for you, my brothers, in selling me into slavery you meant evil against me, but God meant that evil event for good.” In other words, Joseph here referred to just one specific event, namely, his brothers selling him to the Ishmaelites, who then took him to Egypt. Yet he explained the occurrence of that one event in two different ways: his brothers intended to do him harm by selling him into slavery—remember, they hated him and even were plotting to kill him—even as God intended that sale for Joseph’s