Cover image: Harry Anderson: Jacob Blesses His Twelve Sons Question: Some of the most significant prophecies in scripture regarding the posterity of Jacob are found in the blessings of Judah and Joseph in Genesis 49. However much of the poetry in the blessings is difficult to understand. Ho...
“The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land. But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies. We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the...
On June 25, 1844, Governor Thomas ford ofIllinoistold the state militia that Joseph and his brother Hyrum were "dangerous men" (history of the church, 5:563) and guilty of treason. The two brothers went toCarthage,Illinois, to deliver themselves up to the "pretended requirements of the law...
Joseph and His Brothers Presented by Sermons4Kids Featuring the Art of Henry Martin * This made the other sons jealous because it showed everybody that Joseph was the favorite son. Jacob had twelve sons. Of all his sons, he loved Joseph best because he was born to him in his old age....
As his mother, Rachel, was believed to be barren, Joseph is the favorite of his father, Jacob, and is titled a "Miracle Child". Whilst his brothers work the farm, Joseph in contrast is treated well and doted on by Jacob, inciting the brothers' jealousy and hatred.Frederic P. Miller...
Joseph and His Brethren. Why He Died Before His Brothers. —Critical View: —In Arabic Literature: Joseph and Zulaikha. Differences of Tradition. Sold as Slave. —Biblical Data: Eleventh son of Jacob and the elder of the two sons of Rachel; born at Haran (Gen. xxx. 24). The meaning...
37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought ...
Hated by His Brothers.[b] 1 Jacob dwelt in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the story of the descendants of Jacob. Joseph was seventeen years old and tended the flocks with his brothers. He was young and stayed with the sons of Bilhah and the...
Yusuf told his brothers to toss his tunic in the face of his father who had become blinded by eye inflammation. Yusuf had scented the tunic with the same perfumes and incense that Yacub used to begin training him in his spiritual duties. That incense and perfume contained frankincense which ...
1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought ...