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LESSON XXVII.

Genesis, Chap. xlvii. verses 5-13, 27—31.
Jacob stands before Pharaoh.

5. What did Pharaoh say to Joseph respecting his family?

6. What land did he say was before him? What did he mean by that?

Which part of the land did Pharaoh offer for them to dwell in?

For whose sake was Pharaoh so kind to Jacob and his family?

May we not by good behaviour bring a blessing upon our friends and family?

What did he say farther to Joseph respecting his brethren?

What are "men of activity?"

What is written in Prov. xxii. 29 ?

What sort of people generally find employment? 7. Before whom did Joseph present his father?

Should we not be always ready to respect and acknowledge our parents?

How did king Solomon, who was so great and wise, treat his mother? 1 Kings ii. 13?

What did Jacob do for Pharaoh?

In what capacity did Jacob confer a blessing upon king apparently so much above himself?

Of whom did Jacob ask a blessing to come upon Pharaoh ?

8. What did Pharaoh say to Jacob?

How

9.

days?

did Jacob many

say

What is meant by a pilgrimage?

had been his

Why did Jacob call his life a pilgrimage?

What is said of the posterity of Abraham in Heb. xi. 13-16?

What place did Jacob seek as his home and final rest?

How should Christians now look upon life?

What did Jacob say further of the days of the years of his life?

How had Jacob's days been evil?

What peculiar troubles had he passed through?
Why did he call 130 years few?

Was the life of man shorter in Jacob's days than formerly?

What was the age of Methusaleh, the oldest man? Gen. v. 27.

What is said of the age of man in Ps. xc. 10?

How many years are threescore and ten, and four

score?

10. Did Jacob again bless Pharaoh before he left him?

11. Where did Joseph place his father and brethren?

Were Rameses and Goshen the same place?

For what purposes was this the best part of the land? 12. What did Joseph do for his father and all his household?

What precept do you find written in Rom. xii. 21 ?

13. What was not to be found in all the land?

Why was this so?

What is said of the land of Canaan and the land of Egypt?

What is meant by "the land fainted ?"

What is said of God's people in Ps. xxxvii. 19?

Was this true in Jacob's case?

Verses 27-31.

27. Where did Israel dwell?

What had they in that country?
What is said of their increase?

Repeat God's promise to Abraham their father in Gen. xiii. 16?

What is written in Ps. cxi. 5?

28. How many years did Jacob live in the land of Egypt?

What was his age when he first came to Egypt, and stood before Pharaoh?

What was his whole age?

What is said of Israel's sojourn in Egypt in Ps. cv. 23, 24?

29. What time drew nigh?

Must all die? 2 Sam. xiv. 14.

What is written in Prov. xiv. 32, of the difference be tween the death of the righteous and that of the wicked?

Whom did Israel call to him when he was about to die?

What did he tell Joseph to do?

On what occasions was this custom observed? See Gen. xxiv. 2, 3.

What request did Jacob make to his son Joseph ?

Why would he not be buried in Egypt?

30. Where did Jacob say he would lie? In what burying-place would he be laid? What did Joseph then say?

Is it, generally, of much consequence where our bodies are laid when we die?

What part of us should we be most careful of, and anxious about?

Why should we bo more anxious about the soul than the body?

What shall become of the bodies of the people of God, wherever they may be buried? 1 Corinthians xv 51-53.

Does scripture teach us that our bodies will be raised from the dead?

What are the words of Job in chap. xix. 25-27 ? What should we learn from the anxiety of God's an cient people to be separate from idolaters even in death?

31. What did Israel require of Joseph, as an assurance that he would attend to his request?

What did Joseph do?

What did Israel then do?

Of what was the land of Canaan, where Israel desired to be buried, a type?

What assurance does the Christian seek for his soul's rest, when the time draws nigh that he must die? To whom must he go for that assurance, and to whose hands must he commit his spirit?

LESSON XXVIII.

Genesis, Chap. xlviii. verses 1-21.
Jacob blesses Joseph's sons.

1. What was told Joseph after these things? Whom did he take with him to see his father?

Of what does Joseph here again set us an example? Repeat the fifth commandment?

2. What was told Jacob?

When he heard this, what did he do? 3. What did Jacob say to Joseph?

what time of God's appearance to him at Luz, did he especially allude? See Gen. xxviii. 10-19 ? Did the Lord meet with him more than once at Luz, or Bethel? See Gen. xxxv. 6-15.

4. What promise did the Lord make to him at Luz?

What land would he give him?

What kind of a possession was this to be? What place is promised to God's people, the spiritual Israel, for an everlasting possession?

What must you do to obtain an inheritance there? John iii. 5.

Why did Jacob recount God's dealings with him, and his promises to his seed?

What will the dying christian take pleasure in thinking of, and recounting to others?

5. What did Jacob say of Joseph's two sons?

What were their names?
Where were they born?

At what time were they born?

When the Israelites afterwards possessed the land of Canaan had Joseph's sons parts of their father's portion, or separate portions as distinct tribes, like the other sons of Israel? See Josh. xvii. 17. 6. What did Jacob say of any children Joseph might afterwards have?.

What did he mean by that?

Do we find any other children of Joseph mentioned? 7. Who does Jacob say had died? In what country had she died?

Near what place?

Where had he buried her?

Who was Rachel ?

Of which of his sons was she the mother ?

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