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Joseph (Son of Jacob and Rachel born)

the son of Jacob and Rachel; born in Mesopotamia (Gen. xxx: 22-24).

The history of Joseph is one of the most pleasing and instructive in the Bible; and is too beautiful for abridgment, and too familiar to need rehearsal. Joseph died, aged 110, 1637 в. c.; A Mohammedan wely or tomb covers the spot regarded generally, and it may be correctly, as the place of his burial.

It is a low stone enclosure, and stands in quiet seclusion among high trees, at the W. entrance of the valley of Shechem, at the right of the traveler's path, and nearer Mount Ebal than Mount Gerizim.

JOSEPH II.

Christ's mother. His genealogy is traced