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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?

THE GENERATIONS OF ESAU THE FATHER OF THE EDOMITES

Herod the Great WAS an Edomite descending from Esau. He killed a lot of babies when Jesus was born.

GOD BLESSES AND RENAMES JACOB

God Blesses and Renames Jacob. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

JACOB’S SONS SPOIL THE SHECHEMITES

Jacob’s Sons Spoil The Shechemites. Now on the third day [after the circumcision], when all the men were [terribly] sore and in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s [full] brothers, took their swords, boldly entered the city [without anyone suspecting them of evil intent], and they killed every male.
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house [where she was staying], and left.