Jacob favors Joseph. Joseph tells his family of dreams he had in which he was exalted, this angers his brothers. His brothers plot to kill Joseph, but sell him into slavery. They tell Jacob he was killed by a wild beast.
"The promise of God, which had exalted Joseph to honor, almost plunges him into the grave. We, also, who have received the gratuitous adoption of God amidst many sorrows, experience the same thing. For, from the time that Christ gathers us into his flock, God permits us to be cast down in various ways, so that we seem nearer hell than heaven."
(John Calvin)
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