Saturday, June 2, 2012

Genesis 47:1-12 and Matthew 27:57-66 (NIV)

Genesis 47:1-12
Jacob Goes to Eygpt

1    Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.” 
2    He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.
3    Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?”  “Your servants are shepherds, ” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”
4    They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”
5    Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,
6    and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.
7    Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh, 
8    Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”
9    And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
10  Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.
11  So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed.
12  Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children. 


Matthew 27:57-61
The Burial of Jesus
57  As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.
58  Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
59  Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60  and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.
61  Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

Matthew 27:62-66
The Guard at the Tomb
62  The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.
63  “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
64  So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”
65  “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”
66  So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

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