Genesis 40 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now after these things it happened that the chief butler of the king of Egypt and the chief baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. ² And Pharao was incensed against his two officers, against the chief butler and against the chief baker ³ and sent them under a guard to prison; to the place to which Joseph had been sent. ⁴ And the keeper of the prison committed them to Joseph and he attended them. And when they had been there some days in prison, ⁵ they both had a dream, in the same night. And the appearance of the dream both of the chief butler and the chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt and were in prison, was similar. ⁶ And in the morning when Joseph went in to them he saw that they were troubled. ⁷ Whereupon he asked the officers of Pharao who were confined with him at his master's, saying, Why are your countenances sad to day? ⁸ And they said to him, We have had a dream and there is none to interpret it. And Joseph said, Is not the interpretation thereof from God? Therefore tell me. ⁹ So the chief butler told Joseph his dream and said, In my sleep there was a vine before me, ¹⁰ and on the vine three branches and one was flourishing and had produced clusters, and the grapes of one cluster were ripe. ¹¹ And I had in my hand the cup of Pharao. So I took the bunch and squeezed it into the cup and gave the cup into Pharao's hand. ¹² Thereupon Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days. ¹³ Three days hence Pharao will take cognizance of thy administration and restore thee to thy office of cup bearer, and thou shalt give Pharao's cup into his hand according to thy former dignity, when thou wast butler. ¹⁴ But think of me by thy own case, when it shall be well with thee; and do me the favour to mention me to Pharao and release me from this prison. ¹⁵ For I have been stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here I have done nothing, yet they have thrown me into this dungeon. ¹⁶ And when the chief baker saw that he interpreted well he said to Joseph, I also had a dream, I thought I was carrying on my head three baskets of cakes, ¹⁷ and in the uppermost basket, pastry of all the sorts which Pharao eateth. And the birds of the air devoured those in the uppermost basket on my head. ¹⁸ And Joseph answered and said to him, This is the interpretation thereof. The three baskets are three days. ¹⁹ Three days hence Pharao will take off thy head and hang thee on a gibbet and the birds of the air will devour thy flesh. ²⁰ Accordingly it fell out, that the third day was Pharao's birth day, and he made an entertainment for all his servants and took cognizance of the administration of the butler, and the administration of the baker in the midst of his servants. ²¹ And he restored the butler to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharao's hand. ²² But the chief baker he hanged as Joseph had interpreted to them. ²³ Yet the chief butler made no mention of Joseph, but passed him over in oblivion.

²⁰ So Joseph's master took and cast him into prison; into the place where the king's prisoners were confined. ²¹ But in the prison the Lord was with Joseph, and continued his kindness and gave him favour in the sight of the principal keeper of the prison. ²² And the principal keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's care the prison and all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever was done there, he was the person who caused it to be done. ²³ The principal keeper took no cognizance of any thing himself; for all things were committed to Joseph's management, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord prospered in his hands whatever he did.

¹³ Three days hence Pharao will take cognizance of thy administration and restore thee to thy office of cup bearer, and thou shalt give Pharao's cup into his hand according to thy former dignity, when thou wast butler.

¹¹ Turn not away, I beseech thee, Lord. But let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy children, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I beseech thee, thy servant this day, and grant him favour in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's butler,

¹ Now on that night the Lord removed sleep from the king, therefore he ordered his attendant to bring the book of daily records, and read to him;

²⁷ and over the fields, Semei the Raelite; and over the stores of wine in the vineyards Sabdi the son of Sephni;

¹⁰ Since the secret purpose of man can contribute to thy praise, let the remainder of it cause a festival to be celebrated for thee.

¹⁴ The wrath of a king is a messenger of death: but a wise man can pacify it.

¹² The threat of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but his favour is like dew on the grass.

¹⁹ Let a malicious man be fined high; but if he take away life, let him forfeit his own.

⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger outrageous: but nothing can withstand envy.

²⁰ Now Herod was meditating a war against the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they with one accord waited on him, and having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, they sued for peace, because their country was subsisted by that of the king.

