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Genesis 37 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis thirty seven Joseph the Dreamer Jacob stayed and lived in the land of Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the same land where his father had lived.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the story of Jacob's family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph was a young man, seventeen years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: His job was to take care of the sheep and the goats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph did this work with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bilha and Zilpah were his father's wives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph told his father about the bad things that his brother did.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph was born at a time when his father Israel was very old, so Israel loved him more than he loved his other sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jacob gave him a special coat, which was long and very beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than he loved them, they hated their brother because of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: They refused to say nice things to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: One time Joseph had a special dream.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later he told his brothers about this dream, and after that his brothers hated him even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph said, I had a dream.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were all working in the field tying stacks of wheat together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then my stack got up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It stood there while all of your stacks of wheat made a circle around mine and bowed down to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: His brothers said, Do you think this means you will be a king and rule over us?
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  SPEAKER_00: His brothers hated Joseph more now because of the dreams he had had about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joseph had another dream, and he told his brothers about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said I had another dream.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph had also told his father about this dream, but his father criticized him.
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  SPEAKER_00: His father said, What kind of dream is this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you believe that your mother, your brothers, and I will bow down to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph's brothers continued to be jealous of him, but his father thought about all of these things and wondered what they could mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: One day Joseph's brothers went to Shechem to care for their father's sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jacob said to Joseph, Go to Shechem, your brothers are there with my sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph answered, I will go.
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  SPEAKER_00: His father said, Go and see if your brothers are safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come back and tell me if my sheep are all fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jacob's father sent him from the valley of Hebron to Shechem.
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  SPEAKER_00: At Shechem Joseph got lost.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man found him wandering in the fields, and the man said, What are you looking for?
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph answered, I am looking for my brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you tell me where they are with their sheep?
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  SPEAKER_00: The man said they have already gone away.
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  SPEAKER_00: I heard them say that they were going to Dothan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Joseph followed his brothers and found them in Dothan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph sold into slavery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph's brothers saw him coming from far away.
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  SPEAKER_00: They decided to make a plan to kill him.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said to each other, here comes Joseph the dreamer.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should kill him now while we can.
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  SPEAKER_00: We could throw his body into one of the empty wells and tell our father that a wild animal killed him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we will show them that his dreams are useless.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Reuben wanted to save Joseph.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said let's not kill him.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can put him in a well without hurting him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reuben planned to save Joseph and send him back to his father.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Joseph came to his brothers, they attacked him and tore off his long and beautiful coat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they threw him into an empty well that was dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: While Joseph was in the well, the brothers sat down to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: They looked up and saw a group of traders travelling from Gilead to Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their camels were carrying so many different riches and spices.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Judah said to his brothers, What profit will we get if we kill our brother and hide his death?
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  SPEAKER_00: We will profit more if we sell him to these traitors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we will not be guilty of killing our own brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other brothers agreed.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the Midianite traders came by, the brothers took Joseph out of the well and sold him to the traitors for twenty pieces of silver.
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  SPEAKER_00: The traitors took him to Europe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reuben had been gone, but when he came back to the well he saw that Joseph was not there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He tore his clothes to show that he was upset.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reuben went to the brothers and said The boy is not in the well.
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  SPEAKER_00: What will I do?
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  SPEAKER_00: The brothers killed the goat and put the goat's blood on Joseph's beautiful coat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the brothers showed the coat to their father, and the brothers said We found this coat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this Joseph's coat?
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  SPEAKER_00: His father saw the coat and knew that it was Joseph's.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Yes, that is his.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe some wild animal has killed him.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son Joseph has been eaten by a wild animal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jacob was so sorry about his son that he tore his clothes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jacob put on special clothes to show that he was sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: He continued to be sad about his son for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of Jacob's sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but Jacob was never comforted.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, I will be sad about my son until the day I die.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jacob continued to mourn his son Joseph.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Midianite traders later sold Joseph in Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: They sold him to Potiphar, an officer of the king of Egypt, and the captain of his palace guards.