Genesis Chapter
42-43:24
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With
God's help Joseph had interpreted
Pharaoh's dreams (Genesis 41:16). Then the
Pharaoh made Joseph a ruler over the land of Egypt. The
famine (Genesis 41:56-57)
came just as Joseph said it would, but Egypt was prepared.
The Egyptians came to Joseph to buy grain as well as people from
other countries hoping to buy food for their families.
Joseph speaks to his sons
Jacob
heard
that
there
was
grain
in
Egypt,
so he told his sons to go down to
Egypt and buy grain for them so that they would not die.
Joseph's brothers
go to
Egypt to buy grain.
So Joseph's ten
brothers went down to Egypt to buy grain. Jacob did not sent
Benjamin, the youngest brother, because he was afraid something bad
might happen to him.
Joseph's brothers
come to
him for grain.
Joseph had become governor over
the land of Egypt, and the people of the land had to come to him to buy
grain. When Joseph's brothers arrived in Egypt they had to bow
down before him with their faces to the earth.
When Joseph saw his brothers he recognized them. He pretended he
did not know them and spoke roughly to them. Joseph asked his
brothers questions about where they were from. His brothers still
did not recognize him. Then he told them they were spies.
Joseph's brothers
speak to him.
His brothers told him that they were not spies and that they had only
come to buy food. They went on to tell Joseph who they were and
that they were twelve brothers from Canaan, but the youngest brother
was at home, and the other brother was no more. Joseph again
tells them they are spies and tells them to send one of them to bring
back their youngest brother while the rest of them were kept in
prison. Joseph then put them all in prison.
Joseph tells his brothers to bring
their yougest brother to him.
Three
days
later
Joseph
told
them
that
if
they were honest men, that they should let one
of them be put in prison while the rest of them take the grain back
home and then bring back their youngest brother to see Joseph and to
prove that they were telling the truth. So the brothers did as he
said.
Joseph speaks to his servant.
Joseph
order
his
servants
to
fill
their
sacks with grain, and give back
their money, plus give them all they needed for the journey.
The brothers
go back
home with grain.
The
brothers
loaded
their
donkeys
with
the
grain and left.
Later, when they stopped for rest, one of them looked into their feed
sack, which was for their donkey, and saw their money. He told
his brothers what he had found in the sack. They all became
afraid and wondered what God had done to them.
When the brothers
return home,
they tell their father
everything
that had happened.
When
they
arrived
home
in
the
land
of
Canaan, they told their father Jacob
all that had
happened to them.
They told him that they had to bring back Benjamin so that he would
know that they were not spies and were honest men. Then they
could trade in the land.
The
brothers
told
their
father
about
how
they
found their money in their
sacks too. Jacob was very upset. His son Joseph was
no more and now Simeon who was in prison. Now, he was being asked
to send his
youngest son, Benjamin to Egypt.
Jacob sends his
sons back
to Egypt for more grain.
The famine was very bad and
when they had eaten up the grain that they had
brought from Egypt, their father told them to go back and get some more
food. Judah reminded his father that the man warned them
that they wouldn't be able to see him unless they had their youngest
brother with them.
They
also
told
their
father
that
the
man
had
asked them other questions too. Then their father Israel (Jacob)
told them that they must do it. He also told them to
take some of the best fruits of the land, a little balm and a little
honey, spices and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds as presents.
He told them to also take double the money they had found in their
sacks. So the brothers took the presents, Benjamin, and double
the money with them back to Egypt. They then came before Joseph.
Joseph was happy to see
Benjamin.
When
Joseph
saw
Benjamin
with
his
brothers
he
told the servant of his house
to take the men to his home and to kill an animal and prepare a
meal. They were to eat a meal with him at noon. The servant
did as Joseph commanded and brought his brothers to Joseph's home.
The brothers were afraid
they were in trouble.
His brothers were afraid
because they were brought
into Joseph's house. They thought it was because of the money
found in their sacks. They thought that the Egyptians would make
them slaves. So, they talked talked with
Joseph's servant at the door of the house and told him why they had
come and didn't know how the money got in their sacks.
But the servant told them to not
be afraid. Their God and the God
of their fathers had given them treasure in their sacks. He had
their money.
The servant then brought their brother Simeon to them. They were also brought into Joseph's house
and given water. Their feet were washed and their donkeys given
some food.
Famine..................Lack
of
food
because
there
has
been
no
rain for a long time.
Interpreted............To be able to tell what something means that is
not understood by others.
