Will your mother, your brothers, and I actually come and bow before you? But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father gave it some thought and wondered what it all meant. This time he told his father as well as his brothers, and his father rebuked him. The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me! Then Joseph had another dream and told his brothers about it. And they hated him all the more for his dream and what he had said. So you are going to be our king, are you? his brothers taunted. My bundle stood up, and then your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before it! We were out in the field tying up bundles of grain.
One night Joseph had a dream and promptly reported the details to his brothers, causing them to hate him even more. But his brothers hated Joseph because of their father’s partiality. So one day he gave Joseph a special gift-a beautiful robe. Now Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks with his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived. And I pray that as you read the Bible, you will become aware of the continuity, the consistency, and the confirmation of God’s plan for the ages-a plan that includes you.įrancine Rivers SETTING THE SCENE chapter.jpg I encourage you to read it for greater understanding. The ultimate authority on people of the Bible is the Bible itself. I have attempted to remain true to the scriptural message in all points, adding only what is necessary to aid in our understanding of that message.Īt the end of each novella, we have included a brief study section. Building on that foundation, I have created action, dialogue, internal motivations, and in some cases, additional characters that I feel are consistent with the biblical record. The outline of the story is provided by the Bible, and I have started with the facts provided for us there. Although some of their actions may seem disagreeable to us in our century, we need to consider these women in the context of their own times. Their stories, as I have told them, are based on biblical accounts. These are historical women who actually lived. The lessons we can learn from them are as applicable today as when they lived thousands of years ago.īathsheba is a woman who received unlimited grace. We live in desperate, troubled times when millions seek answers.
These women were not perfect, and yet God in His infinite mercy used them in His perfect plan to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of the world.
They lived daring lives, and sometimes they made mistakes-big mistakes. These were Eastern women who lived in ancient times, and yet their stories apply to our lives and the difficult issues we face in our world today. Urn:oclc:870244170 Republisher_date 20120621091509 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120618055415 Scanner is the first of five novellas on the women in the lineage of Jesus Christ. OL15197482W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 36.48 Pages 202 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1594151490 Urn:lcp:unveiled00rive:lcpdf:c50965c4-8789-4b4b-b75e-f019e3e20ee6 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier unveiled00rive Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8x93c766 Isbn 0842319476 Lccn 99086431 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL58842M Openlibrary_edition Containerid_2 X0008 DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition Large print ed. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:14:54 Boxid IA149111 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Wheaton, Ill.
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