Joseph

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• Genesis 30:22

  Then God remembered Rachel; he heard her and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived and gave birth to a son, and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace!'

• Genesis 30:24

  She named him Joseph, saying, 'May Yahweh add another son for me!'

• Genesis 30:25

  When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Release me and let me go home to my own country.

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the slave-girls and their children in front, with Leah and her children following, and Rachel and Joseph behind.

• Genesis 33:7

  Finally Rachel and Joseph came up and bowed low.

• Genesis 35:24

  The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 37:2

  Joseph was seventeen years old. As he was young, he was shepherding the flock with his brothers, with the sons of his father's wives, Bilhah and Zilpah; and Joseph brought his father bad reports about them.

• Genesis 37:5

  Now Joseph had a dream, and he repeated it to his brothers, who then hated him more than ever.

• Genesis 37:9

  He had another dream which he recounted to his brothers. 'Look, I have had another dream,' he said. 'There were the sun, the moon and eleven stars, bowing down to me.'

• Genesis 37:24

  and catching hold of him, threw him into the well. The well was empty, with no water in it.

• Genesis 37:28

  Now some Midianite merchants were passing, and they pulled Joseph out of the well. They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver, and these men took Joseph to Egypt.

• Genesis 37:36

  Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials and commander of the guard.

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been taken down into Egypt. Potiphar the Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and commander of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.

• Genesis 39:4

  he was pleased with Joseph and made him his personal attendant; and his master put him in charge of his household, entrusting him with all his possessions.

• Genesis 39:9

  How could I do anything so wicked, and sin against God?'

• Genesis 39:12

  she caught hold of him by his tunic and said, 'Sleep with me.' But he left the tunic in her hand, took to his heels and got out.

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph's master had him arrested and committed to the gaol where the king's prisoners were kept. And there in gaol he stayed.

• Genesis 39:22

  The chief gaoler put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners in the gaol, making him responsible for everything done there.

• Genesis 40:4

  The commander of the guard assigned Joseph to them to attend to their wants, and they remained in custody for some time.

• Genesis 40:8

  'Are not interpretations God's business?' Joseph asked them. 'Tell me about them.'

• Genesis 40:12

  'This is what it means,' Joseph told him. 'The three branches are three days.

• Genesis 40:18

  Joseph replied as follows, 'This is what it means: the three trays are three days.

• Genesis 40:14

  But be sure to remember me when things go well with you, and keep faith with me by kindly reminding Pharaoh about me, to get me out of this house.

• Genesis 40:15

  I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews in the first place, and even here I have done nothing to warrant being put in the dungeon.'

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh had Joseph summoned, and they hurried him from the dungeon. He shaved and changed his clothes, and presented himself before Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:16

  'Not I,' Joseph replied to Pharaoh, 'God will give Pharaoh a favourable answer.'

• Genesis 41:25

  Joseph said to Pharaoh, 'Pharaoh's dreams are one and the same: God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is going to do.

• Genesis 41:40

  You shall be my chancellor, and all my people shall respect your orders; only this throne shall set me above you.'

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-Paneah, and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph began to journey all over Egypt.

• Genesis 41:51

  Joseph named the first-born Manasseh, 'Because', he said, 'God has made me completely forget my hardships and my father's House.'

• Genesis 41:52

  He named the second Ephraim, 'Because', he said, 'God has made me fruitful in the country of my misfortune.'

• Genesis 41:57

  People came to Egypt from all over the world to get supplies from Joseph, for the famine had grown severe throughout the world.

• Genesis 43:16

  When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to his chamberlain, 'Take these men into the house. Slaughter a beast and prepare it, for these men are to eat with me at midday.'

• Genesis 43:27

  He greeted them pleasantly, asking, 'Is your father well, the old man you told me of ? Is he still alive?'

• Genesis 43:30

  Joseph hurried out; so strong was the affection he felt for his brother that he wanted to cry. He went into his room and there he wept.

• Genesis 43:32

  He was served separately; so were they, and so were the Egyptians who ate in his household, for the Egyptians could not take food with Hebrews; Egyptians have a horror of doing so.

• Genesis 44:1

  Then Joseph instructed his chamberlain as follows: 'Fill these men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack.

• Genesis 44:2

  And put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack as well as the money for his rations.' He did as Joseph had instructed.

• Genesis 44:4

  They had gone only a little way from the city, when Joseph said to his chamberlain, 'Away now and follow those men. When you catch up with them, say to them, "Why have you repaid good with evil?

• Genesis 44:15

  'What do you mean by doing this?' Joseph asked them. 'Did you not know that a man such as I am is a reader of omens?'

• Genesis 44:17

  'I could not think of doing such a thing,' he replied. 'The man in whose possession the cup was found shall be my slave, but you can go back unhindered to your father.'

• Genesis 45:1

  Then Joseph could not control his feelings in front of all his retainers, and he exclaimed, 'Let everyone leave me.' No one therefore was present with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers,

• Genesis 45:4

  Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'Come closer to me.' When they had come closer to him he said, 'I am your brother Joseph whom you sold into Egypt.

