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Joseph more than all the rest, they hated him and would not treat him kindly. These older brothers often did things that were not right, and made their father feel Very sorry. At this time these ten brothers were far away from home taking care of their father’s sheep. In those days there were no . trains to carry letters, so the father could not hear from them, and one day his father called Joseph and sent him to the place where they were taking care of the sheep to find out how they were getting along. Joseph put on his beau tiful coat and started on his long jour-
can still be your teacher. Who can tell me the names of Isaac’s two boys? Why did Jacob have to leave home, and where did he go? After he had lived there for a long time, what did God tell him? , What was it that made Jacob afraid to go back to his home land? (Lead the children right up to the story for to-day covering events of past lessons.) Now we see Jacob was kind and loving and won his brother, just as our memory verse tells us. Let us say it. Prayer. Lesson Story. Now we know Isaac had two boys, and Jacob had twelve,
ney, but when he got to the place his brothers were not there. Joseph looked all around and tried to find them, and after a while a man saw him, and told him his brothers had gone on to another place. Now Joseph never gave up even though he was very tired, for it took him several days to make the journey, but Joseph knew how anxious his father was to hear from them, and he would not give up, for he was thinking how glad they would be to hear from home. When the brothers saw Joseph coming, Satan put a very wicked thought ip their minds, and they let this wicked thought stay. My, it does not seem pos-
just an even dozen. We are going to hear about the one next to the baby, whose name was Joseph, and all the children and the big folks too always love to hear about Joseph, because he was such a good boy in the home, and you know that is what counts, for if boys and girls are good in their own home, they will behave away from home. Joseph always obeyed his father and mother and helped them in every way he could. He was about 17 years old when our story begins (v. 2). His father gave him a beautiful coat of many- colors, and when the ten older brothers saw that their father loved
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