The Birth OF Israel

Genesis 32:22-32

AND He (Jacob) AROSE THAT NIGHT AND TOOK His Two Wives, His Two Female Servants, AND His Eleven Sons, AND CROSSED OVER The Ford OF Jabbok.  He (Jacob) TOOK Them, SENT Them OVER The Brook, AND SENT OVER WHAT He (Jacob) HAD.

THEN, Jacob WAS LEFT ALONE; AND A Man (GOD Almighty) WRESTLED WITH Him (Jacob), UNTIL THE BREAKING OF DAY.  NOW, WHEN HE (GOD Almighty) SAW THAT HE (GOD Almighty) DID NOT PREVAIL AGAINST Him (Jacob), HE (GOD Almighty) TOUCHED The Socket OF His (Jacob’s) Hip; AND The Socket OF Jacob’s Hip WAS OUT OF Joint, AS HE (GOD Almighty) WRESTLED WITH Him (Jacob).

AND HE (GOD Almighty) SAID, “LET ME GO, FOR THE DAY BREAKS.”  BUT, He (Jacob) SAID, “I WILL NOT LET YOU GO, UNLESS YOU BLESS Me!”  SO, HE (GOD Almighty) SAID TO Him (Jacob), “WHAT IS Your Name?”  He (Jacob) SAID, “Jacob.”  AND HE (GOD Almighty) SAID, “Your Name SHALL NO LONGER BE CALLED Jacob, BUT Israel; FOR YOU HAVE STRUGGLED WITH GOD (GOD Almighty) AND WITH Men, AND HAVE PREVAILED.”  THEN, Jacob (Israel) ASKED, SAYING, “TELL Me YOUR NAME, I PRAY.”  AND HE (GOD Almighty) SAID, “WHY IS IT THAT YOU ASK ABOUT MY NAME?”  AND HE (GOD Almighty) BLESSED Him (Jacob/Israel) THERE.

SO, Jacob (Israel) Called The Name OF The Place, Peniel: “FOR I HAVE SEEN GOD (GOD Almighty) FACE TO FACE, AND My Life IS PRESERVED.”  JUST AS He (Jacob/Israel) CROSSED OVER Penuel, The Sun ROSE ON Him (Jacob/Israel), AND He LIMPED ON His Hip.  THEREFORE, TO THIS DAY, The Children OF Israel DO NOT EAT, THE MUSCLE THAT SHRANK, Which IS ON The Hip Socket, BECAUSE HE (GOD Almighty) TOUCHED The Socket OF Jacob’s Hip, IN THE MUSCLE THAT SHRANK.

Genesis 35:1, 5-7, 9-15

THEN, GOD (GOD Almighty) SAID TO Jacob, “ARISE, GO UP TO Bethel AND DWELL THERE; AND MAKE AN ALTAR THERE TO GOD (GOD Almighty), WHO APPEARED TO YOU, WHEN YOU FLED FROM The Face OF Esau, Your Brother.”

 AND They JOURNEYED, AND THE TERROR OF GOD (GOD Almighty) WAS UPON The Cities THAT WERE ALL AROUND Them, AND They DID NOT PURSUE The Sons OF Jacob.  SO, Jacob CAME TO Luz (THAT IS, Bethel), WHICH IS IN The Land OF Canaan, He (Jacob) AND All The People, Who WERE WITH Him.  AND He (Jacob) BUILT AN ALTAR THERE AND CALLED The Place, El Bethel, BECAUSE THERE, GOD (GOD Almighty) APPEARED TO Him (Jacob), WHEN He FLED FROM The Face OF His Brother (Esau).

