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Genesis 37-50 - The Story of Joseph
Read 37:2b - Joseph is a tattle-tale.
Read 37:3 - Jacob shows that Joseph is his favorite, which doesn't help matters any.
Read 37:4 - They hated his guts.
Read 37:5-8.
One day when Jacob sends Joseph out to check on his brothers again, they decide they've had enough of him and decide to kill him.
When Reuben talks them out of homicide, they throw him into a pit without water, mockingly ignore his pleadings while they eat a meal--and then sell him to some Midianite traders on their way to Egypt.
They tear up his tunic and soak it with goat blood, and show it to Jacob and allow him to draw his own conclusion that he was killed by a wild beast.
Joseph winds up being sold to Potiphar, a wealthy military aristocrat.
God blesses Joseph's hard work as a house slave so that Potiphar makes him the head steward of his entire estate.
Things are fine for about ten years until "Mrs.
Robinson" (Potiphar's wife) gets the hots for Joseph (who's a stud) and comes on to him with amazing subtlety: "Lie with me" (39:7).
Joseph declines, but she persists day after day and finally grabs his skirt-towel.
Joseph flees from the house (possibly the first biblical streaker), and she claims he tried to rape her.
Joseph is fortunate Potiphar doesn't execute him--but he is thrown into jail (a horrible hole-like dungeon where prisoners slowly rotted).
God upheld Joseph and something about his attitude caught the eye of the chief jailer.
He made Joseph his top prisoner in charge of serving the other prisoners.
Then Pharoah's chief cupbearer and baker get thrown into jail for reasons unknown.
One night they both have dreams which disturb them.
God enables Joseph to explain the meaning of their dreams (EXPLAIN), which is fulfilled three days later.
He asks the cupbearer to put in a good word for him with Pharaoh, but once he gets out the cupbearer forgets all about his promise.
So Joseph rots in jail for two years.
Then an amazing thing happens.
Pharaoh has a dream about 14 cows which no one can explain.
The cupbearer remembers Joseph and recommends him--and Joseph is ushered into Pharoah's presence.
God enables him to explain the dream as a prediction of seven years of bumper crops followed by seven years of famine--and counsels Pharaoh to find someone who will organize and execute a grain storage system.
Pharaoh says, "I'm looking at the best man" and so in one day Joseph goes from jail to Prime Minister of Egypt.
Joseph spends the next seven years getting married and starting a family, and executing his grain storage plan.
Then the famine hits.
It's at this point that the plot thickens and the tension between Joseph and his brothers is resumed.
The famine is severe in Canaan, so one day Jacob says to his sons, "You knuckleheads!
Why are you staring at one another?
Get your lazy behinds down to Egypt and buy some grain before we starve!"
They go down and are sent (like everyone else) to Joseph, and they bow down to him (fulfilling 37:7).
Joseph recognizes them, but they don't recognize him (almost 40; Egyptian dress; position).
Joseph accuses them of being spies and says he won't believe they're not unless they bring their youngest brother to him.
Not realizing he can speak Hebrew, they say in his presence: "Great!
This is what we get for killing our brother."
Joseph locks Simeon up and sends back home with just enough grain to make it home and back.
But he's not doing this to get back at them because he weeps privately over this encounter.
When they God get home, Jacob goes hysteric ("I've already lost one son, I've got another rotting in jail--and you want me to entrust my youngest to you?") and refuses to let Benjamin go.
But they get hungrier, and when Jacob tells them to return to Egypt for more grain, it's their turn to refuse ("Oh no, not without Benjamin!").
Finally Jacob agrees, and they go back to Joseph with Benjamin.
Joseph releases Simeon, dines with them (against Egyptian custom), and is so moved by seeing Benjamin that he has to remove himself from the room to weep.
The next day, Joseph loads them up with grain but has his servant hide his favorite silver cup in Benjamin's suitcase.
After they leave, he sends his security guards to pull them over and say, "So this is how you repay my master's kindness--by stealing his favorite cup?"
They are offended and say, "You can kill whoever you find it on!"
They search the luggage, and when the cup falls out of Benjamin's suitcase, they are beside themselves!
They are cuffed and put in the cruiser, and when they are brought before Joseph, Judah says: "What can we say?
We are being punished for God for our past sins."
He begs Joseph to make him a slave rather than take Benjamin because he can't bear to break his father's heart.
Read the climax (45:1-8)
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