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- JOSEPH
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- Jacob's eleventh son by his Padan-aram Gen 30:22-24
- favorite wife Rachel
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- Joseph was the most loved by Beer-sheba Gen 37:1---4
- Jacob. Jacob made him a coat
- of many colors which caused
- his brothers to hate Joseph
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- He dreams of future positions Beer-sheba Gen 37:5--11
- caused his brothers to hate
- him more
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- Judah proposed that they would Dotham Gen 37:12-36
- sell him to the Midianites,who
- were on thier way to Egypt. The
- Midianites in turn sold him to
- Potipher,the Pharaoh's officer
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- Joseph good work won Potiphar's Eygpt House of Gen 39:1---6
- favor, who made him overseer of Potiphar
- the house
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- Failing to entice Joseph to sin Eygpt, In Prison Gen 39:7--23
- with her, Potipher wife makes a
- false charge againist him and he
- was confined to prison
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- He interpreted the dreams of two Eygpt, In Prison Gen 40
- of the prisioners, the king's
- bulter and baker
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- Two years later, the Pharaoh had Court of the Gen 41:1--36
- two dreams that troubled him. Pharaoh
- Joseph interprets them
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- Parahaoh makes Joseph his prime """ """ Gen 41:37-57
- minister. He acts very wisely
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- The famine in Palestine forces Court of the Gen 42:
- Jacob to send Joseph's brother's Pharoh
- to Egypt to by Corn
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- He required them to return with Egypt Gen 43----45
- Benjamin. He reveales himself to
- his brothers.
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- Jacob and his people are placed by Egypt & Goshen Gen 46:1----
- Joseph in Goshen. Where Jacob gives 50:13
- a prophetic statement of the tribes
- and dies. Joseph and His brothers
- bury him in the cave at Machpelah
- in Hebron
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- After Jacob's death, Joseph lives Egypt Gen 50:14-26
- with his brothers untill he dies
- at the age of 110 years
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- Many Bible scholars contrast the circumstances of Joseph's life to
- that of Christ's. He was sold by his own people into slavery. He
- was cast into prison to his humiliation. According to his statement
- one prisoner was greatly favored, the other suffered death. On the
- cross Jesus spoke one malefactor into paradise; the other died in
- his sins. Joseph rose from humiliation to exaltation; From His humility
- and death and the grave Jesus rose in the glory of His resurrection.
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