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Text: Genesis 44: 24-29

MEDITATION

Genesis 44:24-29

24 “So it was, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my lord.
25 And our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’
26 But we said, ‘We cannot go down; if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27 Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;
28 and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn to pieces”; and I have not seen him since.
29 But if you take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’

MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE

1. The Plea of Judah (Part 2)

a. The brothers had returned to their homeland of Canaan safely.

b. They had rehearsed all that they had experienced in Egypt to their father, Jacob.

2. Running out of food

a. The supply of food had run out.

b. Their father had asked them to return to Egypt to buy more food.

c. The brothers knew that they could not return to Egypt without their brother, Benjamin.

3. The words of Jacob

a. They were sad words.

i. He spoke of his wife Rachel who had died a long time ago.

ii. He spoke of how she bore two sons for him.

b. The first son

i. He thought that he had been killed by beasts.

ii. He had not seen him ever since he left home (deep sense of loss).

c. The second son

i. What if he were to go with them and then die?

ii. This would cause him to grieve till he went to his grave!

经文：创世记 44：24-29

沉思

《创世记 44：24-29》
24 我们上到你仆人我们父亲那里，就把我主的话告诉了他。
25 我们的父亲说：‘你们再去给我籴些粮来。’
26 我们就说：‘我们不能下去。我们的小兄弟若和我们同往，我们就可以下去，因为小兄弟若不与我们同往，我们必不得见那人的面。’
27 你仆人我父亲对我们说：‘你们知道我的妻子给我生了两个儿子，
28 一个离开我出去了，我说他必是被撕碎了，直到如今我也没有见他。

29 现在你们又要把这个带去离开我。倘若他遭害，那便是你们使我白发苍苍、悲悲惨惨地下阴间去了。’

在生活里有意义地应用

1. 犹大的请求（第二部分）

a. 弟兄们都安全地回到了他们所住的迦南地

b. 他们向父亲，雅各复述了在埃及所经历的一切

2. 用尽了粮食

a. 储存的粮食已吃完了

b. 他们的父亲要他们回到埃及去籴些粮来

c. 弟兄们知道他们不能不带小兄弟便雅悯回埃及

3. 雅各的话

a. 他们是悲伤的话

i. 他提起已故多年的妻子拉结

ii. 雅各说到她给自己生了两个儿子

b. 长子

i. 他以为长子已被野兽吞吃了

ii. 自从他离家以后，雅各便没有再见到他了（深层的失落感）

c. 第二个儿子

i. 倘若这小儿子与他们同去而丧失性命

ii.这将会使雅各悲悲惨惨地下阴间去