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III. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN EGYPT
T s 1. JOSEPH, THE SoN OF JACOB, BECOMES A GREAT RuLE
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Jacob's sons were herdsmen, and spent their lives
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tending their sheep and goats. Their work often took them far away from home. One day Joseph saw his brothers commit a wicked deed. He reported it to his father, and from that time they hated him.
There were other reasons why Joseph's brothers did not like him. They knew that their father loved Toseph very dearly, and when he gave him a coat of many colors, they became very jealous. Besides, Joseph dreamed dreams which he told to his brothers.
These dreams foretold his future greatness and the power he would one day have over them.
The rst time Joseph had a strange dream, he said to his brothers, "Hear my dream which I dreamed. I thought we were binding sheaves in the eld, and my sheaf arose, as it were, and stood, and your sheaves, standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.''
He dreamed also another dream, which he told to his brothers, saying, ''I saw in a dream, as it were, the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worship­ ing me."
These dreams made the brothers very angry, and they asked him, "Will you be our king?"
Some time after this, the brothers had to go great distances from home to nd grass for their ocks.
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