<P> Joseph, Jacob's favorite son, is sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers . But Joseph prospers, after hardship, with God's guidance of interpreting Pharaoh's dream of upcoming famine . He is then reunited with his father and brothers, who fail to recognize him, and plead for food . After much manipulation, he reveals himself and lets them and their households into Egypt, where Pharaoh assigns to them the land of Goshen . Jacob calls his sons to his bedside and reveals their future before he dies . Joseph lives to an old age and exhorts his brethren, if God should lead them out of the country, to take his bones with them . </P> <P> Genesis takes its Hebrew title from the first word of the first sentence, Bereshit, meaning "In the beginning (of)"; in the Greek Septuagint it was called Genesis, from the phrase "the generations of heaven and earth". There are four major textual witnesses to the book: the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and fragments of Genesis found at Qumran . The Qumran group provides the oldest manuscripts but covers only a small proportion of the book; in general, the Masoretic Text is well preserved and reliable, but there are many individual instances where the other versions preserve a superior reading . </P> <P> For much of the 20th century most scholars agreed that the five books of the Pentateuch--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy--came from four sources, the Yahwist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomist and the Priestly source, each telling the same basic story, and joined together by various editors . Since the 1970s there has been a revolution in scholarship: the Elohist source is now widely regarded as no more than a variation on the Yahwist, while the Priestly source is increasingly seen not as a document but as a body of revisions and expansions to the Yahwist (or "non-Priestly") material . (The Deuteronomistic source does not appear in Genesis). </P> <P> Examples of repeated and duplicate stories are used to identify the separate sources . In Genesis these include three different accounts of a Patriarch claiming that his wife was his sister, the two creation stories, and the two versions of Abraham sending Hagar and Ishmael into the desert . </P>

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