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jacob
and his family returned to the land of
canaan where his father
isaac and brother esau were living with
their families
during the journey home god appeared to
jacob and blessed him and said
your name is jacob you shall no longer
be called jacob
but israel shall be your name
so god called jacob israel and then god
said
i am god almighty you will have many
sons and daughters and nations and kings
shall come from you this gave jacob
great comfort knowing that god would be
with him as he returned home
after being gone for many years after
his return
jacob did just as god said and had many
children
he had 12 sons that worked the land and
took care of all his animals
for by now jacob was very wealthy in
livestock and possessions
one son joseph stood out above all
the rest he was very wise and could be
trusted with every job or
responsibility that his father jacob
gave him
for this reason jacob decided to give
him a beautiful coat of many colors
this showed joseph's brothers that he
would be the one to receive the
birthright
and be responsible for the entire family
after
jacob's death
sadly his brothers hated him for this
and could not say
one kind word about him then joseph had
a dream one night
but when he told his brothers the dream
they hated him
even more he told them
brothers listen to the dream i had
we were binding sheaves of grain out in
the field when
suddenly my sheaf rose straight up and
your sheaves gathered around mine
and bowed down to me
his brothers angrily replied do you
really
think you are going to reign over us and
rule us then joseph had another dream
and this time he told his father israel
and
his brothers the dream in this dream
he told them that this time the sun and
moon
and eleven stars were bowing down to him
when joseph's father heard this he got
onto joseph and said
what is this dream you had and why do
you think your mother and i
and all your brothers would ever bow
down to the ground before you
even though his father was unhappy about
the dream
he kept it in his mind
after these two dreams joseph's brothers
became jealous
and angry towards him and disliked him
even more
one day all the brothers had taken their
father's flocks to some land
to graze far away jacob asked
joseph to go check on his brothers and
the flocks
and bring word back to him joseph
put on his coat of many colors that
showed he was the most trusted and wise
among the brothers
and set off to find them
he found his brothers in a field far
from home
grazing the animals when they saw him in
the distance
their anger and jealousy was so great
that they began
plotting to kill him
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here comes that dreamer let's kill him
throw him into a deep well and then we
can tell father
that a ferocious animal killed and
devoured him
father will never suspect us
but his brother reuben had a kind heart
and
convinced the brothers not to kill him
instead
they stripped joseph's coat off and
threw him into an empty and dry well
in the hot desert as they all
sat down to eat a meal a caravan of
ishmaelite merchants came towards them
loaded down with goods on their way to
sell in egypt
joseph's older brother judah said to the
other brothers
what will we gain if we kill our brother
and cover up his blood
let's sell him to the ishmaelite
merchants and not lay a hand on him
after all he is our brother our own
flesh and blood
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they quickly pulled joseph up out of the
well and sold him as a slave to the
merchants for 20
shekels of silver then the merchants
went on their way to egypt
taking joseph prisoner to sell as a
slave
even though joseph was stunned and hurt
over what his brothers had done
he was also greatly relieved to be alive
and continued to believe that god would
take care of him
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the brothers who had kept joseph's
beautiful coat of many colors
then killed a goat and dipped the coat
into the blood
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when they returned and showed their
father the coat that was covered in
blood
jacob was beside himself with grief
all his sons and daughters came to
comfort him
but his grief over losing joseph was so
great
that he told them he would take his pain
and grief to his grave
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