Ads
related to: joseph's brothers sell him
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
When Jacob assigns Joseph to take a flock of sheep to sell, the brothers see their opportunity to be rid of him forever. They beat him and sell him to a slave trader. They then return to Jacob and tell him Joseph has been killed by a wild animal. Joseph is bought by Potiphar, the pharaoh's superintendent of prisons. Potiphar's wife Henet is ...
Joseph's Brothers Sell Him into Captivity (1855 painting by Konstantin Flavitsky). Vayeshev, Vayeishev, or Vayesheb (וַיֵּשֶׁב —Hebrew for "and he lived," the first word of the parashah) is the ninth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Joseph’s Brothers Sell Him into Captivity (painting by Konstantin Flavitsky) When the brothers went to feed the flock in Shechem , Jacob sent Joseph to see whether all was well with them. A man found Joseph and asked him what he sought, and when he told the man that he sought his brothers, the man told him that they had departed for Dothan .
Children of Jacob sell their brother Joseph, by Konstantin Flavitsky, 1855. In the midrash, the selling of Joseph was part of God's divine plan for him to save his tribes. The favoritism Israel showed Joseph and the plot against him by his brothers were divine means of getting him into Egypt. [32]
As a young man, Joseph is a dreamer who is favored by his father Jacob and resented by his older brothers. After Joseph recounts his dream in which he saw his brothers bowing before him, they become furious and sell him into slavery. They convince their father that Joseph was killed by wolves.
The older brothers want to go on the quest to impress their father-in-law and further humiliate their youngest brother. [28] ATU 550, "The Golden Bird": a king sends his three sons to find the golden bird and bring it home. The older ones fail, but the youngest is successful, capturing the bird and a horse and bringing with him a maiden as his ...
Despite his anger, Joseph felt confident that his bonds would break up the strong trio on the other side. But yet another house flip was in the works. In an emotional and shocking 4-3 vote, Joseph ...
The midrashic book of Jasher argues that Simeon was the one who proposed that the brothers should kill Joseph, and other classical sources argue that it was Simeon who threw Joseph into a pit, and became furious when he found out that Judah had sold Joseph rather than killed him. According to the classical sources, Simeon suffered divine ...