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  1  When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?”   2  He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.” 3  Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.   4  But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.   5  So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also. 6  Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.   7  As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where do you come from?” he aske...

  Pharaoh’s Dreams 1  When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile,   2  when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.   3  After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.   4  And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. 5  He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.   6  After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind.   7  The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream. 8  In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret th...

1  Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.   2  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,   3  and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.   4  The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,   5  each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. 6  When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.   7  So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?” 8  “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret ...

 1.  Now Joseph   had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard,   bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. 2  The  Lord  was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.   3  When his master saw that the  Lord  was with him and that the  Lord  gave him success in everything he did,   4  Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.   5  From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the  Lord  blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the  Lord  was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.   6  So Potiphar left everything he had in Jose...