What If God Was Working in the Dark?
Sunday Summary and Deepening, DAY 40 TO 44
What If God Was Working in the Dark?
Genesis 37 through Genesis 41
What if the part of your life that makes no sense is not the place where God disappeared?
The betrayal.
The exposure.
The temptation.
The false accusation.
The prison.
The delay.
Genesis 37 through 41 shows God forming Joseph, confronting Judah, preserving the covenant family, and working in places nobody could interpret yet.
Not every dark chapter is empty.
Question for your heart:
Where have you mistaken God’s hidden work for God’s absence?
What If God Was Working in the Dark?
Genesis 37 through Genesis 41
Don’t judge God’s faithfulness by one unfinished chapter.
What if the part of your life that feels most confusing is not the part where God lost control?
That question is hard because most of us don’t struggle to believe God is working when life is clear. We struggle to believe He is working when life makes no sense.
When the betrayal is fresh.
When the sin has been exposed.
When obedience cost more than compromise would have.
When you served faithfully and still got forgotten.
When the door finally opens, but you’re carrying years of pain into the moment.
Genesis 37 through Genesis 41 refuses to give us a shallow story. This is not a children’s Bible cartoon about a colorful coat and a happy ending. It’s not a religious motivational poster about dreams coming true.
It is the story of God’s covenant purpose moving through a deeply broken family, hidden sin, false accusation, temptation, prison, delay, forgotten faithfulness, and wisdom formed in the dark.
And that means it has something to say to real people living real life.
The Covenant Family Was Not Clean
Genesis will not let us romanticize Jacob’s family.
This is the family through whom the covenant promise is moving. God promised Abraham land, seed, blessing, and a family through whom all the families of the earth would be blessed. That promise moved through Isaac, then Jacob, and now Jacob’s sons are becoming the tribal foundation of Israel.
But this family isn't whole, peaceful, mature, or clean.
There is favoritism.
There is rivalry.
There is hatred.
There is deception.
There is sexual brokenness.
There is hypocrisy.
There is grief.
There is injustice.
There is silence.
And yet, God’s purpose keeps moving.
That does not mean sin does not matter. Sin matters deeply. It wounds people. It travels through families. It creates consequences. It damages trust. It bends the atmosphere of a home.
But sin does not become sovereign just because it is painful.
That is one of the deepest truths in these chapters. People are responsible, and God is sovereign. Joseph’s brothers are responsible for selling him. Judah is responsible for his failure with Tamar. Potiphar’s wife is responsible for her false accusation. The cupbearer is responsible for forgetting Joseph.
The Bible does not erase guilt by saying God is working.
But the Bible also does not give evil the final word.
Betrayal Was Not the End
Genesis 37 begins with Joseph and his brothers.
Jacob favors Joseph. The brothers hate him. The text says they could not speak shalom to him. That is a powerful phrase because shalom is not merely “hello” or “peace” in a thin emotional sense. Shalom is wholeness, well-being, ordered life, relational peace, and things as they ought to be under God.
Joseph’s brothers could not speak that over him.
Their hatred grows. They see him from a distance. They conspire. They strip him. They throw him into a pit. They sell him. Then they deceive their father with blood on Joseph’s robe.
That chapter does not end with reconciliation.
It ends with Joseph in Egypt.
Jacob grieving.
The brothers carrying guilt.
And the family broken open.
Some of us know that place.
The wound happened. The conversation never came. The apology never came. The truth got covered. The person who hurt you moved on like nothing happened. And you are still holding the torn robe.
Genesis does not rush past that pain.
But Genesis also whispers something deeper.
The pit is real.
But the pit is not the whole story.
Exposure Can Become Mercy
Genesis 38 interrupts Joseph’s story with Judah and Tamar. At first, that can feel strange. Why would the biblical narrative leave Joseph right there and suddenly turn to Judah?
Because God is showing us something.
Judah helped sell Joseph. Then Judah went down from his brothers. That movement is more than geography. It reflects drift. He separates from the covenant family. His household becomes marked by wickedness, death, broken promises, and injustice.