THEN, GOD (GOD Almighty) APPEARED TO Jacob AGAIN, WHEN He (Jacob) CAME FROM Padan Aram, AND BLESSED Him (Jacob).  AND GOD (GOD Almighty) SAID TO Him (Jacob), “Your Name IS Jacob; Your Name SHALL NOT BE CALLED Jacob ANYMORE, BUT Israel SHALL BE Your Name.”  SO, HE (GOD Almighty) CALLED His (Jacob’s) Name, Israel.  ALSO, GOD (GOD Almighty) SAID TO Him (Jacob/Israel): “I AM GOD Almighty.  BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY; A NATION AND A COMPANY OF NATIONS SHALL PROCEED FROM YOU (Jacob/Israel), AND Kings SHALL COME FROM Your Body.  THE LAND, WHICH I GAVE Abraham AND Isaac, I GIVE TO YOU (Jacob/Israel); AND TO Your Descendants, AFTER YOU, I GIVE THIS LAND.”

THEN, GOD (GOD Almighty) WENT UP FROM Him (Jacob/Israel), IN THE PLACE WHERE HE (GOD Almighty) TALKED WITH Him (Jacob/Israel).  SO, Jacob (Israel) SET UP A PILLAR IN THE PLACE WHERE HE (GOD Almighty) TALKED WITH Him (Jacob/Israel), A PILLAR OF STONE; AND He (Jacob/Israel) POURED A DRINK OFFERING ON IT, AND He POURED OIL ON IT.  AND Jacob CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE, WHERE GOD (GOD Almighty) SPOKE WITH Him (Jacob/Israel), Bethel.

Genesis 35:23-26

NOW, The Sons OF Jacob (Israel) WERE Twelve: The Sons OF Leah WERE Reuben, Jacob’s Firstborn, AND Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, AND Zebulun; The Sons OF Rachel WERE Joseph AND Benjamin; The Sons OF Bilhah, Rachel’s Maidservant, WERE Dan AND Naphtali; AND The Sons OF Zilpah, Leah’s Maidservant, WERE Gad AND Asher.  THESE WERE The Sons OF Jacob (Israel), Who WERE BORN TO Him, IN Padan Aram.

[Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, AND Asher]

Genesis 46:1-4

SO, Israel (Jacob) TOOK His Journey WITH ALL THAT He AND, AND CAME TO Beersheba, AND OFFERED SACRIFICES TO THE GOD OF His Father, Isaac.  THEN, GOD (GOD Almighty) SPOKE TO Israel (Jacob), IN THE VISIONS OF THE NIGHT, AND SAID, “Jacob, Jacob!”  AND He (Israel/Jacob) SAID, “Here I am.”  SO, HE (GOD Almighty) SAID, “I AM GOD, THE GOD OF Your Father; DO NOT FEAR TO GO DOWN TO Egypt, FOR I WILL MAKE OF YOU A GREAT NATION THERE.  I WILL GO DOWN WITH YOU TO Egypt, AND I WILL ALSO SURELY BRING YOU UP AGAIN; AND Joseph WILL PUT His Hand ON Your Eyes.”

Genesis 47:11, 27-31

AND Joseph SITUATED His Father (Jacob/Israel) AND His Brothers, AND GAVE Them A Possession IN The Land OF Egypt, IN The Best OF The Land, IN The Land OF Rameses, AS Pharaoh HAD COMMANDED.

SO, Israel (Jacob) DWELT IN The Land OF Egypt, IN The Country OF Goshen; AND They HAD POSSESSIONS THERE AND GREW AND MULTIPLIED EXCEEDINGLY.  AND Jacob (Israel) LIVED IN The Land OF Egypt Seventeen (17) Years.  SO, The Length OF Jacob’s (Israel’s) Life WAS One Hundred AND Forty-Seven (147) Years.  WHEN THE TIME DREW NEAR THAT Israel (Jacob) MUST DIE, He (Israel/Jacob) CALLED His Son Joseph AND SAID TO Him (Joseph), “NOW, IF I HAVE FOUND FAVOR, IN Your Sight, PLEASE, PUT Your Hand UNDER My Thigh, AND DEAL KINDLY AND TRULY WITH Me (Israel/Jacob).  PLEASE, DO NOT BURY Me IN Egypt, BUT LET Me LIE WITH My Fathers; YOU SHALL CARRY Me OUT OF Egypt AND BURY Me IN Their Burial Place.”  AND He (Joseph) SAID, “I WILL DO AS YOU HAVE SAID.”  THEN, He (Israel/Jacob) SAID, “SWEAR TO Me.”  AND He (Joseph) SWORE TO Him (Israel/Jacob).  SO, Israel (Jacob) BOWED Himself ON The Head OF The Bed.

