I. Jacob sends his 10 sons to Egypt to buy corn. Vs. 1-6
A. Jacob’s sons did not want to go to Egypt. Vs. 1
B. Because of the famine, they must go to Egypt to buy corn. Vs. 2
C. Benjamin does not go with them to Egypt. Vs. 4
D. Joseph’s brothers bowed down before him. Vs. 6
II. Joseph accuses his brothers of being spies. Vs. 7-15
A. Joseph’s brothers did not know him. Vs. 7-8
B. Joseph remembered his dreams about them. Vs. 9
C. Joseph accuses his brothers of being spies. Vs. 9-12
D. They tell Joseph that their father has 12 sons. Vs. 13
1. One son is gone, and the youngest is at home.
E. Joseph wants them to bring the youngest son to him. Vs. 15
III. Joseph put his brothers in prison as spies. Vs. 16-17
A. They are in prison for three days. Vs. 17
IV. Joseph orders his brothers to bring Benjamin to him. Vs. 18-23
A. One of them is to remain in prison while they bring Benjamin
back to him. Vs. 18-20
B. They talk among themselves in Hebrew, about how they treated
Joseph many years ago and now this was their punishment.
Vs. 21-22
C. They did not know that Joseph understood them in thinking that
he was an Egyptian. Vs. 23
V. Simeon is kept in prison until Benjamin is brought before Joseph. Vs. 24
VI. Joseph had every man’s money secretly restored in their sacks.
Vs. 25-28
VII. The brothers return home and tell Jacob. Vs. 29-35
VIII. Jacob refuses to send Benjamin to Egypt. Vs. 36-38
