Children can tell the story of Joseph being sold into Egypt.

We know it well with nasty brothers, slave dealers, false accusations,

pits of despair and drama galore.

What's more important about this story, however, may not be obvious, and that's what we are talking about today.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast, where today we talk about Joseph of Egypt, the story you know well and yet may have never seen

before. We'll cover Genesis chapters 37 through 41. Now if you're not familiar with Meridian

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Maureen, you and I go to Egypt every year leading a tour and we tell the friends we bring with us that Egypt

is another holy land. This is where some of the events from the lives of Abraham and Sarah

happened, where Joseph came as a slave and became second only to Pharaoh, where Moses led the

children of Israel out of bondage, where Jesus came to escape Herod.

Yet we especially think of Joseph when we are there because he is our grandfather. We are part of

his family. We love to tell our Egyptian tour guide, Hani Tafi, that we belong here because we are

Joseph's children.

Then, when Honey came to Salt Lake and went on a tour with us of Welfare Square and saw the warehouses stacked with food as Joseph stored grain in Egypt,

he said, you really are Joseph's grandchildren.

So let's start with some context.

In our last lesson, we learned that Jacob was given a new name, which was Israel, meaning let God prevail. This is a covenant name

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