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In Exodus chapter one, verse seven, God promises that the Israelites would multiply abundantly from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, grow to such a magnitude that they numbered about six hundred thousand men besides women and children. In contrast with the first generation of Jacob’s family, which numbered seventy people, the Israelites were now “fruitful and […]

At the beginning of Genesis chapter forty-one, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, experiences two troubling and prophetic dreams. The first dream depicts seven beautiful, healthy cows coming out of the Nile River to feed on the grass. Then seven famished, emaciated cows come up after them and devour them. The second dream is similar. Pharaoh sees

In Genesis chapter thirty-seven, verse two, Joseph, at the age of seventeen, is deeply loved by his father Jacob and deeply resented by his ten older brothers. Thanks to the favoritism by Joseph’s dad, he receives a princely robe, which later he reports dreams that predict his family one day bow before him. On the

Judah, Er’s father, was the fourth of six sons Leah gave birth to with Jacob. At the beginning of Genesis, chapter thirty-eight, he meets or reconnects with an Adullamite friend named Hirah. Defying this directive, Judah takes a Canaanite woman, the daughter of a man named Shua, presumably as his wife. Then he takes a

In Genesis chapter thirty-eight, verse eight, Onan, Judah’s second son, is to go with Er’s wife Tamar and have a child with her for his brother’s sake. Judah tells Onan to take Er’s widow Tamar as his wife. Onan has to care for Tamar as a wife, with a distinct emphasis on providing her with

In Genesis, chapter thirty-eight, verse six, Er, the husband of Tamar, died, and she became a childless widow. Tamar longed for a child by which to carry on her family name and produce descendants. According to Deuteronomy chapter twenty-five verse five, the duty of a brother-in-law was to father a male heir with Er’s widow

In Genesis chapter thirty-eight, verse two, Judah, the fourth-born son of Jacob, through Leah after Reuben, Simeon, and Levi were before him respectively, had not yet distinguished himself as someone great among his brothers. He was the one who suggested they sell Joseph into slavery. Judah interacted with a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah.

In Genesis chapter thirty-seven, verse twenty-eight, Joseph’s older brothers have agreed to sell him as a bondslave to the Ishmaelites. The Midianites merchantmen passed by, and the brothers sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver, and they brought him to Egypt. Buying help was the going rate for a teenage serf at the time. Joseph’s

In Genesis, chapter thirty-seven, verse five, Joseph dreamed a dream. However, this is not the first time a vision begins. In Genesis chapter twenty, verse three, God came to Abimelech in a dream by night regarding Sarah, Abraham’s wife. God sometimes reveals His will to us through prophetic dreams to help direct our path in

In Genesis, chapter thirty-seven, verse three, describes the “coat of many colors” that Joseph receives from his father. It presents a marked contrast to the plainer tunics worn by his brothers. The “coat of many colors” represents a position of special favoritism and honor with his father. Jacob deeply loved Joseph’s mother, Rachel, while regarding