 As most of you know, every Tuesday on The Dark Outpost, we have been going through the band or heretical books of the Bible. We know that for some reason these books were censored many, many, many years ago, and I for one have learned a lot from these missing books. Well, if you've been on this channel for a while, you also know that I am an amateur researcher. I always like to have fact to back my belief in my faith. And so as we wrapped up the book of Jubilee, I decided to go down a rabbit hole to see if I could find some evidence that archaeology has presented to us on some of these biblical stories. But before we go any further, you know what to do, please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. Also a very, very, very special thank you to all of our producers and to our patrons. Without you, this channel absolutely would not exist. I am so, so, so grateful to you all. If you would like to join our Patreon program, there is a link down in the description box below. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce and today we are going to be talking about Joseph and his multicolored coat. The story of Joseph is found in the book of Genesis in the canonized Bible. And as you guys know, it's also told in the book of Jubilees, which again has been censored by the church. Joseph is the son of Jacob. Jacob is the son of Isaac. And Isaac is the son of Abraham. Jacob's spiritual name is Israel. Jacob had 12 sons. We know this today as the 12 tribes of Israel. These 12 tribes are super important in the Christian and in the Jewish faith. And as we saw in the Gospel of the Holy Twelve, Jesus made it very clear to his disciples that the people of Israel weren't just the Hebrews, but people scattered all over the earth. That Israel wasn't just a place, but a people. A people who followed the God of Abraham, Jacob's grandfather. Joseph's father, Jacob, had four wives. Jacob's favorite wife was Rachel. This was the woman that he wanted to marry in the very beginning. He went to Mesopotamia to his uncle's house to find his wife. He worked for his uncle for seven years in order to marry his daughter, Rachel. But custom with Mesopotamia is that the first daughter has to be married well first. And so on Jacob's wedding, he was given Leah, Rachel's older sister. While Jacob hung around for seven more years to then be able to marry Rachel. Now along with the sisters of Leah and Rachel, Jacob was also given their handmaidens. So all in all, Jacob had four wives. And in between these four women were born his 12 sons and his one daughter, Dina. Now from the story, we know that Leah was very, very fertile. She had a lot of sons. We know that the two handmaidens were also fertile. But for Rachel, Jacob's favorite wife, the one he really loved, well, she struggled with infertility. This is common nowadays. A lot of people struggle with this issue. And nowadays, we have proper medication and medical assistance to help people who struggle with infertility have their own biological child. But for this time period, about 1800 years before the birth of Jesus, there wasn't a whole lot that could have been done besides that of prayer. Well, finally, Rachel gets pregnant. She gets pregnant with Joseph. Joseph is the 11th in line in the boys, the sons of Jacob. Eventually, Rachel will get pregnant with Benjamin, the only other child she will have, which is the 12th son completing the tribes of Israel. Now, once Joseph is born, he is perceived to be like this miracle child. Finally, after all these years, Jacob was able to have a baby with the woman he really loved, Rachel. And he treated Joseph as this miracle child, the golden child, the special child. In this time period, it was customary for the oldest son to inherit the family name and the estate. Now we know that this tradition has notoriously been broken in this family. After all, Jacob's father, Isaac, was one that inherited everything from Abraham when Isaac wasn't the first born son. It was Ishmael. We also know that between Jacob and Esau, Esau was born first, but yet Jacob was the one that inherited the estate of Isaac. And once Joseph was born, it became clear to his 10 older brothers that Joseph himself would be the one to inherit Jacob's estate. This, of course, caused massive jealousy and sibling rivalry amongst the brothers. During this time, Joseph was also giving a very special gift by his father. This was his multi-colored coat. Upon further research, this coat tells a little bit of a different story than maybe I had perceived as a child. You see, the Middle East was a very, very colorful place. It still is a very, very colorful place. It wasn't like the brothers were walking around in dirty, brown, boring clothes, and then all of a sudden Jacob was given this beautiful coat. That's not it at all. What I found that there were two things about this coat that really made his brothers mad. The first was that this coat probably had the colors red and purple in it. These two colors were the most expensive colors to purchase on fabric because of what it took to turn the fabric these colors. Now, I have placed a video down in the description box below if you want more information on what it took to dye clothes