“And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.”
Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. The narrative returns to Joseph — the Judah-Tamar interlude is complete. Joseph is in Egypt, in Potiphar's household, at the bottom of every scale: a slave, a foreigner, a man without family. The application: the covenant person at the bottom — slave, foreigner, no family — is the covenant person most dependent on the God who promised to be with them wherever they go.
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