39 And Joseph hath been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners, an Egyptian man, buyeth him out of the hands of the Ishmaelites who have brought him thither.

² And Jehovah is with Joseph, and he is a prosperous man, and he is in the house of his lord the Egyptian,

³ and his lord seeth that Jehovah is with him, and all that he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper in his hand,

⁴ and Joseph findeth grace in his eyes and serveth him, and he appointeth him over his house, and all that he hath he hath given into his hand.

⁵ And it cometh to pass from the time that he hath appointed him over his house, and over all that he hath, that Jehovah blesseth the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of Jehovah is on all that he hath, in the house, and in the field;

⁶ and he leaveth all that he hath in the hand of Joseph, and he hath not known anything that he hath, except the bread which he is eating. And Joseph is of a fair form, and of a fair appearance.

⁷ And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, `Lie with me;'

⁸ and he refuseth, and saith unto his lord's wife, `Lo, my lord hath not known what [is] with me in the house, and all that he hath he hath given into my hand;

⁹ none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou [art] his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? -- then have I sinned against God.'

¹⁰ And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day [by] day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her;

¹¹ and it cometh to pass about this day, that he goeth into the house to do his work, and there is none of the men of the house there in the house,

¹² and she catcheth him by his garment, saying, `Lie with me;' and he leaveth his garment in her hand, and fleeth, and goeth without.

¹³ And it cometh to pass when she seeth that he hath left his garment in her hand, and fleeth without,

¹⁴ that she calleth for the men of her house, and speaketh to them, saying, `See, he hath brought in to us a man, a Hebrew, to play with us; he hath come in unto me, to lie with me, and I call with a loud voice,

¹⁵ and it cometh to pass, when he heareth that I have lifted up my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth, and goeth without.'

¹⁶ And she placeth his garment near her, until the coming in of his lord unto his house.

¹⁷ And she speaketh unto him according to these words, saying, `The Hebrew servant whom thou hast brought unto us, hath come in unto me to play with me;

¹⁸ and it cometh to pass, when I lift my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth without.'

¹⁹ And it cometh to pass when his lord heareth the words of his wife, which she hath spoken unto him, saying, `According to these things hath thy servant done to me,' that his anger burneth;

²⁰ and Joseph's lord taketh him, and putteth him unto the round-house, a place where the king's prisoners [are] bound; and he is there in the round-house.

²¹ And Jehovah is with Joseph, and stretcheth out kindness unto him, and putteth his grace in the eyes of the chief of the round-house;

²² and the chief of the round-house giveth into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who [are] in the round-house, and of all that they are doing there, he hath been doer;

²³ the chief of the round-house seeth not anything under his hand, because Jehovah [is] with him, and that which he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper.

41 And it cometh to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and lo, he is standing by the River,

² and lo, from the River coming up are seven kine, of fair appearance, and fat [in] flesh, and they feed among the reeds;

³ and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them out of the River, of bad appearance, and lean [in] flesh, and they stand near the kine on the edge of the River,

⁴ and the kine of bad appearance and lean [in] flesh eat up the seven kine of fair appearance, and fat -- and Pharaoh awaketh.

⁵ And he sleepeth, and dreameth a second time, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good,

⁶ and lo, seven ears, thin, and blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;

⁷ and the thin ears swallow the seven fat and full ears -- and Pharaoh awaketh, and lo, a dream.

⁸ And it cometh to pass in the morning, that his spirit is moved, and he sendeth and calleth all the scribes of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh recounteth to them his dream, and there is no interpreter of them to Pharaoh.

⁹ And the chief of the butlers speaketh with Pharaoh, saying, `My sin I mention this day:

¹⁰ Pharaoh hath been wroth against his servants, and giveth me into charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;

¹¹ and we dream a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we have dreamed.

