Chapter 39: Jacob and Joseph, the fathers of Israel
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In Egypt, Joseph was sold to Potiphar, a chief of the Heksos guard, who later sent Joseph to manage all the household chores. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info however, Potiphar's wife was attracted to the young Hebrew and seduced him, and trouble arose. Joseph firmly rejected his mistress and made it clear that if he obeyed her, he would hurt his master and sin against God.
One day she was pulling Joseph's garment, but he threw it down and fled. Potiphar's wife falsely accused Joseph of attempting rape, and Potiphar believed her and imprisoned Joseph in the king's prison, along with Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker. While in prison, Joseph received Jehovah's help to explain some of their troubled dreams to the butler and the baker. As Joseph said in his interpretation of the dream, the baker was put to death and the butler was reinstated, but the cupbearer forgot about Joseph.
Two years later, Pharaoh had two dreams that even his sorcerers and wise men could not explain. The cupbearer remembered Joseph and summoned him from prison to the king's palace. God inspired Joseph to say that those dreams were foreshadowing seven years of plenty and the next seven years of famine. Because of Joseph's wisdom in interpreting dreams, Pharaoh made him ruler of Egypt after Pharaoh, the prime minister.
Pharaoh gave Joseph the name "Saphanathbanea" ("uncertain") and gave him Asina, the daughter of Potiphela, a priest in Ancheng, Egypt, as his wife. The firstborn was Manasseh, and the second was Ephraim.
Joseph was only thirty years old when he began his reign over the Hyksos dynasty. During the seven years of plenty, he stocked up on grain, and when the seven years of famine came, he would have food to eat.
When the famine year came, and the famine in Palestine was severe, Jacob sent all his sons, except for the young Benjamin, who remained there, to go to Egypt to buy grain. When they came to Egypt, they came to Joseph, but they did not recognize him. Joseph recognized them and remembered his former dream of ruling over his family.
When Joseph heard their report on the state of the family, he accused them of being spies and insisted that they leave one of them hostage and bring Benjamin to confirm their words. So one of Joseph's brothers, Simeon, was bound and left in Egypt.
Jacob did not want Benjamin to go, fearing the loss of his youngest child, but because Egypt was the suzerainty of Palestine and Joseph was the prime minister, Jacob had to allow Benjamin to go with them.
When they arrived in Egypt, Joseph's ruler took them into the house, and returned Simeon to them, and made a feast for them.
Eventually, Joseph revealed his identity by saying that God had sent him to Egypt first to save his family's lives. Later, he arranged for his brother to bring Jacob and he prepared their chariots and food for the road.
When Jacob came to Goshen in the Nile Delta, Joseph came out to meet him, and the family was reunited. Joseph brought his father and brothers before Pharaoh, who allowed them to dwell in the land of Goshen.
Jacob led his tribe to move to the land of Goshen in Lower Egypt, where he became the most honorable of the Hebrews in Lower Egypt at that time, and actually became the leader of the Hebrews in Egypt. These Hebrews in Egypt gradually distinguished themselves from the Hebrews of Arabia and Canaan, with Jacob as the leader, and Jacob was called the Israelites because of his alias Israel. Thus Jacob became the patriarch of modern-day Israel.
When Joseph learned that his father was ill, he brought his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, to Jacob to receive their blessings. He placed his sons before Jacob so that the firstborn was facing Jacob's right hand and the younger was facing Jacob's left hand, so that Manasseh might receive the blessing of the firstborn. Yet, Jacob intertwined his hands and gave Ephraim a greater blessing.
Joseph was not pleased with and did not understand his father's reversal of the elder and the younger, but finally accepted it. Manasseh was young at the time. Hearing my grandfather's blessing that my younger brother would be more prosperous than myself in the future, I was inevitably a little puzzled, but I didn't complain at all.
Before he died, Jacob was to tell his sons what would happen to each of them, likening Joseph to a branch that bears many fruits.
After Jacob's death, Joseph arranged for his funeral, and after his customary funeral, he arranged for his sons to go to Canaan and bury Jacob in the cave of Mabelah in Hebron.
Under Joseph's patronage, the Israelites flourished and their population flourished. Jacob's twelve sons, including Joseph, became the head of a family, the twelve patriarchs of the nation of Israel.
The twelve ancestors were:
Runpo, Mother: Leah
Simeon, mother: Leah
Levi, Mother: Leah
Judah, Mother: Leah
Dan, Mother: Bilah (Rachel's maiden)
Naphtali, Mother: Bila (Rachel's Handmaiden)
Gad, Mother: Sippa (Handmaid of Leah)
Asher, mother: Sippa (Servant of Leah)
Issachar, Mother: Leah
Zebulun, mother: Leah
Joseph, Mother: Rachel
Benjamin, Mother: Rachel
From the perspective of his mother, Elijah and Rachel were the highest, while Bilah and Zilpah seemed to be their handmaidens and had a higher status than yours, so there was a reason why Joseph was the highest of the twelve patriarchs.
When Joseph was one hundred and ten years old, he called his brother and said that he was dying. And he commanded his children to swear that when they returned to Canaan, they would bring up his bones. Therefore, when he died, his body was smoked, and he was buried in a coffin, which was laid in Egypt.
Hundreds of years later, when it was time to leave Egypt, Moses took Joseph's bones with him. Joseph was finally buried in Shechem.
Ephraim, Joseph's second son, was born in Egypt, which means "to make him prosperous." His descendants were the tribe of Ephraim, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
And Manasseh, Joseph's eldest son, was born in Egypt. His descendants were the tribe of Manasseh, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
The 12 patriarchs of Israel and the 12 tribes of Israel are not the same concept. One is a secular reference and the other is a denominational one. For example, one branch of Joseph had two tribes. And some of the ancestors did not pass down the tribe.
Manasseh took the Syrians as concubines, and begat Azreel and Machir. And the name of Manasseh's second son was Zelophehas.
Before Joseph was alive, he saw the sons of Manasseh, the sons of Machir, and the children of the third generation of Ephraim.
The son of Ephraim was Shutillah, and the son of Shutilah was Pereh, and the son of Berel was Taha, and the son of Tahath was Elada, and the son of Eladah was Tahah, and the son of Tahar was Zabal, and the son of Zabal was Shutillah.
Jacob's prophecy speaks of the lineage of his descendants, among whom is his grandson Ephraim, who will not only be exalted over his brother, but will also be honored among the ten tribes, and he will be great. These prophecies were later fulfilled.
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