Tamar is wronged. Judah fails to protect her. He withholds what should have been given. Then his own hidden sin is exposed through the very woman he had failed.
When Tamar sends his signet, cord, and staff, Judah has to face the truth.
“She is more righteous than I.”
That sentence is not full maturity. It is not instant sainthood. It is not everything repentance will eventually require.
But it is a turn.
Truth enters a hidden room.
That matters because hidden sin does not heal in darkness. It grows there. It gains power there. It learns to survive there. It starts demanding protection. It forces a person to manage appearances instead of walking in truth.
But when light comes, mercy can begin to work.
And through Tamar’s son Perez, the covenant line continues toward David, and eventually toward Messiah.
Not because God blesses sin.
Because God’s mercy is greater than the mess people make.
Obedience May Still Hurt
Genesis 39 brings Joseph into Potiphar’s house.
The text keeps saying Adonai was with Joseph. But look carefully at what that does not mean.
It does not mean Joseph was comfortable.
It does not mean Joseph understood.
It does not mean Joseph was immediately rescued.
It does not mean obedience made life easy.
Adonai was with Joseph in slavery.
Then temptation came. Potiphar’s wife pressed him day after day. Joseph refused because he understood that sin was not merely against Potiphar, not merely against his own future, and not merely against his reputation.
It was against God.
That is holiness.
Not image management.
Not fear of getting caught.
Not performing righteousness while people are watching.
Holiness lives before the face of God when nobody else sees.
Joseph flees and leaves his garment behind. Then he is falsely accused and thrown into prison.
He does the right thing, and his life gets harder.
That is where shallow faith breaks.
Many of us were quietly taught that if we obeyed God, life would immediately get easier. But Genesis tells the truth. Sometimes obedience leads through suffering before vindication comes. Sometimes doing the right thing costs you. Sometimes integrity gets misunderstood. Sometimes righteousness does not protect your reputation in the short term.
But God was still with Joseph.
Not only in Potiphar’s house.
Also in prison.
Forgotten Does Not Mean Forsaken
Genesis 40 is one of the quietest wounds in Joseph’s story.
Joseph is in prison. He is still attentive. He notices the faces of the cupbearer and the baker. He asks, “Why are your faces downcast today?”
That question matters.
Joseph is still serving while he is still hurting.
That is not denial. That is not pretending pain does not exist. That is faithfulness in a prison place.
He interprets their dreams. The cupbearer is restored. The baker is judged. And Joseph asks the cupbearer to remember him.
But the chapter ends with pain.
The cupbearer forgot Joseph.
Some wounds are loud. This one is quiet.
You helped someone.
You prayed for someone.
You served someone.
You encouraged someone.
You gave what God gave you.
They moved forward.
You stayed behind.
And somewhere in your heart, you wondered, “Does anybody remember me?”
Genesis tells the truth about that wound. Human memory failed Joseph. Human gratitude faded. The cupbearer forgot.
But God did not.
The door had not opened yet.
But the story had not stopped.
The Dark Years Were Not Wasted
Genesis 41 begins with painful words.
After two full years.
Two full years after the cupbearer was restored.
Two full years after Joseph asked to be remembered.
Two full years of silence.
Then Pharaoh dreamed.
Then the cupbearer remembered.
Joseph is brought out, shaved, changed, and placed before Pharaoh. But the sudden moment had been prepared through slow years.
When Pharaoh asks for an interpretation, Joseph does not steal God’s glory. He says, “It is not in me. God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
That sentence reveals formation.
The pit had not wasted him.
Potiphar’s house had not wasted him.
The temptation had not wasted him.
The false accusation had not wasted him.
The prison had not wasted him.
The forgotten years had not wasted him.
God had been forming wisdom, humility, endurance, discernment, administration, dependence, and responsibility.
When the appointed moment came, Joseph had more than a gift.
He had wisdom to preserve life.
God Gives Enough Light for Faithfulness
Here is where this whole movement comes for us.
Most of us want God to explain the story while we are still in the middle of it.
We want the meaning before the obedience.
We want the map before the next step.
We want the ending before the formation.
We want instant clarity.
