Joseph's Journey In Ancient Egypt

“And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Don’t your wonder how Rachel felt as she waited for Jacob to arrive to consummate their marriage. What a week Rachel endured. Her father betraying her by ignoring the ketubbah (marriage contract), and giving Leah to Jacob on the night Rachel was to consummate her marriage to Jacob. Her father is always involved in treachery, but Leah’s participation in this clandestine scheme hurt the most! Unforgivable.

Moses was born in Egypt, to a Hebrew woman and was given up and came to be raised by a daughter of Pharaoh. He commits murder, and flees Egypt and settles in the west. Despite his background, God comes down to Moses in the form of a burning bush and tells him to go to Pharaoh in Egypt and tell him to let God's chosen people be free. Moses balks at this assignment, making several excuses as to why he couldn't possibly be the one that God really wants to do this.

Many years passed and Joseph could now speak the Egyptian language and he became street smart. Joseph was placed in Potipher's house and

Circa 1445 B.C. the Israelites still were encamped around the holy mountain of God in the Sinai Desert. Here God met with Moses in the Tent of Meeting and relayed the laws and requirements to make this “nation of priests” holy and set apart. The laws discussed in the first seven chapters generally deal with the atonement for sin, or thankfulness. Among these included the: Burnt Offering, Grain Offering, Fellowship Offering, Sin Offering, and the Guilt Offering.

This is Joseph's response to his brothers after they had come to Egypt seeking food. When they realized that the powerful ruler they stood before was their brother, they had great fear because of what they had done to him, by selling him into slavery. When you step back and look at this story you see that all that happened in Joseph's life was for his good. the good of his family, and the masses in Egypt whose lives were spared during the 7 years of famine. I am sure that Joseph did not see this grand plan when he was sitting in prison or the bottom of a well. Yet he remained faithful to God. He trusted in the dreams that he had been given as a younger man that some someday his brothers and parent would bow down to him. When life gives

Jacob is commanded by G-d to return to the land of his ancestors, and to do so, he must travel through the land of his brother, Esau. Jacob, thinking his brother wants to hurt him, sends spies to assess his army, gifts to soften his spirt, and separates his his family to protect them before meeting face to face with Esau. It turns out that Jacob’s fears were with unwarranted, or a fiction as my dad likes to say, because when Esau saw Jacob, he

Hebrew Bible, is the first of the two concurrent wives of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob and mother of two children whose descendants became some of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, along with one daughter, Dinah . Leah was the daughter of Laban and the older sister of Rachel whom Jacob originally married.

The baptism of Jesus was recorded or indicated in all four gospels of the New Testament. It was specifically mentioned in Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22, and John 1:24-34. All the gospels give different accounts of how the baptism took place. Understanding the different accounts of the baptism is crucial to understanding the significance of why Jesus was baptized and by whom.

The text, Life of St. Antony of Egypt, gives those who are interested in the past a view on what people in the time period believed were requirements to be a saint, how one could become more like a saint, and what some of the actions a saint can perform.

In both Bible and the Quran the story starts with a depiction of Joseph's prophetic dream one in which he sees eleven "planets" or "Stars" alongside the Sun and Moon bowing down before him. When the fantasy is uncovered to Joseph's eleven siblings (all children of the Prophet Jacob), they devise and execute an arrangement that pushes Joseph out of the place that is known for Canaan and into Egypt as a slave. It is important to note that in Bible, Jacob believes his son to be dead and “ mourned for his son for many days “ ( Gen. 37:34 ) in Quran Jacob responds with outright disbelief and proclaims to his lying sons “ patience is most fitting: against that which you Assert, it is Allah Whose help can be sought ” ( Sura 12:18 ) The Quran highlights the dominion of God's will over the envy, lies, and sins of Joseph's siblings.

Secondly, what made the author argument weak is the fallacies he committed in his article to convince the readers. To be specific when Hardin declared, “The story of Joseph of Egypt from the Holy Bible. Joseph was placed in charge of a country which faced first a wonderful seven years of unprecedented bounty before it would plunge into seven years of most desperate famine.”(Hardin, 1974) Here the author committed to a fallacy which is called appeal to authority. To illustrate, the author gave an example of famous leaders to support his

In the story of Joseph it mention that God give him a dream that Egypt was going to have a time of harvest and a time of famine. Joseph was asked to interrupt the king dreams which he did. The king was pleased to hear what it meant then made him second in command over Egypt. He became the administrator over the land and made sure that the economy was taking care of the way it should. He used his skills tackle all of the economic issues at that time and season.

While Joseph lived in Egypt, God intervened and gave Joseph the gift of dream interpretation. Joseph interpreted for Pharaoh his dream and Pharaoh made Joseph the ruler over Egypt. At that time, the famine that Joseph had foretold was too severe and it lead the brother of Joseph came down to Egypt to buy food. After many twisted events, ‘Joseph made himself known to his brothers’ (Genesis 45:1) and he confessed in Genesis 45:7 that God brought him into the dreadful life of slavery so that through him God provided a new life by ‘preserve a remnant on earth’ and ‘keep alive many survivors.’

We find ourselves this morning exploring an experience in the life of a conniving, cheating character of the Hebrew Scriptures named Jacob. Today?s text is the culmination of all his wrestling, for Jacob has wrestled all his life. Even in the womb, Jacob wrestled with his twin brother, trying to get out into the world first. Jacob lost that wrestling match, but he won in the end by stealing his twin brother Esau?s first born blessings. However, his trickery sent Jacob on the run from Esau, who vowed to kill him.