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Genesis 45: The Big Reveal
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Genesis 44: Cup Confessions
In the morning after feasting and drinking, Judah and his ten brothers, including Simeon and Benjamin start on their journey home with bags bursting with grain. What they don’t know is that Joseph has put silver in their grain bags and his own drinking cup into Benjamin’s bag. You’d think after last time they’d check. …
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Genesis 43: High Noon
As the famine grinds on, Jacob and his extended family deplete their stockpiles. Jacob tells his sons to go back to Egypt and get more grain. They remind him that they have to bring Benjamin with them. Jacob, perhaps returning to his playbook for winning back his own angry brother, tells them to make a…
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Genesis 41: Pharaoh’s Famine
Two whole years layer, the Pharaoh has a series of distressing dreams. In the first, seven attractive, plump cows come out of the Nile river followed by seven ugly, thin ones. The thin ones devour the plump ones. In the second dream, Pharaoh sees seven ears of grain growing from a stalk, followed by seven…
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Genesis 40: Grape & Grain
Joseph has now been in prison for a while. What’s a while? Five weeks? Five months? Something happens in the palace and Pharaoh angrily tosses two of his inner circle into prison: his chief baker and royal cup bearer. Did someone in the palace get food poisoning? The head of the prisoners, assigns Joseph to…
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Genesis 39: Twice Betrayed, Twice Blessed
The story shifts from the wilderness to Egypt. Joseph, who is sold by his brothers to traders, is again sold to Potiphar, a captain in Pharaoh’s guard. Joseph serves Potiphar faithfully, and the Lord blessed him with favor. Potiphar recognized Joseph’s success and puts him over everything in his household. Things go swimmingly until Potiphar’s…
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Genesis 38: Breaking Dawn
In case you’re under the impression that the Old Testament is shy about human sexuality, here is a rated R story that is fully cancelable by modern standards. Leah’s fourth son, Judah had three sons with Shua, a Canaanite, who named them Er, Onan and Shelah. A young woman named Tamar is married the eldest…
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Genesis 37: Dream a Little Dream
The focus of the narrative now shifts from Israel, formally known as Jacob, to his eleventh son Joseph while the family is living as shepherds and farmers in Hebron. Joseph is seventeen in this story. His oldest half-brother, Ruben, is about ten years older than Joseph and is one of Leah’s six sons. There were…
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The Undeserving Poor
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Genesis 36: Everybody’s Kids
In Genesis 35:23-26 there is a summary of all the male children from Israel organized by mother starting with the sisters. Leah had Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. Rachel had Joseph and Benjamin. The servant Bilhah had Dan and Naphtali, and Zilpha had Gad and Asher for a total of twelve sons. Genesis…