Torah Portion Week 9 Vayeshev – Joseph 37:1-40:23 Study Notes

Torah Portion Week 9 – Va’Yeshev “and he lived” (21-22)
Joseph’s dreams, Judah and Tamar, Joseph is sold, Joseph and Potiphars wife and the 2 dreams in Jail interpreted by Joseph

Gen 37:1 – 40:23

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37:2 – Evil report – Gad 1:2-10 https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe289.htm

37:3 – Sons and daughters of Yah’s old age? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Esdras+5%3A41-55&version=RSV

37:11 – Mention Leah – Jasher 41:2-3 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/41.htm

37:36 –

Read Jasher account – 41:19-34 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/41.htm

Testament of Joseph –2:3-12 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe293.htm

Gad 2:3 – Gad https://parableofthevineyard.com/the-testament-of-gad/

• 30 pieces https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+26%3A15%2C+zech+11%3A12-13&version=KJV
• Benjamin 1:18-27 https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe294.htm

Testament of Simeon – 1:7-20 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe269.htm

Testament of Zebulon – 1:5-20 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe283.htm

Joseph on the road with the ishmaelites – Jasher 42:25-29, 44-48

TARGUM: 37:1-2

38)

Judah and Tamar

Testament of Judah 2:10-31 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe278.htm

Jasher 45:23-24

39)

39:3 –  (prospering even in this situation)  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=col+3%3A23%2C+1+pet+2%3A18-23%2C+eph+6%3A5-9%2C+ps+1&version=KJV

• Whatever it is you do, do it with all your being. Yahuah will raise you up in due time

39:20 – Read Testament of Joseph 1:25-81 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe292.htm

39:21-23 – Here he probably had the right attitude again (Ps 1:3 prosper) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps+1%3A2-3&version=KJV

Jasher 44:12-15, 55-79

Targum 39:23

40)

40:23 – The pattern repeated with Daniel (dreams) and subservient to an earthly king

Jasher account 46:15-20

Targum 40:23

• We trust in Yahuah https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jer+17%3A5-10%2C+ps+125&version=KJV
  • https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=sirach+2&version=RSV

READ BENJAMIN!!

For God loveth him who in a den of wickedness combines fasting with chastity, rather than the man who in kings’ chambers combines luxury with license

JOSEPH 1:76

For he that feareth God and loveth his neighbour cannot be smitten by the spirit of Beliar, being shielded by the fear of God.

Test of Benj 1:16