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Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and then Joseph: here are Joseph’s timeline and family tree in multiple languages. Joseph’s life – timeline. Joseph lived for 110 years – which seems like a long time to us, but was significantly shorter than the lives of his ancestors, including his father Jacob, who died at the age of 147.
Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with ten half-brothers, one full brother, and at least one half-sister. He was Rachel's firstborn and Jacob's eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was preferred by his father, who gave him a "long coat of many colors".
Joseph was the son of Jacob and the husband of Mary, but he was not the physical father of Jesus. We do not read that Joseph was the “father of” Jesus. Instead, we read “Mary, by whom Jesus was born.”
14 gru 2023 · Joseph was Rachel’s firstborn son and is perhaps the most popular of the sons of Jacob in the Bible. Although Joseph’s dreams caused him to be sold into slavery by his jealous brothers (Genesis 37:27-28), Joseph rose to become the second most powerful man in Egypt, saving his family and all of Egypt from famine.
According to the biblical account, Joseph was the son of Jacob by Rachel, the patriarch's favorite wife (Gen. 30:23, 24), who, on the occasion of Joseph's birth, said, "The Lord shall add [Heb. yosef] to me another son." (Gen. 30:24) He was born in Padan-aram when Jacob was about 90 years old.
16 paź 2021 · Joseph (or Yusuf, as he is known in the Qur’an) was the eleventh son of Jacob and the only prophet among his twelve sons, according to the Islamic traditions. He is one of the most highly ...
Of all thirteen sons of Jacob, Joseph was one of the youngest. The Bible states that Joseph was, in fact, Jacob's favorite son, to the point of gifting him with a beautiful robe, a valuable item in antiquity. His brothers envied him because they saw that Jacob treated him in a special way.
