/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //#11 OT // /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// var title="Jacob's children"; var title2="Event 11: Genesis 37-39"; Text=new Array(16); aposstr=new String; speechstr=new String; aposstr="'"; speechstr='"'; for (var x=0; x<17;x++) { Text[x]=""; } max=16; Text[0]=" 1. (Genesis 37) Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors."; Text[1]=" 2. (Genesis 37) But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. So he said to them, 'I have dreamed we were binding sheaves. My sheaf arose and stood upright; and your sheaves bowed down to my sheaf."; Text[2]=" 3. (Genesis 37:9) He dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, 'Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.'"; Text[3]=" 4. (Genesis 37:23) So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped him of his tunic, the one of many colors tht was on him and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it."; Text[4]=" 5. (Genesis 37:26, 27) So Judah said to his brothers, 'What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.' His brothers listened."; Text[5]=" 6. (Genesis 37:28) Then the Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt."; Text[6]=" 7. (Genesis 37:29,30) Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes. And he returned to his brothers and said, 'The lad is no more; and I, where shall I go?' So they took and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood."; Text[7]=" 8. (Genesis 37:32,33) Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said, 'We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son's tunic or not?' He recognized it and said, 'It is my son's tunic. A wild beast has devoured him."; Text[8]=" 9. (Genesis 39:1) Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt."; Text[9]=" 10. (Genesis 39:1b) And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there."; Text[10]=" 11. (Genesis 39:4) So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him."; Text[11]=" 12. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority."; Text[12]=" 13. (Genesis 39:11,12) But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside, that Potiphar's wife caught him by his garment. ...But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside."; Text[13]=" 14. (Genesis 39:16) So she kept his garment with her until his master came home."; Text[14]=" 15. (Genesis 39:20) Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison."; Text[15]=" 16. (Genesis 39:21,22) But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison; whatever they did there, it was his doing."; // *** POSITIONING AND STYLES ********************************************* //**DO NOT EDIT THIS ***** //*********************** //************************