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I'm Taylor.

And I'm Tyler.

This is Book of Mormon Central's Come Follow Me Insights. Today, Genesis chapter 37 to 41.

So today's story is going to be following a couple of different characters.

Specifically, the emphasis is on Joseph.

And watching his story unfold the ups and the downs, it's a fascinating map that we're going to lay out on the board.

So you're going to see that today's lesson is extremely symbolic.

There are so many different metaphorical lenses that we can put on to read these chapters.

And they're all instructive and one isn't better than the other, and none of them is the

end-all-be-all way to read this story.

That's why it's important as we go through Come Follow Me Lessons as an individual or as a

family or as a couple or as a class, that we try to avoid this idea of, no, this is the only way to read this, but leave people

free and encourage them to go heavenward to find revelation, to connect with them in that

story to help it be instructive and applicable and relevant to their life as they move forward.

So here are a couple of lenses to consider with the story of Joseph, these similes, metaphors,

symbols that would point us to the fact that we're not just reading about Joseph in Egypt or Joseph with his family before

that, but we're using Joseph as a lens through which we can look at a couple of different

angles on the life of Christ. He is one of the beautiful Christ characters symbolically in

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