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Gen 37:1 And Ya‛aqoḇ dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the
land of Kena‛an.
Gen 37:2 This is the genealogy of Ya‛aqoḇ. Yosĕph, being seventeen years
old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the young man was with the
sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Yosĕph
brought an evil report of them to his father.
Gen 37:3 And Yisra’ĕl loved Yosĕph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age. And he made him a long robe.
Gen 37:4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all
his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him.
Gen 37:5 And Yosĕph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brothers. So they
hated him even more.
Gen 37:6 And he said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have
dreamed:
Gen 37:7 “See, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and see,
my sheaf rose up and also stood up. And see, your sheaves stood all around
and bowed down to my sheaf.”
Gen 37:8 And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us?
Shall you indeed rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams
and for his words.
Gen 37:9 And he dreamed still another dream and related it to his brothers,
and said, “See, I have dreamed another dream, and see, the sun and the moon
and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”
Gen 37:10 And he related it to his father and his brothers. And his father
rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed?
Shall we, your mother and I and your brothers, indeed come to bow down to
the earth before you?”
Gen 37:11 And his brothers envied him, but his father guarded the word.
Gen 37:12 And his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Sheḵem.
Gen 37:13 And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “Are not your brothers feeding the
flock in Sheḵem? Come, I send you to them.” So he said to him, “Here I am.”
Gen 37:14 And he said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your
brothers and well with the sheep, and bring back word to me.” So he sent
him out of the Valley of Ḥeḇron, and he went to Sheḵem.
Gen 37:15 And a certain man found him, and see, he was wandering in the
field. And the man asked him, saying, “What do you seek?”
Gen 37:16 And he said, “I am seeking my brothers. Please inform me where
they are feeding their sheep.”
Gen 37:17 And the man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let
us go towards Dothan.’ ” So Yosĕph went after his brothers and found them
in Dothan.
Gen 37:18 And they saw him from a distance, and before he came near them,
they plotted against him, to kill him.
Gen 37:19 And they said to each other, “See, this master of dreams is
coming!
Gen 37:20 “Now, then, come and let us now kill him and throw him into
some pit, and shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ Let us then see
what comes of his dreams!”
Gen 37:21 But Re’uḇĕn heard and rescued him from their hands, and said,
“Let us not take his life.”
Gen 37:22 And Re’uḇĕn said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this
pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him” – in order to
rescue him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.
Gen 37:23 So it came to be, when Yosĕph had come to his brothers, that they
stripped Yosĕph of his robe, the long robe which was on him.
Gen 37:24 And they took him and threw him into a pit. And the pit was
empty, there was no water in it.
Gen 37:25 And they sat down to eat a meal. And they lifted their eyes and
looked and saw a company of Yishma‛ĕlites, coming from Gil‛aḏ with their
camels, bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take them down to
Mitsrayim.
Gen 37:26 And Yehuḏah said to his brothers, “What would we gain if we
kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Gen 37:27 “Come and let us sell him to the Yishma‛ĕlites, and let not our
hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh.” And his brothers listened.
Gen 37:28 And men, Miḏyanite traders passed by, so they pulled Yosĕph up
and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Yishma‛ĕlites for twenty
pieces of silver. And they took Yosĕph to Mitsrayim.
Gen 37:29 And Re’uḇĕn returned to the pit, and see, Yosĕph was not in the
pit. And he tore his garments.
Gen 37:30 And he returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! And
I, where am I to go?”
Gen 37:31 So they took Yosĕph’s robe, killed a male goat, and dipped the
robe in the blood,
Gen 37:32 and sent the long robe and brought it to their father and said, “We
have found this. Please look, is it the robe of your son or not?”
Gen 37:33 And he recognised it and said, “It is my son’s robe. An evil beast
has devoured him. Yosĕph is torn, torn to pieces.”
Gen 37:34 And Ya‛aqoḇ tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his waist,
and mourned for his son many days.
Gen 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but
he refused to be comforted, and he said, “Now let me go down into the grave
to my son in mourning.” So his father wept for him.
Gen 37:36 And the Miḏanites had sold him in Mitsrayim to Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
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Gen 38:1 And at that time it came to be that Yehuḏah left his brothers, and
turned aside to a man, an Aḏullamite whose name was Ḥirah.
Gen 38:2 And Yehuḏah saw there a daughter of a certain Kena‛anite whose
name was Shuwa. And he took her and went in to her.
Gen 38:3 So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Ĕr.
Gen 38:4 And she conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name
Onan.
Gen 38:5 And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name
Shĕlah. And he was at Keziḇ when she bore him.
Gen 38:6 And Yehuḏah took a wife for Ĕr his first-born, and her name was
Tamar.
Gen 38:7 But Ĕr, Yehuḏah’s first-born, was evil in the eyes of יהוה, and יהוה
took his life.
