RUEL TANO BONGANCISO

The story of Joseph occurs near the end of the genesis, and it tells how the Israelites came to be in Egypt. Abraham coming out of the Mesopotamia from the ancient city of Ur of the chaldees (2000 B.C) brought his family into Palestine named after the philistines. He became a sheik, leading his flocks and heads up and down between the highlands. He quarreled with his brother Esau, and after years of wandering and service he became the head of a numerous family, and retained the family tradition of worship of Jehovah. Joseph was one of the youngest of Israel's twelve sons we are neighborhood and I am one of his friends. One day Joseph told me that he dreamed that he and his brother's were binding sheaves in the field and his sheaf arose and also stood upright and behold, and the sheaves of his brother's came around about and made his obeisance to his sheaf and he told it also to his brother's that make them angry and hated him. And he dreamed again that the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to him and he told it to his father and to his brother's and his father rebuked him, and said to him that what is this dream that you have dreamed? Ourselves to thee the earth? And his brother envied him but his father kept the saying in mind. When his brother's went to feed their flocks in shechem Joseph go there to find them but he didn't found his brother's. And the man said to him that his brother's are in Dotham so he goes there to find them. When he is afar off his brother's saw him. and when I was walking along the street I heard them talking and they planned to slay Joseph to cast him into the pits, and say an evil beast had devoured him, but one of his brother Rueben said that they shall not slay Joseph but cast him into the pit that is wilderness, but lay no hand upon him, i was tryng to warn joseph about the plan of his brother's but it's too late and when Joseph came I saw them that they stripped Joseph coat and they took him and cast him into the pit and the pit was empty there's no water in it so Judah suggested that instead sell Joseph to the Israelites so they lifted him and sell to Ishmaelite for twenty pieces of silver and they brought Joseph into Egypt. And Rueben took Joseph's coat and killed a hegoat and dipped the coat in the blood and they rent the coat of many colors and they brought it to their father. And Jacob their father mourned in many days. I followed Joseph to the Egypt and Pothipar, an officer of Pharaoh's the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of Ishmaelite which had brought him down thither. And I worked thier also as a servant of Pharaoh. But Joseph put into the prison because he is being accused the he mocked the wife of his master but one day Joseph was called by Pharaoh because no one can interpret his dream and only Joseph can interpret it to him. And pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had and they cried before him. Bowed the knee, and he set him over all the land of Egypt. And pharaoh call Joseph's name Zaphenat-paneah, and he gave him the wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest. And Joseph have two sons and I witness when Asenath gave birth to them. The name of her first son was "Manaseh" and the second called "Ephraim" and the day of the famine came, all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn, and Jacob said to his sons to buy some food in order for them to live but one of his son refused to go because he knew that Joseph was the governor of the land. But his other brother"s goes to Joseph but they never knew it was Joseph. And the last part of the story was his brother told his father that Joseph is alive and he is all over the land of Egypt and Jacob rose up from beer-Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives in the wagons which pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him, his sons, and his sons with him.