The Prophet Joseph Smith revealed that the Lord God did make a number of promises directly to Joseph of Egypt, which Joseph conveyed to his brethren at the time of his death [JST Genesis 50:24-38]. Below is one passage from those enumerated blessings stated to Joseph, which related to Joseph of Egypt.

" ... a seer will I raise up to deliver my people out of the land of Egypt; and he shall be called Moses. And by this name he shall know that he is of thy house [the house of Joseph]; for [because] he shall be nursed by the king's daughter, and shall be called her son." ~ JST Genesis 50:29 (24 & 29)

This is part of the prophecy given directly to Joseph of Egypt by the Lord concerning the blessings to come upon the 'seed of the house of Joseph'. Now as pointed out elsewhere previously, because Moses was raised in the house of the King by the King's daughter, he was an 'adopted son' unto that family. This would make him legally and rightfully of the seed and house of the king. That the King's daughter would be considered to be of the house of Joseph is so implied here by this particular verse, that 'because' Moses was called and considered the son of the king's daughter, he would be 'known' to be of 'thy house', meaning that he would be known to be of the House of Joseph of Egypt.

Now this implies much about the history of the house of Pharaoh in the days of Joseph and his seed. It is widely discussed and considered that the Pharaohs of Egypt during the time of the Israelite bondage and the days of Joseph, were what is termed the 'Hyksos' Pharaohs of Egypt. These were the 'Shepherd Kings' or the Pharaohs of Egypt who had risen to the thone who were of the Semetic tribes or descendants of Shem and not Ham. Under such a circumstance, with Joseph of Egypt being made ruler over all of Egypt in the stead of the King in his days, a marriage between the Hyksos Pharaohs seed and the seed of Joseph's house would seem almost imminant. This is what JST Genesis 50:29 seems to so confirm, that the throne of Egypt had come down to be upon one of the descendants of Joseph, but this descendant of Joseph 'knew not Joseph', he rejected the God of Israel for the Gods of Egypt, and rather adopted his 'Egyptian Pharaoh' heritage even to the point of enslaving his 'crudish' Israelite herdsmen relatives into bondage. After all, is this not what they had caused to come upon Joseph, the ruler of all Egypt, his ancestor? The course of it seems so natural, yet if so, it has been well hiden and kept by the Jewish record keepers, and perhaps those of Joseph who were shamed by it.

Now previously Moses was spoken of as that it was well that he was not of Joseph or Judah to stir that pot of conflict further, Moses being of the tribe of Levi. But here we will take a step back from that position and recognized that Moses may have been rather seen to have 'rejected Ephraim' as his ancestor much in the same way in which did King David, according to and in the sight of the Jews. And thus the Jewish record fails to preserve Moses' dual ancestry. If fact so precisely is Moses' genealogy given as being of Levi, that one might suppose that it was on the part of the Jewish recorders to emphasize that fact that Moses was of Levi and not possibly of any other tribe. And why would the Jews go to that 'extra effort'? Was it to hide Moses' other ancestral line in Joseph?

Now if this were all which points to this possibility, it might be dismissed as mis-interpreting the scripture. For one might say that when JST Genesis 50:29 speaks 'of thy house', though the Lord is speaking to Joseph directly concerning the promised being made unto him, that particular anticedant does but refereing the whole of the house of Jacob and is not specific to Joseph, which would mean God juggles his grammer references back and forth between Joseph and Jacob thought speaking particularly to Joseph. But there is another indicator.

"And the sons of Moses, ... as I said concerning the sons of Moses—for the sons of Moses and also the sons of Aaron shall offer an acceptable offering and sacrifice in the house of the Lord, which house shall be built unto the Lord in this generation, upon the consecrated spot as I have appointed—And the sons of Moses and of Aaron shall be filled with the clory of the Lord, upon Mount Zion in the Lord's house, whose sons are ye; and also many whom I have called and sent forth to build up my church. For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies. They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and the seed of Abraham, and the church and kingdom, and the elect of God." ~ D&C 84;6, 31-34

Now in one perspective this seems to be something 'magical' and produced purely by a spiritual adoptive process. But one needs to consider this matter fuller. It is elsewhere stated that the 'priesthood right', that is the right to the 'order of the priesthood after the order of the Son of God, is handed down from father to son, and a right which rightly belongs to the 'literal descendants of the chosen seed' to whom the promises were made.

