Genesis 37:1-36
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan. God had changed his name to Israel (Genesis 35:10). Israel had a son named Joseph who he loved more then his other children because he was a son born to him in his old age.
Joseph is given a coat of many colors.
Jacob (Israel) gave Joseph a coat of many colors. When his
brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more, they hated him.
Genesis 37: 3-4
Joseph has a dream about bundles of wheat.
Joseph had a dream and told his brothers that in his dream they were
binding sheaves (bundles of wheat) in the field and that Joseph's sheaf
(bundle) rose and stood up and the brothers sheaves (bundles) bowed
down to his sheaf (bundle).
His brothers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign (rule) over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us:' So they hated him more for his dreams and words.
His brothers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign (rule) over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us:' So they hated him more for his dreams and words.
Genesis 37:
5-8
Joseph has another dream about
the sun, moon, and stars.
Joseph had another dream that the sun, moon, and stars were bowing to
him. He told his father and brothers about the dream. His
father asked him what he had dreamed. He asked Joseph if
his mother, his brothers, and him would bow down to the
earth before him some day. His brothers envied him after this.
Genesis
37:9-11
Then Joseph's brothers went out to feed the flock in Shechem.
Then,
Joseph's father, Israel, sent Joseph out to check on his
brothers and the flock.
Joseph's brothers see him coming.
When Joseph's brothers saw
him coming they planned
how to kill him and said, "Here comes the dreamer."
Genesis 37:12-19
Joseph's brothers put him in a pit.
His brothers decided to kill
Joseph and put him in a pit and leave him there and say that a wild
beast had eaten him. But his brother Rueben said to them not to
shed his blood but to just put him in the pit so he could bring him
back to his father.
So, when Joseph came to them, they took off his coat of many colors and put him into the pit with no water.
So, when Joseph came to them, they took off his coat of many colors and put him into the pit with no water.
Genesis 37:20-24
Joseph's brothers see a caravan coming.
Then his brothers sat down
to
eat and saw a caravan
of Ishmaelites that were going to
Egypt to trade their spices, balm, and myrrh. Judah spoke up and said,
"What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal (hide) his
blood. Come and let us sell him to
the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our
brother and our flesh." His
brothers listened and they pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him to
the Ishmaelites for 20 shekels of silver. So Joseph went to Egypt.
Genesis 37:25- 28
Rueben
returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was gone and he tore his
clothes. He returned to his brothers and said, "The lad is no
more; and I, where shall I go?" So they took Joseph's coat,
killed a goat, and dipped the coat in its blood.
Joseph's father thinks Joseph is dead.
Genesis 37:29-31
Joseph's father thinks Joseph is dead.
Joseph's brothers went home
and showed their father Joseph's coat. They asked their father if it
was Joseph's coat and
he recognized it. He thought a wild beast had eaten Joseph and he
tore
his clothes, put sackclothe on his waist and mourned for many days. His
sons and daughters tried to comfort him but he wept.
Genesis 37:32-36
CONCLUSION: Jacob had 12
sons and his favorite son was Joseph. Joseph's
brothers envied (were resentful of) Joseph because their father showed
how much he loved Joseph.
So, the brothers planned to killJoseph
but
changed their minds and ended up selling Joseph to
a caravan of traders. Joseph
was
also a dreamer and God uses Joseph in a muchbigger
way later . To
find
out how God uses Joseph, go to the next Bible story.
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