The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
We had a dream on the same night, he and I; each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream.
Now a Hebrew youth was with us there, a servant of the captain of the bodyguard, and we related them to him, and he interpreted our dreams for us. To each one he interpreted according to his own dream.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one can interpret it; and I have heard it said about you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk;
Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.
Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”
Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is a divine spirit?”
So it came about when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a present, a little balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
Take double the money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was a mistake.
So they prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon; for they had heard that they were to eat a meal there.
Joseph hurried out for he was deeply stirred over his brother, and he sought a place to weep; and he entered his chamber and wept there.
They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.
Joseph said to them, “What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed practice divination?”
Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.
My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’
We said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’
Our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’
Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.
The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.
So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”
Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
and He said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.’
The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; And may my name live on in them, And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”
“Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?
“Zebulun will dwell at the seashore; And he shall be a haven for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
“Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between the sheepfolds.
“When he saw that a resting place was good And that the land was pleasant, He bowed his shoulder to bear burdens, And became a slave at forced labor.
“Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, So that his rider falls backward.
“Naphtali is a doe let loose, He gives beautiful words.
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a spring; Its branches run over a wall.
“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And in the evening he divides the spoil.”
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site.
There also went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.
Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore it was named Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!”
So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father charged before he died, saying,
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
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