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Joseph

ཡོ་​སེབ།

Biblical: 1) Joseph the patriarch of Israel: བུའི་​མིང་​ཡོ་​སེབ་​བཏགས། [she] named him Joseph (Gen. 30:24), མེས་​པོ་​དེ་​ཚོས་​ཕྲག་​དོག་​གིས་​ཡོ་​སེབ་​མི་​སེར་​ཡུལ་​དུ་​བཙོངས། the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph and they sold him in Egypt (Acts 7:9); 2) Joseph the husband of Mary mother of Jesus: ཁོང་​གི་​ཡུམ་​མིར་​ཡམ་​ནི་​ཡོ་​སེབ་​དང་​ཁྱིམ་​ཐབ་​བྱེད་​པ་​ཐག་​ཆོད་​ནས། His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph (Mt. 1:18).