People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
JOSEPH HOLDS SIMEON BACK SENDING THE REST HOME
Joseph’s Holds Simon Back Sending The Rest Home. He turned away from his brothers and [left the room and] wept; then he returned and talked with them, and took Simeon from them and bound him in front of them [to be kept as a hostage in Egypt].
JOSEPH RISES TO POWER IN EGYPT
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since [your] God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and clear-headed and wise as you are.
You shall have charge over my house, and all my people shall be governed according to your word and pay respect [to you with reverence, submission, and obedience]; only in [matters of] the throne will I be greater than you [in Egypt].”
JOSEPH INTERPRETS PHARAOH’S TWO DREAMS
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams. Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me [to interpret the dream]; God [not I] will give Pharaoh a favorable answer [through me].”
PHARAOH DREAMS OF CATTLE AND OF EARS OF GRAIN
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams. Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile.
JOSEPH INTERPRETS TWO PRISONERS DREAMS
Joseph Interprets Two Prisoners’ Dreams. And they said to him, “We have [each] dreamed [distinct] dreams and there is no one to interpret them.” So Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell me [your dreams].”
JOSEPH FARES WELL IN PRISON
Joseph Fares Well In Prison So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.
But the LORD was with Joseph and extended lovingkindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden.
JOSEPH AND POTIPHAR’S WIFE
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife. Then after a time his master’s wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, “Lie with me.”
JUDAH’S SIN WITH TAMAR HIS DAUGHTER IN LAW
Judah’s sin with Tamar his daughter in law. When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
JOSEPH’S BROTHERS PLOT HIS DEATH
Joseph’s Brothers Plot His Death. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
JOSEPH LOVED AND HATED
Joseph Loved and Hated, His Dreams. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, what is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?