back in those days. But for the sake of this story, and for the sake of time, just know that red and purple were the most expensive colors to purchase on garments. There's also something else about this coat. The word coat in Hebrew, as we see in the original text, meant something different than maybe we really understand today. Jacob and his sons were journeying shepherds. They were very, very wealthy, but they were shepherds. They worked a lot with their hands. They worked the land a lot. They were nomadic because this area of the world is a very harsh place to live. As we know and as we'll get to into this story further down the line, there are lots of droughts and famines within this area. So most people had to caravan around to find the proper land to work to be able to eat and feed their families. Just because they were nomadic and they were shepherds does not mean that they were poor. In fact, we know that Abraham, Jacob's grandfather, was exceedingly wealthy. That wealth then moved to Isaac, who then moved to Jacob. But once again, because of the time they lived in, they had to physically, manually work the land. This was a life of labor. They also had a lot of servants that worked the land with them, but the boys nonetheless had to continue this as well. But when you think about working the land, you would probably not want a coat that had long, beautiful sleeves, right? You would want clothes that gave you the mobility and were clothes that maybe you could get dirty. It's kind of like when we do housework or at least when I do housework, I have like old sweatpants and old t-shirts that I wear when I clean the house because I don't mind if I get bleached on them or get them all gross and dirty. Well, I imagine that it was kind of the same way back in those days that these men who worked the land had clothes they wore every day that they didn't mind getting dirty. Well, when Jacob presented this colorful, expensive coat with long sleeves to Joseph, the boys then knew that their father, Jacob, wasn't planning on Joseph working the land. It became clear to the boys that Joseph was the chosen child. There was also something very special about Joseph. Joseph was born with an ability. He had the ability of reading dreams. Now, this practice was very common especially in Mesopotamia in this time where his mother Rachel was from. This was not some freaky thing he could do, but yet a very highly respected talent in craft. What cracks me up about Joseph is that the church today will call Joseph a prophet and he was. He had this ability to understand what was going to come in the future by reading the dreams. In modern language, we would call this a psychic ability. And of course, today the church wants to tell you that that's of the devil. This, my friends, leads many Christians to be in a place of cognitive dissidence where they see the truth in the Bible that God gives people abilities, a sixth sense, if you will, to be able to understand what's coming to read into the future. But yet if you have that ability, the church will tell you that maybe that's not from God, but from Satan. No, God is still giving people these abilities. He's still giving it to people. There are many people out there that can do the same thing that Joseph could do, and they have a God given talent. So we just wanted to point that out so that as we move into this new awakening, we shed some of this cognitive dissidence. We also need to be aware that it's not up to a mere mortal, a pastor who is a mere mortal to tell you what abilities God gave you. That is between you and God. Many people who have these abilities today have a great love and relationship with God. Joseph did as well. He highly loved the God of Abraham, the God that he was taught to worship by his father, Jacob. Joseph first has a dream that his brothers want to. Even though there's a bit of innocence to Joseph at this time, he still has these messages coming from God to him in the form of dreams. But being the kid brother, he still idolizes his older brothers. And one day he goes out to greet his brothers and they capture him and throw him into a pit. At that moment, Reuben, who is the oldest son of Jacob, decides that they cannot kill Joseph. They have to figure out what to do, so they go off and devise a plan. They are going to sell Joseph into slavery to the Ishmaelites in a place called Dothan. This is all Judah's idea. Now Judah, the line of Judah, is the line of Jesus, or will be the line of Jesus in about 1800 years, and is allegedly also the line of Mr. T, President Number 45. Joseph is sold to the Ishmaelites for 20 shekels of silver. Now something that's super interesting here. Archaeologists have found remains in Dothan of a slave trade market. So this does back the story written in the Bible. We also know that 20 shekels of silver would have been the appropriate price for a servant or a slave during this time. According to one historian that I studied, there's no way that somebody just writing a fictional story in the Bible would have known that price. This price is very specific for this time period. The Ishmaelites now carry Joseph down into Egypt where he is sold. At this point, human servants or slaves are