About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

1/04/2023

Genesis 50:1-26 They Take Jacob to be Buried in Canaan

 

They Take Jacob/a.k.a. Israel to be Buried in Canaan

Genesis  50:1-26               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Joseph fell on his father’s [Jacob/a.k.a. Israel's] face & wept [over] him & kissed him & commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, [Jacob/Israel & they did so, which] took 40 days. And the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days. 

When the days of mourning were past, Joseph [asked] the house of Pharaoh, If I have now found grace in your eyes, I pray [that] you speak, [so] Pharaoh [can hear,] saying, My father made me swear, saying, [Look,] when I die, I pray [that] you bury me  in my grave that I [dug] for me in the land of Canaan. 

Therefore, let me go up now, I pray you & bury my father & I will come [back] again. And Pharaoh said, Go up & bury your father, as he made you swear. And Joseph went up to bury his father & with him went all of Pharaoh's servants & the elders of the land of Egypt.

[With] all the house of Joseph, his [brothers,] his father's [families.] Only their little ones & their flocks & herds, they left in the land of Goshen. With [Joseph, these also] went up: chariots & horsemen & it was a very [large] company.

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, [that] is beyond [the] Jordan [River] & they mourned there with a very [grievous] lamentation & he mourned for his father 7 days.

And when inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning [at the threshing] floor of Atad, they said, This is the grievous mourning [of] the Egyptians, & called the place Abel Mirzraim [Mourning of Egypt,] which is beyond Jordan. 

[Jacob/Israel’s] sons carried him into the land of Canaan & buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession [for] a burying place [from] Ephron, the Hittite, before Mamre.

After his father was buried, Joseph & his brothers & all [who] went up with him to bury his father, returned to Egypt. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, [Perhaps,] Joseph will hate us & [repay] us for all the evil, [that] we did to him. 

[Genesis 37:28- Then [Midianite] merchantmen passed by there & they [pulled] Joseph out of the pit & sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for 20 pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.]

And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Before he died, your father commanded [us,] saying, You shall say [this] to Joseph, I pray [that] you forgive us now, the tresspasses of your brothers & their sin: for [what] the evil they did to you. 

And now, we pray [that] you forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Also, his [brothers] fell down before him & said, [See we [are] your servants. 

Joseph said to them, [Don’t be afraid:] for am I in the place of God? You [meant] evil against me, but God meant it [for] good, to bring it to pass, to save the [lives] of [many] people [from the severe famine,] as it is this day . 

Now, [don’t be afraid,] I will [provide food] for you & your little ones. [Joseph] comforted them & [spoke] kindly to them. Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he & his father’s [families] & [Joseph] lived [to be] 110 years [old.]

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the 3rd generation: also the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

Joseph said to his brethren, I [am going to] die & God will surely visit you & bring you out of this land unto the land which he [swore] to Abraham, Isaac & to Jacob. 

[Then,] Joseph took an oath [from] the children of Israel [a.k.a. Jacob,] saying, God will surely visit you & you shall carry up my bones from [here.] 

[So,] Joseph died, [at] 110 years old & they embalmed him & he was put in a coffin in Egypt.