Joseph. Biblical grinder, son of Jacob and Rachel, who was sold into bondage in Egypt and rose to the side of kings chief minister or vizier. He later welcomed his father and family to fall in Egypt. The story presents knowledge of Egyptian usages, but it is alleged whether Joseph represents a historical form. The background of the history may touch to the period when the
Hyksos had had ability in Egypt.
Joseph as a Vizier of Egypt:Observing the prediction, Joseph gone Vizier, under the name of Zaphnath-Paaneah, and was given Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, to be his married woman. During the seven years of teemingness, Joseph ensured that the stores were full and that all produce was considered. In the sixth year, Asenath bore two babies to Joseph: Manasseh and Ephraim. When the shortage came, it was so cold that people from close nations came to Egypt to buy bread. The narrative also points that they went straight to Joseph or were directed to him, even by the Pharaoh himself. As a last repair, all of the denizens of Egypt, less the Egyptian priestly class, sold their dimensions to Joseph for seed; wherefore Joseph set a mandate that, because the people would be seeding and harvest seed on government property, a fifth of the raise should go to the Pharaoh. This mandatory lasted until the days of Moses.
The staying brothers returned to their father in Canaan, and said him all that had transpired in Egypt. They also named that all of their money sacks still had money in them, and they were fearful. Then they familiar their father that the Vizier taken that Benjamin be taken before him to demonstrate that they were good men. Jacob became greatly nervous feeling that they covered him badly. After they had had all of the grain that they brought back from Egypt, Jacob told his sons to go back to Egypt for more grain. With Reuben and Judah's perseverance, they swayed their father to let Benjamin join them for care of Egyptian retribution. Finding of the Silver Cup (ca. 1350). Fresco in St. Sophia Church in Ohrid, Macedonia.
Upon their give to Egypt, the brothers were got by the steward of the house of Joseph. When they were brought round Joseph's house, they were observing about the established money in their money sacks. They thought that the missed transaction would in some manner be used against them as way to induct them as buckles down and confiscate their ownerships. So they immediately familiar the steward of what had transpired to get a feel of the site. The steward put them at rest, telling them not to worry about the money, and brought out their brother Simeon. Then he got the brothers into the house of Joseph and taken them hospitably. When the Vizier (Joseph) looked, they gave him presents from their father. Joseph saw and asked of Benjamin and was overcome by emotion but did not show it. He withdrew to his chambers and wept. When he regained control of himself, he established and set up a meal to be served. The Egyptians would not dine with Hebrews at the very table, as doing so was took loathsome, so the sons of Israel were served at a separated table.
That night, Joseph set his steward to load the brothers' donkeys with food and good their money. The money they added was double what they taken from the first trip. Deceptively, Joseph likewise ordered that his silver cup be put in Benjamin's realize. The observing morning the brothers began their journey back to Canaan. Joseph set the steward to go after the brothers and question them about the "missing" silver cup. When the custodian caught up with the brothers, he seized them and searched their sacks. The flight attendant found the cup in Benjamin's gain just as he had set it the night before. This stimulated a stir amongst the brothers. However, they agreed to be saw back to Egypt. When the Vizier (Joseph) confronted them about the silver cup, he demanded that the one who had the cup in his bag become his knuckle down. In response, Judah pleaded with the Vizier that Benjamin be allowed to return to his father, and he himself be kept in Benjamin's situation as a striver.
Judah appealed to the Vizier praying that Benjamin be turned and that he be enslaved in his position, because of the silver cup learned in Benjamin’s sack. The Vizier broke down into tears. He could not control himself any taller and so he placed the Egyptian men out of the house. Then he broken to the Hebrews that he was in fact their brother, Joseph. He wept so loud that even the Egyptian house heard it outside. The brothers were frozen and could not utter a word. He brought them smaller and relayed to them the events that had passed and told them not to fear, that what they had implied for evil God had intended for good. Then he commanded them to go and bring their father and his full household into Egypt to live in the state of
Goshen, because there were five more years of famine left. So Joseph added them Egyptian transport wagons, new garments, silver money, and twenty completing donkeys carrying provisions for the journey.
Thus, Jacob (also known as Israel) and his total house of seventy, gathered up with all their farm animal and began their journey to Egypt. As they bordered on Egyptian territory, Judah went ahead to ask Joseph where the caravan should unload. They were taken into the province of Goshen and Joseph set his chariot to see his father there. It had been over 20 years since Joseph had close seen his father. When they met, they covered each other and wept together for quite a patch. His father then noted, “Now let me die, since I have attended your face, because you are however alive.”
Later, Joseph’s family in person met the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Pharaoh honored their stay and even proposed that if there were any qualified men in their house, then they may elect a chief herdsman to oversee Egyptian livestock. Because the Pharaoh had such a high respect for Joseph, much making him his level, it had been an honor to gather his father. Thus, Israel was efficient to bless the Pharaoh. The family was then placed in Goshen.
The house of Israel took many self-will and multiplied passing during the course of 17years, even through the last of the seven-year famine. At this time, Joseph’s father was 147 years old and sick. He had fallen ill and lost about of his visual sensation. Joseph was named into his father’s house and Israel pleaded with his son that he not be entombed in Egypt. Rather, he requested to be carried to the land of Canaan to be entombed with his fathers. Joseph was sworn to do as his father taken of him.
Later, Joseph related visit his father taking with him his 2 sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. Israel announced that they would be successors to the heritage of the house of Israel, as if they were his own children, just as Reuben and Simeon were. Then Israel laid his left on the eldest Mannasseh’s pass and his right hand on the earliest Ephraim’s head and prosperous Joseph. However, Joseph was offended that his father’s right hand was not on the point of his firstborn, so he thrown his father’s hands. But Israel rejected saying, “but really his younger brother shall be better than he.” A contract he taken just as Israel himself was to his firstborn brother Esau. To Joseph, he gave a component more of Canaanite place than he had to his other sons; land that he pushed for against the Amorites.
Joseph known to the age of 110, living to see his great-grandchildren. Before he died, he took the children of Israel depone that when they left the land of Egypt they would take his bones with them, and on his death his body was embalmed and based in a coffin in Egypt. The children of Israel remembered their oath, and when they left Egypt in the
Exodus, Moses involved Joseph's pearls with him. The bones were buried at Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob corrupted from the sons of Hamor, which has traditionally been named with site of Joseph's Tomb, before Jacob and all his family gone to Egypt. Shechem was in the land which was apportioned by Joshua to the Tribe of Ephraim, one of the tribes of the House of Joseph, after the subjection of Canaan.
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