ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORY

Joseph Saves LivesGENESIS CHAPTERS 41-50

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PHARAOH, THE KING OF EGYPT,HAD A STRANGE DREAM.

WHO CANTELL ME WHAT

MY DREAMMEANS?

FINALLY, THE CHIEF OF THE CUPBEARERS, WHOHAD BEEN IN PRISON WITH JOSEPH, SPOKE UP.

I KNOW A HEBREWMAN WHO CAN

TELL WHATDREAMS MEAN.

QUICK!BRING HIM OUT OF

THE PRISON TOSEE ME!

I HEARDTHAT YOU CANTELL ME WHAT

MY DREAMMEANS.

NOT I, BUTIT IS GOD WHO WILL

ANNOUNCE WHATWILL HAPPEN TO YOU.

WHAT WAS YOURDREAM?

I SAW SEVEN SKINNYCOWS EAT SEVEN FAT

COWS. LATER, I SAW SEVENTHIN EARS OF GRAIN EAT

SEVEN FAT EARSOF GRAIN.

THE TRUE GODIS TELLING YOU THAT THEREWILL BE SEVEN YEARS WHENTHERE WILL BE PLENTY OFFOOD IN EGYPT, FOLLOWED

BY SEVEN YEARS WHENTHERE WILL BE VERY

LITTLE FOOD.

COLLECT ANDSAVE EXTRA FOOD

NOW SO THAT THEREWILL BE ENOUGH TOEAT WHEN THE FOOD

RUNS OUT.

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PHARAOH MADE JOSEPHTHE SECOND MOSTIMPORTANT MAN IN EGYPT.

JOSEPH GATHERED ANDSAVED FOOD FOR THEEGYPTIANS SO THAT THEYWOULD NOT STARVE WHENTHEIR FOOD RAN OUT.

ONE DAY JOSEPH’S OLDER BROTHERSARRIVED TO GET FOOD FOR THEIRFAMILIES AND FOR THEIR YOUNGESTBROTHER, BENJAMIN.

BUT THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE JOSEPH.

I WONDER IF MYBROTHERS ARESTILL UNKIND. . .

I WILL TESTTHEM TO SEE IF

THEY HAVECHANGED.

IF YOU AREWHO YOU SAY YOU ARE,

RETURN HERE WITHYOUR YOUNGEST

BROTHER. UNTIL THEN,I WILL KEEP ONE OF

YOU IN PRISON.

ALL THESEBAD THINGS ARE

HAPPENING TO USBECAUSE WE TREATEDOUR BROTHER JOSEPH

UNKINDLY!

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LATER, JOSEPH’S BROTHERS RETURNED TO EGYPTWITH THEIR YOUNGEST BROTHER, BENJAMIN.

ISTHIS YOURBROTHER?

ONCE MORE, JOSEPHTESTED HIS BROTHERS.

HIDE MYSILVER CUP IN

BENJAMIN’SBAG . . .

THE NEXT DAY, WHILE JOSEPH’SBROTHERS WERE TRAVELING HOME . . .

WHERE ISOUR MASTER’S

CUP?

WHATCUP?

THISCUP.

BACK AT JOSEPH’S HOUSE . . .

WHAT HAVEYOU DONE?

THIEF! BENJAMINWILL BECOME

MY SLAVE.

BUT BENJAMIN’S BROTHERJUDAH BEGGED JOSEPH . . .

PLEASE,TAKE ME AS A

SLAVE INSTEAD OFBENJAMIN, AND I WILL

SERVE YOU.

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NOW, JOSEPH WAS SURE THAT HISBROTHERS HAD CHANGED.

I AMJOSEPH.

GODSENT ME HERE

TO PROVIDE FOODSO THAT YOU COULD

STAY ALIVE.

I CAN’TBELIEVE

IT!

ITCAN’TBE . . .

BUT IT IS . . .IT IS JOSEPH!

EVENTUALLY, JOSEPH’S FATHER, HISBROTHERS, AND THEIR FAMILIES MOVEDTO EGYPT. JOSEPH MADE SURE THATTHEY HAD ENOUGH FOOD TO EAT.

THEIR FAMILIES LIVED INEGYPT FOR OVER 200 YEARS.

WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM JOSEPHAND HIS BROTHERS?

WHEN JOSEPH SAW THAT HIS BROTHERS

HAD CHANGED, HOW DID HE TREAT THEM?

CLUE: GENESIS 50:19-21; 1 PETER 3:8, 9.

HOW DID JUDAH SHOW THAT HE LOVED

HIS BROTHER BENJAMIN?

CLUE: GENESIS 44:18, 33, 34.

IF SOMEONE IS MEAN TO YOU,

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IN RETURN?

CLUE: 1 THESSALONIANS 5:15.

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