“And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.”
So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed. The settlement in Rameses — the district named for the later pharaoh whose labor projects will oppress Israel — is the covenant family's location in Egypt. The application: the covenant family settles in the place that will eventually be named for their oppressor. The geography of covenant history often anticipates the suffering that is coming.
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