]] as "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel;" פַּ֤חַז כַּמַּ֙יִם֙ kammayim paḥaz "Uncontrolled as the waters"<Ref>: Proverbs 21:6  The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
: Ephesians 4:14  That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
: James 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8  A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.</Ref>
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| What are the  instruments( or vessels of)<Ref name="keli">{{03627}}</Ref> of cruelty (ḥāmās [[violence]] associated with [[02556]] חָמֵץ‎ chamets ''to be [[leaven]]ed'' and [[02557]] חָמֵץ‎ chametz, the thing [[leaven]]ed.)<Ref name="chamac55">{{02555}}</Ref>  [are in] their habitations.(מְכֵרֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ məḵêrōṯêhem)<Ref name="mekerah">{{04380}}</Ref> which can mean swords or weapons but includes extra letters of TavYodHeyMem.
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| Concerning [[Simeon]] and [[Levi]] he 7 "Cursed<Ref name="ararbe">{{0779}}</Ref>  their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel<Ref name="qashah">{{07185}}</Ref> : I will divide<Ref name="chalaq">{{02505}}</Ref> them in Jacob, and scatter<Ref name="puwts">{{06327}}</Ref>  them in [[Israel]].
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|    <Ref>Mark 11:16  And would not suffer that any man should carry [any] vessel through the temple. </Ref>
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|12 "His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." Milk is the metaphor for the milk of human kindness but to much milk is not good like [[Milk and meat|boiling a kid in its mothers milk]].
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| [[Gad]] will not only eventually learn that we are to love our neighbor but talks about ''his hate for Joseph'' and how Judah sold him.<Ref>[https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe289.htm Chapter 1]:8 And regarding this matter I was wroth with Joseph until the day that he was sold. 9 And the spirit of hatred was in me, and I wished not either to hear of Joseph with the ears, or see him with the eyes, because he rebuked us to our faces saying that we were eating of the flock without Judah. 10 For whatsoever things he told our father, he believed him. 11 I confess now my gin, my children, that oftentimes I wished to kill him, because I hated him from my heart. 12 Moreover, I hated him yet more for his dreams; and I wished to lick 1 him out of the land of the living, even as an ox licketh up the grass of the field. 13 And Judah sold him secretly to the Ishmaelites. 14 Thus the God of our fathers delivered him from our hands, that we should not work great lawlessness in Israel.</Ref><Br>We are told to seek the [[kingdom of God]]  and the [[righteousness]] of God and avoid the "evils and devilish poison".<Ref>[https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe289.htm Chapter 1]:15 And now, my children, hearken to the words of truth to work [[righteousness]], and all the law of the Most High, and go not astray through the spirit of hatred, for it is evil in all the doings of men. 16 Whatsoever a man doeth the hater abominateth him: and though a man worketh the law of the Lord, he praiseth him not; though a man feareth the Lord, and taketh pleasure in that which is [[righteous]], he loveth him not. 17 He dispraiseth the truth, he envieth him that prospereth, he welcometh evil-speaking, he loveth arrogance, for hatred blindeth his soul; as I also then looked on Joseph. 18 Beware, therefore, my children of hatred, for it worketh lawlessness even against the Lord Himself. 19 For it will not hear the words of His commandments concerning the loving of one's--neighbour, and it sinneth against God. 20 For if a brother stumble, it delighteth immediately to proclaim it to all men, and is urgent that he should be judged for it, and be punished and be put to death. 21 And if it be a servant it stirreth him up against his master, and with every affliction it deviseth against him, if possibly he can be put to death. 22 For hatred worketh with envy also against them that prosper: so long as it heareth of or seeth their success it always languisheth. 23 For as [[love]] would quicken even the dead, and would call back them that are condemned to die, so hatred would slay the living, and those that had sinned venially it would not suffer to live. 24 For the spirit of hatred worketh together with [[Satan]], through hastiness of spirits, in all things to men's death; but the spirit of love worketh together with the law of God in long-suffering unto the salvation of men. 25 Hatred, therefore, is evil, for it constantly mateth with lying, speaking against the truth; and it maketh small things to be great, and causeth the light to be [[darkness]], and calleth the sweet bitter, and teacheth slander, and kindleth wrath, and stirreth up war, and [[violence]] and all [[covetousness]]; it filleth the heart with [[evil|evils]] and devilish poison. 26 These things, therefore, I say to you from experience, my children, that ye may drive forth hatred, which is of the devil, and cleave to the love of God. 27 [[Righteousness]] casteth out hatred, humility destroyeth envy.</Ref><Br>
He even mentions the importance of the being ''buried in the grave with our fathers'' which is the [[allegory]] of dying according to those ways of [[righteousness]] if we are to rest in [[peace]].<Ref>[https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe290.htm Chapter 2]:19 And when he had rested for a little while, he said again; My children, obey your father, and bury me near to my fathers. 20 And he drew up his feet, and fell asleep in [[peace]]. 21 And after five years they carried him up to Hebron, and laid him with his fathers."</Ref>
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| Jesus said we should not be like the governments of the [[world]] of the [[Gentiles]] who call themselves [[Benefactors|Benefactor]] but who [[Exercises authority]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> one over the other. But the tempt the people with power over their neighbor like the sons of Jacob.
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| Accepting that ring of power from a [[Benefactors|Benefactor]] who [[Exercises authority]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref>  over your neighbor by establishing a [[One purse]] system of [[Corban]] for your [[Welfare]] is a [[Covetous Practices|Covetous Practice]] that makes you and your soul [[Merchandise]] and [[Curse children|curses your children]]. Accepting the [[Benefits]]  is like [[Biting one another]] and will lead you to becoming [[Workers of Iniquity]] even though you may think or even say you believe in Christ.<Br>How can you talk about envy, [[socialism]] or the [[Atheism|atheistic]] [[communism]] etc. without using the word "[[covet]]"?<Ref name="jesuscovet">{{jesuscovet}}</Ref><Br>The problem with [[modern Christian|modern Christianity]] is they do the opposite of what [[Christ]], the [[doctrine of Jesus]], and the [[pure religion]] of Christ was and  is all about. They say [[Lord Lord]]<Ref name="doethv">{{doethv}}</Ref>  but do not do what he says. We were not be like the governments of the gentiles who depended on men who call themselves "[[benefactors]]" but [[exercise authority]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref>  one over the other. You really cannot be a true Christian while "[[Biting one another|biting]]"<Ref name="eatbite">{{eatbite}}</Ref> your neighbor financially through the teeth of the civil government to obtain [[benefits]] at the [[Polybius|expense of our neighbor]] within the [[masses]]. That is not loving your neighbor. That is a [[Covetous practices|covetous practice]] which Paul says is ''[[Idolatry]]''.<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref> It is also a system of [[welfare]] that is a [[snare|snare and a trap]] according to Paul and David.<Ref name="snaretrap">{{snaretrap}}</Ref> And according to Peter will make you "[[merchandise]]" or "[[human resources]]"<Ref name="covetnot">{{covetnot}}</Ref> and "curse children".

