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• Genesis 50:20

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 50:20 records Joseph's words to the brothers who had sold him: "Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good." It is a classic text on divine providence and continues to prompt theological discussion of how human evil and God's sovereignty relate to each other.

• Genesis 42

  [Bible]

  During a famine, Joseph's ten older brothers travel to Egypt to buy grain and bow before Joseph, who has become governor of the land. Accused of being spies, they return home, leaving Simeon behind as a hostage.

• Genesis 44

  [Bible]

  Genesis 44 is the chapter in which Joseph tests his brothers with a silver cup. When the youngest, Benjamin, is seized to become a servant, Judah pleads to be made a servant in the boy's place.

• Genesis 50

  [Bible]

  Genesis 50 is the final chapter of the Book of Genesis. It recounts Jacob's funeral and burial in Canaan, Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers, who fear him after their father's death, and Joseph's final request and death.

• Genesis 43

  [Bible]

  Genesis 43 is the chapter in which, as the famine continues, Jacob's sons take Benjamin with them on a second journey down to Egypt and are entertained in Joseph's house.

• Genesis 38

  [Bible]

  Genesis 38 interrupts the Joseph narrative with the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. It recounts the conflict over continuing a family line and records the birth of the twins Perez and Zerah.

• Genesis 37

  [Bible]

  Genesis 37 tells how Joseph, Jacob's favored son, provokes his brothers' hatred by recounting his dreams and is then sold by them for twenty pieces of silver and carried off to Egypt.

• Goshen

  [Bible]

  Goshen was the land in Egypt where Jacob's family settled after going down there in the time of Joseph. In Exodus it appears as the land that God set apart as the dwelling place of the Israelites when He sent the plagues.

• Genesis 36

  [Bible]

  Genesis 36 is a genealogy recording the wives and descendants of Esau (Edom), his move to Mount Seir, the Horites who lived in that land before him, and the eight kings and the chiefs of Edom.

• Joseph (Son of Jacob)

  [People]

  Joseph is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the son of Jacob and Rachel. Sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, he rose to become the country's chief administrator and saved his family during a famine. He is distinct from Joseph of Nazareth, the legal father of Jesus.

• Potiphar's Wife

  [People]

  Potiphar's wife is an Egyptian woman in Genesis 39 who tried to seduce Joseph, her husband's servant, and, when he refused her, falsely accused him and had him sent to prison. The Bible does not give her name.

• Genesis 45

  [Bible]

  Genesis 45 is the chapter in which Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, forgives them, and, with Pharaoh's approval, summons his father Jacob and the whole family to Egypt.

• Potiphar

  [People]

  Potiphar is an Egyptian who appears in the Book of Genesis. An officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, he bought Joseph, who had been sold into Egypt by his brothers, and placed him in charge of his household. After hearing his wife's false accusation, he had Joseph put in prison.

• Genesis 47

  [Bible]

  Genesis 47 is the chapter in which Joseph presents his father and brothers to Pharaoh and settles them in the land of Goshen. During the famine he acquires, in turn, the Egyptians' money, livestock, and land for Pharaoh, and the aged Jacob makes Joseph swear to bury him in Canaan.

• James (Brother of the Lord)

  [People]

  James is a New Testament figure identified as "the Lord's brother" and was a leader of the early church in Jerusalem. Tradition holds that he wrote the Epistle of James.

• Genesis 46

  [Bible]

  Genesis 46 is the chapter in which Jacob leads his entire household down to Egypt and is reunited with Joseph in Goshen. It includes a list of the seventy members of Jacob's house who came into Egypt.

• Egypt

  [Bible]

  Egypt is the ancient nation in the Nile River valley of northeastern Africa. It is the setting of the Joseph narrative and the Exodus, and in Scripture it serves as a place symbolizing both bondage and deliverance.

• Rameses

  [Bible]

  Rameses was the name of a region and a city in the eastern Nile Delta of ancient Egypt. The children of Israel built it as a store city while in bondage, and it was the starting point of their march at the Exodus.

• Tribe of Ephraim

  [Bible]

  The tribe of Ephraim was an Israelite tribe made up of the descendants of Ephraim, the second son of Joseph. It settled in the central hill country of Canaan, and after the division of the kingdom its name came to stand for the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Manasseh (son of Joseph)

  [People]

  Manasseh was the firstborn son of Joseph, born in Egypt. Adopted by Jacob as his own son, he became the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel. He is distinct from Manasseh, king of Judah.