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Descendants of Judah • 1 CHRONICLES 2:3-6
Judah had three sons from Bathshua,
a Canaanite woman. Their names were Er,
Onan, and Shelah. But the Lord saw that
the oldest son, Er, was a wicked man, so he
killed him. 4 Later Judah had twin sons from
Tamar, his widowed daughter-in-law. Their
names were Perez and Zerah. So Judah had
five sons in all.
5 The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
6 The sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman,
Calcol, and Darda*—five in all.
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1 CHRONICLES 2:8
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The son of Ethan was Azariah.
Joseph in Potiphar’s House • GENESIS 39:1-18
1 When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an
Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the
guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
2 The Lord was with Joseph, so he succeeded
in everything he did as he served in the home of
his Egyptian master. 3 Potiphar noticed this and
realized that the Lord was with Joseph, giving
him success in everything he did. 4 This pleased
Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal
attendant. He put him in charge of his entire
household and everything he owned. 5 From
the day Joseph was put in charge of his master’s household and property, the Lord began
to bless Potiphar’s household for Joseph’s sake.
All his household affairs ran smoothly, and his
crops and livestock flourished. 6 So Potiphar
gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph
there, he didn’t worry about a thing—except
what kind of food to eat!
Joseph was a very handsome and well-built
young man, 7 and Potiphar’s wife soon began to
look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,”
she demanded.
8 But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my
master trusts me with everything in his entire
household. 9 No one here has more authority
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than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I
do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin
against God.”
10 She kept putting pressure on Jo seph day
after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and
he kept out of her way as much as possible.
11 One day, however, no one else was around
when he went in to do his work. 12 She came and
grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come
on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away,
but he left his cloak in her hand as he ran from
the house.
13 When she saw that she was holding his
cloak and he had fled, 14 she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. “Look!”
she said. “My husband has brought this Hebrew
slave here to make fools of us! He came into my
room to rape me, but I screamed. 15 When he
heard me scream, he ran outside and got away,
but he left his cloak behind with me.”
16 She kept the cloak with her until her husband came home. 17 Then she told him her story.
“That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our
house tried to come in and fool around with
me,” she said. 18 “But when I screamed, he ran
outside, leaving his cloak with me!”
Joseph Put in Prison • GENESIS 39:19-23
Potiphar was furious when he heard his
wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her.
20 So he took Jo seph and threw him into the
prison where the king’s prisoners were held,
and there he remained. 21 But the Lord was with
Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the Lord made Joseph a favorite
with the prison warden. 22 Before long, the
warden put Joseph in charge of all the other
prisoners and over everything that happened
in the prison. 23 The warden had no more worries, because Joseph took care of everything.
The Lord was with him and caused everything
he did to succeed.
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2:6 As in many Hebrew manuscripts, some Greek manuscripts, and
Syriac version (see also 1 Kgs 4:31); Hebrew reads Dara.
D A I LY D I S C O V E R Y
END & NEW
BEGINNING
MISSIONS
GOSPEL
• How does Jacob’s grief affect
the whole family, and how
does God use this grief in the
brothers’ lives?
• Why does Joseph prosper in
Egypt, and what is the cost of
his faithfulness? How does God
continue to work in Joseph’s
story despite his losses?
CHURCH
jealousy to accomplish His
bigger purposes?
SILENT
RETURN
CAPTIVITY
• Where have we seen favoritism
among families before, and
what does this story teach us
about playing favorites in our
own families? How does God
use Joseph’s older brothers’
