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Joseph arranged to set up Benjamin with a silver cup in his sack. After the brothers left they chased them down and said whoever had the silver cup would die. Benjamin had the cup. When they arrived at Joseph’s house Judah took the lead and said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and he also…

The famine was still going strong, and Jacob’s family had eaten all their food, so Jacob said to his sons again, “Go again, buy us a little food.”  Judah told him that the man told them they wouldn’t see his face if they did not bring their youngest brother. So he said, if you send Benjamin with us we will go buy food, but if you don’t send him we won’t. Israel (Jacob) responded asking why they mentioned Benjamin at all. The brothers…

Jacob told his sons to go to Egypt for grain so they wouldn’t die in the famine. 10 of Joseph’s brothers went, Benjamin stayed back because Jacob feared harm would come to him. Joseph was governor and sold grain to the people. When his brothers came he recognized them but treated them roughly. They didn’t recognize him. He accused them of being spies. They told them their biography. He accused them of being spies again. He said to prove they…

2 years after the cupbearer forgot about Joseph interpreting his dream in prison, Pharaoh dreamed a dream. Pharaoh’s Dream Part 1 ~ 14 Cows By the Nile River: (1) He dreamed that there were 7 cows healthy and plump eating reed grass. (2) He, later in the same dream, then saw 7 cows, ugly and thin which he had never seen in all Egypt, coming after the healthy cows. (3) The 7 ugly/thin cows ate the 7 attractive/healthy/plump cows, and they remained thin and ugly afterward. (4) After this…

Joseph was falsely imprisoned for Potiphar’s wife’s claims. Pharaoh’s chief cupbearer and chief baker committed an offense against Pharaoh. He put them in the custody of the captain of the guard over the prison where Joseph was being held (40:3). The prison guard put Joseph over them, and he attended them. They both dreamed separate dreams that troubled each of them. When Joseph saw that they were troubled he asked them why they were downcast, and they said they were downcast because they had dreams and no one could interpret them.…

Joseph was brought to Egypt, and an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, Potiphar who was the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites. The LORD was with Joseph, and he became successful in Potiphar’s house. Potiphar saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused everything he did to succeed. Because of this Joseph found favor in Potiphar’s sight and he put him in charge of everything he had, making him an overseer in his house. The LORD blessed Potiphar’s house and fields for Joseph’s sake, so…

Judah went down from his brothers and turned to Hirah, an Adullamite. He saw the daughter of Shua, a Canaanite, there. He was intimate with her and she had sons named Er, Onan, and Shelah. Judah went to Chezib sometime when she was bearing them. Judah took a wife for Er named Tamar. Er was wicked in the sight of the LORD and the LORD put him to death, so Judah told Onan to do the duty of a brother-in-law and raise up children for Er. Onan clearly refused, each time they were intimate he would waste his seed on the ground,…

Jacob lived where his dad sojourned, Canaan. Joseph was 17 and was with his brothers pasturing their sheep. Jacob/Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons and he made him a robe of many colors (and probably long sleeves), and his brothers hated him for this. Joseph then dreamed he and his brothers were binding sheaves (bundling the harvest, like wheat, barley, etc.) in the field and when Joseph’s sheaf rose all his brothers sheaves bowed down to it. Joseph then had a second dream that…

After laying out Jacob/Israel’s family in chapter 35, chapter 36 now turns to focus on laying out Esau’s lineage and the lineage of the surrounding nations. Further, after these descendants, Moses lists all the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before the Israelites had any king (“human” king that is) (vs. 31). While not necessarily being exhaustive, Moses seems to have intended to give an account for the many nations that exist as well. Even though God’s chosen people would often…

God told Jacob to settle at Bethel and to make altar to God there. Jacob told his family to put away foreign gods. A terror of God fell on the cities around them and they left Jacob’s family alone. He came to Luz and built an altar, they buried Rebekah’s nurse there. God appeared to Jacob and blessed him, renaming him Israel, and saying to be fruitful and multiply. God reaffirmed His covenant to him. God went up from him, Jacob…