Does anyone know why Joseph was sent to prison in Genesis?
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Joseph was a servant to Potiphar. Potiphar's wife accused Joseph of trying to seduce her (she was trying to seduce him)and Potiphar put Joseph in prison\n\nJoseph's sons were called Manasseh and Ephraim\n\ngood luck with the test!
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Some one asked a very similar question to yours a couple of days ago, questioning where Cain "found" his wife, however the so called "scholars" answered with the following :\n\n\n1. He married his sister\n2. There were other people on earth before God created Adam & Eve (which insinuates that some of us are not descendents of Adam & Eve and are therefore not created by God)\n3. The story is just metaphorical.\n\nThere are many other variations to the story and no "one" common belief among the biblical scholars. Which just goes to show that the story is not true. How could it be when the first form of written communication took place thousands of years after the Adam and Eve era? That would mean that the "story" was verbally communicated from generation to generation until it could be documented.
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I wish I had a dime for every time this question comes up to show the inaccuracy of the bible. Let me use some applied logic, you are standing before a judge with a rap sheet, you look at the judge and say "I believe you are a good man (the judge is a good man, he donates lots of money to charity he has a list of awards for helping people, on and on and on) so that is why I think you won't send me to prison" (a nervous smile) would the judge be loving and kind to let you go? In that same moment would he be JUST to let you go? Let's say that your list of crimes was two miles long, should he just forgive your debt and let you go?\n\nThis is God. He is love, but He is HOLY, JUST. He punishes sin. That is why people who do not take His payment for sin go to hell.
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Genesis 3:22 in the Bible
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we read of the plagues God sent upon the land of Egypt, but Pharaoh would not let the people go.  But God knew that after the final plague, Pharaoh would let the people go.\n\nAnd so Moses told the Israelites that each house was to take one perfect lamb,  which was under a year old. And the lamb was to live in the house with the people for 14 days, and at the end of the fourteenth day they were to kill the lamb in the evening.\n\nAnd they were to take the blood of the lamb and put it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the house, and they were to roast the lamb and eat it, and nothing was to remain.   And that night the LORD would pass through the land, and all the people who were the first ones born in their family,  would die, but the blood of the lamb was to be a sign, and whenever God saw the blood on the doorposts, he would pass over the house, and no one in that house would die.  And this day was to be called the passover, and was to be celebrated each year.\n\nAnd so the people of Israel did as the LORD had commanded, and at midnight on the chosen day, all the people born first in the land who were not protected by the blood of the lamb died, including Pharaoh's first born child.\n\nAnd so on that day Pharaoh agreed to let the people of Israel go with their flocks, and with jewels and clothing that the people of Egypt gave to them, and there were 600,000 men, not counting women and children. \n\nAnd so after 430 years, the time had come for the Israelites to leave the land of Egypt, and God brought them out of the land.\n\nThe blood of the lamb which protected the people of Israel is a perfect picture of the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for us.   What a wonderful thing it is that the Lord Jesus did for us because he loves us.\n\nMemory verse:  Exodus 12:13 "...when I see the blood, I will pass over you."\n\nQuestions:\n1. What was the LORD going to do to the people of Egypt?\n2. What instructions did the LORD give about the lamb the people chose?\n3. What were they supposed to do when the lamb was killed?\n4. What happened when the LORD came through the land?\n\nAnswers:\n1. He was going to cause the first born person in each family to die.\n2. There was to be one for every house, it was to be perfect, it was to be less than a year old, and it was to live with them in the house for 14 days.\n3. They were to put its blood on the sides and top of the door of the house.  They were to roast it and eat it.\n4.  When He saw the blood on the door posts, no one in that house died, but all the people who were born first who were not protected by the blood of the lamb died.
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God inherently hates sin, but i believe you are referring to the passage where it states that God hated Esau and loved Jacob while they were still in their mother's womb. That being the case, one couldn't realistically state that God hated Esau because of his sin, because as an unborn child he wouldn't have had the cognitive ability to have sinned against God yet. Others in disagreement with this stand would hold to God's foreknowledge of Esau's life and that God is merely condemning Esau for his sins to come... and that scripturally holds no water either, for we are judged by our pasts sins, and the sins of our fathers, but never the sins of our future.\n\nAll of this being the case, i think it is only fair to reflect on the fact that Christ said that God chose the elect (those who he would save) "before the foundation of the earth" and that God is merely re-affirming his sovereign ability to hand pick those whom he chooses, and those whom he doesn't with no particular discretion.
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Not sure I understand your question.\n\nAnyway this is my answer:\n\nJehovah had warned Adam and Eve that if they were disobedient and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, they would die “in the day” of their eating. (Genesis 2:17) True to his word, Jehovah called them to account on the very day of their sinning and pronounced the sentence of death. From God’s standpoint, Adam and Eve died that day. To carry out his purpose regarding the earth, however, Jehovah allowed them to produce a family before they died physically. Nevertheless, since God can view 1,000 years as one day, when Adam’s life ended at 930 years, it was within one “day.”  Thus Jehovah’s truthfulness was upheld as to when punishment would be executed, and his purpose for the earth was not thwarted by their deaths. But for a time, imperfect people, including wicked ones, have been allowed to live.