Instant vindication.
Instant closure.
Instant healing.
Instant explanation.
But Genesis slows us down.
It makes us walk with Joseph through years.
It makes us sit with Judah in exposure.
It makes us feel Jacob’s grief.
It makes us face the truth that God’s covenant story is not shallow, hurried, or fragile.
God often gives enough light for faithfulness before He gives enough explanation for comfort.
That may be exactly where you are.
You may be in Genesis 37, still holding the wound.
You may be in Genesis 38, where God is bringing truth into a hidden room.
You may be in Genesis 39, tempted in a place where nobody else sees.
You may be in Genesis 40, serving faithfully while feeling forgotten.
You may be in Genesis 41, walking through an opening door and needing humility, wisdom, and courage.
Wherever you are, the question is not, “Do I understand everything?”
The question is, “What does faithfulness look like here?”
Not later.
Not when everything makes sense.
Here.
Today....
God Does Not Need Us to Rename Evil
We need to say this carefully.
God did not call Joseph’s brothers’ betrayal good.
God did not call Judah’s sin good.
God did not call false accusation good.
God did not call prison good.
God did not call forgetting good.
Biblical faith does not require us to rename evil as good in order to defend God.
That is not faith. That is emotional dishonesty dressed in religious language.
Biblical faith says evil is evil, and God is greater.
Sin is sin, and mercy is deeper.
Injustice is injustice, and God is not absent.
Waiting hurts, and God still works.
Delay is real, and formation can be real at the same time.
That matters because many wounded people have been harmed by shallow religious answers.
Someone was betrayed, and people rushed to quote a verse before they had time to grieve.
Someone was abused, and people threw a slogan over the wound.
Someone was falsely accused, and people told them to just move on.
Someone waited for years, and people acted like their pain was proof they lacked faith.
Genesis does not do that.
Genesis lets the pain be pain.
The pit is still a pit.
The betrayal is still betrayal.
The exposure is still painful.
The temptation is still dangerous.
The false accusation is still unjust.
The forgetting is still cruel.
But through all of it, God’s covenant purpose keeps moving.
That is stronger than a slogan.
That is the faithfulness of God.
Where This Points Us
Joseph is not Jesus.
Judah is not Jesus.
Tamar is not a prop in someone else’s sermon.
They are real people in the covenant story.
But the story is moving somewhere.
Joseph is the beloved son rejected by his brothers, sent down into suffering, and later raised to preserve life. Judah is the compromised son whose line still carries the promise. Tamar is the wronged woman through whom God preserves the line that will lead to David.
These threads train our eyes for the greater redemption to come.
Yeshua is the greater Beloved Son.
He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
He was betrayed.
He was falsely accused.
He was stripped.
He was handed over.
He went down into death.
And He was raised, not merely to preserve one family through famine, but to give eternal life to sinners from every nation.
Joseph stores bread for a coming famine.
Yeshua gives Himself as the Bread of Life.
Joseph preserves physical life.
Yeshua gives resurrection life.
And that means your life is not ultimately held together by your ability to interpret every chapter.
It is held together by the faithfulness of God revealed fully in Messiah.
Your Step This Week
Identify which chapter you are living in right now.
Genesis 37, betrayal.
Genesis 38, exposure.
Genesis 39, temptation and false accusation.
Genesis 40, forgotten faithfulness.
Genesis 41, preparation and responsibility.
Name it.
Then ask God, “What does faithfulness look like here?”
Then take the step.
Tell the truth.
Set the boundary.
Confess the sin.
Flee the temptation.
Serve the person.
Ask for help.
Store the grain.
Give God the glory.
That is how doctrine becomes discipleship.
That is how hearing becomes obedience.
That is how life starts moving toward shalom.
God didn’t forget Joseph.
And He hasn’t forgotten you!
Question for Your Heart
Where have you mistaken God’s hidden work for God’s absence?
Prayer
Father, teach us to trust You in unfinished places. Help us not to call evil good, but also not to call evil sovereign. Teach us to grieve honestly, repent quickly, flee wisely, serve faithfully, wait patiently, prepare diligently, and give You glory humbly. Make us people of shalom, ordered under Your truth, strengthened by Your mercy, formed by Your Word, and centered in Yeshua. Amen.
