Reading for April 3rd

Read Genesis 46.1-34
In 46.1-47.31: Jacob moves his family to live with Joseph in Egypt.
In verses 1-4: Jacob had once received a vision at night in which God spoke words of assurance and blessing when he left Canaan (28.10-22).
Then as now, God promised Jacob, "I myself will go down with you and bring you up again" (v.4; 28.15).
In verse 27: The seventy members of the house of Jacob are a partial fulfillment of the promise of many descendants repeated throughout Genesis (15.5; 28.14).
In verse 34: Goshen is a pasture land in the Nile River delta isolated from the rest of Egypt.
Shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.
Egyptian agriculture was based more on crops and field agriculture that would be endangered by wandering herds of grazing animals.
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