Genesis 48:2-4, 15-16, 21

AND Jacob (Israel) WAS TOLD, “LOOK, Your Son Joseph IS COMING TO YOU”; AND Israel (Jacob) STRENGTHENED Himself AND SAT UP ON The Bed.  THEN, Jacob (Israel) SAID TO Joseph: “GOD Almighty APPEARED TO Me, AT Luz, IN The Land OF Canaan AND BLESSED Me, AND SAID TO Me, ‘BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE YOU FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY YOU, AND I WILL MAKE OF YOU A MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE, AND GIVE THIS LAND TO Your Descendants, AFTER YOU, AS AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION.’

AND He (Jacob/Israel) BLESSED Joseph, AND SAID: “GOD (GOD Almighty), BEFORE WHOM My Fathers, Abraham AND Isaac WALKED, THE GOD (GOD Almighty) WHO HAS FED Me ALL My Life LONG TO THIS DAY, The Angel WHO HAS REDEEMED Me, FROM ALL Evil, BLESS The Lads; LET My Name BE NAMED UPON Them, AND THE NAME OF My Fathers, Abraham AND Isaac; AND LET Them GROW INTO A MULTITUDE IN THE MIDST OF The Earth.”  THEN, Israel (Jacob) SAID TO Joseph, “BEHOLD, I AM DYING, BUT GOD (GOD Almighty) WILL BE WITH YOU AND BRING YOU BACK TO THE LAND OF Your Fathers.”

Genesis 49:29-33

THEN, He (Israel/Jacob) CHARGED Them (His Sons) AND SAID TO Them: “I AM TO BE GATHERED TO My People; BURY Me WITH My Fathers, IN THE CAVE, THAT IS IN The Field OF Ephron, The Hittite, IN THE CAVE, THAT IS IN The Field OF Machpelah, WHICH IS BEFORE Mamre, IN The Land OF Canaan, WHICH Abraham BOUGHT WITH The Field OF Ephron, The Hittite, AS A POSSESSION FOR A BURIAL PLACE.  THERE, They BURIED Abraham AND Sarah, His Wife, THERE, They BURIED Isaac AND Rebekah, His Wife, AND THERE, I BURIED Leah.  The Field AND The Cave THAT IS THERE WERE PURCHASED FROM The Sons OF Heth.”  AND WHEN Jacob (Israel) HAD FINISHED COMMANDING His Sons, He DREW His Feet UP INTO The Bed AND BREATHED His Last, AND WAS GATHERED TO His People.

Genesis 50:1-3

THEN, Joseph FELL ON His Father’s (Jacob’s/Israel’s) Face, AND WEPT OVER Him, AND KISSED Him.  AND Joseph COMMANDED His Servants, The Physicians, TO EMBALM His (Jacob/Israel) Father.  SO, The Physicians EMBALMED Israel (Jacob).  Forty (40) Days WERE REQUIRED FOR Him (Israel/Jacob), FOR SUCH ARE THE DAYS REQUIRED, FOR THOSE WHO ARE EMBALMED; AND The Egyptians MOURNED FOR Him (Israel/Jacob), Seventy (70) Days.

Fellow Believers, THESE ARE NOT All The Scriptures About The Life OF Jacob/Israel, But These Scriptures Help Us Understand The Birth OF Israel.

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