Ah Goshen. After Matthew's post and Kelly's comment, I started to think about Goshen a little more. Israel's people will live in Goshen in Pharaoh's favor, sometime later, this is the place where they are enslaved, but Goshen offers them protection during the plagues.
And then, I read chapter 46 and I thought it was even more interesting that they do not live in Egypt with Pharaoh because "shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians" (v 34). Shepherds! The people of God get the perfect location because they are shepherds. Why are shepherds such a common theme in the Bible? They are both the chosen and the outcasts, the first and the last.
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Hmmm, I may not get all the details, but at least I'm reading the right book!
ReplyDeleteYou must be getting a lot of the details cause I love your posts!
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