I like the name Joe better than I like Zaphnath–paaneah, but that was the name that Pharaoh gave to him. It is a Coptic name, and it means “the revealer of secret things.” And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt [Gen. 41:46]. We are told Joseph’s age here, and we see that he has been in the land of Egypt for thirteen years. We know that two of those years were spent in
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