¹² And there [is] with us a youth, a Hebrew, servant to the chief of the executioners, and we recount to him, and he interpreteth to us our dreams, [to] each according to his dream hath he interpreted,

¹³ and it cometh to pass, as he hath interpreted to us so it hath been, me he put back on my station, and him he hanged.'

¹⁴ And Pharaoh sendeth and calleth Joseph, and they cause him to run out of the pit, and he shaveth, and changeth his garments, and cometh in unto Pharaoh.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I -- I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,'

¹⁶ and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, `Without me -- God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.'

¹⁷ And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: `In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River,

¹⁸ and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat [in] flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds;

¹⁹ and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean [in] flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.

²⁰ `And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,

²¹ and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance [is] bad as at the commencement; and I awake.

²² `And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good;

²³ and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;

²⁴ and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.'

²⁵ And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, `The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh;

²⁶ the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;

²⁷ and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;

²⁸ this [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.

²⁹ `Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,

³⁰ and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land,

³¹ and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it [is] very grievous.

³² `And because of the repeating of the dream unto Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hastening to do it.

³³ `And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;

³⁴ let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty,

³⁵ and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh -- food in the cities; and they have kept [it],

³⁶ and the food hath been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.'

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

³⁸ and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God [is]?'

³⁹ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

⁴⁰ thou -- thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.'

⁴¹ And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.'

⁴² And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him [with] garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

⁴³ and causeth him to ride in the second chariot which he hath, and they proclaim before him, `Bow the knee!' and -- to put him over all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁴ And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee a man doth not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt;'

⁴⁵ and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶ And Joseph [is] a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goeth out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passeth over through all the land of Egypt;

⁴⁷ and the land maketh in the seven years of plenty by handfuls.

⁴⁸ And he gathereth all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and putteth food in the cities; the food of the field which [is] round about [each] city hath he put in its midst;

⁴⁹ and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number.

⁵⁰ And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine cometh, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him,

⁵¹ and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: `for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;'

⁵² and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: `for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.'

⁵³ And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt,

⁵⁴ and the seven years of famine begin to come, as Joseph said, and famine is in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt hath been bread;

⁵⁵ and all the land of Egypt is famished, and the people crieth unto Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh saith to all the Egyptians, `Go unto Joseph; that which he saith to you -- do.'

⁵⁶ And the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph openeth all [places] which have [corn] in them, and selleth to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt,

⁵⁷ and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.

43 And the famine [is] severe in the land;

² and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.'

³ And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you;

⁴ if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,

⁵ and if thou art not sending -- we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.'

⁶ And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'

⁷ and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'

⁸ And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.

⁹ I -- I am surety [for] him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee -- then I have sinned against thee all the days;

¹⁰ for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.'

¹¹ And Israel their father saith unto them, `If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;

¹² and double money take in your hand, even the money which is brought back in the mouth of your bags, ye take back in your hand, it may be it [is] an oversight.

¹³ `And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man;

¹⁴ and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'

¹⁵ And the men take this present, double money also they have taken in their hand, and Benjamin; and they rise, and go down to Egypt, and stand before Joseph;

¹⁶ and Joseph seeth Benjamin with them, and saith to him who [is] over his house, `Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal, and make ready, for with me do the men eat at noon.'

¹⁷ And the man doth as Joseph hath said, and the man bringeth in the men into the house of Joseph,

¹⁸ and the men are afraid because they have been brought into the house of Joseph, and they say, `For the matter of the money which was put back in our bags at the commencement are we brought in -- to roll himself upon us, and to throw himself on us, and to take us for servants -- our asses also.'

¹⁹ And they come nigh unto the man who [is] over the house of Joseph, and speak unto him at the opening of the house,

²⁰ and say, `O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;

²¹ and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one's money [is] in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;

²² and other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food; we have not known who put our money in our bags.'

²³ And he saith, `Peace to you, fear not: your God and the God of your father hath given to you hidden treasure in your bags, your money came unto me;' and he bringeth out Simeon unto them.

