Bay 41 - Joseph the Patriarch
Index to panels:
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01
- Signature panel (Two money-changers behind their bancus)
02
- Signature panel (a money changer negotiating with a client)
03
- Joseph dreams the sun, moon and stars make obeisance to him (Gen.37:9)
04
- Jacob sends Joseph to Shechem to take supplies to his brothers
05
- Joseph's brothers tending their flocks in Dothan (Gen.37:18)
06
- Joseph's brothers lower him into an old well (Gen.37:24)
07
- Joseph's brothers sell him to some Midianite merchants for 20 pieces
of silver
08
- They show Jacob his bloodied cloak and claim he was killed by wild animals
09
- Arriving in Egypt, the Merchants sell Joseph to Potiphar, Captain of
the Guard
10
- Joseph (now overseer of the household) rejects the advances of Potiphar's
wife
11
- Angry that Joseph spurned her, Potiphar's wife accuses him of attempted
rape
12
- Convinced by his wife's calumny, Potiphar has Joseph arrested
13
- Joseph is thrown into prison
16
- Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's baker and cup-bearer
14
- Pharaoh asleep in his palace, dreaming
15
- Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat and seven lean kine (Gen.41:1-4)
17
- Having wisely interpreted Pharaoh's dream, Joseph is appointed governor
18
- On Joseph's orders, the granaries are filled in preparation for a famine
19
- The Egyptians pouring grain into the Nile
20 - Hearing there is grain in
Egypt, Jacob sends his sons to buy some
21 - Joseph's brothers riding camels
en route to Egypt to buy grain
22 - Joseph entertains his guests
(who don't recognise their long-lost brother)
23 - The finding of Joseph's silver
cup in Benjamin's bag (left hand panel of pair)
24 - The finding of Joseph's silver
cup in Benjamin's bag (right hand panel of pair)
25
- Jospeph's brothers return home to fetch their father, Jacob (1st panel
of 3)
27
- Jospeph's brothers return home to fetch their father, Jacob (2nd panel
of 3)
26
- Jospeph's brothers return home to fetch their father, Jacob (3rd panel
of 3)
28
- Jacob and his sons riding out of Israel towards Egypt
29
- Jacob and his son Joseph are reuinited
