Genesis 42-50; Come Follow Me Lesson
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Patriarchs quote from the Torah
Every blessing bestowed by man is at the core a prayer, since it asks God to help him accomplish what he by himself cannot. Yet the blessing is more than prayer, for it assigns a decisive role to the one who pronounces it. Placing his hands in the solemn act, the Patriarch sees himself as God’s co-worker and as an essential link between the generations. Jacob sees his life spread before him. He is aware of the continued presence of God and acknowledges it with deep feeling. Past and future are now fused. He knows in this moment that his own complex life is crowned with hope, a hope that is represented by the God of his fathers and by the two boys at his side. His life is completed; the blessing of Abraham, which Isaac had bestowed on him, has now passed down to his children’s children.
The Twelve Different Tribes Quote from the Torah
If we look at Jacob’s testament as picture of the Israelites at the time of the Judges, as biblical scholars are generally wont to do, we recognize twelve tribes as different from each other as twelve sons could be. Their temperaments vary widely, from the war-loving Benjamin to the security-loving Issachar; from the morally unstable Reuben to the self-disciplined Joseph; from the violent natures of Simeon and Levi to the calm judgment of Judah. It is obvious that the tribes are still in a state of ferment, and it is equally remarkable that they seemingly have little cohesion. What unites them is not a sense of national purpose or identity; neither is in evidence. If anything binds them, it is their sense of common ancestry and the memory of an old covenant.
The Greater Deliverance Quote From the Torah
Thus Genesis concludes with a vision that looks to “the eternal hills” (Gen. 49:26). Perhaps the words that are now verse 18 and stand near the middle of the testament once formed the poem’s concluding line and summary: “I wait for Your deliverance, O Lord!”
A Quote from Harold B. Lee
“A patriarchal blessing is like a “[paragraph] from the book of your possibilities.”
(Karl G. Maeser, quoted in Harold B. Lee, Stand Ye in Holy Places (1975), 117.)
From T.S. Elliot
“Quick, now, here, now, always— A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well.”
