By Zondervan
Crack open a Bible and you are more likely to locate (a) directions for dwelling (b) solutions to life's private questions (c) never-ending lists of individuals you've gotten by no means heard of (d) a major tale a couple of God who deals desire to a tousled international. 'Incredible tale' is not first thing that involves brain should you try to learn in the course of the whole Bible. possibly you may have attempted, simply to wander off between vague genealogies and historic nutritional legislation. probably you do not have a clue the place to start. At its most elementary point, Christianity is a narrative approximately God and the amazing lengths he is going to for you to rescue misplaced and hurting humans. the tale promises simply that---the tale of Scripture. Condensed into thirty available chapters, it reads extra like a unique than your ordinary spiritual textual content. and prefer any stable tale, the tale is full of intrigue, drama, clash, romance, and redemption.
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Then she told him this story:“That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. ” When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.
When he caught up with them, he repeated these words to them. But they said to him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do anything like that! We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house? ” “Very well, then,” he said,“let it be as you say. ” Each of them quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it. Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest.
He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. ” And as she sat there, she began to sob. God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her,“What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. ” Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.