Gen 38:8 And Yehuḏah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and
marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.”
Gen 38:9 And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. And it came to
be, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled on the ground, lest
he should give an offspring to his brother.
Gen 38:10 But what he did displeased יהוה, so He took his life too.
Gen 38:11 Then Yehuḏah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a
widow in your father’s house until my son Shĕlah is grown.” For he said,
“Lest he also die as his brothers did.” And Tamar went and dwelt in her
father’s house.
Gen 38:12 And after a long time the daughter of Shuwa, Yehuḏah’s wife,
died. And Yehuḏah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers at
Timnah, he and his friend Ḥirah the Aḏullamite.
Gen 38:13 And it was reported to Tamar, saying, “See, your father-in-law is
going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
Gen 38:14 And she took off her widow’s garments, and covered herself with
a veil and wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance to Ĕnayim which was on
the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shĕlah was grown, and she was not
given to him as a wife.
Gen 38:15 And Yehuḏah saw her, and reckoned her for a whore, for she had
covered her face.
Gen 38:16 And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, “Please let me
come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And
she said, “What do you give me to come in to me?”
Gen 38:17 And he said, “Let me send you a young goat from the flock.” And
she said, “Do you give me a pledge until you send it?”
Gen 38:18 So he said, “What pledge should I give you?” And she said,
“Your seal and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” And he gave
them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
Gen 38:19 And she arose and went away, and removed her veil and put on
the garments of her widowhood.
Gen 38:20 And Yehuḏah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the
Aḏullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand, but he did not find
her.
Gen 38:21 And he asked the men of that place, saying, “Where is the cult
prostitute who was beside the way to Ĕnayim?” And they said, “There was
no cult prostitute in this place.”
Gen 38:22 And he returned to Yehuḏah and said, “I have not found her. And
the men of the place also said there was no cult prostitute in this place.”
Gen 38:23 And Yehuḏah said, “Let her take them for herself, lest we become
despised, for I sent this young goat and you have not found her.”
Gen 38:24 And it came to be, about three months after, that Yehuḏah was
informed, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has whored, and see, she has
conceived by whoring.” And Yehuḏah said, “Bring her out and let her be
burned!”
Gen 38:25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying,
“By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.” And she said, “Please
examine whose these are: the seal and the cord and the staff.”
Gen 38:26 And Yehuḏah examined and said, “She has been more righteous
than I, because I did not give her to Shĕlah my son.” And he never knew her
again.
Gen 38:27 And it came to be, at the time for giving birth, that see, twins
were in her womb.
Gen 38:28 And it came to be, when she was giving birth, that the one put out
his hand. And the midwife took a scarlet thread and bound it on his hand,
saying, “This one came out first.”
Gen 38:29 And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, that see, his brother
came out! And she said, “How did you break through? This breach be upon
you!” So his name was called Perets.
Gen 38:30 And afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on
his hand. So his name was called Zeraḥ.
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Gen 39:1 And Yosĕph had been taken down to Mitsrayim. And Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, a Mitsrite, bought him from the
Yishma‛ĕlites who had taken him down there.
Gen 39:2 And it came to be that יהוה was with Yosĕph, and he became a
prosperous man, and was in the house of his master the Mitsrite.
Gen 39:3 And his master saw that יהוה was with him and that יהוה made all
he did to prosper in his hand.
Gen 39:4 So Yosĕph found favour in his eyes, and served him, and he
appointed him over his house, and gave into his hand all that he had.
Gen 39:5 And it came to be, from the time that he appointed him over his
house and all that he had, that יהוה blessed the Mitsrite’s house for Yosĕph’s
sake. And the blessing of יהוה was on all that he had in the house and in the
field.
Gen 39:6 And he left in Yosĕph’s hand all that he had, and he did not know
what he had except for the bread which he ate. And Yosĕph was handsome in
form and appearance.
Gen 39:7 And after these events it came to be that his master’s wife lifted up
her eyes to Yosĕph and said, “Lie with me.”
Gen 39:8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master
does not know what is with me in the house, and he has given into my hand
all that he has.
Gen 39:9 “No one is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld
whatever from me but you, because you are his wife. And how shall I do this
great evil and sin against Elohim?”
Gen 39:10 And it came to be, as she spoke to Yosĕph day by day, that he did
not listen to her, to lie with her, to be with her.
Gen 39:11 And it came to be on a certain day, when Yosĕph went into the
house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside,
Gen 39:12 that she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he
left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside.
Gen 39:13 And it came to be, when she saw that he had left his garment in
her hand and fled outside,
Gen 39:14 that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying,
“See, he has brought in to us a Heḇrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie
with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
Gen 39:15 “And it came to be, when he heard that I lifted my voice and
cried out, that he left his garment with me, and fled and went outside.”
