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Peace, the Stewart says to them.

Shalom, it's all good.

You don't need to be so worked up, so terrified.

He then tells them that your God,

the God of your father, has put the treasure in your sacks a gift for you. Of course, this is the man who had done so, but he had done it at the bidding of his master Joseph. God works through masks, as Luther said so often.

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. His hand forced by the ongoing famine,

Jacob finally agrees to the terms that the Lord of Egypt had stipulated.

But he thinks to find favor with the man by sending along to him a gift of what they still had

left, some balm, honey, gum, or pistachios, and almonds.

May not sound like a lot, but some of that was apparently valued in ancient Egypt as the Ishmaelite

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