Genesis:39-41
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Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt .
And Potiphar ,
an officer of Pharaoh ,
captain of the guard ,
an Egyptian ,
bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there .
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The LORD was with Joseph ,
and he was a successful man ;
and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian .
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And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand .
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So Joseph found favor in his sight ,
and served him .
Then he made him overseer of his house ,
and all that he had he put under his authority .
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So it was ,
from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had ,
that the LORD blessed the Egyptian '
s house for Joseph '
s sake ;
and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had in the house and in the field .
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Thus he left all that he had in Joseph '
s hand ,
and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate .
Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance .
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And it came to pass after these things that his master '
s wife cast longing eyes on Joseph ,
and she said , "
Lie with me ."
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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 committed all that he has to my hand .
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There is no one greater in this house than I ,
nor has he kept back anything from me but you ,
because you are his wife .
How then can I do this great wickedness ,
and sin against God ?"
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So it was ,
as she spoke to Joseph day by day ,
that he did not heed her ,
to lie with her or to be with her .
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But it happened about this time ,
when Joseph went into the house to do his work ,
and none of the men of the house was inside ,
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that she caught him by his garment ,
saying , "
Lie with me ."
But he left his garment in her hand ,
and fled and ran outside .
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And so it was ,
when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside ,
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that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them ,
saying , "
See ,
he has brought in to us a Hebrew to mock us .
He came in to me to lie with me ,
and I cried out with a loud voice .
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And it happened ,
when he heard that I lifted my voice and cried out ,
that he left his garment with me ,
and fled and went outside ."
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So she kept his garment with her until his master came home .
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Then she spoke to him with words like these ,
saying , "
The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came in to me to mock me ;
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so it happened ,
as I lifted my voice and cried out ,
that he left his garment with me and fled outside ."
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So it was ,
when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him ,
saying , "
Your servant did to me after this manner ,"
that his anger was aroused .
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Then Joseph '
s master took him and put him into the prison ,
a place where the king '
s prisoners were confined .
And he was there in the prison .
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But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy ,
and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison .
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And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph '
s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison ;
whatever they did there ,
it was his doing .
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The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph '
s authority ,
because the LORD was with him ;
and whatever he did ,
the LORD made it prosper .
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It came to pass after these things that the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord ,
the king of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers ,
the chief butler and the chief baker .
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So he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard ,
in the prison ,
the place where Joseph was confined .
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And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them ,
and he served them ;
so they were in custody for a while .
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Then the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt ,
who were confined in the prison ,
had a dream ,
both of them ,
each man '
s dream in one night and each man '
s dream with its own interpretation .
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And Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked at them ,
and saw that they were sad .
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So he asked Pharaoh '
s officers who were with him in the custody of his lord '
s house ,
saying , "
Why do you look so sad today ?"
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And they said to him , "
We each have had a dream ,
and there is no interpreter of it ."
So Joseph said to them , "
Do not interpretations belong to God ?
Tell them to me ,
please ."
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Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph ,
and said to him , "
Behold ,
in my dream a vine was before me ,
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and in the vine were three branches ;
it was as though it budded ,
its blossoms shot forth ,
and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes .
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Then Pharaoh '
s cup was in my hand ;
and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh '
s cup ,
and placed the cup in Pharaoh '
s hand ."
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And Joseph said to him , "
This is the interpretation of it :
The three branches are three days .
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Now within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place ,
and you will put Pharaoh '
s cup in his hand according to the former manner ,
when you were his butler .
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But remember me when it is well with you ,
and please show kindness to me ;
make mention of me to Pharaoh ,
and get me out of this house .
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For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews ;
and also I have done nothing here that they should put me into the dungeon ."
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good ,
he said to Joseph , "
I also was in my dream ,
and there were three white baskets on my head .
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In the uppermost basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh ,
and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head ."
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So Joseph answered and said , "
This is the interpretation of it :
The three baskets are three days .
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree ;
and the birds will eat your flesh from you ."
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Now it came to pass on 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 butler and of the chief baker among his servants .
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Then he restored the chief butler to his butlership again ,
and he placed the cup in Pharaoh '
s hand .
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But he hanged the chief baker ,
as Joseph had interpreted to them .
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Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph ,
but forgot him .
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Then it came to pass ,
at the end of two full years ,
that Pharaoh had a dream ;
and behold ,
he stood by the river .
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Suddenly there came up out of the river seven cows ,
fine looking and fat ;
and they fed in the meadow .
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Then behold ,
seven other cows came up after them out of the river ,
ugly and gaunt ,
and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river .
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And the ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows .
So Pharaoh awoke .