²⁰ So Joseph's master took and cast him into prison; into the place where the king's prisoners were confined.

²³ The principal keeper took no cognizance of any thing himself; for all things were committed to Joseph's management, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord prospered in his hands whatever he did.

³⁶ But the Madienites sold Joseph in Egypt to Petephres the chamberlain of Pharao, the captain of the guards.

¹ Now when Joseph was brought to Egypt, Petephres the chamberlain of Pharao, the captain of the guards, an Egyptian, bought him at the hands of the Ismaelites, who had brought him thither.

⁵ Lay open thy way before the Lord, and trust in him; and he will accomplish;

¹ Now the Lord said to Abram, Depart from thy land and from thy kindred and from the house of thy father and come to the land which I will shew thee, ² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed; ³ and I will bless them, who bless thee; and those who curse thee I will curse: and by thee all the tribes of the earth shalt be blessed. ⁴ So Abram went as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy five years old when he came out of Charran. ⁵ And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance which they possessed, and every living creature which they had, and set out from Charran to go to the land of Chanaan. ⁶ And Abram travelled through the land lengthwise till he came to the place of Sychem to the lofty Oak. Now the Chananites at that time inhabited that land. ⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him.

³ And Abimelech the king of the Gerarites sent and took Sarah. And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said, Behold thou diest for this woman, whom thou hast taken; for she is the man's wife.

⁵ Besides Joseph having dreamed a dream told it to his brothers ⁶ and said to them, Hear this dream which I have dreamed. ⁷ I thought we were binding sheaves in the middle of a field; and my sheaf arose and stood upright, and your sheaves being ranged around made obeisance to my sheaf. ⁸ Upon which his brothers said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us or have dominion over us? So they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words. ⁹ And he had another dream and told this to his father and his brothers and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream, as if the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. ¹⁰ Upon which his father rebuked him saying, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? What! Shall I and thy mother and thy brothers come and bow down to thee on the ground?

⁸ And they said to him, We have had a dream and there is none to interpret it. And Joseph said, Is not the interpretation thereof from God? Therefore tell me.

¹ But it happened that at the end of two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he was standing by the river; ² and lo! there came up out of the river seven cows of a beautiful figure and very fat; and they fed on the sedge. ³ And seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and lean; and they fed near the other cows on the bank of the river; ⁴ and the seven ill favoured and lean cows devoured the seven cows which were of a beautiful figure and full of flesh. And Pharao awoke. ⁵ Again he dreamed a second time; and lo! seven ears of corn sprang upon one stalk, choice and good: ⁶ and lo! seven ears thin and blasted sprang up after them. ⁷ And the seven thin and blasted ears devoured the seven ears which were choice and full. And Pharao awoke; and it was a dream.

¹¹ And both I and he had a dream the same night, each had a dream regarding himself.

⁶ he said to them, Hear my words. If there be a prophet among you to the Lord, I will make myself known to him by a vision, and speak to him in sleep.

¹³ And when Gideon drew near, behold there was a man telling his comrade a dream. And he said, Behold I have had a dream. I thought I saw a cake of barley bread rolling about in the camp of Madiam, and it came to this tent, and smote it, and it fell. It indeed overturned it, and the tent fell. ¹⁴ And his comrade answered, and said, Is not this the sword of Gideon, son of Joas the Israelite? God hath delivered into his hand Madiam and all this camp.

¹⁵ In a dream, for instance, or in a nightly vision: As when a dread horror falleth on men, during their slumbers on a bed; ¹⁶ then doth he open the understanding of men. ¹⁷ With such appearances of terror he frighted them, to turn man away from iniquity. Again he hath saved his body from a fall,

¹ . Nabuchodonosar, in the second year of his reign, dreamed a dream and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him. ² And the king gave orders to call the soothsayers and the magians and the chymists and the Chaldees that they might tell the king his dream. ³ And when they were come and stood before the king, the king said to them, I have dreamed and my mind is anxious to know the dream.

⁵ I had a dream which terrified me and I was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head disquieted me.

