About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible:

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

Joseph’s Brothers Envy Him & Sell Him into Slavery

Joseph’s Brothers Envy Him & Sell Him into Slavery

Genesis  37:1-36               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Jacob [a.k.a. Israel] dwelt in the land of Canaan, [where] his father was a stranger. These are the generations [genealogy] of [Jacob/Israel.] [His son] Joseph was 17 years old & was feeding the flock with his [brothers,] the sons of Bilhah & Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought a [bad] report about them [back] to their father. 

[Jacob/Israel] loved Joseph more than all of his children, because he was the son of his old age & he made Joseph a coat of many colors. When his [brothers] saw that their father loved Joseph more, they hated him & could not speak peaceably to him.

Joseph [had a] dream & he told & his brothers & they hated him [even] more. [Joseph] told them, I pray [that] you hear this dream [that] I [had.] For [I saw] we were binding sheaves [bundles of grain stalks] in the field & my sheaf arose & stood upright & [saw] your sheaves stood [around & bowed down] to my sheaf. [Joseph’s brothers] said to him, Shall you indeed [rule] over us or have [power] over us? And they hated him [even] more [when they heard the dream] & his words.

[Joseph had] another dream & told it to his [brothers] & said, [In my other dream, I saw] the sun, the moon & the 11 stars [bowed down] to me. [When they heard it,] his father & his brothers, his father rebuked him & said, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother & I & your brothers indeed come & bow down to the earth to you?

His father [kept this matter in mind], but his brothers envied him. Joseph’s [brothers] went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. [Jacob/Israel] said to Joseph, [Aren’t your brothers] feeding the flock in Shechem?  Come & I will send you to them. And [Joseph] said, Here I am.

Go, I pray [that] you see whether all is well with [them & their] flocks & bring back word to me again. So, he sent [Joseph] out of the [valley] in Hebron & came to Shechem. [When Joseph] was wandering in a field, a man found him & asked, What are you [looking for?] 

[Joseph] told him, I'm [looking for my brothers.] I pray [that] you tell me where they [are feeding] their flocks? The man said, They are departed [from here] & I heard them say, Let's go to Dothan. Joseph went after his [brothers] & found them in Dothan. 

When they saw [Joseph at a distance,] before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. And they said, [Look, the] dreamer [is coming.] Come & let's [kill Joseph] & cast him into some pit & say a [wild] beast has devoured. We shall see what will become of his dreams.

Reuben heard it & [tried to] deliver Joseph out of their hands & said, Let’s not kill him or shed [any] blood, but [throw] him into this pit in the wilderness & lay no hand on him, [so] that he might [rescue] Joseph from their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

It [happened, Reuben went out to feed the flock &] when Joseph [had] come to his [brothers], they stripped Joseph out of his coat of many colors that was on him & took him & cast him into an empty pit, with no water in it. 

[While the brothers were eating] bread, they [saw] a company of Ishmaelites [coming] from Gilead with their camels bearing spices, balm & myrrh, going on their way down to Egypt. And Judah said to his [brothers,] What profit is it if we slay our brother &  conceal his blood? 

Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, so our hand isn’t upon [Joseph,] since he’s our brother & our flesh. [The brothers] were content [to do so.] Then the [Midianite merchants] passed by & [Joseph’s brothers pulled him] out of the pit & sold him to the Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver. 

They brought Joseph into Egypt. When Reuben returned to the pit [from feeding the flocks] & [saw] Joseph wasn’t in the pit & [Reuben tore] his clothes & [went] to his [brothers] & said, The child is not [there, where] shall I go?

[The brothers] killed a kid [goat] & dipped Joseph’s coat in the blood & [took] the coat of many colors to their father, [Jacob/Israel,] & said, We have found this, do [you] know [if] it is Joseph’s coat or [not]? [Jacob recognized] it &  said, It is my son’s coat. 

An evil beast has devoured him & Joseph is without [a] doubt [torn] in pieces. Jacob/Israel [tore] his clothes & put sackcloth on his [waist] & mourned for Joseph, his son [for] many days. 

[Although, all Jacob/Israel’s] sons & daughters came to comfort him, he refused to be comforted & said, I will go down to my grave mourning for my son & his father wept for him. And the Midianites sold Joseph into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh & captain of the guard.