While they were just a small clan related to the important royal administrator Joseph, the Hebrews were welcome guests in the land of Egypt. Around the time of Joseph, the Pharaoh Akhenaten abolished the worship of many gods and instituted the worship of the one God in Egypt. Possibly the presence of the Hebrews was an inspiration for that revolutionary period in Egyptian history. Counter-revolutionary forces rolled back the Akhenaten reforms after his death, however, and that too may have been a