Genesis 41 Cross References - Thomson

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. 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. ⁹ Upon this the chief butler spoke to Pharao, saying, I this day acknowledge my fault. ¹⁰ Pharao was angry with his servants, and ordered us to be confined in the house of the captain of the guards; both me and the chief baker. 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. ¹⁴ Upon this Pharao sent for Joseph, and they brought him out of the prison. And when they had shaved him and changed his raiment, he came to Pharao. 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. ¹⁷ Then Pharao spoke to Joseph saying, In my sleep I thought I was standing near the edge of the river; ¹⁸ and there came up as it were out of the river, seven cows of a beautiful figure, and very fat; and they fed on the sedge. ¹⁹ And lo! seven other cows came up after them, out of the river, ugly and ill favoured and lean of flesh; such that I never saw worse in all the land of Egypt. ²⁰ And the seven ill favoured and lean cows devoured the first seven cows which were choice and good. ²¹ But though they devoured them, they gave no sign of fulnes. Their appearance was as ugly as before. Then I awoke and again went to sleep, ²² and in my sleep I again saw as if seven ears of corn sprang up, on one stalk, full and good; ²³ and adjoining them seven other ears sprang up, thin and blasted. ²⁴ And the seven thin and blasted ears devoured the seven ears which were full and good. Now I have told the interpreters; but there is not one who can interpret this to me. 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. ²⁷ The seven lean cows also which came up after them are seven years; and the seven thin and blasted ears are seven years. There shall be seven years of famine. ²⁸ This is the thing which I have said to Pharao, God hath shewn Pharao what he is about to do. ²⁹ Behold seven years are coming of great plenty in all the land of Egypt. ³⁰ But after these there will come seven years of famine. And they will cause the coming plenty to be forgotten in all Egypt. And the famine will consume the land, ³¹ so that the plenty will not be known in the land, by reason of the famine which will come after it: for it will be very great. ³² And in as much as the dream of Pharao was doubled, the thing which God had determined will surely come to pass; and God is hasting to do it. ³³ Now therefore look out for a man of prudence and understanding, and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ And let Pharao appoint and set governors of districts over the whole land, and let them send in a fifth of all the products of the land of Egypt, during the seven years of plenty, ³⁵ and collect all the eatables of those seven good years which are coming. And let food be collected under the care of Pharao, and eatables stored in the cities. ³⁶ So shall food be kept in the country, against the seven years of famine which will be in the land of Egypt, and the country will not be wasted with the famine. ³⁷ And the advice was agreeable in the view of Pharao and in the view of all his servants. ³⁸ And Pharao said to all his servants, Can we find such a man as this who hath in him the spirit of God? ³⁹ Then Pharao said to Joseph, Seeing God hath shewn thee all these things, there is none more prudent and wise than thou thyself. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt be over my household and to thy command all my people shall pay obedience. Only on the throne will I be greater than thou. ⁴¹ Moreover Pharao said to Joseph, Behold I have set thee this day over all the land of Egypt, ⁴² And Pharao took off the ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him with a cotton robe, and put a chain of gold about his neck; ⁴³ and caused him to mount a chariot next to that of his own. And a herald made proclamation before him. And when he had set him over all the land of Egypt, ⁴⁴ Pharao said to Joseph, I am Pharao. Without thee no man shall lift up his hand in all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁵ And Pharao called Joseph's name Psonthomphanech and gave him Aseneth a daughter of Petephres the priest of Heliopolis to be his wife. ⁴⁶ Now Joseph was thirty years old, when he stood before Pharao king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharao and went through all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And in the seven years of plenty the land produced in vast abundance ⁴⁸ and he collected all the varieties of food of those seven years, in which there was plenty in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he stored the eatable productions of the fields around. ⁴⁹ So Joseph collected food like the sand of the sea in great abundance until it could not be numbered, for it was innumerable. ⁵⁰ Now before the seven years of famine Joseph had two sons, whom Aseneth the daughter of Petephres the priest of Heliopolis bore to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of his first born Manasses, because God hath made me forget all my troubles and all my father's family. And the name of his second son he called Ephraim, because God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. ⁵³ And when the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt were past, ⁵⁴ the seven years of famine began to come as Joseph said. And there was a famine in the whole earth, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ And when all the land of Egypt began to be in want and the people cried to Pharao for bread, Pharao said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph and do whatever he saith to you. ⁵⁶ As the famine was over the face of the whole earth, when Joseph opened all his granaries and sold to all the Egyptians, ⁵⁷ all the countries came to Egypt to buy of Joseph, for the famine was great in the whole earth.

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.

¹⁴ And Laban said to him, Thou art of my bones and of my flesh. And when Jacob had been with him a month,

²¹ And he departed with all that belonged to him and crossed the river and bent his course to mount Galaad.

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?

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.

²² Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive.

⁹ But if they will not believe thee for these two signs, nor hearken to thy voice, thou shalt take some of the water of the river and pour it out on the dry ground; and the water which thou shalt take from the river shall be blood on the ground.

