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Joseph Stands before Pharaoh

Event · 1715 BC

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What the Bible Says

  • “Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh” Genesis 41:46

Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.

The Years

The Year 1715 BC
“Pharaoh, when he could not get his dreams”

Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.

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