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Joseph interprets the dreams:

GENESIS.

He counsels Pharaoh. 12 And there was there with us a young] 31 And the plenty shall not be known in man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the land by reason of that famine following: the guard; and we told him, and he inter- for it shall be very grievous. preted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. 13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was: me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

14 ¶ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him apchanged his raiment, and came in unto point officers over the land, and take up the Pharaoh. fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven 15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I plenteous years. have dreamed a dream, and there is none 35 And let them gather all the food of that can interpret it: and I have heard say those good years that come, and lay up corn of thee, that thou canst understand a dream under the hand of Pharaoh; and let them to interpret it. keep food in the cities.

16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

18 And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

19 And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-favoured, and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

20 And the lean and the ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22 And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

23 And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprang up after them:

36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

38 ¶ And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God is?

39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art;

40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled only in the throne will 1 be greater than thou.

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41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried 24 And the thin ears devoured the seven before him, Bow the knee: and he made good ears and I told this unto the magi- him ruler over all the land of Egypt. cians; but there was none that could declare

44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am it unto me. Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man 25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, lift up his hand or foot in all the land of The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath Egypt.

shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name 26 The seven good kine are seven Zaphnath-paaneah: and he gave him to years; and the seven good ears are seven wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah years: the dream is one. priest of On: and Joseph went out over all

27 And the seven thin and ill-favoured the land of Egypt. kine that came up after them are seven 46 And Joseph was thirty years old years and the seven empty ears blasted when he stood before Pharaoh king of with the east wind shall be seven years of Egypt: and Joseph went out from the famine. presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.

47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

29 Behold, there come seven years of great 48 And he gathered up all the food of plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: the seven years which were in the land of 30 And there shall arise after them seven Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: years of famine; and all the plenty shall the food of the field which was round about be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the every city, laid he up in the same. famine shall consume the land: 49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand

Joseph imprisons

CHAP. XLII. of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came: which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh; For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

53 And the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. 54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

CHAP. XLII.

his brethren. 11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men; thy servants are no spies. 12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

17 And he put them all together into ward three days.

18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

21 ¶ And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when Now TOW when Jacob saw that there was he besought us, and we would not hear; corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his therefore is this distress come upon us. sons, Why do ye look one upon another! 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, 2 And he said, Behold I have heard that Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin there is corn in Egypt: get you down against the child; and ye would not hear? thither, and buy for us from thence; that therefore behold also his blood is required. we may live, and not die. 23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

25 ¶ Then Joseph commanded to fill their 6 And Joseph was the governor over sacks with corn, and to restore every man's the land, and he it was that sold to all the money into his sack, and to give them propeople of the land and Joseph's brethren vision for the way and thus did he unto came, and bowed down themselves before them.

him with their faces to the earth.

26 And they laded their asses with the

7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he corn, and departed thence. knew them, but made himself strange unto 27 And as one of them opened his sack them, and spake roughly unto them; and to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied he said unto them, Whence come ye? And his money: for behold, it was in his sack's they said, From the land of Canaan to buy mouth. food.

28 And he said unto his brethren, My 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but money is restored; and lo, it is even in my they knew not him. sack: and their heart failed them, and they 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams were afraid, saying one to another, What is which he dreamed of them, and said unto this that God hath done unto us? them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him

10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, all that befell unto them, saying, but to buy food are thy servants come. 30 The man who is the lord of the land

Jacob refuses to send Benjamin.

GENESIS.

Jacob lets Benjamin go.

spake roughly to us, and took us for spies shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever.

of the country.

31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

10 For except we had lingered, surely 32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our now we had returned this second time. father: one is not, and the youngest is this 11 And their father Israel said unto them, day with our father in the land of Canaan. If it must be so now, do this; take of the 33 And the man, the lord of the country, best fruits in the land in your vessels, and said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye carry down the man a present, a little balm, are true men: leave one of your brethren and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, here with me, and take food for the famine and almonds:

of your households, and be gone :

12 And take double money in your hand;

34 And bring your youngest brother unto and the money that was brought again in me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in but that ye are true men: so will I deliver your hand; peradventure it was an overyou your brother, and ye shall traffic in the sight: land.

