WNLP Across Denominations Divine Intervention in the Story of Joseph

...(3) Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours. (4) And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. (5) And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren; and they hated him yet the more. (11) And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind. . (12) And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. (13) And Israel said unto Joseph: ‘Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them.’ And he said to him: ‘Here am I.’ (14) And he said to him: ‘Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well with the flock; and bring me back word.’ So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. (15) And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying: ‘What seekest thou?’ (16) And he said: ‘I seek my brethren. Tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.’ (17) And the man said: ‘They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan.’ And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. (18) And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

(26) And Judah said unto his brethren: ‘What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? (27) Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh.’ And his brethren hearkened unto him.

(36) And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

(2) מעמק חברון, since when is Chevron in a valley? We always associate it with being located on a mountain! The Torah alludes to a profound understanding between G’d and Avraham who had been interred in Chevron. The Torah now alludes to the prediction by G’d to Avraham, that his descendants would for a long time be strangers in a land not theirs (Genesis 15,13)

A man discovered and Behold, he was straying in the field.

Scripture is saying that he had strayed off the road, and did not know where he should go, so he entered the field, because it was in a place of pasture that he was searching for them. Scripture speaks at length about this to tell us that the many circumstances that befell Joseph over which it would have been fitting for him to turn back (from his mission), but he withstood all of these challenges out of respect for his father. This story is also written to inform us that "the decree of God is truth, and effort is falsehood." That is, man cannot escape his Divinely ordained fate. For the Holy One, Blessed Be He, arranged a guide for Joseph, without his knowledge, to bring him into his brothers hands. It was this that our sages had in mind when they said that these men were not men, but angels- that this whole story did not occur for naught but to teach us that it is "Hashem's counsel that prevails."