²⁴ And the man bringeth in the men into Joseph's house, and giveth water, and they wash their feet; and he giveth provender for their asses,

²⁵ and they prepare the present until the coming of Joseph at noon, for they have heard that there they do eat bread.

²⁶ And Joseph cometh into the house, and they bring to him the present which [is] in their hand, into the house, and bow themselves to him, to the earth;

²⁷ and he asketh of them of peace, and saith, `Is your father well? the aged man of whom ye have spoken, is he yet alive?'

²⁸ and they say, `Thy servant our father [is] well, he is yet alive;' and they bow, and do obeisance.

²⁹ And he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and saith, `Is this your young brother, of whom ye have spoken unto me?' and he saith, `God favour thee, my son.'

³⁰ And Joseph hasteth, for his bowels have been moved for his brother, and he seeketh to weep, and entereth the inner chamber, and weepeth there;

³¹ and he washeth his face, and goeth out, and refraineth himself, and saith, `Place bread.'

³² And they place for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who are eating with him by themselves: for the Egyptians are unable to eat bread with the Hebrews, for it [is] an abomination to the Egyptians.

³³ And they sit before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the young one according to his youth, and the men wonder one at another;

³⁴ and he lifteth up gifts from before him unto them, and the gift of Benjamin is five hands more than the gifts of all of them; and they drink, yea, they drink abundantly with him.

45 And Joseph hath not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calleth, `Put out every man from me;' and no man hath stood with him when Joseph maketh himself known unto his brethren,

² and he giveth forth his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh heareth.

³ And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I [am] Joseph, is my father yet alive?' and his brethren have not been able to answer him, for they have been troubled at his presence.

⁴ And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `Come nigh unto me, I pray you,' and they come nigh; and he saith, `I [am] Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt;

⁵ and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

⁶ `Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet [are] five years, [in] which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;

⁷ and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;

⁸ and now, ye -- ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁹ `Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not,

¹⁰ and thou hast dwelt in the land of Goshen, and been near unto me, thou and thy sons, and thy son's sons, and thy flock, and thy herd, and all that thou hast,

¹¹ and I have nourished thee there -- for yet [are] five years of famine -- lest thou become poor, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.

¹² `And lo, your eyes are seeing, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth which is speaking unto you;

¹³ and ye have declared to my father all my honour in Egypt, and all that ye have seen, and ye have hasted, and have brought down my father hither.'

¹⁴ And he falleth on the neck of Benjamin his brother, and weepeth, and Benjamin hath wept on his neck;

¹⁵ and he kisseth all his brethren, and weepeth over them; and afterwards have his brethren spoken with him.

¹⁶ And the sound hath been heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, `Come have the brethren of Joseph;' and it is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants,

¹⁷ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, enter ye the land of Canaan,

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

¹⁹ `Yea, thou -- thou hast been commanded: this do ye, take for yourselves out of the land of Egypt, waggons for your infants, and for your wives, and ye have brought your father, and come;

²⁰ and your eye hath no pity on your vessels, for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours.'

²¹ And the sons of Israel do so, and Joseph giveth waggons to them by the command of Pharaoh, and he giveth to them provision for the way;

²² to all of them hath he given -- to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments;

²³ and to his father he hath sent thus: ten asses bearing of the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses bearing corn and bread, even food for his father for the way.

²⁴ And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, `Be not angry in the way.'

²⁵ And they go up out of Egypt, and come in to the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father,

²⁶ and they declare to him, saying, `Joseph [is] yet alive,' and that he [is] ruler over all the land of Egypt; and his heart ceaseth, for he hath not given credence to them.

²⁷ And they speak unto him all the words of Joseph, which he hath spoken unto them, and he seeth the waggons which Joseph hath sent to bear him away, and live doth the spirit of Jacob their father;

²⁸ and Israel saith, `Enough! Joseph my son [is] yet alive; I go and see him before I die.'