The Story of Joseph and His Brethren

The Story of Joseph and His Brethren Italian Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli is a 1961 YugoslavianItalian film directed by Irving Rapper and Luciano Ricci.

Joseph, son of Israel Jacob and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with eleven brothers and one sister. He was Rachels firstborn and Israels eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. Israel even arrayed Joseph with a long coat of many colors. Israels favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain. Then, all of the grain bundles that had been prepared by the brothers gathered around Josephs bundle and bowed down to it. In the second dream, the sun father, the moon mother and eleven stars brothers bowed down to Joseph himself. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph. They became jealous that their father would even ponder over Josephs words concerning these dreams. Genesis 37111 They saw their chance when they were feeding the flocks, the brothers saw Joseph from afar and plotted to kill him. They turned on him and stripped him of the coat his father made for him, and threw him into a pit. As they pondered what to do with Joseph, the brothers saw a camel caravan of Ishmaelites coming out of Gilead, carrying spices and perfumes to Egypt, for trade. Judah, the strongest, thought twice about killing Joseph and proposed that he be sold. The traders paid twenty pieces of silver for Joseph, and the brothers took Josephs coat back to Jacob, who assumed Joseph had been killed by wild animals.The text of the biblical story is muddled over who sold Joseph into slavery which of the brothers, Reuben or Judah, and whether he was sold to Midianite traders or Ishmaelite traders. What is clear is that Joseph was sold to serve Potiphar, the captain of Pharaohs guard. While serving in Potiphars household, Yahweh was with Joseph so that he prospered in everything he did. Josep

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