The Egyptian wife Pharaoh gives Joseph — 'daughter of Potiphera priest of ON' (41:45) — and so the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim, which means two of Israel's twelve tribes descend from an Egyptian priest's daughter. Genesis reports it without a flicker of anxiety, though later readers were less relaxed: a Hellenistic romance, Joseph and Aseneth, was written largely to supply her with a conversion. Her name is genuinely Egyptian, plausibly ns-Nt, 'she belongs to (the goddess) Neith.' ⚠️ Her father's name, POTIPHERA, is a fuller spelling of the same Egyptian name as POTIPHAR ('he whom Ra has given'); they are presented as different men — one the chief of the executioners, the other a priest of On — and the identical-sounding names are a coincidence of a very common formula, though some ancient traditions could not resist merging them.