Selling Your Brother Into Slavery

“Judah, the strongest, thought twice about killing Joseph and proposed that he be sold. The traders paid twenty pieces of silver for Joseph.”

So much for “ethnocentrism”! You got to laugh at these maggots.

This is why I picked up the Bible twenty four years ago, because I saw them coming, the Slave Masters, with the Bible in one hand, and bullship in the other. Were Celtic Peoples slave masters in Europe?

“What is really meant by the [multiculturalism] advocates when they peg us as ‘racists’ is that we adhere to ethnocentrism, which is a natural affection for one’s own kind. This is both healthy and Biblical. I am not ashamed to say that I prefer my own kind and my own culture. Others can have theirs; I have mine. No group can survive for long if its members do not prefer their own over others.”
— Essay posted to Conservativetimes.org, 2007

[edit] Joseph in Genesis[edit] FamilyJoseph, son of Israel (Jacob) and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with eleven brothers and one sister. He was Rachel’s firstborn and Israel’s eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. Israel even arrayed Joseph with a “long coat of many colors”.[4] 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. (Genesis 37:1-11)

[edit] Plot against JosephSee also: Jacob in Hebron

Joseph’s Coat Brought to Jacob
by Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, c. 1640.Joseph’s half-brothers hated him so much, especially for his dreams, that they even called him this dreamer. While in Dothan, when they were feeding the flocks, the brothers saw Joseph from afar and plotted to kill him. However, the eldest brother Reuben, did not want Joseph to die.[5][6] He suggested to have Joseph thrown into an empty water hole until they could figure out what to do with him. He intended to rescue Joseph and return him to his father. Unaware of their intent, Joseph approached his brothers. They turned on him and stripped him of the coat his father made for him, and threw him into the cistern that Reuben had suggested.[7] As they pondered what to do with Joseph, the brothers saw a camel caravan of Ishmaelites coming out of Gilead, carrying spices and perfumes to Egypt, for trade. Judah, the strongest, thought twice about killing Joseph and proposed that he be sold. The traders paid twenty pieces of silver for Joseph.[8] The brothers were responsible for their missing brother, and they had to answer to their father. So they put male goat’s blood on Joseph’s coat [9] and showed it to Jacob, who deeply mourned for his son, believing him dead. (Genesis 37:12-35)

[edit] Potiphar’s houseDue to various translations and views regarding Genesis 37:28, there is some debate as to who sold Joseph into slavery. It is muddled between the brothers, Midianite traders, Ishmaelite traders or these traders as one and the same. See Midianites and Ishmaelites. What is clear is that Joseph was sold to serve Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard.[10] 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.[11] (Genesis 39:1-20)