Day 14: Gen 40-42

summary: cupbearer and baker dreams, interpreting pharaoh's dream and rising to prominence, family reunion

- joseph was really young! sold off at 17, a few years at Potiphar's, doing time, and then Pharaoh's right-hand man at 30.
- interpretation belongs to God. why do kings always have dreams that need interpreting? makes me mix up joseph and daniel.
- interesting how the "human resource" people were looking for someone "in whom is the spirit of God (or the gods)"
- i like how jacob tells his sons to get off their bums: "why do you keep just looking at each other?"
- they fail to recognize joseph, but they recognize their guilt and accept their punishment.
- heavy use of irony!
- Jacob's cry of "Everything is against me!". wow, how many times i've felt the same way... and yet God is behind the scenes, working His purpose. and it's silly really, he actually hasn't lost ANY of his sons!
- Reuben has the oldest child complex like me. Responsibility and duty-driven. He's even willing to stake his own 2 sons on it, can really see his guilt and how he's trying so hard to make good on the past mistakes.
- Jacob loved Rachel more, even values her children over the other children, and its so blatant.