Joseph Became Pharaoh's Right Hand Man

Everything returned to normal, after the execution of Pharaoh's chief baker, and Joseph remained in prison ... for another 2 full years. At the end of the 2 years, Pharaoh one night dreamed. He dreamed that he was standing next to a river.  And, behold, there came up out of the river 7 well favoured oxen and fatfleshed ... and they fed in the meadow. And,...

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Joseph Got Thrown Into Prison [Pothiphar's Wife Lied] ... And He Interpreted His First Two Dreams In Prison

So, his brothers sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites, and they in return sold Joseph to Potiphar ... Pharaoh's right hand man. But The Lord was with Joseph and made him a prosperous man ... while he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. Potiphar saw that The Lord was with Joseph and that everything that Joseph touched, turned into gold for him. So Joseph found...

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Joseph Got Sold By His Jealous Brothers

The Twelve Tribes of Israel [Jacob] were as follows: The sons of Israel and Leah ... Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun, The sons of Israel and Zilpah, Leah's handmaid ... Gad and Asher, The sons of Israel and Rachel ... Joseph and Bejamin, The sons of Israel and Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid ... Dan and Naphtali. Esau had five sons that was bared to him...

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Jacob's Daughter Dinah Got Ravaged By Shechem ... And Her Brothers Revenged Her

So, while Esau was on his way back to Seir, Jacob decided to set up house in a place called Succoth. Then one day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit other young girls of the land. Shechem, the son of Hamor which was the prince of that particular country, saw her walking.  So he grabbed her and deflowered her ... and took her with him. He...

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Jacob Met With Esau For The First Time After Stealing His Birthright, 20 Years Back

Laban came into sight of Jacob in the mount Gilead.  Laban decided to confront Jacob the next day.  So they camped for the night. That night God came to Laban in a dream and said to him: 'Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.' So Laban did take heed and when he met with Jacob the next morning, they sorted their differences in a calm and...

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Jacob planned to move on ... and Laban tried to cheat him

So Jacob cornered Laban and asked him to set him free, because Jacob wanted to go back to Canaan with everything he had.  He wanted his own place. Laban didn't like the sound of that, because Laban knew that he was living under God's goodwill as long as Jacob was with him. So he tried to convince Jacob to stay.  He offered Jacob any wage that Jacob wanted. ...

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Jacob Versus His Wives!

When The Lord saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb so that she can become pregnant, but Rachel was kept  barren. Leah then had 4 sons ... Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah.  And then she stopped getting pregnant. By this time Rachel saw that she was not going to have children.  So she cornered Jacob and ordered him to give her children or else she...

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How Laban Trapped Jacob To Marry Leah First

So Jacob moved into Laban's house and started working for Laban. After a month has gone by, Laban said to Jacob: 'You are family, but that does not mean that you must work for free.  Tell me what I must pay you.' Laban had 2 daughters ... the eldest was Leah and the youngest was Rachel.  Leah had gentle eyes, but Rachel was beautiful. Jacob loved Rachel...

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Jacob Flees And Meets Rachel

To help Jacob flee, Rebekah told Isaac that she was tired of the Heth wives of Esau ... and if Jacob also would to marry a Heth girl, she Rebekah might as well die. Isaac immediately called Jacob, blessed him and send him to Padan-Aram, the house of Bethuel, his grandfather ... where he was to take a bride from the daughters of Laban, his mother's brother. So Jacob...

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Esau And Jacob Were Born To Isaac And Rebekah

Abraham died at the age of 175 years.  His two sons Isaac and Ismael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite ... which was before Mamre [close to Hebron].  They buried him in the same cave as his wife, Sarah. And Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebekah to be his wife, but she couldn't have children. ...

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How Isaac Got A Wife

Sarah, wife of Abraham and mother to Isaac died at the age of 127 years.  She died in Kirjath-arba, which is the same as Hebron in the land of Canaan ... and Abraham came from Beer-sheba to mourn for her and weep for her. Isaac took it hard that his mother died. So, one day he called his eldest servant.  Abraham then said to the servant: 'You must swear...

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Bible Stories: Abraham Must Sacrifice His Son Isaac

Genesis Chapters 1-22 What have we discovered in the first piece of the Bible? a.  Adam and Eve had the minds of children ... there was nothing but The Lord, Eden and the animals to influence them.  They only spoke to each other and to The Lord.  So, when the Jealous One spoke to Eve, through the snake, there was no reason for her to doubt the words that the snake spoke.  She didn't know anything about deception ... because...

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The Birth Of Isaac

In that time God thought about His promise to Sarah ... and she became pregnant.  The child was born when Abraham was a 100 years old ... and Abraham called him Isaac. When Isaac was 8 days old Abraham circumcised him as The Lord had ordered him to do ... and he held a big party for Isaac on the same day. But Sarah felt very much ashamed that she had a child...

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Abraham and Sarah Lied To King Abimelech

And so it came to pass that Abraham [previously Abram] and Sarah packed up and did some travelling.  They dwelled for a while between Kadesh and Shur and then journeyed to Gerar.  They decided to settle down in Gerar for a while. When they got there they lied to the king of Gerar ... Abimelech.  As with the Egyptian Pharaoh they again said that Sarah...

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Lot And His Daughters

Abram [now called Abraham ... as The Lord renamed him, because he was going to be the father of God's nation] got up the morning of the Great Burning of Sodom and Gomorrah and went to a place where he stood in the Presence of The Lord.   As he looked towards the far horizon, towards Sodom and Gomorrah, there was burning smoke as far as he could see ... as...

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Sodom and Gomorrah Burned. Lot Was Saved

It was the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Two angels came to Sodom and they came upon Lot, where he sat at the gate.   When Lot saw the strangers approaching, he stood up to meet them.  When they reached him, he bowed down and then greeted them: 'Welcome, my lords!  Please come to my house and then you can sleep and...

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Sarai Gave Her Slave To Abram. Hagar Flee From Sarai

Sarai and Abram tried to have a child, but they weren't successful and Sarai was beginning to feel desperate. So she came to Abram and said to him: 'The Lord hasn't blessed me with a child.  Sleep with my slave, Hagar, and maybe you will then have a child that I can call my own.'  Abram also thought it was the best thing to do. Abram was already living...

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God Made A Bond With Abram

God came to Abram in a dream and said to him: 'Don't be afraid Abram, I am your Shield and I am going to give you big rewards.' Abram replied: 'What will you give me, Lord?  I don't have children to inherit from me.  All that I have will go to Eliezer of Damascus, because I will die childless.  You didn't give me descendants and a slave out of my house will...

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