This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.
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I am seeking my brothers, he said. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock. The man said, They have gone away, for I heard them say, Let's go to Dothan. So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan. they saw him from a distance. And before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him. They said to one another, here comes this dreamer. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. then we will say that a wild animal has devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams. Here comes this dreamer. Another translation, that dreamer's coming this way again. Come now, let's kill him and throw him into the pits. Then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see, yeah, we shall see what will become, what will become of his dreams. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading and hearing of God's holy word. …
Back to verse 1. It reads, Jacob settled in the land where his father lived as an undocumented migrant. The land of Canaan. This is the story of Jacob. But verse 3 says, Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children because he was the son of his old age. This is the story of Jacob. Now Israel loved Joseph more. This is the story of Jacob. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children because he was the son of his old age, and he made him an ornamented robe. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading and hearing of God's holy word. You may be seated in the presence of the Most High God. I'd like to place a tag here for our teaching at this moment. I want us to deal with this idea of a consecrated contradiction. A consecrated contradiction. And if you would be so kind as to look at your neighbor at this time and say, neighbor, oh neighbor, I'm sorry to have to say this, but you're looking at a contradiction. …
… and turn to the book of Genesis, Genesis 37, verses two through 11. Now I'm gonna read you a section of scripture. And as I read this, you're gonna go, I thought my family was dysfunctional. I thought I was a little bit crazy. I thought I had some drama no he won't believe this this is the account verse 2 of Jacob's family line Jacob was Joseph's dad the word Jacob in the Hebrew means cheater so people hey cheater wouldn't it be great tell me your dad's name again cheater this is the account of Jacob's family line Joseph the guy we're going to talk about a young man of 17 was tending the flocks with his brothers the sons of Bila and the sons of Zilpah his father's wives Now that last line Tells us doesn't it about the issues And just some of the potential problems That was occurring in this family Wives And he brought their father This is Joseph a bad report about them. …
… This is the history of Jacob. Joseph, being 17 years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lads were the sons of Bilhah and sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he's a son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colors but when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. They hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. But Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him even more. So he said to them, Please hear this dream which I have dreamed. There we were, binding sheaves in the field, and my sheave arose and stood upright, and your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheave. His brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or have dominion over us? And they hated him even more for all his deeds and his words, And thus begins the story of Joseph. …
… father was a stranger in the land of Canaan. In Genesis 37, it says, Joseph was 17 years old. He's feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, the son of Zilpah, father's wife and Joseph brought a bad reporter to him to his father. Translate that he was a snitch. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was a son of his old age and he made him a tunic of many colors. When his brothers saw their father loved him more than all his brothers they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him even more so he said to them hear this dream I've dreamed there we were binding sheaves in the field then behold my sheaf arose and also stood upright and your sheaf stood all around it and bowed down to my sheaf and his brothers said shall you indeed reign over us or shall you indeed have dominion over so they hated even more for his dreams and for his words. …