Joseph & Egypt

Joseph’s dreams. He seemed like a very annoying brother since he basically snitched on his brothers for bad behavior. Joseph was only 17 years old, but he was Jacob’s favorite […]

Joseph’s brothers saw him coming from afar and they plot to kill him. First, they think about murdering him, but Reuben has “mercy” and proposes the idea of putting him

Judah left his family and moved to a different place. He married a Canaanite woman whose name isn’t even mentioned and he had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. Judah

After being sold to the Ishmaelite merchants, Joseph wound up in Potiphar’s house. Potiphar was an officer of Pharaoh and he was possibly a eunuch (a man who was castrated).

The cupbearer and baker were put in prison with Joseph and Joseph attended to them because he was appointed by the captain of the guard. One night, they each had

Two years after the interpretation of the dreams of the cupbearer and the baker, Pharaoh has two dreams. In the first dream, there are seven plump cows that are eaten

Joseph interprets both of Pharaoh’s dreams as seven years of good harvest followed by seven years of famine. After he gives his interpretation, he suggests a solution to the famine.

Pharaoh promotes Joseph to basically the Prime Minister of Egypt because he proposed the plan and Pharaoh sees that Joseph is a man who has the Spirit of God. Pharaoh

Jacob sends 10 of his sons to get food from Egypt because of the harsh famine. Jacob keeps Benjamin behind because he wanted to protect him. When Joseph’s brothers came

Joseph had mercy and gave them a chance to prove their honesty and changed hearts. He made one of them stay back (which turned out to be Simeon), and the

The family runs out of food and Jacob sends them to go out again to Egypt to get food. However, the brothers remind him that if they want food from

Joseph’s brothers return to Egypt, and Joseph prepares a feast for them. When Joseph sees that they came with Benjamin, he invites them over to his house and slaughters an

In today’s passage, Joseph tests his brothers. He told his steward to fill up all of their sacks with as much food as they could carry, and gave back their

In today’s passage, Judah intercedes for Benjamin with Joseph. This happens after Joseph tells all the brothers to go away to their father except for Benjamin. Judah steps up and

Right after Judah stepped up to take the place of Benjamin as Joseph’s slave, Joseph breaks down. Joseph sends out all the people except for him and his brothers, and

In today’s passage, Pharaoh sees that Joseph’s brothers have come and he blesses their family with land in Egypt and lots of resources to help transport them over. All of

In today’s passage, Israel (Jacob) takes everything he has and goes to Beersheba, where he sacrifices to God. God spoke to Jacob in a dream, telling him to not be

In today’s passage, Joseph and Jacob reunite in Goshen. Goshen is the place that Joseph chose to be the family home because it was good for shepherding. Jacob sends Judah

In today’s passage, Joseph provides food for people in all the land. The famine wasn’t just in Egypt and Canaan; it reached farther into the surrounding nations as well. The

In today’s passage, Jacob is nearing the end of his life. After 17 years of living in Goshen, his family multiplied significantly and they were fruitful in the lands. Jacob

In today’s passage, Joseph introduces his sons Ephraim and Manasseh to Jacob. Joseph brings his two sons close to Jacob to be blessed. Jacob’s eyes were bad and dim, so

In today’s passage, Jacob blesses (kind of) his sons. Although it says blessings, I don’t think all of them are really blessings, especially the first few sons because he points

In today’s passage, Jacob finished “blessing” all of his sons. Like I said yesterday, these “blessings” are more like prophecies, and the prophecies use metaphors and stuff but they do

In today’s passage, the death of Jacob. Jacob appears in Genesis 25, which means he is alive for half of Genesis, and he is finally dying now. Before he dies,