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CHAPTER m.
joseph.
The greater part of the life of Joseph having been passed in
%ypt, many incidents in his career furnish us with the
toeans of comparison, in the work on which we have entered.
Indeed, from the time of his sale to Potiphar, through the
bondage, up to the exode, the Jews are brought into uninter-
rupted intercourse with the Egyptians for several hundred
years. In this period, therefore, we may expect to meet with
abundant facts, to the consideration of which we now
Proceed.
The story of Joseph, touchingly simple and beautiful in
^e Scripture narrative, is so familiar, that any outline of it.
here would be perfectly needless, but for the advantage of
Urging at once into view the facts connected with our sub-
ject. '\ye shall condense it as much as we can.
At the age of seventeen, he incurred the displeasure of his
brothers, « who hated him, and could not speak peaceably to
bitti," and this aversion was, soon after, carried to the highest
Pitch. Availing themselves of a favorable opportunity, they
s°ld him to a caravan of Arabian merchants, who were bearing
sPJces and aromatic gums of India, to the well-known and
much frequented market of Egypt. On arriving in Egypt,
ttle merchants disposed of their young slave, by sale, to
joseph.
The greater part of the life of Joseph having been passed in
%ypt, many incidents in his career furnish us with the
toeans of comparison, in the work on which we have entered.
Indeed, from the time of his sale to Potiphar, through the
bondage, up to the exode, the Jews are brought into uninter-
rupted intercourse with the Egyptians for several hundred
years. In this period, therefore, we may expect to meet with
abundant facts, to the consideration of which we now
Proceed.
The story of Joseph, touchingly simple and beautiful in
^e Scripture narrative, is so familiar, that any outline of it.
here would be perfectly needless, but for the advantage of
Urging at once into view the facts connected with our sub-
ject. '\ye shall condense it as much as we can.
At the age of seventeen, he incurred the displeasure of his
brothers, « who hated him, and could not speak peaceably to
bitti," and this aversion was, soon after, carried to the highest
Pitch. Availing themselves of a favorable opportunity, they
s°ld him to a caravan of Arabian merchants, who were bearing
sPJces and aromatic gums of India, to the well-known and
much frequented market of Egypt. On arriving in Egypt,
ttle merchants disposed of their young slave, by sale, to