I. 2. QUESTIONS. The Answers to these Questions are in the words of Holy Scripture as found in Genesis 42-45, and are to be Committed TO MEMORY AT HOME. Who went to Egypt, when the famine came upon the land of Canaan? How did Joseph act toward them? He made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them. 3. What did Joseph ask of them, to prove that they had spoken the truth? Bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified. 4. What did Joseph's brethren take when they went to Egypt the second time? They took double money in their hands, and Benjamin. 5. What did Joseph tell his steward to put into Benjamin's sack? Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest. 6. What did Joseph say when the cup was found? The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant. 7. What did Judah then say? 8. Let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord. How did Joseph then make himself known to his brethren? He said: I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? 9. What did he say to comfort them? IO. God did send me before you to preserve life. What message did Joseph send to his father? God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS LESSON. HOW noble it is to return good for evil. SPELLING. These words are to be pronounced and explained by the Teacher and parent one Surday ahead. The spelling and meaning are to be studied by the scholar before he reads the Story over. Famine. In the land of Egypt, after seven years of plenty, there came seven years of famine. Then Joseph opened his storehouses and sold the corn which he had gathered. Everybody who wanted to buy had to come to him. Jacob Sends for Corn.-The famine was also in the land of Canaan, where Jacob lived. Jacob therefore sent his ten oldest sons down to Egypt to buy corn. But he kept Benjamin, his youngest son, at home, for fear that something might happen to him. Joseph and His Brothers.-When the ten brothers came to Joseph, they bowed down to the ground. They did not know him. Joseph knew them, but he did not tell them who he was. He treated them as if he thought they were spies. He asked them all about their family. And when they said that they had another brother at home, he told them that the next time they came they must bring Benjamin with them to show that they told the truth. He said he would keep one of them in Egypt till the others came again. He kept Simeon, and sent the rest home with their sacks filled with corn. Benjamin Comes.-The corn which they took home was soon eaten. Therefore they came down to Egypt again and brought Benjamin with them. This time Joseph treated them very kindly. He took them to his own house. There he brought Simeon to them, and made them a feast. see whether So he told his Found Faithful.-Joseph wished to the brothers loved Benjamin and their father. steward to hide his silver cup in Benjamin's sack of corn. And when they were on their way home, he sent his steward after them for the cup. When it was found in Benjamin's sack, they all came back again with the steward. Joseph told them that the others might go home, but Benjamin must stay and be his servant, because the cup was found in his sack. But Judah knew how his father would weep if they did not bring Benjamin home. So he said to Joseph, “Our father's life is bound up in this lad's life. If we come home and the lad is not with us, our father will die. Let me stay here in his place, and let the lad go home with his brothers." Joseph Makes Himself Known. Then Joseph wept aloud and said, "I am Joseph. Is my father still living?" His brothers could not answer him at once, because they remembered how they had treated him years ago. But Joseph said, Come near to me. I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. But God sent me here to preserve life, and has made me ruler over all the land." Then he fell on Benjamin's neck and kissed him. He kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And after they had talked together a while, he sent them home to say to their father that his son Joseph was still alive, and to tell him to come down and live in Egypt, because there would be five more years of famine. |