13 Take also your brother, and arise, go

35 ¶ And it came to pass as they emptied again unto the man: their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle 14 And God Almighty give you mercy of money was in his sack; and when both before the man, that he may send away they and their father saw the bundles of mo- your other brother, and Benjamin: If I be ney, they were afraid. bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

15 ¶ And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, them, he said to the ruler of his house, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not Bring these men home, and slay, and make to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will ready: for these men shall dine with me at bring him to thee again.

noon.

38 And he said, My son shall not go down 17 And the man did as Joseph bade: and with you; for his brother is dead, and he is the man brought the men into Joseph's left alone if mischief befall him by the way house. in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. CHAP. XLIII.

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ND the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

5 But if thou wilt not send him we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,

20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: 1 had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: Could we certainly 24 And the man brought the men into know that he would say, Bring your brother Joseph's house, and gave them water, and down? they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.

8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

9 I will be surety for him; of my hand

25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

26 And when Joseph came home, they

Jacob entertains his brethren: CHAP. XLIV.

He accuses them of theft. brought him the present which was in their 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be hand into the house, and bowed themselves found, both let him die, and we also will be to him to the earth. my lord's bond-men.

27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? is he yet alive?

28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive: and they bowed down their heads, and made

obeisance.

29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest : and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he 14 ¶ And Judah and his brethren came sought where to weep; and he entered into to Joseph's house, (for he was yet there :) kis chamber, and wept there. and they fell before him on the ground.

31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? 32 And they set on for him by himself, 16 And Judah said, What shall we say and for them by themselves, and for the unto my lord? what shall we speak? or Egyptians which did eat with him, by them- how shall we clear ourselves? God hath selves: because the Egyptians might not found out the iniquity of thy servants: beeat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an hold we are my lord's servants, both we, and abomination unto the Egyptians. he also with whom the cup is found.

33 And they sat before him, the first-born 17 And he said, God forbid that I should according to his birth-right, and the young-do so: but the man in whose hand the cup est according to his youth: and the men is found, he shall be my servant; and as marvelled one at another. for you, get you up in peace unto your fa

34 And he took and sent messes unto ther. them from before him: but Benjamin's 18 ¶ Then Judah came near unto him, mess was five times so much as any of theirs. and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray And they drank, and were merry with him. thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy serND he commanded the steward of his vant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

CHAP. XLIV.

AND be commanded the steward of his

with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his cornmoney: and he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they, and their asses. 4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.

19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

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20 And we said unto my lord, We have father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

24 And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that 26 And we said, We cannot go down: if thy servants should do according to this our youngest brother be with us, then will thing: we go down; for we may not see the man's

8 Behold the money which we found in face, except our youngest brother be with our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto us. thee out of the land of Canaan: how then 27 And thy servant my father said unto should we steal out of thy lord's house sil- us, Ye know that my wife bare me two ver or gold?

sons:

Joseph makes himself known.

GENESIS. Joseph sends for his father.

28 And the one went out from me, and, children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I all that thou hast :

saw him not since:

11 And there will 1 nourish thee, (for yet

29 And if ye take this also from me, and there are five years of famine;) lest thou, mischief befall him, ye shall bring down and thy household, and all that thou hast my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. come to poverty. 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life ;)

12 And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

13 And ye shall tell my father of all my 31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen: that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and ye shall haste, and bring down my faand thy servants shall bring down the gray ther hither. hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

CHAP. XLV.

THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me: and there stood no man with him, while Joseph inade himself known unto his brethren.

2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you into the land of Canaan;

18 And take your father, and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I 21 ¶ And the children of Israel did so: am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And and Joseph gave them wagons, according to his brethren could not answer him; for the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave they were troubled at his presence. them provision for the way. 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, 22 To all of them he gave each man Come near to me, I pray you: and they changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he came near. And he said, I am Joseph gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. changes of raiment.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor 23 And to his father he sent after this angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hi-manner; ten asses laden with the good ther for God did send me before you to things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden preserve life. with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

7 And God sent me before you, to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

9 Haste and ye, go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not:

24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

25 ¶ And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of 28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, my son is yet alive: I will go and see him thou, and thy children, and thy children's before I die.

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