Genesis 43:11-12

The bit of dialogue I read doesn’t mean anything right now,– but it will after I bring you up to speed• the subject of biography is Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham• his story unfolds as one long and complex road trip◦ it will eventually bring him before Egyptian Pharaoh◦ when Jacob was asked his age, he characterizes his life as a journeyThe days of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning (Ge. 47:9)– what drove his journey forward• is that he was repeatedly running from one person or another