very, very, very common all over the land. We know Jacob had his own servants, the Egyptians had servants. This is very, very common. And in Egypt, there were two kinds of servants. There were servants who were POWs or prisoners of war, and there were servants who were also basically as was Joseph. In fact, at that time, Pharaoh, who had little government officials all over the Middle East, would often send word to his government officials that he needed more people to come and be servants in his land. And so they would go to these different markets like we see in Dothan and collect people that families are selling. Now historians do know that there were two routes into Egypt from the land of Canaan at this point. One is along the coast of the sea. This was most likely where we will see Joseph's brothers come into Egypt later on in the story. But there's also a second trade route. And this starts at the Jordan River to Damascus through the desert. When Joseph gets to Egypt, he is sold to a man named Pontifar. Pontifar is the chief guard of the Pharaoh's army. He's a very rich and a very, very powerful man. We know that he probably changed Joseph's name because Joseph was a foreigner, and Pontifar might not have been able to properly pronounce Joseph or Joseph as it would have been at that time since the J did not exist in the Hebrew language. Now we don't have evidence to suggest that Pontifar existed. I believe he existed, but we don't have any written document showing that this man existed. However, we do have many, many, many documents from very, very powerful people and eat it at that time that would take in Hebrew slaves. We know this because we have all these documents that they always changed their names. They would say, Joseph from the land of Canaan, now whatever. So the fact that we know biblically Joseph's name was changed does back historical evidence that archaeologists have found. Now very quickly, Joseph ends up becoming a very powerful person in Pontifar's house because of his abilities and because of his uprightness. As it says in the book of Jubilee, he's just good-natured and his ability to see into the future, all that stuff. He ends up becoming the overseer of Pontifar's property and estate. He's like the head honcho of all of the workers. Pontifar's wife is also in the home with them as well. Now there's a huge difference in this time period between Egyptian women and Canaanite women or women, Hebrew women from the land of Canaan. Egyptian women, especially very powerful ones at this time had more autonomy. They had more sovereignty within themselves. We see them owning land. We see them having power. We also see them kind of left to do their own thing and Pontifar's wife is no different. She notoriously was a very beautiful woman who liked her fair share of ancient boy toys. Now Joseph himself is described as being very, very good looking. We know that his mother Rachel was described in the book of Jubilee and Genesis as being beautiful, very, very gorgeous. So it's not a stretch to say that Joseph probably looked a lot like his mother. He was very gorgeous and to an Egyptian woman, this gorgeous Hebrew would have been a bit exotic as well. And so Pontifar's wife starts to make advances on to Joseph. Now this young boy at 17 years old starts to deny Pontifar's wife. You see, he's been raised to understand that he should not have relations with a married woman, that that goes against his god, the god of Abraham. Well, one day Pontifar's wife, who's used to getting what she wants with men, Corners Joseph, rips his robe off and as he realizes what's happening, he runs out the door. Now, as I've said many times with many episodes, hell have no fury like a woman scorned. This makes Pontifar's wife furious. And so she claims that he was the aggressive one, that he was the one who attacked her. And because she claimed this, Joseph was thrown into prison. When we see Joseph in prison, this is the lowest he's ever been in his whole life. He's lost everything. He's lost his family. He's lost his gorgeous coat that his father gave him. Because you see, when his brother sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites, they took that beautiful multicolored coat and put goat's blood on it to convince Joseph's father Jacob, their father Jacob, that Joseph was dead. So all this time as Joseph is suffering in Egypt, his father, his family, believe him to be dead. Well, while Joseph is in prison, once again, he gains the favor of the guards and he ends up kind of working for the guards. He's the one that gets to pass out the food and kind of check on the other prisoners. It's almost like nowadays when people who are in prison get to go out and do like work duty on the roads because they have a good record and the prison trusts them. That's kind of how Joseph is. And word gets around in the prison that Joseph has the ability to read dreams. And so two prisoners come to Joseph to ask him to read their dreams. For one prisoner, he says that he sees himself smashing grapes into the Pharaoh's cup. This prisoner actually worked for the Pharaoh before he was thrown into prison. Joseph informs this prisoner that his dream means that in three days he will be