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STUDY GUIDE
What If God Was Working in the Dark?
Genesis 37 through Genesis 41
Summary
Genesis 37 through 41 carries one of the most powerful movements in the book of Genesis. Joseph is betrayed by his brothers, sold into Egypt, falsely accused, imprisoned, forgotten, and eventually raised to a position of wisdom and authority under Pharaoh. At the same time, Genesis 38 interrupts Joseph’s story with Judah and Tamar, showing that God’s covenant line is still moving through deeply broken people and deeply painful circumstances.
This section is not merely about Joseph’s personal success. It is about God’s covenant faithfulness. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is preserving His promise through a fractured household, through human sin, and through years that look wasted from the outside.
The central theological tension is not whether human beings are responsible or God is sovereign. Genesis insists both are true. Human sin is real. Human guilt is real. Human wounds are real. Yet God’s providence is also real, and His covenant purpose keeps moving.
Core Truth
God’s covenant purpose can keep moving even when people sin, families fracture, justice delays, and the faithful feel forgotten.
Key Passage
Genesis 50:20 later gives theological language to the whole Joseph story:
ESV:
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.”CJSB:
“You meant to do me harm, but God meant it for good.”
The wording matters. Joseph does not pretend his brothers meant well. He does not minimize evil. He names their intention clearly. They meant harm. But God’s intention was greater than theirs. Evil was real, but evil was not sovereign.
Key Themes
- Betrayal and unresolved pain.
Genesis 37 does not end neatly. Joseph is in Egypt. Jacob is grieving. The brothers are carrying guilt. The text allows the wound to remain visible. - Hidden sin and exposure.
Genesis 38 brings Judah and Tamar into focus. Judah’s sin is not hidden forever. Yet exposure becomes the doorway to truth, and God preserves the covenant line through Tamar’s son Perez. - Holiness before God.
Genesis 39 shows Joseph resisting temptation because he understands sin as sin against God. His obedience is not based on being watched by people. It is rooted in reverence before Adonai. - Forgotten faithfulness.
Genesis 40 shows Joseph serving faithfully while still in prison. The cupbearer forgets him, but God does not. - Wisdom formed in delay.
Genesis 41 shows that Joseph’s sudden elevation was not sudden formation. The dark years had shaped him into a man able to carry responsibility with humility and wisdom.
Key Hebrew and Biblical Concepts
Shalom
In Genesis 37:4, Joseph’s brothers could not speak peacefully to him. The Hebrew idea of shalom is much richer than a casual greeting. It carries the sense of wholeness, well-being, ordered life, relational peace, and things rightly aligned under God.
This matters because Joseph’s family has lost shalom. The covenant household is fractured. The brothers cannot speak peace because their hearts are filled with hatred.
Yarad, “To Go Down”
In Genesis 38:1, Judah goes down from his brothers. The movement is geographic, but it also fits the moral and covenant drift in the story. Judah moves away from the covenant family, and his household becomes marked by failure, death, injustice, and exposure.
Providence
Providence is God’s active governance of history without erasing human responsibility. Genesis does not teach that evil is good. It teaches that God is greater than evil and can work through history without excusing the sin in history.
Covenant
The Joseph and Judah narratives must be read within the Abrahamic covenant. God promised Abraham land, seed, blessing, and worldwide blessing through his family. Genesis 37 through 41 shows that the promise continues even when the covenant family is fractured.
Context and Exegesis
Genesis 37: Joseph and His Brothers
Genesis 37 begins by showing the dysfunction in Jacob’s household. Jacob favors Joseph, the brothers hate him, and Joseph’s dreams intensify the conflict. The brothers’ inability to speak shalom to Joseph reveals a deep relational fracture.
The stripping of Joseph’s robe is symbolic and violent. The robe marked Joseph’s favored status, and the brothers attack that identity. They do not simply remove clothing. They assault the visible sign of Jacob’s favor.
