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Who did Joseph say had sent him to Egypt? For what purpose did he say God had sent him?

Were they then guilty in selling Joseph ?

What did Peter say to the men who condemned and crucified Jesus, in Acts ii. 23?

How then are men to blame, if God orders all circumstances?

How had God preserved life by sending Joseph into Egypt?

6. How long had the famine then been in the land?

What did Joseph say should not be in five years?

What is meant by earing?

7. What did Joseph say of God's purpose in sending him before them?

What is the meaning of posterity?

Whose posterity were Jacob's family?

What promises had God made to Abraham's posterity? 8. What did Joseph farther say to comfort his brethren?

What must have been Joseph's temper and disposition?

What had he power to do to his brethren if he had chosen it?

What is written in Prov. xix. 11 ?

What did Joseph say God had made hin?

How was he a father to Pharaoh?

Was it not because Joseph was so wise and discreet, that so much honour was given him?

How then could he say God had done it?

9. What did Joseph bid his brethren do? How is this circumstance recorded in Acts vii. 13, 14? What message did Joseph send to his father?

What does Joseph's conduct towards his father, teach. children?

To whom did Joseph again give all the glory of his promotion?

What are children bound to do for their parents when they are old and infirm?

10. In what land did Joseph say his father should dwell?

Was Goshen within the land of Egypt?

In what part of it?

Who did Joseph say should come with his father?

11. What did he say he would do for his father?

What is meant by nourish?

To whom should parents look for nourishment and support in old age ?

Repeat Prov. xxiii. 22.

12. What did Joseph say to assure his brethren that it was he, himself?

13. Of what did he bid them tell his father? Was this vanity and pride in Joseph, or to assure and comfort his father?

What did he tell them to hasten and do ?

14. What is said of his meeting with Benjamin?

15. How did he behave to all his other brethren?

After that, what were his brethren encouraged to do?

Of what grace does Joseph here set us a beautiful example?

Repeat Eph. iv. 31, 32 ?

Whose spirit must change and rule in the heart before such a disposition can be exercised?

Are we, by nature, ready to forgive injuries?

What has the Lord Jesus said of an unforgiving cisposition, in Matt. vi. 15?

Which are the happiest people, the forgiving, or un. forgiving?

16. What news came to Pharaoh's house ? How did Pharaoh and his servants recei e it?

LESSON XXVI.

Genesis, Chap. xlv. verses 25-28, and Chap. xl i verses 1-7, 26-30.

Israel goes down to Egypt.

25. From whence did Joseph's brethren & up?

To what land, and to whom, did they come 26. What did they tell their father Jacob: How did Jacob receive this news?

Why could he not believe it?

What is said of the disciples in Luke xxiv. 41, when the Lord appeared to them after his resurrection? How had Jacob lamented when he first thought that Joseph was torn in pieces? Gen. xxxvii. 35.

For how many years had he looked upon Joseph as

dead?

27. What did Jacob's sons tell him?

What did Jacob see?

What is said of him when he saw the wagons?

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What is the meaning of revived?
28. What did Israel then say?

What did old Simeon say after he had seen the Saviour? Luke ii. 29, 30.

Chap. xlvi. verses 1-7.

1. To what place did Israel come on his journey to Egypt?

In what part of the land of Canaan did Israel live?
Gen. xxxv. 27 ?

In what direction did he travel to get to Egypt?
What did Israel do at Beer-sheba?

What do we read concerning that place in Gen. xxi. 33 ?

What do you read of Isaac in Gen. xxvi. 25?

What special reason had Israel to bless God, and offer sacrifices of thanksgiving at this time? 2. How did God speak to Israel? What did he say to him?

How did Jacob answer?

3. Whom did the Lord declare himself to be?

Had God been faithful and true to his father Isaac ? What might Jacob then expect from him?

What did the Lord say respecting his journey to Egypt?

What promise did God make to him?

Why should Jacob fear to go down into Egypt? What had the Lord said in vision to Abraham, as you read in Gen. xv. 13?

4. What did the Lord say he would do? Is there any reason to fear if the Lord be with us? What is written for the encouragement of God's people in Ps. cxxv. 2?

Did not Jacob die in Egyp!?

How then did the Lord keep his promise, and bring him up again? Gen. 1. 13?

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What did the children of Israel say to Joshua many years after? Josh. xxiv. 17?

What promise did the Lord make to Israel concerning Joseph ?

What was meant by this?

5. Whom did the sons of Israel take with them besides their father? How were they carried?

6. What else did they take with them? Into what land did they come?

7. Who came with Jacob into Egypt?

Verses 26-30.

26. How many souls came with Jacob into Egypt?

Who were not included in this number?
How many are threescore and six ?

27. How many were the sons of Joseph ? How many then were they altogether? How many are threescore and ten?

28. Which of his sons did Jacob send forward to Joseph?

For what purpose

?

Into what land did Israel and his family come?

Where was the land of Goshen situated?

29. How did Joseph prepare to meet Israel his father?..

Where did he go to meet him?
How did he meet him?

How many years had they been separated?
30. What did Israel say to Joseph?

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