⁹ To him I said, Baltasar chief of the soothsayers, who, I know, hast a holy spirit of a god in thee, so that no secret can escape thee, hear the vision of the dream which I have seen; and tell me the meaning of it.

¹⁹ Upon this Daniel, whose name is Baltasar, was absorpt in astonishment for about an hour and his thoughts agitated him and Baltasar answered and said, Let this dream, my Lord, be for them who hate thee, and the interpretation thereof for thine enemies.

¹ In the first year of Baltasar king of the Chaldeans, Daniel had a dream and these were the visions of his head on his bed and he wrote down this dream of his. ² I Daniel beheld, and lo! the four winds of heaven blew violently on the great sea; ³ and four great beasts came up out of the sea, different one from the other. ⁴ The first was like a lioness, and had wings like those of an eagle. I beheld till her wings were plucked off; and she was raised from the earth and stood on the feet of a man and a man's heart was given her. ⁵ And behold the second beast was like a bear; and it stood half erect and there were three ribs in its mouth between its teeth, and they said to it thus, "Arise, devour much flesh." ⁶ After this I looked, and lo! another beast like a leopard; and it had four wings of a bird on it; and this beast had four heads and to it dominion was given. ⁷ After this I beheld, and lo! a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong and its teeth of iron! It devoured and brake in pieces! and the residue it trampled with its feet. Now this was far different from all the beasts which were before it and it had ten horns. ⁸ I attended to its horns, and behold another little horn sprouted up in the midst of them; and three of the horns which were before it were rooted out from before it. And behold in this horn there were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.

⁸ And in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent for all the interpreters of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof, and told them his dream, but there was none who could interpret it to Pharao.

⁶ Whereupon the king's countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him and the joints of his loins were loosened and his knees smote one against another.

²⁸ To this is the end of this word. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me much and my countenance was changed. But I kept the matter in mine own heart.

²⁷ Upon this I Daniel was confined to my bed and sick. And when I arose I did the king's business. And I was astonished at the vision; but none understood it.

²⁴ And Micah said, Because you have taken my graven image, which I made, and the priest; and have gone away. What more could have happened to me? Why then do you say to me, Why dost thou shout?

⁸ Elkana her husband said to her, Anna! and she said to him, Here, my lord. And he said to her, What is the matter with thee, that thou weepest? And why dost thou not eat? And why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons?

⁴ and he said to him, What is the matter with thee, son of the king, that thou art so languishing for some time past? Why dost thou not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Themar, the sister of my brother Abessalom.

² the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, and thou not at thine ease? this is nothing but grief of heart. At this I was greatly terrified

¹⁷ And he said to them, What matters are these about which you are conferring with one another on the road, and are sad?

¹⁵ And Pharao said to Joseph, I have had a dream and there is none who can interpret it. But I have heard people say of thee, that upon hearing dreams thou canst interpret them. ¹⁶ In reply to which, Joseph said to Pharao, Without God no answer of peace can be given to Pharao.

¹⁵ In a dream, for instance, or in a nightly vision: As when a dread horror falleth on men, during their slumbers on a bed; ¹⁶ then doth he open the understanding of men.

¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them who fear him; and it is his covenant to display it for them.

¹⁹ if they should say to you, "Apply to the belly speakers, and to them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground. Those vain babblers who speak from the belly: should not a nation apply to their God? Why consult they the dead concerning the living?

¹¹ For the thing which the king requireth is so difficult, that there is none who can lay it before the king, but the gods only, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

²⁸ There is none but God in heaven who revealeth secrets. He indeed hath made known to the king Nabuchodonosar what must come to pass in latter days. With regard to thy dream, and the visions of thy head, on thy bed, this is it.

⁴⁷ And the king answered and said to Daniel, Of a truth, your God is the God of Gods, and the Lord of kings, the revealer of secrets; since thou hast been enabled to reveal this secret.

⁸ Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, after the name of my God, and who hath in him a holy spirit of a God.

