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Design: Steve Webb | Photo: Erika Giraud on Unsplash Podcast Introduction Today we’re going to read Genesis 44-47, and I’m calling the episode “Reconciled." Comments on Genesis 44-47 Let's recap quickly what has happened in Joseph's life, in relation to his older brothers. He was the eleventh son of Jacob, but the first son through Rachel, his favorite wife. And Jacob loved Joseph more than his other sons because he was born when Jacob was old. Of course Jacob made no attempt to hide his favoritism toward Joseph, and this caused his brothers to hate him. To make matters worse, when he was a teenager he had dreams in which the family would bow down to him...and he told them about the dreams. And his brothers hated him so much that they sold him into slavery, but they told Jacob that he had been killed by wild animals. Then, through a series of events that saw Joseph become the supervisor of an Egyptian official's household, then falsely accused of rape by this same official's wife, thrown int