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4 lip 2020 · Joseph sold into slavery in Egypt to Potiphar, Gen 37. Joseph works in Potiphar's house but later jailed, Gen 39. Joseph interprets two dreams by the cupbearer and the baker, two years before Pharaoh's dreams, Gen 40, Gen 41:1. Therefore, Joseph is 28 years old.
Genesis 41:46 says that Joseph was 30 years old when he entered Pharaoh’s service. As soon as he did so, the time of plenty predicted by Pharaoh’s dreams began. Genesis 41:47 and 53 tell us that 7 years of plenty came in Egypt, followed by famine.
Joseph was only 17 years old when his brothers sold him into slavery, and probably 39 when his family moved to Egypt. If, in his position as Pharaoh's right-hand man, he violated Egyptian custom to comply with the laws of Israel by wearing a beard, then there was very obvious reason for his brothers to not recognize him.
Joseph’s Brothers Sell Him into Slavery. 37 Jacob continued to live in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived. 2 This is the account of Jacob and his descendants. Joseph was a seventeen-year-old young man. He took care of the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives.
12 lut 2015 · Gen 37:28 Joseph is ultimately sold on to some Midianite merchants and taken to Egypt (along The Way of the Sea) (see 5 on Map 42). Gen 37:29-35 The brothers dip Joseph’s coat in blood, then trick Jacob into believing that Joseph has been killed by a wild animal.
* When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flocks with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and Joseph brought their father bad reports about them.
His story functions as an explanation for Israel's residence in Egypt. He is the favourite son of the patriarch Jacob, and his jealous brothers sell him into slavery in Biblical Egypt, where he eventually ends up incarcerated.
