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Joseph sold into slavery

1728 BCUssher date

Genesis 37; Acts 7:9

Jealous of their father's favorite and his dreams, Joseph's brothers sold him, at 17, to traders bound for Egypt.

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37:28 (World English Bible)

Jacob gave Joseph a special robe, and Joseph dreamed that his brothers, and even his parents, would bow down to him. When Jacob sent him to check on his brothers, they seized him, threw him into a dry pit, and sold him for twenty pieces of silver. They dipped his robe in goat's blood and let Jacob believe a wild animal had killed him.

In Egypt he was sold to Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's guard.

Places

EgyptCanaanShechemDothanValley of Hebron

Dating notes

Joseph was 17 (Genesis 37:2).

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