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|image=[[file:Tissot Joseph Dwells in Egypt.jpg|thumb|center| Joseph as Governor of Egypt. Painting by James Tissot (1896–1902).]] | |image=[[file:Tissot Joseph Dwells in Egypt.jpg|thumb|center| Joseph as Governor of Egypt. Painting by James Tissot (1896–1902).]] | ||
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==Historical Background== | ==Historical Background== | ||
<small>{{참고|Abraham|Jacob}}</small> | <small>{{참고|Abraham|Jacob}}</small> | ||
Joseph was the great-grandson of [[Abraham]]. Abraham’s son [[Isaac]] married Rebekah at the age of forty,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A20&version=NIV |title=Genesis 25:20 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> but for twenty years she remained childless until she conceived twins.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A24-26&version=NIV |title=Genesis 25:24–26 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> God chose Jacob, the younger of Isaac’s twin sons, to inherit the [[Firstborn|birthright]] and the blessing in place of his brother [[Esau]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A23&version=NIV |title=Genesis 25:23 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> When Esau realized that Jacob had received the blessing meant for him, he became furious and plotted to kill his brother. Learning | Joseph was the great-grandson of [[Abraham]]. Abraham’s son [[Isaac]] married Rebekah at the age of forty,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A20&version=NIV |title=Genesis 25:20 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> but for twenty years she remained childless until she conceived twins.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A24-26&version=NIV |title=Genesis 25:24–26 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> God chose Jacob, the younger of Isaac’s twin sons, to inherit the [[Firstborn|birthright]] and the blessing in place of his brother [[Esau]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A23&version=NIV |title=Genesis 25:23 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> When Esau realized that Jacob had received the blessing meant for him, he became furious and plotted to kill his brother. Learning this, Rebekah urged Jacob to flee to her family in Paddan Aram, in Haran, until Esau’s anger subsided.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2027%3A41-46&version=NIV|title=Genesis 27:41-46}}</ref> Jacob obeyed and went to live with his uncle Laban, where he married, built a family, and tended Laban’s flocks for about twenty years before returning to his homeland, Canaan. Jacob eventually had twelve sons and one daughter, and Joseph was his eleventh son—the firstborn of Rachel, the wife he loved most. | ||
==Life and Events== | ==Life and Events== | ||
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===Joseph’s Dreams=== | ===Joseph’s Dreams=== | ||
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he had a dream in which his brothers’ sheaves of grain bowed down to his own sheaf. When he told the dream to his brothers, they became even more resentful of him. Later, Joseph had another dream—this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to him—and he shared it with both his father and his brothers. Jacob rebuked him, saying, “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Genesis 37:10 |url=https://www.bskorea.or.kr/bible/korbibReadpage.php?version=COG&book=gen&chap=37&sec=10&range=all&keyword1=#focus |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> Yet, while his brothers’ hatred toward Joseph grew even stronger, Jacob kept the matter in mind, pondering its meaning.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+37%3A2-11&version=NIV |title=Genesis 37:2–11 |publisher= }}</ref> | When Joseph was seventeen years old, he had a dream in which his brothers’ sheaves of grain bowed down to his own sheaf. When he told the dream to his brothers, they became even more resentful of him. Later, Joseph had another dream—this time, the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to him—and he shared it with both his father and his brothers. Jacob rebuked him, saying, “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Genesis 37:10 |url=https://www.bskorea.or.kr/bible/korbibReadpage.php?version=COG&book=gen&chap=37&sec=10&range=all&keyword1=#focus |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> Yet, while his brothers’ hatred toward Joseph grew even stronger, Jacob kept the matter in mind, pondering its meaning.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+37%3A2-11&version=NIV |title=Genesis 37:2–11 |publisher= }}</ref> | ||
===Sold into Slavery in Egypt=== | ===Sold into Slavery in Egypt=== | ||