Joseph the Dreamer
This person was the father of Joseph and his eleven brothers. Bonus points, he was known by two names
Who is Jacob (Israel)?
Name all of Joseph’s full brothers.
Who are Benjamin? (Only Benjamin; Joseph’s other brothers were half-brothers.)
This was the place where Joseph’s brothers were tending the flock before Jacob sent him to check on them.
What is Shechem?
What does the coat of many colors symbolize?
What is Jacob’s favoritism and Joseph’s special status?
What was the final destination of the traders who bought Joseph?
What is Egypt?
This was the number of dreams Joseph had in Genesis 37.
What is two?
Joseph’s mother, who died giving birth to his younger brother is
Who is Rachel?
This is the town that Joseph traveled to after Shechem to find his brothers.
What is Dothan?
What symbolic act did the brothers perform to show they believed Joseph was gone forever?
What is dipping his coat in goat’s blood?
Who was the Egyptian official that would eventually purchase Joseph?
Who is Potiphar?
In Joseph’s first dream, what did his brothers' sheaves do in relation to his sheaf?
What is they bowed down to it?
This brother convinced the others not to kill Joseph and instead throw him into a pit
Who is Reuben?
Joseph wore this which made his brothers more envious.
What is a coat of many colors?
The dreams in this chapter foreshadow Joseph’s future role in which foreign land?
What is Egypt?
How did Jacob react when he thought Joseph was dead?
What is he tore his clothes and mourned?
These three celestial bodies bowed to Joseph in his second dream
What are the sun, the moon, and eleven stars?
This brother suggested selling Joseph to the Ishmaelites instead of leaving him in the pit
Who is Judah?
This was the number of pieces of silver that Joseph was sold for.
What is twenty pieces of silver?
Joseph is sold by his brothers for silver, which foreshadows what later biblical betrayal? ( ex: what does it remind you of? think deeply) ( BONUS POINTS)
What is Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus for 30 pieces of silver?)
What did the brothers say when they saw Joseph approaching them in the field?
What is “Here comes that dreamer”?
This was Jacob’s initial reaction to Joseph’s second dream
What is he rebuked him, asking if he, his mother, and brothers would bow to Joseph?
This is what Joseph’s brothers told Jacob had happened to him after they sold him into slavery.
What is that he was killed by a wild animal?)
These two groups of traders passed by before Joseph was sold
Who are the Ishmaelites and the Midianites?
What did Joseph’s dreams symbolize?
What is that he would have authority over his family?
How old was Joseph when this story took place?
What is seventeen?