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Speaker 1: listening to today's Bible in a Year brought to you

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Speaker 1: Now we will learn about how Joseph is reunited with

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Speaker 1: descendants of Joseph. Let's pray together, Dear God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,

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Speaker 1: That we can trust you because we know that you

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