Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Story of Joseph King James Verison/Koran

 Israel's favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain. Then, all of the grain bundles that had been prepared by the brothers gathered around Joseph's bundle and bowed down to it. In the second dream, the sun (father), the moon (mother) and eleven stars (brothers) bowed down to Joseph himself. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph. They became jealous that their father would even ponder over Joseph's words concerning these dreams. While serving in Potiphar's household Yahweh was with Joseph so that he prospered in everything he did. Joseph found favor in the sight of Potiphar and so he became his personal servant. Then Joseph was promoted to oversee Potiphar's entire household as a superintendent. After some time, Potiphar's wife began to desire Joseph and sought to have an affair with him. Despite her persistence, he refused to have sex with her for fear of sinning against God. After some days of begging for him, she grabbed him by his cloak, but he escaped from her leaving his garment behind. Angered by his running away from her, she took his garment and made a false claim against him by charging that he tried have sex with her. This resulted in Joseph being thrown into prison. Joseph is an epic hero because he over comes all kinds of trials and, through Yahweh, is able to predict the future through the Pharoh's dreams. Joseph said to store grain for seven years while crops were plentiful and this would let the people of Egypt to survive for the seven years of famine to follow. All the people of Egypt and all the people of the surrounding areas are affected by Joseph's decision. People from the surrounding areas are coming to Egypt to buy grain because they're in famine too. Jacob sends his sons to Egypt to buy grain and they are unaware of who they are talking to you until Joseph tells them. They are shocked to see their brother doing so well in Egypt and that he is to see over all the land of Egypt.

The King James Verison of the Story of Joseph is 340 or so versus and approximately 8000 words. The Koran verison is 100 versus and has less than 1200 words. The Koran does not leave anything important out but it doesn't use any formal names except for Joseph and Jacob.

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