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Foseph s Dreams.

NE night, while little Joseph, the son of Jacob, was asleep,
Gop sent him a wonderful dream. He thought he saw

the sun, moon, and stars bow down to him. Once before he

had dreamed that he and his brothers were in the harvest field,
binding sheaves of golden corn, and that their sheaves bowed
down to his sheaf.’ His brethren hated him because of his
dreams; and they said, “Shalt thou reign over us?” His
father also reproved him for telling these visions; but, as you will

_ see, they came true. All dreams do not come true; only those

which Gop sends to men.

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_ Foseph in the Pit.

am brothers were jealous of him, because their

father loved him best, and gave him more than he gave to
them. One day when Joseph came to them in the field, bringing
a kind message from their father, they said, ‘“ Behold, this

: dreamer cometh; let us kill him, and see what will become of
his dreams.” But Reuben, the eldest brother, would not let
them ; he said, “ Do not kill him, but put him into this deep, dry

pit in the wilderness.” So they took off Joseph’s pretty coat,
and, in spite of his tears and entreaties, they put him down into
the dark, dismal pit, to die there.

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