Gen 39:16 And she kept his garment with her until his master came home.
Gen 39:17 And she spoke to him these same words, saying, “The Heḇrew
servant whom you brought to us came in to me, to mock me,
Gen 39:18 so it came to be, as I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his
garment with me and fled outside.”
Gen 39:19 And it came to be, when his master heard the words which his
wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me according to these
words,” that his displeasure burned.
Gen 39:20 Then Yosĕph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a
place where the sovereign’s prisoners were confined. And he was there in
the prison.
Gen 39:21 But יהוה was with Yosĕph and extended kindness to him, and He
gave him favour in the eyes of the prison warden.
Gen 39:22 And the prison warden gave into the hand of Yosĕph all the
prisoners who were in the prison, and whatever was done there was his
doing.
Gen 39:23 The prison warden did not look into any point that was under
Yosĕph’s hand, because יהוה was with him. And whatever he did, יהוה made it
prosper.
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Gen 40:1 And after these events it came to be that the cupbearer and the
baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim sinned against their master, the sovereign
of Mitsrayim.
Gen 40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth with his two officers, the chief cupbearer
and the chief baker.
Gen 40:3 So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the
guard, in the prison, the place where Yosĕph was a prisoner.
Gen 40:4 And the captain of the guard put Yosĕph in charge of them, and he
served them. So they were in confinement for some time.
Gen 40:5 Then the cupbearer and the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim,
who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, both of them, each man’s
dream in one night and each man’s dream with its own interpretation.
Gen 40:6 And Yosĕph came in to them in the morning and looked at them and
saw that they were sad.
Gen 40:7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in
confinement of his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
Gen 40:8 And they said to him, “We each have dreamed a dream, and there
is no one to interpret it.” And Yosĕph said to them, “Do not interpretations
belong to Elohim? Relate them to me, please.”
Gen 40:9 So the chief cupbearer related his dream to Yosĕph, and said to
him, “See, in my dream a vine was before me,
Gen 40:10 and in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it
budded – its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.
Gen 40:11 “And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand. So I took the grapes and
pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”
Gen 40:12 And Yosĕph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it: The
three branches are three days.
Gen 40:13 “Yet, within three days Pharaoh is going to lift up your head and
restore you to your place, and you shall put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand
according to the former ruling, when you were his cupbearer.
Gen 40:14 “But remember me when it is well with you, and please show
kindness to me. And mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house.
Gen 40:15 “For truly I was stolen away from the land of the Heḇrews. And
also I have done naught that they should put me into the dungeon.”
Gen 40:16 And the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, and he
said to Yosĕph, “I also was in my dream and saw three white baskets were
on my head,
Gen 40:17 and in the uppermost basket all kinds of baked goods for
Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
Gen 40:18 And Yosĕph answered and said, “This is the interpretation of it:
The three baskets are three days.
Gen 40:19 “Yet, within three days Pharaoh is going to lift off your head from
you and hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from you.”
Gen 40:20 And on the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, it came to be that he
made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief
cupbearer and of the chief baker among his servants,
Gen 40:21 and he restored the chief cupbearer to his post of cupbearer
again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand,
Gen 40:22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Yosĕph had interpreted to them.
Gen 40:23 And the chief cupbearer did not remember Yosĕph, but forgot
him.
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Gen 41:1 And it came to be, at the end of two years’ time, that Pharaoh had a
dream, and saw him standing by the river,
Gen 41:2 and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, fine looking and
fat, and they fed amongst the reeds,
Gen 41:3 then saw seven other cows coming up after them out of the river,
ugly and lean of flesh, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.
Gen 41:4 And the ugly and lean of flesh cows ate up the seven fine looking
and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.
Gen 41:5 And he slept and dreamed a second time and saw seven heads of
grain coming up on one stalk, plump and good,
Gen 41:6 and saw seven lean heads, scorched by the east wind, coming up
after them.
Gen 41:7 And the seven lean heads swallowed the seven plump and
complete heads. Then Pharaoh awoke and saw it was a dream.
Gen 41:8 And it came to be in the morning that his spirit was moved, and he
sent and called for all the magicians of Mitsrayim and all its wise men. And
Pharaoh related to them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret
them for Pharaoh.
Gen 41:9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember
my crimes this day.
Gen 41:10 “When Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in
confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief
baker,
Gen 41:11 each one of us dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us
dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream.
Gen 41:12 “And there was with us a Heḇrew youth, a servant of the captain
of the guard. And we related to him, and he interpreted our dreams for us. To
each man he interpreted according to his own dream.
Gen 41:13 “And it came to be, as he interpreted for us, so it came to be. He
restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
Gen 41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Yosĕph, and they hurriedly brought
him out of the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his garments, and came
to Pharaoh.
