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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we saw how Jacob returned to Bethel with his children, all except the last one,

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all except Benjamin, who was born afterwards.

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And today we're going to hear about how Joseph was the favorite child and his favoritism

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caused him trouble with his brothers who envied him and who ended up selling him into slavery.

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Alright, let's begin.

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Today's reading is from Genesis chapters 37 to 39.

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Chapter 37

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Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan.

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This is the history of Jacob.

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Joseph being 17 years old was feeding the flock with his brothers, and the lad was with

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the sons of Bela and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph brought a bad

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report of them to his father.

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old

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age.

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Also he made him a tunic of many colors.

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But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they

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hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

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Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him even more.

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So he said to them, Please hear this dream which I have dreamed.

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There we were, binding sheaves in the field.

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And behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright, and indeed your sheaves stood all

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around and bowed down to my sheaf.

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And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you indeed have dominion

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over us?

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So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

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Then he dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, Look, I have

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dreamed another dream, and this time the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down

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to me.

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So he told it to his father and his brothers, and his father rebuked him and said to him,

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What is this dream that you have dreamed?

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Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before

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you?

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And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

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Then his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

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And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem?

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Come I will send you to them.

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So he said to him, Here I am.

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And he said to him, Please go and see if it is well with your brothers, and well with

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the flocks, and bring back word to me.

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So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.

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Now a certain man found him, and there he was, wandering in the field.

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And the man asked him, saying, What are you seeking?

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So he said, I am seeking my brothers.

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Please tell me where they are feeding their flocks.

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And the man said, They have departed from here, for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan.

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So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

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Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against

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him to kill him.

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Then they said to one another, Look, this dreamer is coming.

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Come therefore, let us now kill him, and cast him into some pit, and we shall say, some

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wild beast has devoured him.

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We shall see what will become of his dreams.

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But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not kill

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him.

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Reuben said to them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness,

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and do not lay a hand on him, that he might deliver him out of their hands and bring him

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back to his father.

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So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of

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his tunic, the tunic of many colors, that was on him.

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Then they took him and cast him into a pit, and the pit was empty, there was no water

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in it.

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And they sat down to eat a meal.

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Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of ishmaelites coming

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from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them

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down to Egypt.

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So Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal

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his blood?

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Come, and let us sell him to the ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is

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our brother and our flesh.

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And his brothers listened.

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Then Midianite traders passed by, so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the

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pit, and sold him to the ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver, and they took Joseph to

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Egypt.

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Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit, and he tore his

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clothes, and he returned to his brothers and said, The lad is no more, and I, where shall

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I go?

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So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the

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blood.

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Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said,

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We have found this, do you know whether it is your son's tunic or not?

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And he recognized it, and said, It is my son's tunic, a wild beast has devoured him.

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Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.

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Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many

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days.

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And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted,

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and he said, For I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.

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Thus his father wept for him.

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Now the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain

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of the guard.

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Chapter 38 It came to pass at that time that Judah departed

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from his brothers and visited a certain Adulamite, whose name was Hera.

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And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shua, and he married

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her and went into her.

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So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.

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She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.

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And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name Sheila.

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He was at Shezeb when she bore him.

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Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

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But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord killed him.

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And Judah said to Onan, Go into your brother's wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to

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your brother.

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But Onan knew that the heir would not be his, and it came to pass, when he went into his

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brother's wife that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give her an heir to his brother,

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and the thing which he did displease the Lord.

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Therefore he killed him also.

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Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's house till

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my son Sheila is grown.

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For he said, lest he also die like his brother's.

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And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

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Now in the process of time, the daughter of Shuwa, Judah's wife, died.

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And Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-sheers at Timnah, he and his friend

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Hira the Adulamite.

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And it was told Tamar saying, Look your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

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So she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself,

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and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah.

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For she saw that Sheila was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.

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When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a harlot, because she had covered her face.

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Then he turned to her by the way and said, Please let me come into you.

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For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

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So she said, What will you give me, that you may come into me?

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And he said, I will send a young goat from the flock.

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So she said, Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?

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Then he said, What pledge shall I give you?

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So she said, Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.

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Then he gave them to her, and went to her, and she conceived by him.

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So she arose, and went away, and laid aside her veil, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

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And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adulamite, to receive his

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pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.

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Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, who was openly by the

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roadside?

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And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

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So he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her.

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Also, the men of the place said, There was no harlot in this place.

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Then Judah said, Let her take them for herself, lest we be shamed.

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For I sent this young goat, and you have not found her.

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And it came to pass, about three months after, that Judah was told, saying, Tamar, your daughter-in-law

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has played the harlot.

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Furthermore, she is with child, by harlotry.

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So Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.

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When she was brought out, she sent her father-in-law, saying, By the man to whom these belong, I

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am with child.

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And she said, Please determine whose these are, the signet, and cord, and staff.

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So Judah acknowledged them, and said, She has been more righteous than I, because I

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did not give her to Sheila my son, and he never knew her again.

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Now it came to pass, at the time for giving birth, that behold, twins were in her womb.

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And so it was, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand, and the midwife

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took a scarlet thread, and bound it on his hand, saying, This one came out first.

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Then it happened, as he drew back his hand, that his brother came out unexpectedly.

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And she said, How did you break through?

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This breach be upon you.

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Therefore his name was called Perez.

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Afterward, his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was

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called Zerah.

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Chapter 39

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Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar an officer of Pharaoh, captain of

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the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

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The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man.

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And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

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And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all he did to

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prosper in his hand.

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So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him.

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When he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had, he put under his authority.

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So it was from the time that he had made him overseer of his house, and all that he had,

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that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake.

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And the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had in the house and in the field.

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Thus he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he did not know what he had except for

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the bread which he ate.

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Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance, and it came to pass after these things that

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his master's wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, lie with me.

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But he refused and said to his master's wife, look, my master does not know what is with

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me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand.

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There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but

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you, because you are his wife.

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How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?

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So it was as she spoke to Joseph day by day that he did not heed her to lie with her or

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to be with her.

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But it happened about this time when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none

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of the men of the house was inside, that she caught him by his garment saying, lie with

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me.

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But he left his garment in her hand and fled and ran outside.

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And so it was when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside,

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that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them saying, see he has brought into

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us a Hebrew to mock us.

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He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

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And it happened when he heard that I lifted my voice and cried out that he left his garment

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with me and fled and went outside.

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So she kept his garment with her until his master came home.

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Then she spoke to him with words like these saying, the Hebrew servant whom you brought

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to us came into me to mock me.

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So it happened as I lifted my voice and cried out that he left his garment with me and fled

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outside.

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So it was when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him saying, your servant

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did to me after this manner, that his anger was aroused.

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Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's

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prisoners were confined.

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And he was there in the prison, but the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and

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he gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

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When the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand, all the prisoners who were

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in the prison, whatever they did there, it was his doing.

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The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority,

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because the Lord was with him, and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.