🖌️🎨Joseph is a character from the Pentateuch, the son of the biblical forefather Jacob from Rachel, the father of Manasseh and Ephraim.

 📖 Joseph (Hebrew: יוֹסֵף Yosef, Yôsēp̄, Arabic: يوسف‎, Yūsuf “Yahweh will add”, Yusuf - in Islam) is a character from the Pentateuch, the son of the biblical forefather Jacob from Rachel, the father of Manasseh and Ephraim.

Quite a significant part of Genesis is devoted to the story of the life of Joseph: out of fifty chapters, the story about him takes up as many as 14 (Genesis, chapters 37-50).
Joseph, an innocent, chaste sufferer, becomes a victim of betrayal and deceit, which were associated with the Passion of Christ - the trials that befell Jesus in his last days.
Joseph is the eleventh son of the patriarch Jacob and the first-born from his beloved wife Rachel, after her fourteen-year infertility.
And while Rachel was barren, Jacob was given birth to children by his first wife, Leah, Rachel’s sister, and their two maids. The twelve sons of these four wives are called the twelve tribes of Israel.
 Joseph, his father’s favorite, is described in the Old Testament as a young man, beautiful in appearance and face, which irritated his brothers. Jacob gave him special colored clothes (a rarity in the life of a shepherd) and did not force him to work on an equal basis with his elders.
The brothers were also indignant with him because Joseph talked about his prophetic dreams, from which it followed that in the future fate would exalt him highly, and his father, and brothers, and their mothers would come to bow to him. These dreams surprised Jacob himself. As it turned out later, Joseph not only had prophetic dreams, but he had the rare gift of interpreting dreams.
As a result of the envy and anger of the brothers, which Joseph brought upon himself, they decided to kill him.
But one of the brothers, Judas, prevented this, convicting them and saying that killing was too cruel, because Joseph was the son of their father, their blood brother.
And they, after consulting, sold Joseph into slavery for a trade caravan passing through Egypt for 20 silver coins, and showed Joseph’s bloody, multi-colored clothes to his father, and told him that he might have been torn to pieces by wild animals.
 Benjamin, Jacob's youngest son from his beloved Rachel, became the consolation of a grief-stricken parent who accepted his sons' story that Joseph had died.
God helped Joseph, who found himself in the position of a slave. With his intelligence and zeal, Joseph deserved to become the manager of the household of the noble courtier, Pottifar. His wife forced a handsome slave to cohabitate, but Joseph did not agree, citing the fact that he could not betray the trust of his master. He always had his father's face before his eyes, as an indicator of his conscience. The rejected woman became angry and slandered Joseph in front of her husband. He ended up in prison.
Thus, he was demoted and underwent trials: betrayed and sold into slavery by his brothers, slandered by a lustful mistress, and became a prisoner.
 But even there the Lord did not leave him without his mercy. Joseph, with his foresight and meekness of character, earned the respect and trust of the head of the prison. He interpreted prophetic dreams to Pharaoh's servants, the butler and the baker.
When Pharaoh had prophetic dreams about the coming famine, it was the cupbearer who suggested that only a young Hebrew slave could interpret them.
Thus, Joseph the Beautiful earned a high position at the court of the Egyptian Pharaoh. He became rich and influential. Having learned that his brothers had arrived in the country for bread, he invited them to his place, without revealing to them, however, that he was their brother, whom they had once sold into slavery.
 Joseph gave them grain, filling the bags to the top, but left one of the brothers hostage so that they would bring their younger brother, Benjamin, to him, supposedly to confirm the authenticity of their story about themselves, about their father and what else they have one brother. Through this story, the brothers wanted to prove to Joseph, who was unrecognized by them, that they were not spies (enemy spies), as Joseph deliberately accused them of, but ordinary people.
The father, already in his old age, opposed giving up Benjamin, because this would deprive him of his son of old age, his beloved youngest.
Judah persuades his father to release Benjamin under his responsibility, offering to kill his sons if he does not return.
When they returned and brought Benjamin with them, Joseph prepared a meal for them. Afterwards, he ordered their bags to be filled with food, but at the same time he ordered that a silver cup be placed in Benjamin’s bag in order to then accuse him of theft: so he wanted to test the brothers, to see how they would react to Benjamin’s detention.
When a cup was discovered among the contents of Benjamin's sack, and he himself was accused of theft and faced serious punishment, the brothers behaved more honorably than their behavior with Joseph would have suggested. After this, Joseph opened up to his brothers and let them know that he bore them no grudge.
At the invitation of Joseph, the second man after Pharaoh in Egypt, the brothers bring their father and all their families in order to survive the famine. 67 people are sent to Egypt.
They lived in this country for 430 years and more than 600,000 people left. According to the will, Joseph's bones were taken out of Egypt along with the Ark of the Covenant.
If Moses led the Jews out of slavery and for 40 years in the desert created a people from a crowd of slaves, then he saved them for many years.