Quotes About Communication

Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.

Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.

Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,

“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his masterís house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”

“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Donít interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:

“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”

They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ëIs your father still alive? Do you have another brother?í And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ëBring your brother hereí?”

So they approached Josephís steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.

He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”

When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.

“Why does my lord say these things?” they asked. “Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

Then you told your servants, ëBring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.í

Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.

Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.

Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!”

And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.

Joseph said to his brothers and to his fatherís household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ëMy brothers and my fatherís household from the land of Canaan have come to me.