March 2025

READ: Gen. 50:22-26: So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph’s knees. And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God […]

READ: Gen. 50:15-21: Now, please forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, Behold, we are your servants. Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for am I

READ: Gen. 50:1-14: Joseph … wept over him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded … to embalm his father … forty days … and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days … Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh: … ‘My father made me swear … Now therefore, please let me go up and bury

READ: Gen. 49:29-33: Then he charged them 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,

READ: Gen. 49:27-28: Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one according to his own blessing. Benjamin

READ: Gen. 49:22-26: Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; his branches run over the wall. The archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him. But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of

READ: Gen. 49:16-21: Dan shall judge his people … Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider shall fall backward. I have waited for your salvation, O LORD! Gad, a troop shall tramp upon him, but he shall triumph at last.

READ: Gen. 49:13–15: Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea; He shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall adjoin Sidon. Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between two burdens; he saw that rest was good, and that the land was pleasant; he bowed his shoulder to bear a burden,

READ: Gen. 49:8–12: Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s whelp… as a lion … The scepter shall not depart from Judah, … Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be

READ: Gen. 49:5–7: …For in their anger they slew a man, … Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! … I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. Jacob turns to his second and third sons, Simeon and Levi, with a strong condemnation.  Cursed