f Ny 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. PLP LR RERIMI _ 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. | | The Baldwin Library University | RMB ssh / | Florida jaf | | Foseph Sold to the Merchants by his Brethren. EUBEN did not mean to leave his brother to die in the pit; he meant to come back and take Joseph out when they were all gone. But while he was away, the brothers saw some camels coming, laden with spice and myrrh; and Judah said, “ Let us not leave our brother to die, but let us sell him to these merchants who are coming.” And his brethren listened to this advice, and drew Joseph up out of the pit, and sold him to the travelling merchants for twenty pieces of silver, and the Ish- maelites took him down into Egypt, and sold him for a slave. el BSR IS Fostph's Coat of Many Colours brought to hits Father. | HEN the wicked ten brothers took Joseph’s pretty coat of | many colours, and dipped it in the blood of a kid. And they brought it, all blood-stained, to his father Jacob, and said, “We have found this coat. Is it your son Joseph’s?” And Jacob said, “It is my son’s coat—a wae beast has eaten him. Joseph is without doubt rent to pieces.” , And the poor old man cried bitterly and was very miser- able. Once he had deceived his own father with the skin of a kid ; now his sons deceive him with the blood of one. ‘Fosephh Accused Faltsely and sent to Prison. OSEPH’S master was captain of the King of Egypt's J guards. He was very kind to his young servant, and finding him good and honest, trusted him with everything. But Potiphar ‘had a wicked wife, who wanted to make Joseph deceive his kind master. When she found that Joseph would not do anything ' wrong, because he knew that Gop could always see him, she grew very angry; and she told her husband that Joseph was very wicked and ought to be punished. Potiphar believed her, and sent poor Joseph away to prison. But Gop knew that Joseph was good ; and made the keeper of the prison kind to him. Foseph Interpreting the Dreams of the Chief Butler and Baker tn Prison. HE keeper of the prison let Joseph help him to take care of the prisoners. Among them were the butler and baker of King Pharaoh. One morning Joseph found these men looking very sad, and asked them what was the matter. They said they had had strange dreams, and were sorry that there was no one to tell them what they meant. Joseph said that only Gop could tell what a dream meant, but he wished to hear them. And when he had heard the dreams, Gop taught him how to explain them; and just as he said, so it happened. The baker was hung, and the King restored the butler to his place. WEE ve SS x \ . AW aS N a ¢ WE itt : | Foseph Interpreting Pharaohs Dreams. Y-AND-BY Pharaoh had a dream. He thought he saw seven fat cows feeding in a meadow, and seven thin cows came and eat them up; so Pharaoh awoke. And he slept and , dreamed the second time. And he saw in his dream seven thin ears of bad corn eat up seven good ears of corn. He wished - very much to know what his dreams meant; and the chief butler said) There is a young man in the prison who can tell the King.” Then the King sent os Joseph ; and he said, “The - dreams mean that there will. dye,seven good harvests, and they will be followed by seven years whenho corn will grow, and there will be no bread to eat.” Foseph made Ruler over the Land of Egypt. — HEN King Pharaoh said, “If this is to be so, what had we better do?” And Joseph advised the King to buy up all the corn, and save it against the time when. the harvests should be bad. And the King told Joseph that Ze should do so for him ; and he made Joseph ruler over all the land, and put his ring on his finger, and a gold chain on his neck, and the poor captive became the greatest man in Egypt next to the King. And he saved up the corn, and when the bad harvests came he sold it to the people for King Pharaoh. Fosephs Brethren Finding the Money in their Sacks. “THERE was no corn in Canaan either, and when Jacob heard that there was wheat to be sold in Egypt, he sent his ten sons down to buy some. Joseph knew his cruel brothers but they did not know him, because he was grown a man. He pretended to be unkind to them, and asked them many questions, and took Simeon and put him in prison, telling them that he should not be set free till they brought their brother Benjamin to him. But he had their sacks filled with corn; and when they reached home and opened them, they found that the money they had paid for it was put inside their sacks. — HPL RERL IS Foseph making himself Known to his Brethren, ACOB did not like to let Benjamin go into Egypt, but at J last they had no bread to eat; and then he was obliged to | send his dear son with his brothers. When Joseph saw Benjamin, who was his own mother’s son, he was so glad that he cried for joy. Then he told his cruel brothers who he was, and forgave them; and kissed Benjamin, and made a great feast for them. And he bade them go home and tell his dear old father that he was alive, and that he wished him to come to him in Egypt. De, The Meeting of Foseph and his Father. HEN the eleven brothers went back joyfully to their father ; and told old Jacob the good news that Joseph was alive, and governor of the land of Egypt. And Jacob made haste to go at once to his beloved son, sending on Judah, to tell Joseph by which road he should journey. And Joseph went to meet his father in the land of Goshen. And when he saw the old man, he “fell on his neck, and wept on his neck, a good while.” And Jacob thanked Gon for letting him see Joseph once more before he died, Facob Brought before Pharaoh. LOE HARAOH wished to see the father of his wise servant Joseph ; so Joseph brought Jacob into the presence of the King. And the aged man blessed the monarch who had been so good to his lost son. 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