"GO TO JOSEPH" - Conclusion

 In time, though, the Egyptians too felt the bite of the famine.  When they cried to Pharaoh for aid, he simply directed them: "Go to Joseph, and whatever he tells you.  So Joseph opened up the granaries where the surplus grain was stored, and the people could buy what they needed.  - Genesis 41:55, 56.

In the surrounding lands, however, people were not so fortunate. Hundreds of miles away in Canaan, Joseph's family was suffering. Aged Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, so he told his sons to go down to buy foodstuffs. - GENESIS 42:1, 2.

Jacob sent ten sons but not the youngest, Benjamin. Jacon remembered only too well the time when he sent his beloved Joseph alone to visit his brothers. That was the last Jacobe had seen of the boy. The older sons had brought home Joseph's elegant coat-a mark of his father's love and regard-all torn and bloodied. They led the heartbroken old man to believe that Joseph had been eaten alive by wild beasts. - GENESIS 37:31-35.

Next time: "JOSEPH IMMEDIATELY REMEMBERED"

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