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====== Vayeshev ======
  * Torah: Genesis 37:1-40:23
  * Haftarah: Amos 2:6-3:8
  * Brit HaDasha: Matthew 1:18-25

==== Bad Report ====
  * Gen 37:2 - These are [the records of] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was [still] a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father. 
  * Gen 35:22 Now there were twelve sons of Jacob-- 23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; 24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali; 26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. 

==== 20 shekels of silver ====
  * Gen 37:28 Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled [him] up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty [shekels] of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.
  * Leviticus 27:5 If it be from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels. 

==== Torah? ====
  * Gen 37:30 - He returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is not [there]; as for me, where am I to go?"
  * Gen 38:8-9 - Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." 9 Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. 
  * Gen 39:9 - "Sin against God"
  * Gen 39:14 - "and I screamed"

==== Blessings and Curse ====
  * Gen 39:21 - "But the LORD was with Joseph and extended kindness to him" 
  * Gen 39:23 - The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper.

==== Dreams ==== 
  * Gen 40:8 - Then they said to him, "We have had a dream and there is no one to interpret it." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell [it] to me, please."
 
==== Only birthday in the older testament ====
  * Gen 40:20 - Thus it came about on the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

==== Land of Canaan ====
  * Gen 37:1 - Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan. 
  * Gen 40:15 "For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon."

==== Temple prostitution? ====
  * Amos 2:7 - "These who pant after the [very] dust of the earth on the head of the helpless Also turn aside the way of the humble; And a man and his father resort to the same girl In order to profane My holy name. 
  * Gen 38:14 - So she removed her widow's garments and covered [herself] with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife. 15 When Judah saw her, he thought she [was] a harlot, for she had covered her face.