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... Genesis 37
38When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Acbor
became king in his place.
39When Baal-hanan son of Acbor died, Hadad
became king in his place and ruled from the
city of Pau. His wife was Mehetabel, the
daughter of Matred and granddaughter of
Me-zahab.
40These are the names of the leaders of the
clans descended from Esau, who lived in the
places named for them: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 42Kenaz, Teman,
Mibzar, 43Magdiel, and Iram. These are the leaders of the clans of Edom, listed according to
their settlements in the land they occupied.
They all descended from Esau, the ancestor of
the Edomites.
CHAPTER
37
Joseph’s Dreams
So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan,
where his father had lived as a foreigner.
2 This is the account of Jacob and his family.
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often
tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half
brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah
and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father
some of the bad things his brothers were doing.
3Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his
other children because Joseph had been born to
him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special
gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe. 4But his
brothers hated Joseph because their father loved
him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t
say a kind word to him.
5One night Joseph had a dream, and when he
told his brothers about it, they hated him more
than ever. 6“Listen to this dream,” he said. 7 “We
were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain.
Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles
all gathered around and bowed low before
mine!”
8His brothers responded, “So you think you
will be our king, do you? Do you actually think
you will reign over us?” And they hated him all
the more because of his dreams and the way he
talked about them.
9 Soon Joseph had another dream, and again
he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had
another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and
eleven stars bowed low before me!”
10This time he told the dream to his father as
well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him.
“What kind of dream is that?” he asked. “Will
your mother and I and your brothers actually
WELL, WELL, WELL!
What happened at the well?
Read GENESIS 37.
1
Then make this Wacky Well to see
how jealousy changes friendships.
Find an empty
cardboard tube.
3
Rubber-band the wax
paper circle over one
end of the tube.
2
Cut a wax paper
circle about twice
the size of the
tube’s end.
4
Talk into your
Wacky Well.
Huh?
What
happened
to your
voice?
The wax paper changed the shape of
your sound waves. It messed up your
voice so it was hard to understand.
Jealousy messed things up between
Joseph and his brothers. When jealousy gets between people, it’s hard
for them to understand each other
and get along.
If you’ve let jealousy come between
you and a friend, go talk to that person. Explain what happened.
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Ask for forgndivsoenwiles
l they!
You’ll feel better—a
