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Music in their work at LHFMissions.org. Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

I think all of that's a good insight into Joseph's thinking as this rolls on,

particularly when 10 show up without his brother. In short,

he's demanding proof that his brother is alive from these scoundrels who had zero compunction

about selling him off. The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible

study with the church,

past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Genesis, chapters 37 to 50.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit.

Be with you all. Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God. So in our previous study, we began working our way through

Genesis 42. Jacob, an old man by now, had heard through the grapevine that while dearth

afflicted all the lands around them,

Egypt still had somehow managed to keep stocks of grain.

Hence, he somewhat irritably dispatches ten of his sons to go to Egypt and buy grain for their households,

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