<P> The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (Italian: Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli) is a 1961 Yugoslavian / Italian film directed by Irving Rapper and Luciano Ricci . </P> <P> The film is also known as Joseph Sold by His Brothers, Joseph and His Brethren (American DVD box title) and Sold Into Egypt in the United Kingdom . </P> <P> Joseph, 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". 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) They saw their chance when they were feeding the flocks, the brothers saw Joseph from afar and plotted to kill him . They turned on him and stripped him of the coat his father made for him, and threw him into a pit . 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, and the brothers took Joseph's coat back to Jacob, who was lied to and told that Joseph had been killed by wild animals . </P> <P> The Biblical story is clear Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers led by Judah, "Come let us sell him to the Ishlamites" Genesis 37: 27 . In Egypt, Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard "bought Joseph from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there ." Genesis 39: 1 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 . (Genesis 39: 1 - 20) </P>

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