Joseph’s Inspired Dreams A family’s struggle to love
each other
Rachel and Jacob had prayed for
many years to have a son. The Lord answered their prayers
when Joseph was born.
Joseph was Jacob’s favorite son,
and he gave Joseph a special coat.
Jacob’s 10 older sons were
jealous.
When Joseph was about 17 years
old, he had an inspired dream that he was gathering grain in the
fields with his brothers.
Joseph’s bundle of grain stood
tall.
But his brothers’ bundles of grain
bowed down to Joseph’s.
When Joseph told his brothers
about the dream, they were angry with him.
Later, Joseph had another inspired
dream.
In this dream, the sun, the moon,
and 11 stars bowed down to him.
Joseph told his family about the
dream.
This dream made it sound like
Joseph would rule over the family.
Joseph’s brothers became even
angrier at him.
They did not like his dreams.
One day Joseph’s brothers were
away from home feeding the sheep.
Jacob sent Joseph to check on
them.
Some of Joseph’s brothers wanted
to kill him.
They took Joseph’s coat and threw
him into a pit.
While Joseph was in the pit, his
brothers saw travelers going to Egypt.
The brothers decided to sell
Joseph as a slave to the travelers for 20 pieces of
silver.
Then Joseph’s brothers put goat’s
blood on his coat.
The brothers went to their father,
Jacob, and showed him the coat.
They lied to Jacob and told him
that wild animals had killed Joseph.
Jacob cried because he thought
Joseph was dead.
But Joseph was still alive.
He was far away from home in
Egypt, living as a slave.