Joseph: Gen. 37-50 discution

The discussion in BYU By Andrew Skinner, Victor Ludlow, Clyde Williams, and Michael Rhodes

It was very interesting this table of discussion about the grueling trials and boundless achievements Joseph experienced under the watchful guidance of the Lord.

In this story, Joseph, his father Jacob’s favorite son, had been sold into slavery by his jealous older brothers, in a quintessential manifestation of sibling rivalry. After Joseph resists the advances of his first master’s wife, he is accused by her of attempted rape and he is placed in prison (Gen 39). There, he successfully interprets the dreams of fellow prisoners (Gen 40), revealing his divinely sent capacity to understand, with God’s help, the meaning of dreams.

When Pharaoh has a pair of disturbing dreams, his cupbearer tells him about his experience in prison with a Hebrew slave who knows how to interpret dreams. This leads Pharaoh to invite Joseph to interpret his disturbing dreams, and upon his successfully doing so, Joseph is appointed to be Pharaoh’s number two (Gen 41).   

Looking at the Joseph story through of  Genesis we can understand that despite Joseph had hard times God never forgot him and also his character could solve a problem of Egipt.