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4 6 : J O S E P H ’ S
D E A T H
Cf. Gn. 50:25
CHAPTER 46:
The Death Of Joseph.
The Bones Of Jacob’s
Sons (Except Joseph)
Interred At Hebron. The
Oppression Of Israel By
Egypt (46:1-16; cf. Gen. 50; Ex. 1)
1 And it came to pass that
after Jacob died the children
of Israel multiplied in the land
of Egypt, and they became a
great nation, and they were
of one accord in heart, so that
brother loved brother and
every man helped his brother,
and they increased abundantly
and multiplied exceedingly,
2242 A.M. ten weeks of years, all the days
Cf. Ex. 1
of the life of Joseph.
Cf. 23:29
2 And there was no Satan nor
any evil all the days of the
life of Joseph which he lived
after his father Jacob, for all
the Egyptians honoured the
children of Israel all the days
of the life of Joseph. 3 And
Cf. Gn. Joseph died being a hundred
50:22, 26;
Ex. 1:6 and ten years old; seventeen
years he lived in the land of
Canaan, and ten years he was
a servant, and three years in
prison, and eighty years he
was under the king, ruling all
the land of Egypt. 4 And he
died and all his brethren and
all that generation. 5 And
he commanded the children
of Israel before he died that
they should carry his bones Cf. Test.
8:3
with them when they went Simeon
f. (“For the
of
forth from the land of Egypt. bones
Joseph the
6 And he made them swear Egyptians
guarded in
regarding his bones, for he the tombs of
the kings. For
knew that the Egyptians would the sorcerers
told them
not again bring forth and bury that on the
departure of
him in the land of Canaan, for the bones of
there
Mâkamârôn, king of Canaan, Joseph
should be
while dwelling in the land of throughout
all the land
and
Assyria, fought in the valley darkness
gloom,” etc.).
with the king of Egypt and
slew him there, and pursued i. e.
Heroônpolis
after the Egyptians to the (close to the
desert).
gates of ’Êrmôn. 7 But he was
? Rameses III
not able to enter, for another, a (1202-1171),
founder of
new king, had become king of the 20th
dynasty, who
Egypt, 5 and he was stronger repulsed an
of
than he, and he returned to the invasion
peoples from
north
land of Canaan, and the gates the
and twice
of Egypt were closed, and marched
through
none went out and none came Canaan,
defeated the
into Egypt. 8 And Joseph died invaders.
Cf. Test.
in the forty-sixth jubilee, in Simeon 8:2.
the sixth week, in the second 2242 A.M.
A
year, and they buried him in Cont’d.
war between
the land of Egypt, and his Cush and
Egypt, in
brethren died after him. 9 And which Moses
led the
the king of Egypt went forth to Egyptians,
is referred to
war with the king of Canaan by Josephus
in the forty-seventh jubilee, in (Ant. 2:10).
2263 A.M.
the second week in the second
Jos. 24:32.
year, and the children of Israel 400 years
later,
brought forth all the bones of Joseph’s
remains
the children of Jacob save the would be
at
bones of Joseph, and they inhumed
the Exodus,
with
buried them in the field in the taken
Israel and
in the
double cave in the mountain. buried
promised
10 And the most (of them) land.
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