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That's a hell of a welcome for someone who's going to talk about the Bible.

So I thought I would get farther than through Genesis by this point, but I'm not unhappy

about the pace either.

I've learned a tremendous amount.

And so hopefully what we'll do today is finish Genesis completely.

And then I think I'll try to start up with Exodus in May, depending on what happens

next year.

I have a busy travel schedule, but I would really like to do it.

I really like the Exodus story, and I understand it very well.

A lot of the stories in Genesis, especially after the first few stories, say up to the Tower

of Babel, I had to do a tremendous amount of learning about, which is really good, but

I do know the Exodus story, so I'm really looking forward to that.

So let's dive right into it and see how far we can get today.

So we'll review first.

So Joseph's father is Jacob, and Jacob is the patriarch of Israel, essentially, the

father of the Twelve Tribes.

Maybe you might remember that he had a very morally ambivalent pathway through life.

And it's one of the things that I think so interesting about the stories in the Old Testament

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