Show The GRAPHIC BIBLE By LEWIS BROWNE Se L Th E- E EG G R E AIT'S AITS C i 3 f r s a. a e fe J r j y si I S St t r y yc c ic co S w Gold a. a c a. a slave t ft ft F 1 4 Wanderings of Isaac and Jacob MID HE Heb Hebrews remained In CaI Ca Ca- TH T I naan living of off their flocks J and berds Lords like the rest of the pastoral trIb tribes s In the land But they refused to merge with these other tribes s despite that they were so like them When Wilen their chIeftaIns chIeftaIn's chieftains chieftain's chief chIef- tain's tafts son Isaac was ready to take taken a n wife his father sent all the way to Padan-Aram Padan about Padan about miles mlles to to get n a Hebrew maiden for him And years later Isaac was In turn exceedingly anxious that his own son Jacob should also seek seck his wife In p Padan dan Intermarriage Intermarriage with the was counted altogether a crime Abraham died full Thu of or years and Isaac succeeded him as as chieftain of the Hebrews in Canaan He lie and lila his followers dwelt In what was vas called th the South Country Coutry a sandy region on the edge of ot the desert Perhaps they were were unable to penetrate penetrate penetrate pene pene- farther north where the soil was much more f fertile because the there were better able to keep newcomers out Even In Inthe Inthe Inthe the South Country which was a sort of No- No No Mans Ians Ian's Land the lie lie- Hebrews brews had their fierce battles aUles to fight 1 6 Genesis 20 2010 reports what Ima may have been a a. a common incident In their dally daily life Ufe And Isaacs Isaac's servants diggel In the valley nail and found therea there therea a well weH of ot sprIn springing water And the herdsmen of Gerar did str strive e with Isaacs Isaac's say say- Jing The water Is ours Thorp must have been much of such striving until finally Isaac made treaties with certain of the neigh borIn sheikhs The word sheikh J whIch which h is pronounced Is is the Arabic for chieftain It does not tint even eren remotely connote the handsome Impetuous lover In de desert des de- ert garb arb who Is so popular a fi figure fig fig- ure In our cinemas Thereafter Isaac Isnac dwelt In at nt t an nn oasis named Sheba Beer-Sheba ant and not Snot until he was near death did he he- move again He went vent then to Hebron He He- bron which had been the central camp amp of the Hebrews during Auraham's Abrahams Abraham's Abra Aura j hams ham's time There in the Cave of Machpelah Abraham and his wife Ife i 1 Sarah lay burled buried And when Isaac died he too was burled there Jacob Tacob althou although h he was the younger young young- er r son of Isaac became the chieftain chieftain chief chief- tam tain of the Hebrews when his father father fa fa- fa ther died Ills His elder brother Esau Esan was a wild fellow who took native women for his wives and became the father of a race of or marauders down in the wilderness of Mt Seir Jacob mana managed e to trick Esan Esau out of the blessing which belonged belonge to the first born nn and then fled lied north to Haran his mothers mother's native land There he lie joined the clan of his uncle Lahan Laban and with his lila labor bought two of Labans Laban's da daughters as his wives And with the aid of ot God lot Jacob so prospered that soon he had a clan of ot his own OWl He then returned to Canaan Cannan for that was after all his real homeland On the tile way hack he was met b by Esau who hail had marched marche up from Seir with of his followers hut there were vere no hostilities for Esau had forgiven n his brother Jacob led his clan across the Jordan Jor Jor- Ian dan and amI settled settle near Shechem but before long tong an unpleasantness with the natives forced him to seek new pasturage for his flocks He moved south stopping at Bethel Uethel which was a holy place to him because there he ha had had lied a wondrous visIon visIon vis vis- Ion when on his flight to Haran It was still an nn important shrine many centuries later as we shall learn farther on In this book At n Bethel thel Jacob renewed his covenant covenant cov coy with Jehovah and then moved mo on to Ephrath where he hurled burled his beloved wife Rachel Hachet Finally he got ot as far south as Hebron He fl bron hron where he laid laiti eyes once more moreon on his a n aged ed father Isaac Isanc And In Hebron he lie stayed many years ruling rul ml In ing there after his father died as chieftain of the whole Hebrew clan and prospering nil all the time Perhaps Per haps imps he would hn have remained