hello again...welcome back. Today we read through Genesis 49:1-331Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, "Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.
2"Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob; And listen to Israel your father.
The blessing Jacob gave to all his son's is listed here...
28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him.
29Then he charged them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site.
31"There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried. Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah--
32the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth."
33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
Oh what a blessing...we do not do this today...Some seek a blessing before they get married...some seek a blessing before they do something different..such as leaving the family business etc...but how many people do you know that receive a blessing before their parents pass...I know many folks who were able to be by the bedside. Back in this time, the importance of a blessing was very significant.
Please join me in tomorrow's reading of Genesis 50:1-26...Jacob's burial.
