. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. known as a medium of there must have been an interme-diate process; and the money paid by Jacobwould have been the amovint which he had ob-tained by the sale of a hundred lambs, or theirequivalents in other cattle, in some otherplace. Where the direct operation was equallyacceptable, it would be preferred to this inter-mediate process. The present is not the onlyfact which illustrates or bears on this. Jacobhimself required cattle, not silver, as thev/agesof his service with Laba
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. known as a medium of there must have been an interme-diate process; and the money paid by Jacobwould have been the amovint which he had ob-tained by the sale of a hundred lambs, or theirequivalents in other cattle, in some otherplace. Where the direct operation was equallyacceptable, it would be preferred to this inter-mediate process. The present is not the onlyfact which illustrates or bears on this. Jacobhimself required cattle, not silver, as thev/agesof his service with Laban ; and cattle were theonly presents which he offered to his brotherEsau. His son Judah offered Tamar a kid asthe price of her sin. Even Solomon paid theTyrians, not in silver, but in corn and oil forthe workmen and timber which they supplied:and in the long-subsequent case of Hoseaspvirchase of a wife for five shekels weight ofsilver and a measure and a half of corn, -vviesee the one process helping out *he other. VOL. I. BOOK II. THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT AND THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER I. When the Ishmaelites who had bought Joseph arrived in Egypt, they exposed him for sale,()and he was purchased for the domestic service of Potiphar, an officer of high rank in thecourt of the Egyptian king, and chief of the royal ^) Instead of repining in his newsituation, he applied himself with great diligence and fidelity to the discharge of its duties. Chap. I.] JOSEPH. 115 These qualities are too rare and valuable in a newly-purchased slave to escape the mastersnotice. Josephs cunduct engaged Potiphars attention and won his esteem; and when hemoreover found that his slave was blessed with singular prosperity in all his undertakings, heraised him to his confidence, and, in the end, he intrusted the management of all his concerns to him, making him steward, not only overhis household, but over his lands. In thishonourable station—which in the East is oneof more authority and pow
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