Gen 41:15 And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there
is no one to interpret it. Now I myself have heard it said of you that you
understand a dream, to interpret it.”
Gen 41:16 And Yosĕph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me, let
Elohim answer Pharaoh with peace.”
Gen 41:17 And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “See, in my dream I stood on the
bank of the river
Gen 41:18 and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, fine looking and
fat, and they fed amongst the reeds,
Gen 41:19 then saw seven other cows coming up after them, poor and very
ugly and lean of flesh, such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of
Mitsrayim.
Gen 41:20 “And the lean of flesh and ugly cows ate up the first seven, the fat
cows.
Gen 41:21 “Yet when they had eaten them up, no one would have known that
they had eaten them, for they were as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.
Gen 41:22 “Also, I looked in my dream and saw seven heads coming up on
one stalk, complete and good,
Gen 41:23 then saw seven heads, withered, lean, scorched by the east wind,
coming up after them.
Gen 41:24 “And the lean heads swallowed the seven good heads. And I
spoke to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
Gen 41:25 And Yosĕph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one.
Elohim has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do:
Gen 41:26 “The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads
are seven years – it is one dream.
Gen 41:27 “And the seven lean and ugly cows which came up after them are
seven years, and the seven empty heads scorched by the east wind are seven
years of scarcity of food.
Gen 41:28 “This is the word which I spoke to Pharaoh: Elohim has shown
Pharaoh what He is about to do.
Gen 41:29 “See, seven years of great plenty are coming in all the land of
Mitsrayim,
Gen 41:30 but after them seven years of scarcity of food shall arise and all
the plenty be forgotten in the land of Mitsrayim. And the scarcity of food
shall destroy the land,
Gen 41:31 and the plenty shall not be remembered in the land, because of the
scarcity of food following, for it is very severe.
Gen 41:32 “And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the word
is established by Elohim, and Elohim is hastening to do it.
Gen 41:33 “And now, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man, and
set him over the land of Mitsrayim.
Gen 41:34 “Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land,
to take up one-fifth of the land of Mitsrayim in the seven years of plenty.
Gen 41:35 “And let them gather all the food of those good years that are
coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food
in the cities.
Gen 41:36 “And the food shall be for a store for the land for the seven years
of scarcity of food which shall be in the land of Mitsrayim, and do not let the
land be cut off by the scarcity of food.”
Gen 41:37 And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of
all his servants.
Gen 41:38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Could we find another like
him, a man in whom is the Spirit of Elohim?”
Gen 41:39 Then Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “Since Elohim has shown you all
this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
Gen 41:40 “Be over my house, you yourself, and at your mouth all my
people shall kiss – only in the throne I am greater than you.”
Gen 41:41 And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “See, I have set you over all the
land of Mitsrayim.”
Gen 41:42 And Pharaoh took his seal-ring off his hand and put it on
Yosĕph’s hand. And he dressed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold
chain around his neck.
Gen 41:43 And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had. And they
cried out before him, “Bow the knee!” And he set him over all the land of
Mitsrayim.
Gen 41:44 And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “I am Pharaoh, and without a word
from you let no man lift his hand or foot in all the land of Mitsrayim.”
Gen 41:45 And Pharaoh called Yosĕph’s name Zaphnath-Pa‛nĕaḥ. And he
gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. And
Yosĕph went out over all the land of Mitsrayim.
Gen 41:46 Now Yosĕph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yosĕph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,
and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.
Gen 41:47 And in the seven years of plenty the ground brought forth
generously.
Gen 41:48 And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the
land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in the cities. He laid up in every city
the food of the fields which surrounded them.
Gen 41:49 Thus Yosĕph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea,
until he ceased counting, for it was without number.
Gen 41:50 And to Yosĕph were born two sons before the years of scarcity of
food came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to
him.
Gen 41:51 And Yosĕph called the name of the first-born Menashsheh, “For
Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”
Gen 41:52 And the name of the second he called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has
caused me to bear fruit in the land of my affliction.”
Gen 41:53 And the seven years of plenty which were in the land of
Mitsrayim came to an end,
Gen 41:54 and the seven years of scarcity of food began to come, as Yosĕph
had said. And the scarcity of food was in all lands, but in all the land of
Mitsrayim there was bread.
Gen 41:55 But when all the land of Mitsrayim hungered, and the people
cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh said to all the Mitsrites, “Go to Yosĕph,
do whatever he says to you.”
Gen 41:56 And the scarcity of food was over all the face of the earth, and
Yosĕph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Mitsrites. And the scarcity
of food was severe in the land of Mitsrayim.
Gen 41:57 And all the earth came to Yosĕph in Mitsrayim to buy grain,
because the scarcity of food was severe in all the earth.