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'''Joseph''' (in Hebrew, '''יוֹסֵף''' or ''Yosef''; "God shall add") (2259-vr. 2289-2369 AM) (1745-vr. 1715-1635 BC) was the eleventh son of [[Jacob]] (and the first by his second and favorite wife [[Rachel]]). Kidnapped and sold into slavery in [[Egypt]], he interpreted a dream for the then-reigning [[Pharaoh]] (most likely Sesostris I<ref name=Timing>Tas Walker, Steve Cardno and Jonathan Sarfati. "[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4190 Timing is Everything: A Talk with Field Archaeologist David Down]." ''Creation'' 27(3):30-35, June 2005.</ref>), and as a result became [[viceroy]] of Egypt, an office he held for eighty years, beginning with his management of a [[famine in Egypt|major agricultural crisis]].
'''Joseph''' (in Hebrew, '''יוֹסֵף''' or ''Yosef''; "God shall add") (2259-vr. 2289-2369 AM) (1745-vr. 1715-1635 BC) was the eleventh son of [[Jacob]] (and the first by his second and favorite wife [[Rachel]]). Kidnapped and sold into slavery in [[Egypt]], he interpreted a dream for the then-reigning [[Pharaoh]] (most likely Sesostris I<ref name=Timing>Tas Walker, Steve Cardno and Jonathan Sarfati. "[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4190 Timing is Everything: A Talk with Field Archaeologist David Down]." ''Creation'' 27(3):30-35, June 2005.</ref>), and as a result became [[viceroy]] of Egypt, an office he held for eighty years, beginning with his management of a [[famine in Egypt|major agricultural crisis]].
==The Arrogant and Tactless Dreamer==
He was born in 2259 AM, in the fourteenth year of the term of service of [[Jacob]] to his father-in-law [[Laban]].<ref name=Ussher>[[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', [[Larry Pierce]], ed., Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003 (ISBN 0890513600), pgh. 122</ref> The [[Bible]] says that [[God]] granted his birth as a favor to Rachel, who had not been able to have a child before then.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=30|verses=22-24}}</ref>
The [[Bible]] says nothing further about the life of Joseph until he reaches the age of seventeen. What it says is not quite flattering:
# Joseph earned a reputation as a talebearer.
# Jacob showed favoritism toward Joseph and clearly preferred him to his brothers.
# Jacob made Joseph a special coat. The [[King James Version]] describes it as "a coat of many colors," but the actual [[Hebrew]] reads "a coat with sleeves." By either description, however, this was a special luxury.
As a result, Joseph's brothers hated him and could not even speak peaceably to him.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=37|verses=2-4}}</ref>
Joseph then had two vivid and prophetic dreams which, out of either arrogance or simple tactlessness, he told to his brothers and to his father and mother, causing further resentment. In one, Joseph and his brothers were binding sheaves of [[grain]] (probably [[wheat]]), and suddenly Joseph's sheaf stood upright and the other sheaves bowed low to it. The brothers quite reasonably interpreted that to mean that Joseph would reign over them.
In another, Joseph dreamed that the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowed low to him. Even Jacob found that an arrogant thing to say--though he remembered it, perhaps finding it significant and possibly [[prophet]]ic.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=37|verses=5-11}}</ref>
[[Image:Hippjose.jpg|150px|right]]
Finally, his brothers had had enough. One fine day they waylaid him and threw him into a dry pit. They would have killed him, but [[Reuben]], the eldest, stopped them from doing that. The brothers ended up selling Joseph to Ishmaelite and Midianite traders, who in turn carried him off to Egypt and sold him to [[Potiphar]] (He whom Ra gave), the Pharaoh's captain of the guard. The brothers stained Joseph's coat with blood and gave the coat to his father, saying that "a wild beast" had killed Joseph.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=37|verses=12-36}}</ref> This happened in 2276 AM (1728 BC).<ref name=Ussher2>[[James Ussher|Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World|op. cit.'']], pgh. 129</ref>
==Potiphar's steward==
==Potiphar's steward==