reinstated into Pharaoh's employment and will be released from prison. The other prisoner, he's not so lucky because in his dream Joseph informs them that in a few days he will be executed. It just so happens that Joseph read both of these dreams correct. One prisoner was executed as his dream indicated and the other one was released back into Pharaoh's employment. The prisoner who was released back into Pharaoh's employment tells Joseph that he will tell the Pharaoh of Joseph's abilities so that Joseph himself can be released from prison. But as luck would have it when the prisoner gets released, he forgets to tell the Pharaoh. And so Joseph has to then sit in prison for two years. Now the Pharaoh at this time in Egypt was most likely historically the Pharaoh Aminahat III. Now we know that Pharaoh Aminahat III ruled during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. This was between 2055 BC and 1650 BC. This was considered to be the Golden Age of Egyptian art and literature. Pharaoh Aminahat III ruled with his father during the first 20 years of his reign, which was common at that time. They were preparing the Pharaohs to eventually take over. Again, this was a golden time of Egypt. Now as time is taking by and Joseph is just sitting there in prison reading dreams for the prisoners, the Pharaoh himself starts to have concerning nightmares. Now at this point the Pharaoh himself does have spiritual advisors and people who typically can read his dreams. But however, with this particular dream, his advisors don't know what it means. He has these nightmares every night of first seven full fat cows coming out of the Nile and then seven very scrawny cows coming out of the Nile. For the Pharaoh, whoever he has on his staff as a spiritual advisor has to be someone that the Pharaoh trusts implicitly. You see the emperor has to be very careful. With his advisors, he is telling them the most vulnerable parts of himself, his nightmares. Well, as his advisors are stumped by this dream that the Pharaoh keeps having, his employee who used to be in prison who had his dream read by Joseph, all of a sudden remembers Joseph in prison and runs and tells the Pharaoh that there is a young Hebrew boy in prison who can read dreams. The Pharaoh sends for Joseph. Joseph comes out and the Pharaoh explains the dreams to Joseph. Joseph then understands what God is trying to tell the Pharaoh in his dreams. He tells the Pharaoh that there will be seven years of feast and then seven years of extreme famine. He advises the Pharaoh that during this time of feast, the government officials of Egypt needed to prepare for what was to come with the famine so that the Egyptian people could continue to be fed during the rough seven years to come. Now, archaeologists know that this is probably accurate. We see from writings, from hyalographic writings in Egypt that it was common for them to have seven years of feast and seven years of famine. It had to do with the way the Nile would move in and out of Egypt. As we know now, this also had to do with specific weather patterns that we can now study to understand how this phenomenon happens. The Pharaoh is so impressed by Joseph and Joseph's ideas to try to help the people of Egypt under the rule of Pharaoh that he offers Joseph the position of viceroy. Now, this would be like a prime minister today. Basically, Joseph goes from being in the prison to being the second most powerful person in all of Egypt. Now, again, we know that this type of placement for a Hebrew man did happen in Egypt. We see from hyalographs and pictures on the wall of Egypt that there were many people who historians call Canaanites because they were from the land of Canaan that came down into Egypt and had successful leadership positions. We know this because they had colorful garments on. Again, the Middle East was really big into color. They still are. And the Hebrew men wore beards, whereas the Egyptian men did not. So the fact that Joseph now became the viceroy, the prime minister, the second most powerful man in Egypt would not be a stretch for history. The Pharaoh also commands Joseph to wed. He will be wedding the daughter of Pontifar, the man who originally bought him to be a servant in his house. And this is where the story of Joseph and his wife gets even more interesting because in my research, I discovered yet another banned book of the Bible about Joseph's wife. It seems, according to this banned book of the Bible, that Joseph's wife, Pontifar's daughter, was in reality Joseph's niece. If you remember back into the book of Jubilee, as well as the book of Genesis, Dina, the daughter of Jacob, was kidnapped by the Shechemites who were Canaanites. We know that Genesis leaves out the fact that Dina was 12, a child. But the book of Jubilee is very clear that she was young. Now, just because she was 12 doesn't mean that she did not have her cycle. Doesn't mean she couldn't have gotten pregnant. Twelve-year-olds today get their cycles, but we still consider them to be children, as did Dina's brothers and their family. Now, what this book alleges is that Dina did get pregnant. And Jacob her father took the baby, the baby girl, his granddaughter, and adopted her out to powerful