Joseph, of Egypt III
... a detail Joseph Smith, Jr. could NOT have known...
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"...we are a remnant of the seed of Jacob; yea, we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph, whose coat was rent by his brethren into many pieces..."
The "rending of his coat" detail is NOT found in the Genesis account nor anywhere in the Bible.
It can be found in two ancient Jewish legend and writings:
The Book of Jasher 43:13 (1840 english edition)
Tha’labi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, ‘Ara’is al-majalis fi qisas al-anbiya’, or, Lives of the prophets pg.226-228 - before 1035 in Arabic, again 1954 (Leiden: Brill, 2002, english version ISBN 9004125892)
"Now let’s see what we left out here... Oh, the garment was rent. There’s no tradition anywhere that the garment was rent, except the Arabs again have a famous story: A student was working for a master as an apprentice, and they said to him, “Does your master feed you well? Does he care for you well?” The student says, “Verily, if my master owned a house full of needles and Jacob came to him and begged for the use of a needle for one hour that he might sew up the torn garment of his son Joseph, he would refuse to lend it to him. That’s the kind of man I’m working for.” The point is that it takes for granted the torn garment that Jacob wanted to sew up, that Joseph’s garment was torn in two parts." - Hugh Nibley, TEACHINGS OF THE BOOK OF MORMON Semester 3, Lecture 62, Alma 46, The Garment of Joseph - https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mi/72
"... [JS] particularly referred to the idea that the dominion of Japheth is extended over the whole earth and showed
that it was destined to be transferred into the hands of Shem and his posterity..."
--- Sidney Rigdon, Council of Fifty, Minutes - Tuesday, March 19th. 1844
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