• Genesis 45:9

  'Return quickly to your father and tell him, "Your son Joseph says this: 'God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

• Genesis 45:10

  You will live in the region of Goshen where you will be near me, you, your children and your grandchildren, your flocks, your cattle and all your possessions.

• Genesis 45:14

  Then throwing his arms round the neck of his brother Benjamin he wept; and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.

• Genesis 45:22

  To each and every one he gave new clothes, and to Benjamin three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.

• Genesis 45:23

  And to his father he sent ten donkeys laden with the best that Egypt offered, and ten she-donkeys laden with grain, bread and food for his father's journey.

• Genesis 46:29

  Joseph had his chariot made ready and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as he appeared he threw his arms round his neck and for a long time wept on his shoulder.

• Genesis 46:31

  Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's family, 'I shall go back and break the news to Pharaoh. I shall tell him, "My brothers and my father's family who were in Canaan have come to me.

• Genesis 46:34

  you are to say, "Ever since our boyhood your servants have looked after livestock, we and our fathers before us," so that you can stay in the Goshen region -- for the Egyptians have a horror of all shepherds.'

• Genesis 47:1

  So Joseph went and told Pharaoh, 'My father and brothers have arrived from Canaan with their flocks and cattle and all their possessions. Here they are, in the region of Goshen.'

• Genesis 47:11

  Joseph then settled his father and brothers, giving them land holdings in Egypt, in the best part of the country, the region of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph accumulated all the money to be found in Egypt and Canaan, in exchange for the supplies being handed out, and put the money in Pharaoh's palace.

• Genesis 47:20

  Thus Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, since one by one the Egyptians sold their fields, so hard pressed were they by the famine; and the whole country passed into Pharaoh's possession,

• Genesis 47:26

  So Joseph made a law, still in force today, as regards the soil of Egypt, that one-fifth should go to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not go to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 48:1

  Some time later, Joseph was informed, 'Your father has been taken ill.' So he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Genesis 48:9

  'They are my sons, whom God has given me here,' Joseph told his father. 'Then bring them to me', he said, 'so that I may bless them.'

• Genesis 48:17

  Joseph saw that his father was laying his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and this he thought was wrong, so he took his father's hand and tried to shift it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.

• Genesis 48:18

  Joseph protested to his father, 'Not like that, father! This one is the elder; put your right hand on his head.'

• Genesis 48:21

  Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Now I am about to die. But God will be with you and take you back to the land of your ancestors.

• Genesis 49:22

  Joseph is a fruitful plant near a spring whose tendrils reach over the wall.

• Genesis 49:24

  But their bows were broken by a mighty One, the sinews of their arms were snapped by the power of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the Name of the Stone of Israel,

• Genesis 49:26

  blessings of the grain and flowers, blessings of the eternal mountains, bounty of the everlasting hills -- may they descend on Joseph's head, on the crown of the one dedicated from among his brothers!

• Genesis 50:1

  At this Joseph threw himself on his father's face, covering it with tears and kisses.

• Genesis 50:2

  Then Joseph ordered the doctors in his service to embalm his father. The doctors embalmed Israel,

• Genesis 50:5

  "My father put me under oath, saying: I am about to die. In the tomb which I dug for myself in Canaan, that is where you are to bury me. So may I have leave to go up and bury my father, and then come back?" '

• Genesis 50:7

  Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all Pharaoh's officials, the dignitaries of his palace and all the dignitaries of Egypt,

• Genesis 50:10

  On arriving at Goren-ha-Atad, which is across the Jordan, they there held a long and solemn lamentation, and Joseph observed seven days' mourning for his father.

• Genesis 50:14

  Then Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had come up with him to bury his father.

• Genesis 50:19

  But Joseph replied, 'Do not be afraid; is it for me to put myself in God's place?

• Genesis 50:20

  The evil you planned to do me has by God's design been turned to good, to bring about the present result: the survival of a numerous people.

• Genesis 50:21

  So there is no need to be afraid; I shall provide for you and your dependants.' In this way he reassured them by speaking affectionately to them.

• Genesis 50:22

  So Joseph stayed in Egypt with his father's family; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

• Genesis 50:24

  At length Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die; but God will be sure to remember you kindly and take you out of this country to the country which he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'

• Genesis 50:25

  And Joseph put Israel's sons on oath, saying, 'When God remembers you with kindness, be sure to take my bones away from here.'

• Genesis 50:26

  Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten; he was embalmed and laid in a coffin in Egypt.

• Exodus 1:5

  In all, the descendants of Jacob numbered seventy persons. Joseph was in Egypt already.

• Exodus 1:6

  Then Joseph died, and his brothers, and all that generation.

• Exodus 1:8

  Then there came to power in Egypt a new king who had never heard of Joseph.

• Exodus 13:19

  Moses took with him the bones of Joseph, since Joseph had put the Israelites on solemn oath with the words, 'It is sure that God will visit you,' he had said, 'and when that day comes you must take my bones away from here with you.'