PRIMARY SABBATH LESSONS
LESSON 11
Joseph - Part Two
Joseph’s father lived in Canaan. They
were suffering from a famine, not having any food. Joseph’s father Jacob sent
ten of his sons to Egypt to buy some grain.
When Joseph was young, his older
brothers had sold him, but they did not know that Joseph now lived in Egypt.
When they got to Egypt they did not know that the man in charge was their
brother Joseph whom they had sold. Joseph knew them right away. Joseph still
loved his brothers and wanted to tell them, but he decided to give them a little
test. Joseph said, “You say you have come for food, but I think you are spies.”
They said, “We are not spies. Our father
sent us because we need food. Our father had twelve sons. The youngest son
stayed home with our father and the other one died.”
They didn’t know that they were
talking to the son they thought was dead.
Joseph wanted to ask about Benjamin and
his father but he knew that if he did they would know who he was. Joseph wanted
to see his father and his little brother so he made one of the brothers stay in
Egypt.
When they got home, they told their
father what had happened and that one brother had to stay in Egypt until they
came back with their younger brother. Jacob said, no way would he let Benjamin
go to Egypt. But as time went on, they ran out of food again.
Jacob told his sons to go and get more
grain, but they said that the only way they could was if Benjamin went with
them. They promised to take good care of him.
When Joseph saw them coming with
Benjamin he was so happy that he cried.
Joseph told them who he was, that he was
the brother they had put in a pit and sold.
When Pharaoh heard about Joseph’s
family, he told Joseph to send wagons and bring his father to Egypt to live with
him.
Jacob told Joseph that a long time ago
Yahweh had told him he would be the father of a great nation. Jacob said he
wanted to adopt Joseph’s two sons as part of his family.
Jacob hugged his grandsons, Joseph’s
sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and placed his hands on their heads to give them a
special blessing.
Memory Verse
"Now hurry back to my father
and say to him, 'this is what
your son Joseph says: Elohim has
made me master of all Egypt.
Come down to me; don't delay.'"
Genesis 45:9
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