Genesis 46:1-34
Israel when he reached Beersheba,he offered sacrifices to the God.
All those who went to Egypt with Jacob-those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons' wives-numbered sixty-six persons.
With the sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the number s of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were 70 in all.
Why?
The people of Israel, Jacob's household, set out for Egypt with God's reassuring promise that he will accompany them and bring them back by then a nation.
The Egyptian dislike of the nomadic shepherds is probably no different from the feeling of many settled people towards wandering gypsies. Here the dislike serve a useful purpose to keeping the family as an isolated unit. Otherwise group identity might quickly lost.
Jacob learned before he went to Egypt he made sacrifice to the Lord. He knew that his way is under the guidence of the Lord, not him.
God's blessing is more important than what I am doing.
How?
My way needs to be blessed by the Lord.
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