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Joseph presenting his father and brethren to the Pharaoh (1896) Genesis 12:10–20 tells of Abram moving to Egypt to escape a period of famine in Canaan. Abram worries that the unnamed pharaoh will kill him and take away his wife Sarai, so Abram tells her to say she is his sister. They are eventually summoned to meet the pharaoh, but God sends ...
Joseph interpreting the dreams of the baker and the cupbearer, by Benjamin Cuyp, c. 1630. Zaphnath-Paaneah (Biblical Hebrew: צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ Ṣāp̄naṯ Paʿnēaḥ, LXX: Ψονθομφανήχ Psonthomphanḗch) is the name given by Pharaoh to Joseph in the Genesis narrative (Genesis 41:45).
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).
Joseph, another of Jacob's sons, is a high official in Egypt and allows his father and brothers to settle in Egypt. [2] In Genesis 45:10, Goshen is treated as being close to Joseph, who lives at the pharaoh's court [3] and in Genesis 47:5 Goshen is called "the best part" of the land of Egypt. [4]
The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which ruled from 332 to 31 BC.
Pharaoh (/ ˈ f ɛər oʊ /, US also / ˈ f eɪ. r oʊ /; [4] Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; [note 1] Coptic: ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ, romanized: Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: פַּרְעֹה Parʿō) [5] is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BCE) until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE. [6]
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Pharaoh once reigned there, and during his reign Joseph built seven granaries which remain standing to this day." [21] An important expedition had visited the Pyramids several years earlier (832), led by the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mūn, and had explored the interior of the Pyramid of Khufu, finding (breaking into) a new passageway. [22]