people in Egypt. Now, again, Jacob himself was very powerful and very rich. And he also was a very good man. This child was the product of violence. And instead of having Dina carry the child around her whole life with almost like a scarlet A on her chest because of what had happened to her, he felt like as a father, the best thing to do for both Dina and the baby were to both give them a shot at life. This baby girl ended up being Pontifar's adopted daughter. According to this missing book, she too was beautiful, just like Joseph. She too looked a bit exotic, just like the Hebrews. You see, Dina's mother was Leah, Rachel's sister. And if Rachel, Joseph mother was considered beautiful, then it goes without saying that Leah probably looked a lot like her sister as well. And so here we have these two individuals that are related, but don't know that they are related, that now God has brought together. Pontifar's daughter's name was Azenath. Azenath means a gift of the sun god, Ra. Now Azenath was a very shy girl. She was a very spiritual girl and she was raised by Pontifar to worship the Egyptian gods. It is said that she spent most of her times away from the world in worship of these Egyptian gods. When she is told that she will have to marry Joseph, the viceroy of Egypt, she becomes extremely upset. She knows that this man, now 30 years old, was sold as a slave to her family. She knows then that he was accused. And now she's told she must marry him. The original meaning of Joseph and Azenath is not a good one. He also knows that she does not worship the god of Abraham as he does. And one night as Azenath is in her room of worship, when a light appears and in the light an angel tells her who Joseph is and who the god of Abraham is. That night she ends up throwing out all of her Egyptian idols and starts to worship the god of Abraham, the same god of Joseph. Her and Joseph end up marrying and they will end up having two sons, which we will get to later on in the story. Now to my knowledge, the churches don't teach who Azenath really was according to this banned book of the Bible. But this would make sense to me because of what later happens with Joseph's two sons. We now have two very powerful people of the Hebrew line of Jacob married in Egypt. Now in Egypt today, there is a canal off the Nile, which is called Bar Yoseph. This canal was built between 1850 and 1650 BC, the exact time when Joseph would have been viceroy in Egypt. Now we can't prove for sure that this canal was the idea of Joseph to help with the drought, but it's interesting that Bar Yoseph means the waterway of Joseph. We also know, according to the Bible, that Joseph was really good at storing up food. And so when the famine hit, he was able to help the Pharaoh maintain the health of the people. For the Pharaoh, this also means that he is less likely to be overthrown because he's keeping the people happy. Well, at the same time in the Middle East, there is also a drought. Again, this was common. That's why people were nomads. And so Jacob sends his 10 sons down into Egypt to try to find food. The youngest son, Benjamin, the other son of Rachel, stays behind with Jacob because of his age. He's still a young child. And so the 10 sons of Jacob travel the 400 miles to Shechem into Egypt in a caravan on the way to find food. When they get to Egypt, they realize that Egypt is also in a drought. However, they realize that the governors of Egypt have maintained some sort of way to keep the people fed. They end up finding Joseph, who again is the viceroy. They don't recognize Joseph at this point. It's been about 20 years since they've seen their brother. And because their brother is now a high official in Egypt, he is dressed in the Egyptian garb. They beg this viceroy for food. Joseph then recognizes them immediately. He knows exactly who they are. And so he starts to inquire with his brothers about their father. They inform Joseph that their father is still alive and he is back home with their youngest brother, Benjamin. Joseph then accuses the brothers of being spies. You see, Joseph knows that they're not spies, but he is trying his best to try to figure out if the brothers are still cold hearted or if they've gained some love and compassion and empathy. He also really wants to see his father and his little brother. And so in order for them to prove that they're not spies, he asks that they leave Simeon behind basically as a prisoner of war while they go off and get Benjamin. Joseph gives them food and puts their money back in their bags and sends them on their way. They get back to their father, Jacob, who is extremely upset because he believes that Joseph has now passed away. And if they take Benjamin, he will have no other sons left of his beloved Rachel. Eventually they convince their father to take Benjamin back down into Egypt. When they get there and Joseph meets Benjamin again, he feeds them. He has one of his servants sneak one of his favorite cups into Benjamin's sack and then he sends them again on their way back to their father. While on their way back to Shechem, Joseph then sends his men out to stop the caravan. The men tell the brothers that one of Joseph's most valuable cups is missing