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To: entropy12
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,"

'Joseph?'

'Forget it, he's rolling.'

13 posted on 11/04/2015 8:56:55 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Ken H
'Joseph?'

'Forget it, he's rolling.'

The son of Jacob in Genesis, not Mary's husband in the New Testament.

Considering the small amount of storage space inside, those must have been granaries built under government contract. < /s>

22 posted on 11/04/2015 9:08:12 PM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: Ken H

Joseph stored the grain locally, in the cities near where it was grown:

During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully. Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

There is a tradition that Joseph built places to store the grain, but the biblical narrative merely says he stored it in “each city”.


23 posted on 11/04/2015 9:09:18 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Ken H

Like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor . . .


69 posted on 11/05/2015 3:01:01 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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