Today is the 18th day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian.

It's great to be here with you today as we gather again and move forward another step day by day step by step

so our next step leads us back into the book of Genesis and we're about to get to know one of Jacob or Israel's sons

pretty well his name is Joseph and we're gonna be camping out in his story for a bit.

So let's dive in. Genesis chapters 37 and 38 today.

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

These are the family records of Jacob. At 17 years of age Joseph tended sheep with his brothers.

The young man was working with the sons of Bilha and Zilpa, his father's wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a long-sleeved

robe for him.

When his brother saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him,

and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.

And Joseph had a dream.

When he told it to his brothers they hated him even more,

he said to them,

listen to this dream I have had.

There we were binding sheaves of grain in the field.

Suddenly my sheaf stood up and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.

Are you really going to reign over us?

His brothers asked him.

Are you really going to rule us?

So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

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