Confused and confusing, but it was on my mind, by Julie Moore I might as well just set myself up in a pulpit... Not that I'm qualified in any way, it's just that I keep writing these entries that sound like I'm doing Bible exposition... I don't really mean to, and it's not going to become a thing, but right now it's what's on my mind. Anyway, the other day I read Genesis 47, which, to me was a real headscratcher. You see, it's all about how Joseph dealt with the famine that ploughed through Egypt when he was Pharoah's right hand man. Since he knew it was coming, he had already stored a bunch of grain... so when the people ran out of food they came to him and bought food. When they ran out of money, they sold him their animals, and when they ran out of that, they sold him their land. Finally, when they had nothing left to sell for food, they sold themselves to be slaves in exchange for seed to plant food. And even then, they had to give Pharaoh a fifth of what they grew. So... then Joseph / Pharaoh owned EVERYTHING. The people had NOTHING. Not even themselves. "The land became Pharaoh's, and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other." Reading this, I thought, "What?" It just didn't sit right with me... I'm not sure why... maybe because as a modern American, the whole idea