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Well, hello, hello, hello, everyone, welcome to Wednesday night Bible study. It’s time yet for another update, a twist on the Wednesday night Bible study that you may have grown up with today. Reverend Dr. David Breeden will offer readings from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures that make up the Bible. We’ll cover some of the Christian basics, explore the Bible’s themes, contradictions, curiosities. Tonight, we’re going to start talking about a little bit about that trickster, Joseph. But, you know, hey, it’s St. Patty’s Day. We got to do it right. We got to have you got to have a drink. Got to have your pot burger. You got to have it. Everything all laid out. What do we got on tap, David?Ok, I’m going to stay local tonight, even though I do have an Ouda pills mug. Here I am drinking summit ale in celebration of the Old World tonight. So a summit. I’ll stick into the Twin Cities. So it’s good. Good stuff for St. Patty’s Day.Well, I have to throw out the rest of the audience. What are you doing here? If you have any things that you’re doing for St. Patty’s Day, throw it up in the chat and tell us what you’re drinking tonight, even if it’s a bike for myself. Just a little bit of SodaStream. I think we’re pretty good with some water. So what do we got? You ready to get kicked off on this?I’m ready. You ready? Let’s do it. All right. Well, let’s do let’s take a peek here and and talk a little bit about Joseph the Trickster. Now, I talked a little bit about him last week, and we looked at how Jacob, also known as Israel, his dad was a trickster. Then Joseph becomes a trickster as well. And I did mention that this is the largest part of Genesis he takes on reflection, it takes about two chapters to destroy the whole human race with Noah and the flood. It takes a couple of chapters to invent the entire universe. But then we get from chapter thirty seven all the way to fifty about Joseph. So a fairly important guy in the in the ideas of the ancient Hebrews SASO. The Sons of Jacob are twelve. That becomes the twelve tribes of Israel. Very important to understand as background for this, because any time you’re talking in Hebrew scripture about these different forebears, patriarchs and you name them, everyone in the ancient audience would have known where they fit into this particular idea. And so here is Jacob’s family that I discussed last week. And as you know from your patriarchal Bible study, Jacob has two wives. Leah, the older sister of Rachel, is married off first, and she has most of the children, the oldest son, Reuben, who would normally be there for the coming patriarch. But he’s not. And there are some, you know, some tension going on here.And we all go on down here is Levi, who is going to be the father of the temple priests going forward. And Judah, now, Judah is going to be the progenitor of King David. And that important strain also, Judah will be the name of the country that is to the south of Israel. The ten tribes are in the north and then the tribe of Judah is in the south. And then you have the other tribe, Levi, who have priests and don’t own land. They’re part of the temple system. So that’s where we are. Judah will give us the name of Judea and also will give us the term Jewish eventually. So that’s that side of the family. Then we have Zalba here called Leah’s servant. She’s also a concubine, a dad. She has two kids, Asher and Gad. Then we have Rachel, the favorite wife of Jacob, and we have Joseph in his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat there, and his little brother Benjamin, his beloved brother Benjamin, who figures into the story. And then Rachel’s servant, another concubine of Jacob Bella,