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Genesis 41:45

וַ יִּקְרָא פַרְעֹה שֵׁם יֹוסֵף צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ וַ יִּתֶּן לֹו אֶת אָסְנַת בַּת פֹּוטִי פֶרַע כֹּהֵן אֹן לְ אִשָּׁה וַ יֵּצֵא יֹוסֵף עַל אֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם

And Pharaoh is calling-out the name of He-Adds Revealer-of-a-Secret,1236 and he is giving to-himself Asenath1237 built-one of Poti-Pherah, priest of Wealth,1238 to a woman, and He-Adds is going out upon the earth of Dual-Siege.


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The Story of Asenath

Strong’s #621. Ἀσσενεθ; Egyptian, = belonging to (goddess) Neith. Neith was an ancient goddess of war and weaving.

According to the story of “Joseph and Aseneth” in the Apocryphal Old Testament (non-canonical writings composed between 300 B.C. and 100 B.C.) which reads like a myth or parable, Aseneth was the “fairest virgin in the land” yet “was scornful and proud, and a despiser of men.” She “despised all men and regarded them with contempt.” In this myth Joseph is called “the builder of God”, “the sun and chariot of the sun” and “great light is in him”. She mistakes him for a slave and then repents and offers herself as a maidservant and slave to him. Asenath later has a vision of a “morning star from the east”, the heaven torn open, and a man appearing that looks just like Joseph who is called Commander of the House of God, chief captain of the Army of the Most High. His face is as lightening, eyes like the sun’s light, hairs of his head as flames of fire, hands and feet as hot iron. Joseph’s look-alike answers when asked his name, “My name is written by the finger of God in the Book of the most high King, but all that is written therein may not be told, neither is it proper for the hearing of mortal man.” The story documents a conspiracy by “Pharaoh’s builder” to kill both Joseph and Asenath.