Oops of the Day  

Joseph, who saved the Egyptians from starvation through 7 years of famine, enjoyed high status as second in power under Pharaoh the rest of his life.

Genesis 50:22-25  –  Genesis 47:18-19  –   Genesis 15:13-14  –  Genesis 50:4-6  –  Genesis 48:21

Fact of the Day

No!  Joseph lived long enough to see the third generation of his descendants. His brothers’ families were slaves in Egypt 400 years. What happened? (ALL DATES BELOW BASED ON WIKIPEDIA’S LIST OF PHARAOHS)

• BIAU was reigning when Joseph arrived at age 17
  AI reigned 24 years (Joseph age 21-45)

Joseph was age 44 when famine ended when Pharaoh owned everything and had turned the Egyptians into his slaves.

• INI reigned 2 years  Joseph age 46-48)
  SEWADJTU reigned 3 years (Joseph age 48-51)
  INED reigned 3 years (Joseph age 52-55)
  HORI reigned 5 years ( Joseph age 55-60.

IT SEEMS THERE WAS UTTER CHAOS AND REVOLTS FROM THE SLAVE CITIZENS AFTER BIAU DIED.  After Hori died, there were 14 years of Pharaoh’s that archaeologists have not even found the names of.

Moses freed the slaves around 1275 BC.  Counting back 400 years is 1675, 5 years after Pharaoh died who had made all the Egyptians his slaves. Joseph age 48 when Israelite slavery began)

Now it was payback time. The people must have hated both that Pharaoh and Joseph for making them Pharaoh’s slaves as a result of the famine. But still Joseph was a prince.

JOSEPH WAS AGE 57 WHEN HIS FATHER DIED BUT COULD NOT SPEAK TO PHARAOH DIRECTLY.  He spoke to someone in Pharaoh’s household and asked them to ask Pharaoh to let Joseph go back to Canaan to bury his father, with a promise to return (Genesis 50:4-6). 

JOSEPH WAS AGE 48 WHEN HIS BROTHERS’ FAMILIES BECAME SLAVES.

JOSEPH WAS 57 WHEN FATHER JACOB/ISRAEL DIED. He told Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.” 

WHEN JOSEPH DIED he told his brothers “God will surely come to your aid and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Both Joseph and his father were embalmed, so Joseph still was treated as a prince, perhaps still living in his fine estate, but a minor prince with little or no power by the time of his death.

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• Father Jacob died at age 147 (Gen. 47:28).
•  Joseph died at age 110 (Genesis 50:22)
• Moses died at age 120 (Deuteronomy 34:7).
•  AVG AGE 126 years.

 They were there 3-1/2 generations (430 years).  Joseph lived to see 3 generations (Genesis 50:22-23)

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