Joeseph And His Brothers

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Joseph and his brothers
Before the birth of this people, there is still a fourth and last cycle of the era of the patriarchs, which begins with the more or less peaceful events Isaac and his son Jacob lived (Genesis 20-35), the father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel. He is also the father of Joseph, who holds a special role among the patriarchs. He was Jacob’’s most loved son because he was born after a long sterility from his real woman, Rachel, whom Jacob preferred to his other wives (Genesis 29:16-30:22; 37:3).
This was why his brothers hated him deeply (Genesis 37:4). When he once told them a dream, according to which he will become a preferential man and considered by them, they detested him even more (Genesis 37:5-11) and decided to get rid of him as soon as an opportunity would appear. They finally sold him to passing Ishmaelites, who took him away to Egypt (Genesis 37:18-28).
In this country, the Lord made him succeed in all that he undertook (Genesis 39:1-6). One day he correctly interpreted a dream of Pharaoh, according to which seven years of large abundance and seven of famine will arrive. This is why Pharaoh gave him a large authority over the Egyptian kingdom (Genesis 41:1-49)2. During the seven years of abundance, Joseph stored up grain "like the sand on the seashore" in view of the seven future thin years (Genesis 41:47-49). When the latter arrived, he opened stores and all the population of the country came to him to buy corn (Genesis 41:53-57). However, the famine raged not only in Egypt but also in the entire region and thereby also in the country where his father and his brothers lived, who therefore also one day came to Egypt to buy corn from him (Genesis 42-44). Thus the dreams of Joseph were fulfilled, according to which his family will one day prostrate itself before him.
Hence the phases are manifest: it is the rejection of Joseph by his brothers, the phase of sin, that entails the usual judgement, t...