and he believes that one of the men stole them. The brothers say, no, we haven't taken anything. Check our bags, check our bags. But of course, this cup is found in Benjamin's bag. So they bring Benjamin back to Joseph. Joseph then tells the brothers that because of him stealing the cup, he is now going to enslave Benjamin. Judah at this point speaks up and tells Joseph to take him in Benjamin's place. He then explains again to Joseph, this vice for that he doesn't realize is Joseph, that if he were to take Benjamin away from their father, it would kill their father because their father already lost his brother Joseph from their mother Rachel. Seeing the kindness and the compassion come from Judah, Joseph then reveals who he really is. There's a sweet reunion where Joseph asks his brothers to go and get his father and bring his father back down into Egypt. He sends them with chariots and finery to prove that Joseph is who he says he is. They get back up into the land of Canaan where his father is obviously in shock. But eventually he makes his way back down into Egypt. Something interesting about these two guys, the father and son, Joseph stayed in the land of Canaan until he was 17 years old and then he was brought into Egypt. Jacob spent his life in the land of Canaan but the last 17 years of his life in Egypt with his son, Joseph. We know that number is very important even today. Joseph is able to forgive his brothers for what they did to him because Joseph can now step back and see the bigger picture. He knew that God needed Joseph to go through what he went through in order to fulfill his purpose that God had planned for him. Selling Joseph into slavery was not necessarily the act of his brothers but the will of God. Not only did this bring Joseph to Egypt where he could be an asset to the Egyptian people but it also brought him his wife Asinat. Asinat and Joseph have two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. These two sons will go on to be blessed by Jacob and become part of the tribes of Israel. Manasseh is the oldest Ephraim is the youngest but once again the titles are switched because Jacob knew that Ephraim would end up having the bigger lineage. Knowing who their mother is now allegedly from this banned book makes more sense as to why Jacob would bless their children because Asinat was Jacob's granddaughter. Now Jacob and his brothers were settled in what is called North Ramses in Egypt. Archaeologists could find no trace of this city ever existing until the 1970s. During the 1970s an Egyptian farmer found the base of what would have been a statue on his farmland. Archaeologists fled to the area. They realized this area used to be a city called Phi Ramses. The only problem was historically this city existed 300 years after Joseph. Archaeologists were feeling a little discouraged until they realized that Phi Ramses had been built on top of an even older city called Avars. And when they realized this they got to digging. And through this they found the Mac Daddy of archaeological evidence to prove that Joseph's life is historically accurate. While they were digging they found a palace with a tomb. In this tomb was a statue of what they believed to be a Hebrew boy. Now the statue had been mutilated when they found it but they were able to piece it back together and they realized by its haircut and the way its eyes were shaped that this statue was not of someone who was born Egyptian. It appeared that the statue had red hair. We know that Jacob's brother Esau who would have been Joseph's uncle was redheaded. So it would not have been far-fetched for Joseph to have red hair seeing that red hair ran in the family. We also see from the statue that there appeared to be a multicolored coat on it modeled after the same coat that was written about in the book of Genesis. Now they went to go look for the body and there was no body to be found. It looked like the tomb had been raided and the body was stolen but this you see is even more evidence that this was Joseph's tomb because when Moses was leading the Hebrew people out of Egypt he was instructed to get the bodies of Joseph and Jacob to return them to the land of Canaan and he did. So that would explain why there was no body in this tomb. Now during Joseph's reign in Egypt there were many many Hebrew people living within the Egyptian land. Some were servants but some were free people who again rose up in ranks in government. For a while the Hebrew people lived very happy lives in Egypt but then of course the Hebrew people came to outnumber the Egyptians and this scared the pharaohs. So the pharaohs had them all enslaved. We then come to the first Passover and to Moses leading the people out of Egypt. I hope that you found this story just as interesting as I found this story. Again there are links down in the description box below for some documentaries if you want to watch them. Thank you so much to Josh McKay for doing our music. If you would like to purchase the full song there is a link also down in the description box below and thank you so much to Todd Roderick for helping me get this video out to you guys today. I hope that you have a wonderful day and I will see you all again soon. Bye!