¹¹ There is in thy kingdom a man, in whom is a spirit of a god, and in the clays of thy father, light and knowledge were found in him, and the king Nabuchodonosar thy father appointed him chief of the soothsayers, Chaldees, gazarenes, ¹² because of the extraordinary spirit in him, and of his understanding and knowledge in the interpretation of dreams, and explaining hard sentences and solving difficulties; namely Daniel whom the king surnamed Baltasar. Now therefore let him be called in and he will tell thee the meaning of this. ¹³ Thereupon Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king said to Daniel, Thou art Daniel? One of the captives of Juda whom the king my father brought hither? ¹⁴ I have heard of thee that there is in thee a spirit of a god, and that light and knowledge and extraordinary wisdom have been found in thee. ¹⁵ Now the wise men, magians, gazarenes have come in before me to read that writing and make known to me the meaning of it, but they are not able to tell me.

⁷ Seeing the Lord will not do any thing without giving warning to his servants;

¹⁰ and to another, mighty powers of working miracles; and to another, the gift of prophecy; and to another, that of discerning spirits; and to another, divers languages; and to another, the interpretation of languages. ¹¹ Now, it is one and the same spirit who effecteth all these, distributing his own as he pleaseth, to every one.

¹³ And when Gideon drew near, behold there was a man telling his comrade a dream. And he said, Behold I have had a dream. I thought I saw a cake of barley bread rolling about in the camp of Madiam, and it came to this tent, and smote it, and it fell. It indeed overturned it, and the tent fell. ¹⁴ And his comrade answered, and said, Is not this the sword of Gideon, son of Joas the Israelite? God hath delivered into his hand Madiam and all this camp. ¹⁵ And when Gideon heard the dream, and the interpretation of it, he worshipped the Lord, and returned to the camp of Israel, and said, Arise, for the Lord hath delivered into our hand the camp of Madiam.

³¹ Thou, king! didst behold, and lo! an image! Great was that image and its aspect lofty as it stood before thee; and its appearance was awful.

¹⁰ I beheld with astonishment on my bed, and lo! a tree in the midst of the earth. Though its height was great, ¹¹ the tree increased in magnitude and strength and its top reached up to heaven; and its bulk to the extent of the whole earth. ¹² Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant. And on it there was food for all: and the wild beasts of the field dwelt beneath it; and the birds of the air lodged among its branches; and from it all flesh was fed. ¹³ I beheld in a vision of the night on my bed; and lo an Eir, even a holy one, came down from heaven ¹⁴ and cried with a loud voice, and thus he said, "Cut down that tree and lop off its branches and shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts be driven from underneath it and the birds from its branches. ¹⁵ But leave the stump of its roots in the earth; and in a band of iron and brass and in the green grass abroad and in the clew of heaven let it abide: and let its portion be with the wild beasts in the grass of the earth. ¹⁶ His heart shall be changed from men and the heart of a wild beast shall be given him and seven seasons shall revolve over him. ¹⁷ The sentence is by the decree of an Eir; and the decree is a request of holy ones, that the living may know that there is a sovereign Lord of the kingdom of men and that he can give it to whom he will, and set over it that which is disesteemed by men." ¹⁸ This is the dream, which I Nabuchodonosar the king have seen. Thou therefore Baltasar, tell me the meaning; for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to explain to me the meaning of it: but thou Daniel art able, because there is in thee the holy spirit of a god.

²¹ And he restored the butler to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharao's hand.

¹¹ Binding his colt to a vine And his asses colt to the young vine, He will wash his robe in wine, And his mantle in the blood of the grape.

⁹ Thou, and thy sons with thee, must not drink wine nor strong drink, when you come into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when you approach the altar, lest you die. It is your everlasting privilege, throughout your generations,

⁵ and his provisions, and the order in which his servants sat at table, and in which the attendants stood; and his dress, and his cup bearers, and his whole burnt offerings which he offered in the house of the Lord, she was struck with surprise,

⁴ and the provisions of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the order of his attendants and their apparel, and his butlers and their dress, and the whole burnt offerings which he offered in the house of the Lord, she was astonished,

¹¹ Turn not away, I beseech thee, Lord. But let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy children, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I beseech thee, thy servant this day, and grant him favour in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's butler,

¹⁰ that thy barns may be plenteously filled with corn; and that thy vats may overflow with wine.

