Throughout the Old Testament, we learned much about the relationships of tribes, clans, and family groups.

We began discussing Israel's family in the last episode, focusing on Joseph, the favored son,

sold into Egypt, whose meteoric rise in Egyptian politics through the spiritual gift of interpreting dreams,

ultimately provided a land inheritance that would keep the family together.

What can we learn in the last chapters of Genesis about spiritual gifts, brotherly love,

and how understanding biblical narrative can make sacred stories more clear?

We discuss that and much more on today's episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast.

My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public communication specialist of the Neill A. Maxwell Institute

for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Christian Heel is a research fellow at the

Institute and each week we'll be discussing the week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints, come follow me, curriculum. We aren't here to present a lesson, or rather

to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block, so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints

and their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious ideas.

Today we're joined by one of our research assistants, Rachel Madsen, an English teaching major

here at BYU.

After graduating, Rachel plans to teach in secondary schools and eventually obtain a

graduate degree in educational leadership to work in school administration. Growing up around the world,

one of the only constants in Rachel's life was the 1999 film rendition of Joseph the Amazing

Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donnie Osmond. She has made it very clear to us that after watching

the film over a hundred times, she has memorized the entire script verbatim, and thus is probably the single most

qualified student to be speaking on the last few chapters of Genesis. Rachel, welcome to the

podcast. Great to be here. We are glad to have you here. Now, Christian, what's going on in

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