<P> Jewish tradition holds that Joseph had his steward plant his personal silver cup in Benjamin's sack to test his brothers . He wanted to know if they would be willing to risk danger in order to save their half brother Benjamin . Since Joseph and Benjamin were born from Rachel, this test was necessary to reveal if they would betray Benjamin as they did with Joseph when he was seventeen . Because Joseph the Dreamer predicts the future by analyzing dreams, Jewish tradition attest that he practiced divination using this silver cup as the steward charged and as Joseph himself professed in Genesis 44: 15 . </P> <P> In one Talmudic story, Joseph was buried in the Nile river, as there was some dispute as to which province should be honored by having his tomb within its boundaries . Moses, led there by an ancient holy woman named Serach, was able by a miracle to raise the sarcophagus and to take it with him at the time of the Exodus . </P> <P> Joseph is mentioned in the New Testament as an example of faith (Hebrews 11: 22). </P> <P> Joseph is commemorated as one of the Holy Forefathers in the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 26 . In the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, he is known as "Joseph the all - comely", a reference not only to his physical appearance, but more importantly to the beauty of his spiritual life . They commemorate him on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (two Sundays before Christmas) and on Holy and Great Monday (Monday of Holy Week). In icons, he is sometimes depicted wearing the nemes headdress of an Egyptian vizier . The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod commemorates him as a patriarch on March 31 . </P>

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