¹⁸ And Joseph answered and said to him, This is the interpretation thereof. The three baskets are three days.

¹² And there was there with us a youth, a Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us.

²⁵ Then Joseph said to Pharao, The dream of Pharao is one. God hath shewn Pharao what he is about to do. ²⁶ The seven beautiful cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years. The dream of Pharao is one.

¹⁴ And his comrade answered, and said, Is not this the sword of Gideon, son of Joas the Israelite? God hath delivered into his hand Madiam and all this camp.

³⁶ This is the dream. The meaning of it we will now explain to the king. ³⁷ Thou king, art a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven hath given a kingdom, strong and mighty and glorious, ³⁸ in every place where the sons of men dwell. Into thy hand he hath delivered the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, and appointed thee lord over all. Thou art the head of gold. ³⁹ And after thee there shall be raised up another kingdom inferior to thee; then a third kingdom which is the brass, which shall rule over the whole earth; ⁴⁰ then a fourth kingdom which shall be strong as iron. As iron breaketh to pieces and subdueth all things, so shall it break and subdue all. ⁴¹ And inasmuch as thou sawest the feet and toes, partly of clay and partly of iron, it shall be a disjointed kingdom, though there shall be in it some of its iron root. As thou sawest the iron mixed with the clay; ⁴² and the toes of the feet were part iron, and part clay, some part of that kingdom will be strong and some part of it will be broken. ⁴³ Inasmuch as thou sawest the iron mingled with the clay, there will be mixtures in it, of the seed of men, and they will not cement one with another, as iron cloth not cement with clay. ⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and this kingdom of his shall not be left to another people. It shall break in pieces, and blow away all those kingdoms and shall itself stand forever. ⁴⁵ As thou sawest that without hands there was cut from a mountain a stone, which broke in pieces the clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold; the God who is great, hath made known to the king what must come to pass hereafter. The dream indeed is true and the interpretation thereof is faithful.

¹⁹ Upon this Daniel, whose name is Baltasar, was absorpt in astonishment for about an hour and his thoughts agitated him and Baltasar answered and said, Let this dream, my Lord, be for them who hate thee, and the interpretation thereof for thine enemies. ²⁰ The tree which thou sawest, which was increased in magnitude and strength, the top of which reached up to heaven and its bulk to the extent of the whole earth, ²¹ the leaves of which were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and on which there was food for all; beneath which the beasts of the field dwelt, and on the branches of which the birds of the air roosted: ²² Thou, king art it. For thou art become great and strong and thy greatness hath increased and reached up to heaven and thy dominion to the limits of the earth. ²³ And inasmuch as the king saw an Eir, even a holy one descending from heaven who said, Cut down that tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth; and in a band of iron and brass and in the green grass abroad and in the dew of heaven let it abide; and let its portion be with the wild beasts of the field until seven seasons revolve over it; ²⁴ This, king, is the interpretation thereof and the decree of the Most High which is about to come upon my lord the king. ²⁵ Thou wilt be driven from among men; and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they will feed thee with grass like an ox; and thou shalt lodge in the dew of heaven; and seven seasons shall revolve over thee, till thou be made sensible that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will. ²⁶ But inasmuch as they said, Let the stump of the roots of the tree remain, thy kingdom shall remain for thee when thou art made sensible of the heavenly authority. ²⁷ For this cause, king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee; and make atonement for thy sins by acts of kindness, and for thy transgressions by tender mercies for the distressed. Perhaps God may forgive thine offences. ²⁸ All these things came upon Nabuchodonosar the king. ²⁹ At the end of twelve months, as the king was walking in the temple of his kingdom at Babylon, ³⁰ he spake, saying, Is not this the great Babylon which I have built for the house of a kingdom, by the might of my power, for the display of my glory? ³¹ While the word was yet in the king's mouth, there came a voice from heaven, To thee Nabuchodonosar it is said, the regal power is gone from thee ³² and thou shalt be driven from among men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall feed thee with grass like an ox; and seven seasons shall revolve over thee, that thou mayst know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will. ³³ In that very hour the word was fulfilled on Nabuchodonosar; and he was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew strong like the shag of lions and his nails like the claws of birds.

