Day 019 - Genesis 46-47

Chapter 46 mostly deals with the family that Jacob brings with him to Israel and there are a lot of names in there to try and pronounce. The funniest for my are Muppim, Huppim and Ard, who, my dad informs me were key to a maths problem his teacher once set him and his class. Here we get that first glimpse of how one family will start to become a nation as at this point there are now 70 of them.

The rest of the passage focusses on the happy family reunion and the continued success of Joseph's forward planning to avert the famine. Our focus is once again drawn at the end to God's promise being related to a particular geographical area and even though he has brought them to Egypt, it is clear that there permanent future does not lie there.