In Hebron till his death had It not been heen for tor his son Joseph S The Adventures of Joseph JosephJ J JACOB ACon had many sons but of or them nil all his most favored was the tue young youn one J Joseph seph Joseph was unlike his brethren for Cor he was a n dreamer and an nn ambitious youth while stolid hardheaded hard head they were ed cd fellows content to be mere herds herds- men And therefore they the all dIstrusted distrusted distrusted dis dIs- trusted and envied Joseph Now It came to pass that one day his father father father fa fa- fa- fa ther sent the boy to see how his brothers were faring for they had gone of off to the north with the trIbal tribal tri trI- bal 11 flocks 0 The Hebrew herdsmen evidently found It necessary at times to wander wander wan wan- der her far from the tribal encampment at Hebron In order to find fresh pasturage In this particular Instance Instance instance In In- stance they were reported to have gone to Shechem which must have been at least least a two or three three- three days IlYs' IlYs Journey away Joseph followed them thither only to learn however however however how how- ever that they had hail wandered still sUU farther north So SQ he followed after them and found them at Dothan But when his bIs brethren saw him coming instead o of welcoming him the they took him prisoner and sold him to a caravan of ot or traders going to Egypt By these thes traders he be was In turn sold as a n slave to an nn Egyptian official of of- named Potiphar and bitter were the experiences which Joseph then encountered False Fase accusation accusation tion w was wis s brought against him by Potiphar's wife an and Joseph was flung into prison But through the intervention of or Jehovah he won his release after a time and then actually ac ac- ac- ac rose to be viceroy of or all aU He forewarned the Egypt king kingor king king- or pharaoh as each king was called in Egypt that Egypt that a n famine was coming comIn com corn In lag ing and urged him to store up grain In ad advance nce And when ensuing ensuing en suing events proved the Uie value of ot Josephs Joseph's counsel he was given the highest honors in the land Now the famine came also to Ca Ca- naan and old Jacob hearing bearing there was grain stored up In Egypt sent his sons to buy some there And thus were the brethren brought face to face with Joseph once more But they had long repented of or their crime and Joseph took tool the sweetest revenge by returning good for evil He Tie obtained royal permission for all aJI of them to settle In the fertile ferme meadows of Egypt Jacob still the chieftain of the Hebrews did not hesitate to Join In the long trek trel through the desert even en though he was a very old man by now He settled In a region called Goshen and there his descendants continued continued contin contin- to live So long as ns Joseph was still stitt alive aUve the Hebrews were left heft at peace in Goshen Dwelling in the generous delta of the River Nile they prospered pros exceedingly and until the lithe land was filled with them But nut when Joseph died and his service to to the country was forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- forI I gotten the Eg Egyptians turned on the alien folk and made them slaves sla Taskmasters lashed them to work on those thos hn huge e buildings s the ruins of which are still to be seen In Egypt They rhey built bunt treasure houses that Is fortresses or garrisons garrisons gar gar- for the rulIn ruling Pharaoh The ruins of ot two of ot these treasure tr houses and Ramses have been located In modern times Bitter Bitter Bit Bit- ter Indeed was the travail of ot the Hebrews for tor their masters were without mercy But then Jehovah had mercy on his people and sent them a n leader named Moses to deliver them from bondage The story of ot that delIverance deliverance erance Is recounted In the Book o of Exodus and anel It Is a n story full of won wonders ers Moses had hall to bring down ten fell plagues upon the Egyptians before at last Pharaoh would let the Hebrews go JO Even then the tyrant tyrant tyrant ty ty- ty- ty rant was not sufficiently humbled bumbled for or Immediately after the slaves departed departed de- de parted he ho gathered his army and anel andset andset set out to recapture them The ays runaways heavily laden with the booty they had taken from tram former m masters bad had not been able to travel fast Indeed they were still no farther tarther than the tho Bitter Lakes when Pharaoh was almost on them |