Genesis, starting at chapter 40
{40:1} It happened after these things, that the butler of the king
of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. {40:2}
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the
chief baker. {40:3} He put them in custody in the house of the captain
of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
{40:4} The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took
care of them. They stayed in prison many days. {40:5} They both
dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according
to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the
king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. {40:6} Joseph came in to
them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. {40:7}
He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his
master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
{40:8} They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no
one who can interpret it."
Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please
tell it to me."
{40:9} The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to
him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, {40:10} and in
the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms
shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes. {40:11}
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."
{40:12} Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three
branches are three days. {40:13} Within three more days, Pharaoh will
lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give
Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his
cupbearer. {40:14} But remember me when it will be well with you, and
please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and
bring me out of this house. {40:15} For indeed, I was stolen away out
of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that
they should put me into the dungeon."
{40:16} When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good,
he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets
of white bread were on my head. {40:17} In the uppermost basket there
was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of
the basket on my head."
{40:18} Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three
baskets are three days. {40:19} Within three more days, Pharaoh will
lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the
birds will eat your flesh from off you." {40:20} It happened the third
day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his
servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the
head of the chief baker among his servants. {40:21} He restored the
chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand; {40:22} but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had
interpreted to them. {40:23} Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember
Joseph, but forgot him.
{41:1} It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river. {41:2} Behold, there came
up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the
marsh grass. {41:3} Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out
of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the
brink of the river. {41:4} The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven
sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke. {41:5} He slept and dreamed a
second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk,
healthy and good. {41:6} Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and
blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. {41:7} The thin
heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh
awoke, and behold, it was a dream. {41:8} It happened in the morning
that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of
Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but
there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
{41:9} Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I
remember my faults today. {41:10} Pharaoh was angry with his servants,
and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and
the chief baker. {41:11} We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We
dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. {41:12}
There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain
of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To
each man according to his dream he interpreted. {41:13} It happened,
as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and
he hanged him."
{41:14} Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Pharaoh. {41:15} Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have
dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have
heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
{41:16} Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will
give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
{41:17} Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on
the brink of the river: {41:18} and behold, there came up out of the
river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
{41:19} and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and
very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
ugliness. {41:20} The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat
cattle, {41:21} and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known
that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the
beginning. So I awoke. {41:22} I saw in my dream, and behold, seven
heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good: {41:23} and
behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the
east wind, sprung up after them. {41:24} The thin heads of grain
swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the
magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
{41:25} Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What
God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. {41:26} The seven good
cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven
years. The dream is one. {41:27} The seven thin and ugly cattle that
came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of
grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
{41:28} That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about
to do he has shown to Pharaoh. {41:29} Behold, there come seven years
of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. {41:30} There will
arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be
forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
{41:31} and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that
famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. {41:32} The dream
was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and
God will shortly bring it to pass.
{41:33} "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man,
and set him over the land of Egypt. {41:34} Let Pharaoh do this, and
let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of
the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years. {41:35} Let
them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up
grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them
keep it. {41:36} The food will be for a store to the land against the
seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the
land not perish through the famine."
{41:37} The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
of all his servants. {41:38} Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we
find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" {41:39}
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there
is none so discreet and wise as you. {41:40} You shall be over my
house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in
the throne I will be greater than you." {41:41} Pharaoh said to
Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." {41:42}
Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's
hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain
about his neck, {41:43} and he made him to ride in the second chariot
which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over
all the land of Egypt. {41:44} Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh,
and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the
land of Egypt." {41:45} Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah;
and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a
wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
{41:46} Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went
throughout all the land of Egypt. {41:47} In the seven plenteous years
the earth brought forth abundantly. {41:48} He gathered up all the
food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up
the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every
city, he laid up in the same. {41:49} Joseph laid up grain as the sand
of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without
number. {41:50} To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine
came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to
him. {41:51} Joseph called the name of the firstborn [1>]Manasseh,[<1]
"For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my
father's house." {41:52} The name of the second, he called
[2>]Ephraim[<2]: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my
affliction."
{41:53} The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt,
came to an end. {41:54} The seven years of famine began to come, just
as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land
of Egypt there was bread. {41:55} When all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to
all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do." {41:56}
The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all
the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in
the land of Egypt. {41:57} All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph,
to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
{42:1} Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said
to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" {42:2} He said,
"Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and
buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die." {42:3}
Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. {42:4} But
Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for
he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." {42:5} The sons of Israel
came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of
Canaan. {42:6} Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who
sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed
themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. {42:7} Joseph
saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to
them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you
come from?"
They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
{42:8} Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize
him. {42:9} Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them,
and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness
of the land."
{42:10} They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come
to buy food. {42:11} We are all one man's sons; we are honest men.
Your servants are not spies."
{42:12} He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness
of the land!"
{42:13} They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons
of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day
with our father, and one is no more."
{42:14} Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You
are spies!' {42:15} By this you shall be tested. By the life of
Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest
brother comes here. {42:16} Send one of you, and let him get your
brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested,
whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely
you are spies." {42:17} He put them all together into custody for
three days.
{42:18} Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I
fear God. {42:19} If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers
be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of
your houses. {42:20} Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your
words be verified, and you won't die."
They did so. {42:21} They said one to another, "We are certainly
guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his
soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this
distress has come upon us." {42:22} Reuben answered them, saying,
"Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you
wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
{42:23} They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an
interpreter between them. {42:24} He turned himself away from them,
and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon
from among them, and bound him before their eyes. {42:25} Then Joseph
gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each
man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it
was done to them.
{42:26} They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed
from there. {42:27} As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey
food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the
mouth of his sack. {42:28} He said to his brothers, "My money is
restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and
they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God
has done to us?" {42:29} They came to Jacob their father, to the land
of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, {42:30}
"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for
spies of the country. {42:31} We said to him, 'We are honest men. We
are no spies. {42:32} We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one
is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land
of Canaan.' {42:33} The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By
this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers
with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your
way. {42:34} Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that
you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your
brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
{42:35} It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each
man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw
their bundles of money, they were afraid. {42:36} Jacob, their father,
said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more,
Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these
things are against me."
{42:37} Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I
don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him
to you again."
{42:38} He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in
which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
[3>]Sheol[<3]."
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Footnotes:
[1] {41:51} "Manasseh" sounds like the Hebrew for "forget."
[2] {41:52} "Ephraim" sounds like the Hebrew for "twice fruitful."
[3] {42:38} Sheol is the place of the dead.
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