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He slept and dreamed a second time ;
and suddenly seven heads of grain came up on one stalk ,
plump and good .
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Then behold ,
seven thin heads ,
blighted by the east wind ,
sprang up after them .
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And the seven thin heads devoured the seven plump and full heads .
So Pharaoh awoke ,
and indeed ,
it was a dream .
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Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled ,
and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men .
And Pharaoh told them his dreams ,
but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh .
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Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh ,
saying : "
I remember my faults this day .
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When Pharaoh was angry with his servants ,
and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard ,
both me and the chief baker ,
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we each had a dream in one night ,
he and I .
Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream .
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Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there ,
a servant of the captain of the guard .
And we told him ,
and he interpreted our dreams for us ;
to each man he interpreted according to his own dream .
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And it came to pass ,
just as he interpreted for us ,
so it happened .
He restored me to my office ,
and he hanged him ."
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Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph ,
and they brought him quickly out of the dungeon ;
and he shaved ,
changed his clothing ,
and came to Pharaoh .
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph , "
I have had a dream ,
and there is no one who can interpret it .
But I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream ,
to interpret it ."
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So Joseph answered Pharaoh ,
saying , "
It is not in me ;
God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace ."
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph : "
Behold ,
in my dream I stood on the bank of the river .
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Suddenly seven cows came up out of the river ,
fine looking and fat ;
and they fed in the meadow .
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Then behold ,
seven other cows came up after them ,
poor and very ugly and gaunt ,
such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt .
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And the gaunt and ugly cows ate up the first seven ,
the fat cows .
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When they had eaten them up ,
no one would have known that they had eaten them ,
for they were just as ugly as at the beginning .
So I awoke .
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Also I saw in my dream ,
and suddenly seven heads came up on one stalk ,
full and good .
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Then behold ,
seven heads ,
withered ,
thin ,
and blighted by the east wind ,
sprang up after them .
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And the thin heads devoured the seven good heads .
So I told this to the magicians ,
but there was no one who could explain it to me ."
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Then Joseph said to Pharaoh , "
The dreams of Pharaoh are one ;
God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do :
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The seven good cows are seven years ,
and the seven good heads are seven years ;
the dreams are one .
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And the seven thin and ugly cows which came up after them are seven years ,
and the seven empty heads blighted by the east wind are seven years of famine .
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This is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh .
God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do .
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Indeed seven years of great plenty will come throughout all the land of Egypt ;
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but after them seven years of famine will arise ,
and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt ;
and the famine will deplete the land .
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So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following ,
for it will be very severe .
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And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God ,
and God will shortly bring it to pass .
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Now therefore ,
let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man ,
and set him over the land of Egypt .
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Let Pharaoh do this ,
and let him appoint officers over the land ,
to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years .
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And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming ,
and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh ,
and let them keep food in the cities .
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Then that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt ,
that the land may not perish during the famine ."
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So the advice was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants .
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And Pharaoh said to his servants , "
Can we find such a one as this ,
a man in whom is the Spirit of God ?"
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph , "
Inasmuch as God has shown you all this ,
there is no one as discerning and wise as you .
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You shall be over my house ,
and all my people shall be ruled according to your word ;
only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you ."
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph , "
See ,
I have set you over all the land of Egypt ."
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Then Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Joseph '
s hand ;
and he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck .
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And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had ;
and they cried out before him , "
Bow the knee !"
So he set him over all the land of Egypt .
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Pharaoh also said to Joseph , "
I am Pharaoh ,
and without your consent no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt ."
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And Pharaoh called Joseph '
s name Zaphnath-Paaneah .
And he gave him as a wife Asenath ,
the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On .
So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt .
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Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt .
And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh ,
and went throughout all the land of Egypt .
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Now in the seven plentiful years the ground brought forth abundantly .
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So 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 ;
he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them .
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Joseph gathered very much grain ,
as the sand of the sea ,
until he stopped counting ,
for it was immeasurable .
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And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came ,
whom Asenath ,
the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On ,
bore to him .
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Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh : "
For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father '
s house ."
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And the name of the second he called Ephraim : "
For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction ."
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Then the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Egypt ended ,
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and the seven years of famine began to come ,
as Joseph had said .
The famine was in all lands ,
but in all the land of Egypt there was bread .
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So when all the land of Egypt was famished ,
the people cried to Pharaoh for bread .
Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians , "
Go to Joseph ;
whatever he says to you ,
do ."
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The famine was over all the face of the earth ,
and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians .
And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt .
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So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain ,
because the famine was severe in all lands .
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When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt ,
Jacob said to his sons , "
Why do you look at one another ?"
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