²⁶ Now as they were eating, Jesus having taken the loaf and pronounced a blessing, broke and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; This is my body.

⁴ and did all drink of the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock accompanying them; now that rock was the Christ.

²⁵ [for Hagar meaneth mount Sina in Arabia] and answereth to the present Jerusalem, who with her children is in a state of bondage:

⁴ For yet seven days and I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out from the face of the whole earth all the raised which I made."

¹⁹ Three days hence Pharao will take off thy head and hang thee on a gibbet and the birds of the air will devour thy flesh. ²⁰ Accordingly it fell out, that the third day was Pharao's birth day, and he made an entertainment for all his servants and took cognizance of the administration of the butler, and the administration of the baker in the midst of his servants. ²¹ And he restored the butler to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharao's hand. ²² But the chief baker he hanged as Joseph had interpreted to them.

²⁷ In the thirty seventh year of the captivity of Joachim king of Juda in the twelfth month and twentieth day of the month, Evial Marodek king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign raised up the head of Joachim king of Juda. And having taken him out of prison

³ But thou, Lord, art my protector; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

³¹ And it came to pass in the thirty seventh year of the captivity of Jechonias king of Juda, in the twelfth month, on the twenty fourth of the month, Oulaimadachar king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, took and raised up the head of Jechonias king of Juda, and caused him to be shaven and released him from the prison, in which he was confined,

¹² swear now to me by the Lord your God, because I shew mercy to you, that you will shew mercy to my father's house;

¹⁴ provided that while I am alive, thou deal kindly with me, and, when I die, ¹⁵ thou withdraw not thy kindness from my house forever; and with this further proviso, that when the Lord removeth the enemies of David, every one from the face of the earth, the family of Jonathan be not sought for by the house of David,

³¹ thou my lord must not have the stain or guilt of having causelessly shed innocent blood. May the Lord therefore save the hand of my lord for himself, and kindly dispose my lord, that thou mayst remember thy servant, to deal kindly by her.

¹ And David said, Is there any yet left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

⁷ But shew kindness to the sons of Berzelli, the Galaadite, and let them eat at thy table; for so they were near me, when I fled from the face of thy brother Abessalom.

⁴² Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest to thy kingdom.

²¹ Hast thou been called being a slave, let it not give thee concern. But if thou canst be made free, chuse that rather.

¹³ And one of them who escaped, came and told Abram, the traveller, who then dwelt near the oak grove of Mambre the Amorite, the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aunan, who were in alliance with Abram.

²⁶ Thereupon Judas said to his brothers, What advantage will it be though we slay our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come let us sell him to these Ismaelites and let not our hands be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. So his brothers hearkened to him. ²⁸ And when the Madienite merchants came, they drew him up. They lifted Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they carried Joseph down to Egypt.

⁸ but he refused and said to his master's wife, Seeing my lord, on account of his confidence in me, knoweth not any thing in his house, and hath committed to my charge all that he hath ⁹ and there is none in the family superior to me, nor any thing withheld from me, except thyself because thou art his wife; how then can I do this wicked act and commit sin in the presence of God. ¹⁰ And when she had spoken to Joseph day after day and he hearkened not to her to lie down with her to have commerce with her, ¹¹ it came to pass that one day when Joseph went into the house to transact his business and none of the domestics were within, ¹² she took hold of his mantle saying, Lie with me. But he leaving his mantle in her hands fled and went out.

¹⁶ He who stealeth any of the children of Israel, and having got him in his power selleth him, or if he be found with him, shall be put to death.

⁷ If any man be found stealing any of his brethren, the children of Israel, or, having got him in his power, selleth him, the thief shall be put to death. So shalt thou remove evil from among you.

