GEN 46

Question	Answer	Note---10-02-2016
		Jacob is on his way to Egypt when God appears to him in a dream.
Why are the two names used here? God usually addresses Jacob as Israel, how come in the dream he is called Jacob?
		46:4 Here God promises Jacob that while he goes into Egypt with him, God will take his people out of Egypt. The promise seems personal but it is actually generic and meant for all of Israel’s descendants.
		46:5-7 This description is so picturesque. This is the second time Jacob is leaving Canaan, and the second time he gathers his entire offspring and moves with them.
Joseph		46:29 Joseph is so anxious to see his father that he does not wait until  he (the father) comes to meet him in the palace but instead goes to meet him in Goshen.
Joseph seems to be a man of tears, one who is easily moved. Is it because he was spoiled as a young man that this is so?
Why does Joseph instruct his brothers to tell the Egyptians that they are shepherd, knowing that the Egyptians would avoid them.
Was it not enough that they were already separated living in Goshen?
Does Joseph give such instruction because he wants them to be forever separate and not intermingle with the Egyptians?