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Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d, and when he rode out, men bowedthe knee, and his word was law in all the land.And Jo-seph took a wife, and he who was broughtto E-gypt a slave, was now a rich man. And there came years when the grain grew rankin the fields, and the crops were large. And Jo-sephsaw that a large part of it was laid up, and that therewas no waste of the good food. For the end of thoserich years came and then there was a time of dearthin all the lands, when the earth would not yield, andmen and beasts were in want of food. But there was no lack of corn in E-gypt. AndJo-seph sold the corn that he had stored in thebarns, and crowds came in to buy it. When Ja-cob heard that corn could be bought inE-gypt, he told his sons to go down and buy some,that they might not starve to death. And ten of them went down to buy corn inE-gypt. But Ja-cob kept Ben-ja-min at home,for fear he would be lost to him as Jo-seph waslost. When Ja-cobs ten sons came to the place whereJo-seph was, they bowed down to the ground. And
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JO-SEPH AND HIS BROTH-ERS. (89) 9° History of the Old Testament. Jo-seph knew them at once, but they did not knowhim, or give a thought to his dreams. And Jo-seph spoke in a rough voice, and said,Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Ca-naan to buyfood. And he said, Ye are spies, and have come to seehow poor the land is. And they said to him, Nay, my lord, but to buyfood are we come. We are all one mans sons; andwe are true men, and not spies. But Jo-seph would have it that they werespies. And they said, There were twelve of lis, sons ofone man. Young Ben-ja-min is at home with hisfa-ther, and one is dead. And Jo-seph said, Go prove that ye are not spies;let one of the ten that are here go and fetch the younglad, Ben-ja-min. And he put them in jail for threedays. And he said, Let one of you be bound, andkept in the guard-house, while the rest of you takeback the corn that you need. And they said thatthey would do this. Then he took Sim-e-on from their midst, and hadhim boun

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