The pit becomes the first major descent in Joseph’s story. From there he is sold and taken into Egypt. The chapter ends with grief, deception, and unresolved pain.
Genesis 38: Judah and Tamar
Genesis 38 interrupts Joseph’s story because the biblical author wants us to see Judah’s transformation and the preservation of the covenant line. Judah goes down from his brothers and becomes entangled in moral failure and family injustice.
Tamar is wronged repeatedly. Judah withholds what he owes, and she acts within a broken system to secure justice and survival. When Judah is confronted with his own signet, cord, and staff, he confesses, “She is more righteous than I.”
This chapter matters canonically because Perez, Tamar’s son, becomes part of the line leading to David and ultimately to Messiah. God’s mercy does not excuse sin, but God’s covenant purpose is not destroyed by human failure.
Genesis 39: Joseph in Potiphar’s House
Genesis 39 repeatedly emphasizes that Adonai was with Joseph. That phrase must not be reduced to comfort or immediate rescue. God’s presence is with Joseph in slavery and later in prison.
Joseph’s refusal of Potiphar’s wife is rooted in reverence for God. He does not say merely, “I might get caught.” He says the act would be a great wickedness and sin against God.
Joseph flees, leaving his garment behind. Ironically, another garment is used against him, just as the robe had been used against Jacob in Genesis 37. Once again, clothing becomes tied to deception and suffering.
Genesis 40: Joseph Forgotten
Genesis 40 shows Joseph’s spiritual attentiveness. Even in prison, he notices the pain of others. His question, “Why are your faces downcast today?”, reveals that suffering has not made him indifferent.
Joseph interprets the dreams of the cupbearer and baker, but after the cupbearer is restored, he forgets Joseph. This is one of the most emotionally relatable wounds in the story: faithful service followed by human forgetfulness.
The chapter ends in delay, not deliverance. Yet delay is not abandonment.
Genesis 41: Joseph Raised to Preserve Life
Genesis 41 begins after two full years. Pharaoh dreams, the cupbearer remembers, and Joseph is brought out of prison. Joseph immediately points Pharaoh to God: “It is not in me.”
This is a formed man speaking. Joseph has gifts, but he does not worship his gifts. He understands that interpretation belongs to God.
Joseph not only interprets Pharaoh’s dreams. He offers wise administration. He understands that revelation requires preparation. Egypt must store grain during abundance so that life can be preserved during famine.
This is not merely Joseph’s promotion. It is covenant preservation. God is positioning Joseph to preserve Jacob’s family, and therefore the covenant line, through famine.
ESV and CJSB Comparison
Genesis 39:2
ESV:
“The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man.”CJSB:
“ADONAI was with Yosef, and he became wealthy while he was in the household of his master the Egyptian.”The ESV uses “LORD,” following the traditional English rendering of the divine name. The CJSB uses “ADONAI,” preserving a Jewish reading tradition and reminding readers that Joseph’s story is not generic spirituality. The covenant God is with him in Egypt.
The phrase must be read carefully. God being with Joseph does not mean Joseph avoids suffering. It means Joseph is not abandoned in suffering.
Genesis 41:16
ESV:
“It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”CJSB:
“It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer that will set his mind at peace.”
Both translations show Joseph’s humility. The gift is real, but Joseph does not make himself the source. The CJSB wording also highlights peace, which fits the larger biblical idea that God’s wisdom brings order where fear and confusion have ruled.
Yeshua Central
Joseph is not Yeshua. Judah is not Yeshua. Tamar is not merely a sermon illustration. These are real people in the covenant story.
Yet the whole story is moving toward Messiah!
Joseph is the beloved son rejected by his brothers, sent down into suffering, and raised to preserve life. Judah is the compromised son whose line still carries the promise. Tamar is the wronged woman through whom God preserves the line that leads toward David.
Yeshua is the greater Beloved Son. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. He was betrayed, falsely accused, stripped, handed over, and brought down into death. Then He was raised, not merely to preserve one family through famine, but to bring resurrection life to sinners from every nation.
Joseph stores bread for famine.
Yeshua gives Himself as the Bread of Life.
Joseph preserves physical life.