"Therefore, thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers—For ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God—Therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began." ~ D&C 86:8-10

"The order of this priesthood was confirmed to be handed down from father to son, and rightly belongs to the literal descendants of the chosen seed, to whom the promises were made." ~ D&C 107:40

"For verily I say unto you, the keys of the dispensation, which ye have received, have come down from the fathers, and last of all, being sent down from heaven unto you." ~ D&C 112:32

"He had reference to those whom God should call in the last days, who should hold the power of priesthood to bring again Zion, and the redemption of Israel; and to put on her strength is to put on the authority of the priesthood, which she, Zion, has a right to by lineage; also to return to that power which whe had lost." ~ D&C 113:8 (see verses 5-8)

Now some will think that I may stretch this issue. But consider that 'the promises were made unto Joseph of Egypt'. He is the promised seed of the covenant, he and his son Ephraim. Moses became an 'adoptive link' in that literal linage by his adoption into the house of Joseph as being considered a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, the king. But how else is Joseph Smith the 'rightful' heir of the keys of the priesthood (D&C 113:6), being a pure Ephraimite?

Now herein is a sign in its self. Just as Jesus was hid as to his identity of being Messiah ben Joseph, even so was Moses as a type of that Christ, also so hid from being known as a son of the house of Joseph. This will be a sign of each other, a witness to each other. And the fact that all the blessings of the fathers were preserved through Joseph is the confirmation of it. Beyond this, at this time let the spirit so confide the truth of it.

"And also with Joseph and Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham, your fathers, by whom the promises remain;" ~ D&C 27:10

There is a particular added testimony to the fact that Moses was legally in the eyes of the Lord of the House of Joseph, even of the particular linage of being considered a son of Ephraim. That the JST as first qouted in this section seems to proclaim that Moses in being raised as the son of the King's daughter would be known as being of the House of Joseph, is further supported by the very position of the Lord God Jehovah in that which he states to Moses upon Mt. Sinai. While Moses was gone upon Mt. Sinai for the period of fourty days, the children of Israel had become of the opinion that Moses had gone and left them. They therefore reverted to a form of idolatry in making themselves a golden calf, and they had began to worship it in a pagan form of idol worship. It was upon this ocassion that the Lord told Moses that he was of a mind that if Moses would, the Lord would destroy all the children of Israel and fulfill the covenant promises of the fathers in and through the seed of Moses only.

"And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. ~ Exodus 32:7-10

Now how in could the LORD have fulfilled all the covenants of the fathers, including those which had been given and pronounced upon the heads of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob as Israel, and further upon the heads of Joseph and his son Ephraim, if Moses had not been rightfully considered to be of the House of Joseph, even of the particular linage of Ephraim? Only if Moses was of that partiular house of Joseph as the son of the daughter of the king of Egypt could Moses have been placed by the LORD in that position of fulfilling all of the covenants of the LORD unto man if indeed Moses was considered before the LORD as being of the House of Joseph. Otherwise Moses was only of the house of Levi and not of Joseph at all.

Now there are some that will point out that the LORD knew that Moses would contend before the LORD in behalf of all the children of Israel, and this was the sole purpose of the LORD in so stating this proposed destruction of the children of Israel unto Moses. Of course the LORD, who knows all things, understood this. But this does not excuse the concept and the possibility that the LORD could have destroyed all the rest of the children of Israel and still fulfilled his covenants unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Moses and his seed only. The possibility was there and the presidence was real, as the LORD had destroyed an entire people such as the seed of Adam and still fulfilled his covenants in only one family, in Noah and his sons. Thus the LORD could have still fulfilled the covenant of Abraham, that in him the nations of the earth would be blessed in making of Moses 'a great nation'. And the LORD could also have fulfilled in Moses the covenants unto Joseph and his son Ephraim, that in them the covenant of Abraham would be fulfilled in the descendants of Ephraim taking the promised covenants of the fathers unto all the earth to the blessings of the nations by his restored gospel through the seed of Ephraim. And this was because Moses was in the eyes of the LORD as stated unto Joseph, to be considered of the House of Joseph.

The Priesthood of Aaron and NOT of Moses

Just why did the sons of Moses not participate in the priesthood order of the tabernacle/temple and its priesthood ordinances as did the sons of his brother Aaron? Was it merely that Aaron was the elder and the heir of the priesthood. Certainly Moses held the higher priesthood as the prophet of God. So why was the seed of Moses excluded from participation in the priethood of the Law of Moses in Israel, though Moses was Aaron's brother and thus also of the tribe of Levi and in theory heir to that lesser priesthood of Levi, the Levitical priesthood?

The quick and dirty answer is simple, Moses according to his 'priesthood linage was not a Levite. He was the legally and lawfully adopted and recognized son of the heirship of Joseph, being brought up in the household of the King. (See Moses Son of Joseph). Thus Moses' was heir of higher priesthood of the covenant and not heir of the lesser priesthood or Levitical priesthood as was his 'unadopted' brother Aaron, who retainly solely his inheritance in Levi, while Moses had obtained the higher inheritance to the priesthood of Melchezidek, the priesthood of the Covenant through Joseph, he being considered the seed of Joseph as explained in the JST version of Genesis 50.