SUMMARY

• Joseph’s unification with his brother foreshadows the unification of the Ten Tribes (Ephraim) and Judah in the end of days

• The tribe of Ephraim left Egypt 30 years early and were killed by the Philistines in the land of of Canaan

• The Ten Tribes (Ephraim) were taken in captivity by the Assyrians in three stages

• The Assyrians settled some of their people where the Ten Tribes lived and in their intermarriage they were called ‘Samaritans’

• The Ten Tribes (Ephraim) and Judah differed religiously and politically