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Speaker 1: God by listening to today's Bible story brought to you

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Speaker 2: Com from Palace to prison. Before this story, we learned

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Speaker 2: Before that, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers.

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Speaker 2: Their hatred and jealousy exiled Joseph to a life of

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Speaker 2: Now we will learn about how Joseph, despite being a

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Speaker 3: saw how Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery and that

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Speaker 3: More importantly, though, Joseph, despite being removed from his father's

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Speaker 2: Now a slave in Egypt, Joseph worked diligently in the

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Speaker 3: day after day he refused the temptation. How many times

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