¹¹ Now behold here is the skirt of thy cloak in my hand. I cut off the skirt, but did not kill thee. Know, therefore, and see now that there is no wickedness in my hand; no impiety or disloyalty; nor have I sinned against thee, though thou huntest my life to take it.

³ For behold they have hunted my life: the mighty are set against me: though there is no transgression; no sin, Lord, in me. ⁴ Without transgression I ran and kept a straight course; awake to meet me and behold.

²² My God sent his angel and shut the mouths of the lions and they have not hurt me. For before him rectitude was found in me; and even in thy sight, king, I have committed no offence.

³² Jesus addressed them, I have shewn you many good works from my father, for which of those works would you stone me?"

²⁵ But by this is fulfilled the word which is written in their law, They hated me without cause.

¹² And they neither found me disputing with any man in the temple; nor raising sedition among the people, either in the synagogues or in the city: ¹³ nor can they prove any of the things which they now lay to my charge. ¹⁴ But this I confess to thee, that after the way which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing all the institutes of the law and the writings of the prophets; ¹⁵ having a confidence in God, which they themselves also entertain, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust; ¹⁶ and with this I exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence before God and men continually. ¹⁷ Now after many years I went to bring contributions for my nation and religious offerings; ¹⁸ in which [services] some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, without crowd or tumult. ¹⁹ Those ought to have been present before thee, and to bring their accusation, if they had, any against me. ²⁰ Or let these men themselves say whether, when I stood before the Sanhedrim, they found any crime in me; ²¹ unless it be for this single expression which I uttered while standing among them, "That for the resurrection of the dead I am this day to be judged by you."

¹⁰ Upon which Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as thou thyself well knowest. ¹¹ If indeed I am guilty, or have committed any capital crime, I do not deprecate death: but if the charges which they bring against me be groundless, no man can give me up to gratify them. I appeal to Caesar.

¹⁰ fornicators, sodomites, enslavers of men, liars, perjured persons, and whatever else is contrary to the wholesome doctrine

¹⁷ For if it be the will of God that you should suffer, it is better that you should suffer as well doers than as evil doers. ¹⁸ Because Christ himself suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God: being indeed put to death in flesh, but brought to life by that spirit

¹ Now after these things it happened that the chief butler of the king of Egypt and the chief baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. ² And Pharao was incensed against his two officers, against the chief butler and against the chief baker

²⁰ Aser. His meat will be fat And he will furnish dainties for princes.

²⁰ As David was returning to Sekelag there came to him from Manasses, Edna and Josabath and Rodiel and Michael and Josabaith and Elimuth and Semathi. They were the leaders of the thousands of Manasses,

¹² Thereupon Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days.

²⁶ The seven beautiful cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years. The dream of Pharao is one.

²⁴ and having given thanks, broke it, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body which is broken for you. Do this in commemoration of me."

¹⁷ and in the uppermost basket, pastry of all the sorts which Pharao eateth. And the birds of the air devoured those in the uppermost basket on my head.

²² But the chief baker he hanged as Joseph had interpreted to them.

¹³ And it fell out as he interpreted to us: I was restored to my office; but he was hanged.

²² If any man commit a sin incurring death; and he be put to death; and you hang him on a gibbet; ²³ his body shall not remain on the gibbet; but you shall bury it the same day. Because every one who is hanged on a gibbet is accursed of God; therefore you shall not defile the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possesion.

²⁹ And he hanged the king of Gai on a gibbet; and he continued on the gibbet till the evening. But, at the setting of the sun, Joshua gave orders, and they took down his body from the gibbet, and threw it into a pit; and raised over it a heap of stones, which remaineth to this day.

²⁶ So Joshua slew them, and hanged them on five gibbets, and they hung on the gibbets till evening.

