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Joseph and the Famine. 13 There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine. 14 Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.
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Joseph’s Family Settles in Goshen 47 After this, Joseph went...
- Genesis 47 ISV - Joseph’s Family Settles in Goshen - Bible ...
1 day ago · Genesis 47 tells the story of Jacob and his family settling in Egypt during a severe famine. It’s a story about family, survival, and God’s faithfulness to his promises. What Happened? Joseph introduces his family to Pharaoh: Joseph, now a powerful leader in Egypt, presents his father and brothers to Pharaoh. He cleverly arranges for them ...
Genesis 41:47 and 53 tell us that 7 years of plenty came in Egypt, followed by famine. Genesis 45:6 and 11 tell us that when Joseph sent his brothers back to Canaan to bring Jacob to Egypt, there had been two years of famine. Thus we can say that Joseph was 39 years old when Jacob went to Egypt.
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Towards the end of the Bronze Age, in the last decades of the 13th century and the early decades of the 12th centuryB.C.E., the Mediterranean world suffered a decades-long series of draughts and famines.Many of the more vulnerable lands in the Levant and the Mediterranean were in desperate need of food. Egypt was in a unique position to supply food...
According to the biblical story, after Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dream and develops a strategy to store grain for the years of famine, Pharaoh appoints Joseph vizier: Thus, when the brothers appear in Egypt to purchase grain, they must contend with Joseph: This verse suggests that a foreigner from Canaan becomes a vizier in Egypt so powerful that...
Baya (bꜣy, 𓃝 𓇌—more on this name later) was an important scribe and palace official of northern origin (i.e., Canaan, Transjordan, or Syria)during the reign of Merneptah’s son Seti II (1203–1197). When Seti II died without a clear heir, Baya backed the claim of a boy named Siptah, who became the next Pharaoh. Some believe Siptah was the son of Se...
The name Baya is unusual. For a long time, Egyptologists wrote his name as “Bay” (many still do), since hieroglyphic and hieratic writing does not have short vowels, and his name is spelled in Hieroglyphics 𓃝 𓇌 𓀀 namely, the syllable ba (bꜣ), the letter y, and then a determinative meaning “man.” Nevertheless, as a letter of his to King Ammurapi ...
Tomb KV13 was never completed; it has no funerary goods inside, nor was his mummified body ever placed inside. For a long time, the fate of Baya and why he never used his tomb remained a mystery. The mystery was solved, however, when French Egyptologist Pierre Grandet combined two broken parts of an ostracon, which yielded the following: This sugge...
The biblical story of Joseph and the Egyptian records about Baya do not tell the same story. According to the records, Egypt did not suffer during the famine, and Baya didn’t get his position by interpreting a Pharaoh’s dream. The famine was fifty years not seven, and Baya did not live to see years of plenty because he was executed by the Pharaoh. ...
The house of Israel acquired many possessions and multiplied exceedingly during the course of seventeen years, even through the worst of the seven-year famine. At this time, Joseph's father was 147 years old and bedridden. He had fallen ill and lost most of his vision.
Joseph’s Family Settles in Goshen 47 After this, Joseph went to inform Pharaoh. “My father and brothers have come here from Canaan,” [ a ] he said, “and they’ve come with their flocks, herds, and everything else they have.
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There Joseph gains the favor of Pharaoh, is promoted into the highest office, and acquires grain supplies that eventually save Egypt during a famine. When his starving brothers come from Canaan to Egypt, Joseph allows their entire households to settle in a region called Goshen.
