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Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
The best known [according to whom?] of the midrashim about her tells of how she was the first to inform Jacob that his son Joseph was still alive. [ citation needed ] Fearing that the news would be too much of a shock for the old man, however, she tells a praying Jacob, through playing the harp and singing in rhyme, that Joseph is "alive and ...
Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh Jacob's funeral procession. Israel (Jacob) was 147 years old when he called to his favorite son Joseph and pleaded that he not be buried in Egypt. Rather, he requested to be carried to the land of Canaan to be buried with his forefathers. Joseph swore to do as his father asked of him.
According to some classical sources, Jacob suspected that Judah had killed Joseph, [35] especially, according to the Midrash Tanhuma, when Judah was the one who had brought the blood stained coat to Jacob. [26] The children of Jacob sell their brother Joseph by Konstantin Flavitsky, 1855. Judah was the one who suggested that Joseph be sold ...
Moses counting Joseph's kin. According to the Old Testament, the tribe consisted of descendants of Joseph, a son of Jacob and Rachel, from whom it took its name; [8] however, some Biblical scholars view this also as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.
Koy, whose real name is Joseph Herbert, welcomed his son and only child with ex-wife Angie King in 2003. ... NFL playoff picture Week 18: Bengals stay alive by beating Steelers; Ravens clinch AF
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Joseph Baena has revealed the reason why he decided not to take his famous father’s last name. In a recent interview with Good Morning Britain, the 26-year-old ...
Jacob could foresee that his son would grow up to be the next prophet in the line of Abraham and it would be Joseph who would keep the message of Islam alive in the coming years. Jacob's older sons, however, felt that their father loved Joseph and Benjamin , Jacob's youngest son, more than them.