Showing posts with label Genesis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genesis. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Here comes that master dreamer!, Book of Genesis 37:3-4.12-13a.17b-28.

Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long tunic. 
When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, they hated him so much that they would not even greet him. 
One day, when his brothers had gone to pasture their father's flocks at Shechem, 
Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers, you know, are tending our flocks at Shechem. Get ready; I will send you to them." "I am ready," Joseph answered. 
The man told him, "They have moved on from here; in fact, I heard them say, 'Let us go on to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and caught up with them in Dothan. 
They noticed him from a distance, and before he came up to them, they plotted to kill him. 
They said to one another: "Here comes that master dreamer! 
Come on, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We shall then see what comes of his dreams." 
When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from their hands, saying: "We must not take his life. 
Instead of shedding blood," he continued, "just throw him into that cistern there in the desert; but don't kill him outright." His purpose was to rescue him from their hands and restore him to his father. 
So when Joseph came up to them, they stripped him of the long tunic he had on; 
then they took him and threw him into the cistern, which was empty and dry. 
They then sat down to their meal. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels laden with gum, balm and resin to be taken down to Egypt. 
Judah said to his brothers: "What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood? 
Rather, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, instead of doing away with him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed. 
They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Some Midianite traders passed by, and they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and took him to Egypt. 



Psalms 105(104):16-17.18-19.20-21. 



When the LORD called down a famine on the land 
and ruined the crop that sustained them, 
He sent a man before them, 
Joseph, sold as a slave. 

They had weighed him down with fetters, 
and he was bound with chains, 
Till his prediction came to pass 
and the word of the LORD proved him true. 

The king sent and released him, 
the ruler of the peoples set him free. 
He made him lord of his house 
and ruler of all his possessions. 


Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;(Genesis 1:20-2:4)

20 And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.