Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and travelled throughout the land of Egypt.
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, ‘How do you advise me to respond to this people? ’
These are the family records of Jacob. At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.
But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man.’
young men without any physical defect, good-looking, suitable for instruction in all wisdom, knowledgeable, perceptive, and capable of serving in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the Chaldean language and literature.