I Am Joseph
In the scripture helps for Genesis 37-41, there is a list of ways that Joseph is a type of the Savior. I had never thought about this one: “Joseph’s oldest brother looked for him in an empty pit; Christ’s senior Apostle looked for him in an empty tomb.” Of Joseph’s ten older brothers, Reuben (the oldest) seemed to most opposed to their treatment of Joseph. We read that when the other brothers sought to kill Joseph, “Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.” Then Reuben said, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him.” The writer of Genesis explained that Reuben’s motives were good and he didn’t plan to leave him in the pit, for he did it “that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.” They enacted this plan, and while Joseph was there in the pit the brothers sat down to eat and saw “a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spic...