Vizier of Egypt · Patriarchs, c. 1800 BC
Joseph in the Bible
Joseph is sold into Egypt by his brothers, imprisoned on a false charge, and raised to govern the country after interpreting Pharaoh's dreams. His verdict on the whole affair — 'you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good' — is one of Scripture's clearest statements about providence.
Verses mentioning Joseph
251 occurrences across 229 verses in the King James Version.
- Genesis 50:4
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Read in context - Genesis 50:7
And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Read in context - Genesis 50:8
And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Read in context - Genesis 50:14
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Read in context - Genesis 50:15
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
Read in context - Genesis 50:16
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, sent: Heb. charged
Read in context - Genesis 50:17
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
Read in context - Genesis 50:19
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
Read in context - Genesis 50:22
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Read in context - Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. brought: Heb. born
Read in context - Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Read in context - Genesis 50:25
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Read in context - Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Read in context - Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. loins: Heb. thigh
Read in context - Exodus 1:6
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Read in context - Exodus 1:8
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Read in context - Exodus 13:19
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Read in context - Numbers 1:10
Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Read in context - Numbers 1:32
Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Read in context - Numbers 13:7
Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Read in context - Numbers 13:11
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Read in context - Numbers 26:28
The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Read in context - Numbers 26:37
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
Read in context - Numbers 27:1
Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Read in context - Numbers 32:33
And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
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