Yeshua gives eternal life.
Practical Application
- If you are carrying betrayal, name the wound honestly before God.
Do not pretend it did not hurt. But do not let the wound become your identity. Set wise boundaries. Tell the truth without cruelty. Refuse bitterness. - If you are hiding sin, stop managing it.
Confess it. Bring it into wise accountability. Tell the truth before exposure forces your hand. Let God bring light into the hidden room. - If you are being tempted, stop negotiating.
Move the device. Block the number. Cancel the private meeting. Change the route. Leave the garment behind if you have to. - If you feel forgotten, keep your heart soft.
Serve faithfully, but do not pretend it does not hurt. Tell God the truth. Ask for help where help is appropriate. Being overlooked by people does not mean you are unseen by God. - If God is opening a door, walk through it humbly.
Do not make the gift about you. Use responsibility to preserve life. Store grain in seasons of plenty. Give God the glory.
Discussion Questions
- Where do you most identify with Joseph’s story right now: betrayal, temptation, false accusation, prison, being forgotten, or preparation?
- Why is it important that Genesis does not excuse the evil done to Joseph?
- What does Joseph’s refusal in Genesis 39 teach us about holiness when nobody else is watching?
- How does Judah’s confession in Genesis 38 show the beginning of repentance?
- What does it mean that God was with Joseph even when Joseph was still enslaved or imprisoned?
- Have you ever mistaken delay for abandonment? What did that season expose or form in you?
- What is one hidden place where God may be calling you into truth?
- What is one practical “store grain” step you need to take during a season of relative stability?
Concrete Obedience for This Week
Identify which chapter you're living in right now.
Genesis 37, betrayal.
Genesis 38, exposure.
Genesis 39, temptation and false accusation.
Genesis 40, forgotten faithfulness.
Genesis 41, preparation and responsibility.
Write one sentence answering this question:
“What does faithfulness look like here?”
Then take one concrete step within the next 24 hours.
Prayer
Father, help me trust You in the places I cannot yet interpret. Teach me not to call evil good, but also not to call evil sovereign. Give me courage to tell the truth, flee sin, serve faithfully, wait patiently, prepare wisely, and give You glory humbly. Form me into a person of shalom, ordered under Your truth and centered in Yeshua. Amen.
Footnotes
- The movement from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob and then toward the sons of Jacob must be read within the covenant framework of Genesis 12:1 to 3; 15:1 to 21; 17:1 to 14; 26:1 to 5; and 28:10 to 22.
- Nahum M. Sarna emphasizes the literary and theological significance of the Joseph narrative within the larger patriarchal story. See Nahum M. Sarna, Genesis, The JPS Torah Commentary (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989), comments on Genesis 37 to 41.
- Gordon J. Wenham treats Genesis 38 as an intentional and theologically significant interruption in the Joseph narrative rather than a disconnected insertion. See Gordon J. Wenham, Genesis 16 to 50, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 2 (Dallas: Word Books, 1994), comments on Genesis 38.
- Robert Alter notes the artistry of recurring motifs in the Joseph story, including garments, concealment, recognition, and reversal. See Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative, rev. ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2011), and The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, vol. 1, The Five Books of Moses (New York: W. W. Norton, 2019), comments on Genesis 37 to 41.
- John H. Walton’s work on ancient Near Eastern context helps modern readers avoid treating Genesis as a modern individual success story detached from household, inheritance, honor, shame, and covenant structures. See John H. Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018).
- Michael S. Heiser’s work emphasizes reading biblical narratives within their ancient context and broader canonical movement rather than flattening them into isolated moral examples. See Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2015).
Bibliography
Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative. Revised edition. New York: Basic Books, 2011.
Alter, Robert. The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary. Vol. 1, The Five Books of Moses. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019.
Complete Jewish Bible. Translated by David H. Stern. Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998.
English Standard Version Bible. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016.
Heiser, Michael S. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2015.
Sarna, Nahum M. Genesis. The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989.
Walton, John H. Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018.
Wenham, Gordon J. Genesis 16 to 50. Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 2. Dallas: Word Books, 1994.
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