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Who sold Joseph to the Egyptians?
Genesis 37 was one of the first chapters that made me think, that maybe Moses didn’t write all the Pentateuch. One of the questions that I asked when I was a teenager was: who sold Joseph to the Egyptians? In this story, we can see that Joseph’s brothers hated him due to some reason, as [...]
One meeting – a lot of meanings
In genesis 33 Jacob and Esau finally meets after the escape of Jacob to Laban’s house, when he stole the blessing of his brother. If someone would have read the story in Genesis 33 without knowing Jacob’s perforations, he could understand even then the relationship between Jacob’ his wives and his children , soon to [...]
The power of temptation-Seductive women in the Bible- Part 1
Eve Eve was the first woman created by God and the first seductive woman in the Bible. According to Genesis 3,she allured Adam to taste the forbidden fruit of the Tree Of Knowledge and as a result ,both of them were expelled from Garden Of Eden. Tamar Tamar was the wife of Er, the son [...]
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Who sold Joseph to the Egyptians – Part 2?
Judah, the forth son of Jacob, suggested that the brothers won’t kill Joseph. Instead of killing they can sell him to other people, as written in Genesis 37:26-27- “וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוּדָה, אֶל-אֶחָיו: מַה-בֶּצַע, כִּי נַהֲרֹג אֶת-אָחִינוּ, וְכִסִּינוּ, אֶת-דָּמוֹ. לְכוּ וְנִמְכְּרֶנּוּ לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִים, וְיָדֵנוּ אַל-תְּהִי-בוֹ, כִּי-אָחִינוּ בְשָׂרֵנוּ, הוּא; וַיִּשְׁמְעוּ, אֶחָיו” “Judah said to his brothers, “What will we [...]