Beresheet, starting at chapter 40
{40:1} It happened after these things, that the butler of the king
of Mitzrayim and his baker offended their lord, the king of Mitzrayim.
{40:2} Par`oh was angry against his two officers, against the chief of
the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. {40:3} He put them
in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison,
the place where Yosef was bound. {40:4} The captain of the guard
assigned them to Yosef, 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 butler and the baker of the king of Mitzrayim, who were
bound in the prison. {40:6} Yosef came in to them in the morning, and
saw them, and, saw that they were sad. {40:7} He asked Par`oh'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."
Yosef said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please
tell it to me."
{40:9} The chief butler told his dream to Yosef, 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 the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes. {40:11}
Par`oh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them
into Par`oh's cup, and I gave the cup into Par`oh's hand."
{40:12} Yosef said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the
three branches are three days. {40:13} Within three more days, Par`oh
will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give
Par`oh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his butler.
{40:14} But remember me when it will be well with you, and show
kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Par`oh, 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 Yosef, "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 of all kinds of baked food for Par`oh, and the birds ate them out
of the basket on my head."
{40:18} Yosef answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three
baskets are three days. {40:19} Within three more days, Par`oh 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 Par`oh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his
servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head
of the chief baker among his servants. {40:21} He restored the chief
butler to his butlership again, and he gave the cup into Par`oh's
hand; {40:22} but he hanged the chief baker, as Yosef had interpreted
to them. {40:23} Yet the chief butler didn't remember Yosef, but
forgot him.
{41:1} It happened at the end of two full years, that Par`oh
dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. {41:2} Behold, there came
up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and
they fed in the reed-grass. {41:3} Behold, seven other cattle came up
after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood
by the other cattle on the brink of the river. {41:4} The ill-favored
and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat cattle.
So Par`oh awoke. {41:5} He slept and dreamed a second time: and,
behold, seven ears of grain came up on one stalk, rank and good.
{41:6} Behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung
up after them. {41:7} The thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and
full ears. Par`oh 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 the magicians of Mitzrayim, and all the wise men of it.
Par`oh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret
them to Par`oh.
{41:9} Then the chief butler spoke to Par`oh, saying, "I remember my
faults today. {41:10} Par`oh 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 did interpret. {41:13} It happened, as
he interpreted to us, so it was: me he restored to my office, and him
he hanged."
{41:14} Then Par`oh sent and called Yosef, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Par`oh. {41:15} Par`oh said to Yosef, "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} Yosef answered Par`oh, saying, "It isn't in me: God will
give Par`oh an answer of shalom."
{41:17} Par`oh spoke to Yosef, "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-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the
reed-grass, {41:19} and, behold, seven other cattle came up after
them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw
in all the land of Mitzrayim for badness. {41:20} The lean and
ill-favored 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 ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
{41:22} I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up on one
stalk, full and good: {41:23} and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin,
and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. {41:24} The thin
ears swallowed up the seven good ears. I told it to the magicians; but
there was no one who could explain it to me."
{41:25} Yosef said to Par`oh, "The dream of Par`oh is one. What God
is about to do he has declared to Par`oh. {41:26} The seven good
cattle are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years. The
dream is one. {41:27} The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came
up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted
with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. {41:28} That
is the thing which I spoke to Par`oh. What God is about to do he has
shown to Par`oh. {41:29} Behold, there come seven years of great
plenty throughout all the land of Mitzrayim. {41:30} There will arise
after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten
in the land of Mitzrayim. 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 Par`oh, because the thing is established by God, and God
will shortly bring it to pass. {41:33} Now therefore let Par`oh look
for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Mitzrayim.
{41:34} Let Par`oh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the
land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Mitzrayim'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 Par`oh
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 Mitzrayim; that the land not perish through the
famine."
{41:37} The thing was good in the eyes of Par`oh, and in the eyes of
all his servants. {41:38} Par`oh said to his servants, "Can we find
such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" {41:39}
Par`oh said to Yosef, "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} Par`oh said to Yosef,
"Behold, I have set you over all the land of Mitzrayim." {41:42}
Par`oh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Yosef'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 Mitzrayim. {41:44} Par`oh said to Yosef, "I am Par`oh,
and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the
land of Mitzrayim." {41:45} Par`oh called Yosef's name
Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera
[1>]Kohen[<1] of On as a wife. Yosef went out over the land of
Mitzrayim.
{41:46} Yosef was thirty years old when he stood before Par`oh king
of Mitzrayim. Yosef went out from the presence of Par`oh, and went
throughout all the land of Mitzrayim. {41:47} In the seven plenteous
years the [2>]eretz[<2] brought forth by handfuls. {41:48} He gathered
up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of
Mitzrayim, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field,
which was round about every city, he laid up in the same. {41:49}
Yosef laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he
stopped counting, for it was without number. {41:50} To Yosef were
born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenat, the
daughter of Potiphera [3>]Kohen[<3] of On, bore to him. {41:51} Yosef
called the name of the firstborn Menashsheh, "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 Efrayim: "For God has made me fruitful
in the land of my affliction."
{41:53} The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of
Mitzrayim, came to an end. {41:54} The seven years of famine began to
come, just as Yosef had said. There was famine in all lands, but in
all the land of Mitzrayim there was bread. {41:55} When all the land
of Mitzrayim was famished, the people cried to Par`oh for bread, and
Par`oh said to all the Mitzrim, "Go to Yosef. What he says to you,
do." {41:56} The famine was over all the surface of the [4>]eretz[<4].
Yosef opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Mitzrim. The famine
was severe in the land of Mitzrayim. {41:57} All countries came into
Mitzrayim, to Yosef, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in
all the [5>]eretz[<5].
{42:1} Now Ya`akov saw that there was grain in Mitzrayim, and
Ya`akov said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" {42:2} He
said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Mitzrayim. Go down
there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
{42:3} Yosef's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Mitzrayim.
{42:4} But Ya`akov didn't send Binyamin, Yosef's brother, with his
brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm befall him." {42:5} The sons
of Yisra'el came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in
the land of Kana`an. {42:6} Yosef was the governor over the land. It
was he who sold to all the people of the land. Yosef's brothers came,
and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the
[1>]eretz[<1]. {42:7} Yosef 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 Kana`an to buy food."
{42:8} Yosef recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.
{42:9} Yosef 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 Kana`an; and, behold, the youngest is this
day with our father, and one is no more."
{42:14} Yosef said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are
spies.' {42:15} Hereby you shall be tested. By the life of Par`oh you
shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother come 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 Par`oh surely you are spies." {42:17} He
put them all together into custody three days.
{42:18} Yosef 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-house; 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 most
assuredly 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 on us." {42:22} Re'uven 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 Yosef understood them; for there was an
interpreter between them. {42:24} He turned himself about from them,
and wept, and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Shim`on
from among them, and bound him before their eyes. {42:25} Then Yosef
commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's
money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way. Thus was
it 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 even 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 Ya`akov their father to the
land of Kana`an, and told him all that had befallen 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 Kana`an.' {42:33} The man, the lord of the land,
said to us, 'Hereby will I 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 will
I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So will I
deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.'"
{42:35} It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every
man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw
their bundles of money, they were afraid. {42:36} Ya`akov, their
father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is
no more, Shim`on is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All
these things are against me."
{42:37} Re'uven spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I
don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, 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 befall him by the way in which
you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to She'ol."
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Footnotes:
[1] {41:45} priest
[2] {41:47} earth
[3] {41:50} priest
[4] {41:56} earth
[5] {41:57} earth
[1] {42:6} earth
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