TBESH · H9005
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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Page 15 of 241. 12010 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
Read word by wordBut you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
Read word by wordNow when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
Read word by wordThen our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
Read word by wordBut we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’
Read word by wordAnd your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Read word by wordIndeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
Read word by wordNow please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
Read word by wordThen Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
Read word by wordJoseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
Read word by wordAnd now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
Read word by wordGod sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Read word by wordTherefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Read word by wordNow return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
Read word by wordYou shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
Read word by wordAnd there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
Read word by wordTell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
Read word by wordJoseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.
Read word by wordWhen the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.
Read word by wordThen bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.’
Read word by wordYou are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
Read word by wordBut pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
Read word by wordSo the sons of Israel did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he also gave them provisions for their journey.
Read word by wordHe gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.
Read word by wordAnd he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.
Read word by word“Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.
Read word by wordHowever, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.
Read word by wordSo Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Read word by wordAnd that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
Read word by word“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
Read word by wordThen Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
Read word by wordManasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Rachel born to Jacob—fourteen in all.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
Read word by wordAll those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.
Read word by wordAnd with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
Read word by wordNow Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacob’s family arrived in the land of Goshen,
Read word by wordJoseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
Read word by wordJoseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.
Read word by wordThe men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
Read word by wordWhen Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
Read word by wordSo Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”
Read word by wordAnd he chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.
Read word by wordThen they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
Read word by wordPharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,
Read word by wordthe land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
Read word by wordThen Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Read word by wordThen Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.
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