The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 11, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Judah and Tamar the Prostitute".

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God"

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's

Edition is on page 140 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 91.

The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

---Moses who wrote Genesis said this week in Genesis 37:19 that Joseph is a ba'al hakhalomot "lord of the dreams". Ba'al as Lord? The God of the Phoenicians?

---Moses was properly educated in many languages, Egyptian and Akkadian. The Amarna Letters were written in Akkadian and they are dating from 5 years after Moses' death in 1410-1375 BC. Letter 102 line 5 also used belu meaning "lords".

It was property owners. Also in El Amarna 138:49. It was common later in the time of the Judges also in Ugarit. b'l hlb "the lords of Halba" (Ugarit 7, p. 143, see Reviv, IEJ 16 [1966], pp. 25ff).

---Even though the brothers were bad, there was a back-door. Not all of them were that bad. They were the brakes to the actions and suggested a mild outcome for Joseph. The favor of God working. They would remain free from his blood, says Ellen White in Patriarchs and Prophets p. 211.

---Dr. Doukhan indicated that though chapter 38 looks out of place it shows how an evil act will be turned into a positive event linked to salvation.

---Tamar the prostitute will be linked later to the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:5.

---God associates with evil sinners and transforms them into building bricks of His salvation plan.

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