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JANUARY 23
David’s immediate response to panic is to say,“In the LORD I put my trust.” Literally, he said,“I
take refuge in the LORD.”God is the exclusive refuge for His persecuted children (see Pss.16:1; 36:7).
After all, David adds, the Lord is “in His holy temple…in heaven.”This emphasizes the transcendent
throne room of God,yet God has sovereign sway over all the affairs of earth (see Hab.2:20).“His eyes
behold...His eyelids test”—His transcendence previously depicted does not negate His eminence
here presented from the perspective of the divine scrutiny of all men, including the righteous (see
Jer. 6:27–30; 17:10).
David had made up his mind to trust only in the Lord, and for good reason. In view of David’s
attitude, this psalm can be listed with the psalms of confidence (Pss. 4,16,23,27,62,125,131).

January 23 your children, your children’s children, your

flocks and your herds, and all that you have.
11 There I will provide for you, lest you and
Genesis 45:1–46:34
your household, and all that you have, come to
Then Joseph could not restrain himself poverty; for there are still five years of famine.” ’
45 before all those who stood by him, and 12 “And behold, your eyes and the eyes of my
he cried out, “Make everyone go out from brother Benjamin see that it is my mouth that
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me!” So no one stood with him while Joseph speaks to you. So you shall tell my father of
made himself known to his brothers. And he all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have
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wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house seen; and you shall hurry and bring my father
of Pharaoh heard it. down here.”
3 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Jo- 14 Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s
seph; does my father still live?” But his broth- neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his
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ers could not answer him, for they were dis- neck. Moreover he kissed all his brothers
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mayed in his presence. And Joseph said to his and wept over them, and after that his broth-
brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they ers talked with him.
came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your 16 Now the report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s
brother, whom you sold into Egypt. But now, house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.”
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do not therefore be grieved or angry with So it pleased Pharaoh and his servants well.
yourselves because you sold me here; for God 17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your
sent me before you to preserve life. For these brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and
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two years the famine has been in the land, and depart; go to the land of Canaan. Bring your
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there are still five years in which there will be father and your households and come to me; I
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neither plowing nor harvesting. And God sent will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and
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me before you to preserve a posterity for you you will eat the fat of the land. Now you are
in the earth, and to save your lives by a great commanded—do this: Take carts out of the
deliverance. So now it was not you who sent land of Egypt for your little ones and your
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me here, but God; and He has made me a wives; bring your father and come. Also do
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father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, not be concerned about your goods, for the
and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’ ”
9 “Hurry and go up to my father, and say to 21 Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph
him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: “God has gave them carts, according to the command of
made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the
do not tarry. You shall dwell in the land of journey. He gave to all of them, to each man,
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Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave
three hundred pieces of silver and five changes
of garments. And he sent to his father these
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things: ten donkeys loaded with the good things
45:1–8 Stunned by the revelation of who it of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with
really was with whom they dealt, the brothers grain, bread, and food for his father for the
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then heard expressed a masterpiece of recog- journey. So he sent his brothers away, and
nition of and submission to the sovereignty of they departed; and he said to them, “See that
God, i.e., His providential rule over the affairs you do not become troubled along the way.”
of life, both good and bad. 25 Then they went up out of Egypt, and came
to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.
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