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Unless you're searching your family tree and you've traced it back to Jacob's family I will skip over Ch 36 with all of the tribes descendants. Jacob now moved back to Canaan. Joseph was now 17 years old and favoured by his father above all the brothers. Joseph tended his fathers sheep. One day Jacob gave Joseph a brightly coloured coat. This of course made his brothers jealous. Then one night Joseph had a dream. Perhaps sharing it with his already jealous brothers was not such a good idea. He dreamt they were out in the field binding sheaves. 'my sheath stood up, and yours all gathered around and bowed low before it' he said. Then to make matters worse. he had another dream, where the sun, moon and 11 stars bowed down before him. He told this to his father as well as his brothers. One day Joseph's brothers took the flocks of sheep to Shechem. Jacob (now called Israel) told Joseph to find his brothers to see how they were getting on. When they saw Joseph approach them from a distance they decided to kill him 'let's kill the master dreamer and toss him in a well. Reuben spoke up and said let's not kill him or shed his blood for he is our brother, but put him in a well and take his coat to splatter it with goats blood; that way we will say he got killed in the wilderness and his blood won't be on our heads'. Reuben was going to return and release Joseph afterwards; but when they sat down to eat their evening meal a group of Ishmaelite traders came along on their way to Egypt, and the brothers sold Joseph to them for 20 pieces of silver. Reuben was away when this was done so he couldn't free Joseph. Israel assumed that Joseph had been killed by wild animals when he saw the blood stained coat and mourned his death for many nights. Doesn't the 20 pieces of silver remind you of the 30 pieces of silver sold to betray Jesus ?Don't boast too much about your accomplishments no matter how big they are. No- one will like you for it- only despise you.
Bye for now
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