So many books, so little time. If you've ever said, I really want to read the Bible, I just can't fit it all in.

Welcome to the club. This is the Bible Book Club. We'll read it to you and help you make sense of the most important book you'll ever read.

All right, we are going to continue today in our story with Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.

But last week, I'm going to just catch you up really quick.

Jacob delayed in the cities of Sukhoth and Shuckham.

He left his family, opened a temptation in those cities, reminding us again of Lod and Sodom and Gomorrah.

Dinah decided to go play, find some pagan friends in the city, and then she became a target of

Seckham, the son of the ruler, and he, unfortunately, there was a tragedy, he raped her. The first rape

we see in the Bible, and then Simeon and Levi come up with a strategy to avenge their sister,

and they kill a whole bunch of people all at once. And then Simeon and Levi come up with a strategy to avenge their sister. And they kill a whole bunch of people all at once.

And then Jacob finally makes the move that he was supposed to make anyway.

He goes to Bethel, where he's told, like his father's before him, to be fruitful, increase in number.

And then also, sadly, last episode, we had to say goodbye to Rachel. She died in Rama on the way to Bethlehem. So here we find our new hero, Joseph. Right. But before we do, we're going to have to dispense with another brother. So I called this, oh, brother, where art thou? Because we're going to talk about two. One of the best movies of all time, if I do say so myself.

We're going to talk about two brothers.

One, who's at the end of his story, and one who's at the beginning.

For Joseph, this title will be particularly appropriate because he's going to go missing.

Before we get to dive into our new hero, however, Joseph, the brother who actually has too many brothers, we must dispense with Jacob's twin brother Esau. There is a pattern that you may have noticed for finishing off the storyline of the family members who don't play a future role in the bigger story.

The Bible just lists their

ancestry and then they are no more. Esau is not our star in this show. And so he must go. So here

is his family tree from chapter 36. This is the account of the family line of Esau, that is Edom.

Esau took his wives from the woman of Canaan, Adda, daughter of Elon the Hittite,

and Olimbara, daughter of Aynah, the granddaughter of Zibyan, the Hibite.

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