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 most 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.

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 will cover Genesis Chapter 37 through 41.

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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 Tafiq, 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

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