Posts tagged biblical narratives
Story 16: The Table of Nations: Japheth and the Unspoken One

The chapter of Genesis that comes after the flood is fascinating. It is called the Table of Nations. It tells of the people on earth that came from Noah’s three sons.

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Story 19: Babel

After the Great Flood, all the humans really stuck together. They spoke the language of Noah. They traveled the land together as nomads. They lived in tents that could easily be picked up and moved. They herded their animals along with them as they wandered from place to place seeking good water supplies and plenty of grassland for their animals.

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Story 62 The Cupbearer and the Baker

Joseph spent year after year in the prison dungeon, humbled to one of the lowest positions in life.  Yet he continued to faithfully and loyally serve God.  His God was with him in the middle of his suffering, and he trusted that his Lord had a purpose in it.

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Story 68 A Silver Cup in a Sack of Grain

After years of separation, Joseph’s brothers were sitting in his own home in Egypt.  How strange and wonderful it must have seemed.  When he saw Benjamin, he was filled with great sobs of tears.  He had to leave the room to pull himself together again. 

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Story 73 The Royal Blessing of Judah

God’s blessing for the next son was totally different from the ones given to Reuben, Simeon, and Levi.  This son was Judah.  We will read as he is given broad and wide blessings that would transform the nation of Israel and the world.  These remarkable blessings will continue into eternity! 

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Story 75 Rachel’s Blessed Children

The next blessing Jacob gave was for his son, Joseph.  Joseph’s sons Ephraim and Manasseh had already been blessed, and each of them would be considered equal to the rest of Jacob’s sons and their tribes.  Joseph would be counted as two, receiving the double portion of inheritance from his father.

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Story 76 Jacob Dies

Jacob blessed each of his sons with words of prophecy about the tribes that would come from each of them to make God’s holy nation.  These were words of breathtaking faith.  Jacob trusted that God would do what he had promised even though he could not see it.  Jacob knew that he was growing old. 

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