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Joseph in Egypt. Genesis 37-46. Joseph is sold as a slave in Egypt then put in prison. Contributed by Moody Publishers. Read terms of download. Story also available on our translated websites: Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, German, Hindi. View slideshow Download image set Story planner. Download story: Joseph in Egypt.
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When Abraham first entered the Land in 2023 (1737 BCE), his first stop was the "place of Shechem," where G‑d appeared to him and promised: "To your descendants I will give this land." This was the first time that G‑dinformed our Patriarch of this ultimate intention. Two generations later, returning from Charan with his wives and children, Jacob cam...
In 1926, the Jewish inhabitants of Shechem were forced to leave in the face of Arab pogroms. A year later, an earthquake destroyed most of the Old City of Shechem, including the Jewish quarter. With the Six Day War in 1967, Shechem and the surrounding areas reverted to Jewish control; however, while tourism in the area was encouraged, Jews were not...
In 1867 Mark Twain visited Shechem. He described this visit in his diary which was later published. The following are some interesting excerpts: "At two o'clock we stopped to lunch and rest at ancient Shechem, between the historic Mounts of Gerizim and Ebal, where in the old times the books of the law, the curses and the blessings, were read from t...
According to the Bible, Joseph was embalmed and buried in a coffin in Egypt (Goshen/Avaris), after having his people swear to carry his bones away. Later midrash identify his first entombment in a royal mausoleum, or as cast into the Nile.
The Identification of Joseph’s Tomb. But we return to Joseph’s coffin in Egypt, where his bones lay for hundreds of years. It must have been well marked and identified all that time, in order for Moses to have selected it out of all the Hebrew tombs in the Land of Goshen.
According to Jewish tradition, Joseph was buried in the biblical town of Shechem, which is near the present-day city of Nablus. Some archeologists believe the site is only a few centuries old and may contain the remains of a Muslim sheik named Yossef.
Dec 24, 2012 · Joseph’s bones, to be exact. At the end of Parashat Vayechi, the very end of Genesis, Joseph lies dying. He has moved his entire family to Egypt to save them from famine, and he has rescued the whole land from hunger. Though his father, Jacob, was buried in Canaan, Joseph will be buried in Egypt. He is, after all, an Egyptian vizier.
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The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of ground that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money; it became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