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Moses did indeed sin against the Lord by getting angry at the Children of Israel and striking the Rock! his sin was covered by the blood of the sacrifice but he still suffered the consequences of his sin just like we do. If we rob a bank and then confess the crime to God He will forgive us but we still have to pay the price in a court of law. moses was unable to go into the land because he disobeyed God but his sins were covered by the blood and is in heaven today.
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The saddest event in Moses' life might well be God's prohibiting him from entering the land of Israel. The reason for this ban is explicitly connected to an episode in Numbers in which the Hebrews angrily demand that Moses supply them with water. God commands Moses to assemble the community, "and before their very eyes order the [nearby] rock to yield its water." Fed up with the Hebrews' constant whining and complaining, he says to them instead: "Listen, you rebels, shall we get water for you out of this rock?" He then strikes the rock twice with his rod, and water gushes out (Numbers 20:2-13). It is this episode of disobedience, striking the rock instead of speaking to it, that is generally offered as the explanation for why God punishes Moses and forbids him to enter Israel.
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The Joseph you refer to I presume, would be Jacobs 11th son, sent to Egypt in slavery by his older brothers. I seer/interpreter of dreams. Grew to be very wise, saved the Hebrew people during famine. \n  As far as Joshua, I believe he did lead the Jewish people into the promised land. It was Moses and his brother Aaron who could not go in. As well as all the adults who had doubted God during their 40 yrs. exile out of Egypt. read in Genesis/Exodus/Deuteronomy
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Only Joseph would have known for sure being the most offended party... and God sent an angel... others in the community would have gone along with Joseph either way\n\nJoseph was goign to divorse her quietly  buyt the angel stopped him
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Gen 19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.  \n\n\n Gen 19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:  \n\n\n Gen 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.  \n\n\n Gen 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.  \n\n\n Gen 19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.  \n\n\n Gen 19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.  \n\n\n Gen 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.  \n\n\n Gen 19:37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.  \n\n\n Gen 19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.  \n\n \n\n\n Gen 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.  \n\n\n Gen 20:12 And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.  \n\n\n \n\n\n Gen 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face.  \n\n\n Gen 38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she [was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?  \n\n\n Gen 38:17 And he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send [it]?  \n\n\n Gen 38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.\n\n\n And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she [was] a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name [was] Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab [was] a very subtil man.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:4 And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded [it], and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.  \n\n\n 2Sa 13:9 And she took a pan, and poured [them] out before him; but he
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After Cain killed Abel, he left.  He wandered to Nod, a land in the East and married a woman from among the people there (Gen 4:16).  Yes, I know it's an internal inconsistancy, but if the story is meant to be taken as a parable then it doesn't matter.  God created people, but people were already there, so perhaps it the whole Adam-from-mud-and-Eve-from-the-rib bit isn't literally true.  I know some people disagree, but I believe God had a plan and created people through evolution.  Science and religion don't have to be at odds.
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First it started with their leader, Moses, who received the Ten Commandments. He felt that the people could not handle them --they just came out of Egypt and had been there for 430 years, being quite used to Egyptian ways [worshipping Baal, incest, etc.]. \n\nSo Moses asked if, rather than the people transgressing The Law during their cleansing period of 40 years in the desert [about two generations worth], if he could come up with 100 laws for his people --they became the Mosaic Laws that the Jewish people had to abide by. Moses was the Judge to make the final decisions. "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth...", food selections, etc. that type of thing.\n\nMoses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land for his own transgression so Jacob took over and led the people across the River and into Jordan. Jacob became the Judge... then on and on and on, the other Judges followed the same Mosaic laws until the time of the Pharisees and the Sadducees who,  by the time of Jesus, had expanded Mosaic laws from 100 to 1,000 different man-made laws.\n\nOther than that, the Book of Judges talks about what followed next when the Jews entered the Promised Land. Then the prophet Samuel consecrated the first Jewish king, King Saul. Next, came David... and that would be under the Books of Kings. [Samuel I &  II; Kings I & II; etc.]\n\nHappy reading!
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I believe that a literal interpretation of Genesis is ignorant.  I believe that Genesis is a Christian mythology and I have scholars on my side.  The whole creation story is symbolic.  When it was written, we didn't have science to explain how the earth or its inhabitants were created, so the writer had to explain it in a way that people living at the time would understand.  The Adam and Eve story, I believe is symbolic of emerging societies.  Adam and Eve living in paradise are symbolic to small nomadic groups of people living apart from each other.  They are kicked out of paradise when nomadic groups began to experience conditions that threatened their survival - hot sun, cold winters and learned about the fragility of life and death.  They had two children, Cain and Able - this symbolizes the population getting larger and when Cain killed Able, this is symbolic for fighting and wars between individuals and groups of people with differing ideas.
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Yes they were but the Bible says that Joseph didn't have relations with her until after Jesus was born.  That's why His earthly brothers were His half-brothers.
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This actually happened, in the Bible there's a story about a man named Abraham and God asked him to kill his only son Isaac. And in Abraham's heart he was going to go through with it, he was going to kill his son because God told him to do it, but at the last second an angel appeared and told  Abraham to stop and instead of having to kill his son, God sent an animal instead. So God gave Abraham his son back. \n\nI would hope that I would have the faith and courage Abraham had, if God asked me to do this.