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Genesis 39:1

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Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

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Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.
The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

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Egypt was the powerful Nile-centered kingdom where Joseph was taken after being sold by his brothers. His arrival there, in the household of Potiphar, an Egyptian official, advances God’s providential plan to preserve Jacob’s family through Joseph’s later rise to authority.

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Genesis 39:1 mentions Egypt.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

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