Brendan Smith - Joseph and the Colorful Coat

Copyright 2015 by Brendan Powell Smith

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smith, Brendan Powell, author.

Joseph and the colorful coat : the Brick Bible for kids / Brendan Powell Smith.

pages cm.(The Brick Bible for kids)

Summary: The story of Jacob and his sons, the colorful coat, and Joseph in Egypt is a timeless tale about love, jealousy, and, ultimately, forgiveness. Now, for the first time, this incredible story comes to life as part of The Brick Bible for Kids seriesProvided by publisher.

Audience: Ages 3-5.

Audience: Pre-school.

ISBN 978-1-63220-409-7 (hc : alk. paper)

1. Joseph (Son of Jacob)Juvenile literature. 2. BrothersJuvenile literature. 3. JealousyJuvenile literature. 4. Bible stories, EnglishGenesis. I. Title.

BS580.J6S47 2015

222.1109505dc23

2014034581

Cover design by Brian Peterson

Cover photograph credit Brendan Powell Smith

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-828-6

Editor: Julie Matysik

Designer: Brian Peterson

Production Manager: Sara Kitchen

Jacob was an old shepherd with twelve sons. The youngest sons were Joseph and Benjamin. Jacob loved Joseph more than all of his other sons. When Joseph was seventeen years old, his father gave him a special gifta very colorful coat.

Joseph had strange dreams and told his brothers about them. In his dreams Joseph saw all his brothers bowing down before him. When they heard this, his older brothers got angry and said, So, you think you are better than us? You think you will rule over us? Josephs older brothers hated him.

One day, Jacob sent Joseph to check on his older brothers who were watching the familys goats and sheep in the countryside. Here comes the little dreamer, said his brothers when they saw Joseph approaching, and they quickly made a plan to get rid of him for good.

As soon as Joseph arrived, his brothers grabbed him, tore off his colorful coat, and tossed him into a well that was so deep he couldnt climb out. Lets see what becomes of his dreams now! they said.

Shortly afterward, the brothers saw some traveling merchants approaching, and they said, Lets not leave our brother to die. Lets sell him instead. So they pulled Joseph up out of the well and sold him as a slave to the traveling merchants.

On their way back home, the brothers took Josephs colorful coat and smeared it with blood from a goat. When they showed it to Jacob, he was deeply heartbroken and said, My poor son, Joseph! A wild animal must have eaten him!

Meanwhile, the traveling merchants took Joseph all the way to the land of Egypt. There they sold him to a rich Egyptian man named Potiphar, and Joseph became one of his household slaves.

During his years as a slave, Joseph was successful at every task he performed. Potiphar noticed that Joseph must be blessed by God, so he promoted him to be his personal assistant. Eventually, he put Joseph in charge of his entire household.

Potiphars wife had noticed that Joseph was very handsome. She would often try to kiss Joseph, but Joseph always turned away. This made her very angry, and one day when Joseph refused to kiss her, she screamed so loud that her husband came running.

When Potiphar arrived, his wife lied to him about Joseph, saying that Joseph had tried to kiss her. Potiphar believed his wife, and he became so angry at Joseph that he had Joseph arrested and thrown in prison.

God still watched over Joseph in prison. When Josephs fellow prisoners had strange dreams, they would tell him their dreams, and with Gods help Joseph always explained exactly what the dream revealed about the future, and he was always right.

One night, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had a troubling dream. He very badly wanted to know its meaning, so the next day he gathered all the magicians and wise men in Egypt to his palace and he described his troubling dream to them.

But none of the magicians and wise men could understand Pharaohs dream or tell him what it meant. Then one of Pharaohs servants spoke up and said: I once met a man in prison named Joseph who can explain the meaning of any dream.