⁴⁴ And when the Philistine said to David, Come hither to me, and I will give thy flesh to the birds of the air, and the beasts of the earth,

⁴⁶ And the Lord will deliver thee this day into my hand, and I will kill thee, and cut off thy head, and give thy carcass, and the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day, to the birds of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel;

⁶ Give us seven men of his sons, and let us crucify to the Lord at Gabaon those of Saul who are the choice of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

¹⁰ And Respha, the daughter of Aia, took sackcloth, and fixed it up for herself, before the rock, in the beginning of the barley harvest, until water from heaven dropped upon them; and she suffered not the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

¹⁷ The eye which derideth a father and despiseth the old age of a mother, may the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles devour it.

⁴ and thou and all who are around thee shall fall; and the nations with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, to all the feathered tribe, and to all the wild beasts of the field I have given thee to be devoured.

²⁷ For I have not shrunk from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

¹³ From this curse of the law Christ hath redeemed us, being made a curse for us; [for it is written, "Cursed, is every one who is suspended on a cross,"]

⁸ And the child grew and was weaned and Abraham made a great entertainment on the day his son Isaak was weaned.

¹⁹ Three days hence Pharao will take off thy head and hang thee on a gibbet and the birds of the air will devour thy flesh.

³ in the third year of his reign, he made an entertainment for his friends, both for other nations, and for the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and for the governors.

¹ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day,

⁶ But when Herod's birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod.

²³ In this respect the reign of the heavens may be compared to a certain king who determined to settle accounts with his servants. ²⁴ And having begun to settle; there was one brought to him, who owed him ten thousand talents. ²⁵ And as he had not wherewithal to pay; his lord ordered him and his wife and all that he had, to be sold and payment to be made.

¹⁹ and after a long time the master of these servants cometh and reckoneth with them:

²¹ At length a favourable opportunity occurred. When Herod, on his birth day, made an entertainment for the great officers of his court and army, and the chiefs of Galilee,

¹ Then he said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And this steward was accused of having wasted his substance. ² So having called him, he said to him, What is this that I hear of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou canst no longer be steward.

¹ and in the month Nisan of the twentieth year of king Arthasastha, the wine being before me, I took the wine, and when I had given it to the king [now there was .none besides me in waiting]

¹¹ And both I and he had a dream the same night, each had a dream regarding himself. ¹² And there was there with us a youth, a Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us. ¹³ And it fell out as he interpreted to us: I was restored to my office; but he was hanged.

¹⁶ In reply to which, Joseph said to Pharao, Without God no answer of peace can be given to Pharao.

²⁸ Let the prophet, who hath a dream, tell his dream: and let him, to whom my word cometh, declare it with truth. Why is the chaff added to the wheat?

¹⁹ and the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night; whereupon he blessed the God of heaven, and said, ²⁰ "Blessed be the name of God from everlasting to everlasting; for wisdom and knowledge are his; ²¹ and he changeth times and seasons. He setteth up kings and removeth them. He giveth wisdom to the wise and understanding to them who have knowledge. ²² He it is who revealeth deep and hidden things. He knoweth the things which are in darkness. And with him is the light. ²³ To thee, God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise; because thou hast given me wisdom and power and hast made known to me what we asked thee and hast revealed to me the vision of the king.

³⁰ And to me this secret was revealed, not indeed for any wisdom in me above all the living: but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, that thou mayst know the thoughts of thy heart.

¹² because of the extraordinary spirit in him, and of his understanding and knowledge in the interpretation of dreams, and explaining hard sentences and solving difficulties; namely Daniel whom the king surnamed Baltasar. Now therefore let him be called in and he will tell thee the meaning of this.

³⁰ The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, having caused him to be suspended on a cross

¹⁴ My nearest relations paid me no attention: and they who knew my name forgot me.

¹² like a dead man out of mind I was quite forgotten: I became like a broken vessel.

¹⁹ until his word came to pass; till the oracle of the Lord tried him.

¹⁵ but he happened to find in it a poor wise beggar, and this man by his wisdom saved the city; yet no man remembered the class of this poor beggar. ¹⁶ Now I have said, Wisdom is better than power, yet the wisdom of this poor man is despised and his words are not regarded.

⁶ Some are drinking filtered wine and anointing themselves with most precious ointment and have no feeling for the affliction of Joseph.