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== Jacob calls His Sons ==

1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

=== Learn to be Israel ===

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto [[Israel]] your father.

=== Reuben ===

3 [[Reuben]], thou art my [[firstborn]], my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

=== Simeon ===

5 [[Simeon]] and [[Levi]] [are] brethren; instruments<Ref name="keli">{{03627}}</Ref> of cruelty (ḥāmās)<Ref name="chamac55">{{02555}}</Ref>  [are in] their habitations.(מְכֵרֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ məḵêrōṯêhem)<Ref name="mekerah">{{04380}}</Ref> 

6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret<Ref name="cowd">{{05475}}</Ref>; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their [[Selfishness|selfwill]] they digged down a wall.

7 Cursed<Ref name="ararbe">{{0779}}</Ref>  their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide<Ref name="chalaq">{{02505}}</Ref> them in Jacob, and scatter<Ref name="puwts">{{06327}}</Ref>  them in [[Israel]].

=== Judah ===

8 [[Judah]], thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

9 [[Judah]] is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

=== Zebulun ===

13 [[Zebulun]] shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

=== Issachar===

14 [[Issachar]] is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

===Dan ===

16 [[Dan]] shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
=== Gad ===

19 [[Gad]], a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

=== Asher ===

20 Out of [[Asher]] his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal [[dainties]].

=== Naphtali ===

21 [[Naphtali]] is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

== Joseph blessing prevailed ==

22 [[Joseph]] is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

=== Benjamin ===

27 [[Benjamin]] shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

== Jacob's Death and Burial ==

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

31 There they buried [[Abraham]] and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.<Ref name="Paysilv">{{Paysilv}}</Ref> 

33 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.
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