¹⁰ For the land to which you are going, to take possession of it, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where, when they have sown the seed, they can water it with their feet, like a garden of herbs.

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.

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;

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.

⁵ The Egyptians drink water even that near the sea, but the river shall fail and be dried up;

³ and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against Pharao; that great dragon which walloweth in the midst of his rivers, and saith, "These rivers are mine and I made them."

⁹ And the land of Egypt shall be a destruction and a desolation; and they shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou saidst, "These rivers are mine; I made them;"

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. ⁶ Therefore I issued a decree to bring before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might explain to me the meaning of this dream. ⁷ And when the soothsayers, the magians, the gazarenes, the Chaldees came in, I told my dream before them; but they did not explain to me the meaning of it until ⁸ Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, after the name of my God, and who hath in him a holy spirit of a God. 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. 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.

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.

¹⁹ And while he was sitting on the tribunal, his wife had sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that righteous person; for I have this day suffered much in a dream on his account.

⁶ both the streams and the canals of the river shall fail; and every collection of water shall be dried up, even every fen, where reeds and papyrus grow.

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.

²⁰ And the seven ill favoured and lean cows devoured the first seven cows which were choice and good. ²¹ But though they devoured them, they gave no sign of fulnes. Their appearance was as ugly as before. Then I awoke and again went to sleep,

¹⁵ And Solomon awoke, and behold it was a dream. Then he arose and came to Jerusalem, and stood before the altar which is in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in Sion, and offered whole burnt offerings; and having offered also offerings of thanksgiving, he made a great entertainment for himself and all his servants.

¹⁴ With butter of kine, and with milk of sheep; With the fattest of lambs and rams, young bulls and goats, And with bread of the choicest wheat; And they drank wine, the pure juice of the grape.

¹⁰ Though behold it is luxuriant, shall it prosper; shall it not wither at the first touch of a blasting wind? Both it and its sprouting shoot shall be withered.

¹² But it is broken in wrath and thrown on the ground; and a burning wind hath blasted its choice branches. Vengeance hath been taken on them: and the rod of its strength is withered; a fire hath consumed it.

¹⁵ Since he will make a distinction among brethren; let the Lord bring upon him a blasting wind from the desert, and let it dry up his veins and lay waste his fountains; let it parch up his land and all his precious stores.

⁵ Besides Joseph having dreamed a dream told it to his brothers

⁶ And in the morning when Joseph went in to them he saw that they were troubled.

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.

¹¹ Pharao called together the wise men of Egypt and the sorcerers. And the Egyptian enchanters by their sorceries did in like manner.

²² But when the magicians of Egypt did in like manner by their enchantments, Pharao's heart became inflexible so that he hearkened not to them as the Lord had said.

⁷ Though the Egyptian sorcerers did in like manner by their enchantments and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt;

¹⁸ As the magicians did in like manner by their enchantments to remove the stinging gnats but could not, so the stinging gnats were among the men and among the four footed beasts. ¹⁹ Therefore the sorcerers said to Pharao, This is the finger of God. But Pharao's heart was inflexible and he hearkened not to them as the Lord had said.

¹¹ so that the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, because of these boils. For the boils were on the sorcerers and throughout all the land of Egypt.

³¹ you shall not go after belly speakers, nor attach yourselves to sorcerers to be polluted by them. I am the Lord your God:

⁶ And with respect to the person who shall follow belly speakers and sorcerers, so as to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and destroy him from among his people.

⁹ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. ¹⁰ Let there not be found among you any one who purifieth his son, or his daughter, with fire; or who practiseth divinations, or consulteth omens, or augury, ¹¹ or maketh use of drugs to practise incantation, or a belly speaker, or an astrologer, or a necromancer; ¹² for every one who practiseth such things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for, because of these abominations, the Lord will root them out from before you. ¹³ Thou shalt be complete in the sight of the Lord thy God. ¹⁴ For these nations which thou art about to possess will hearken to enchanters and diviners; but the Lord thy God hath not permitted thee to do so.

¹² Who changeth the counsels of the crafty, so that their hands can perform no enterprise. ¹³ Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful.

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?

³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them: and I will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground, namely the belly speakers.

¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell thee publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe.

¹⁴ therefore, behold, I will proceed to the removal of this people and I will remove them; and destroy the wisdom of the wise, and darken the understanding of the prudent."

¹² Persist now in thine incantations and in thy manifold sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth: if thou canst be benefited by them. ¹³ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy counsels: let the astrologers now stand up and save thee; let them who gaze on the stars tell thee what is instantly coming upon thee.

²⁰ And in every subject of wisdom and science on which the king questioned them he found them ten times more skilled than all the soothsayers and the magians who were in the realm.

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. ⁴ Whereupon the Chaldees said to the king in Syriac, king, live forever. Tell thy servants the dream and we will explain the meaning. ⁵ The king answered the Chaldees, The subject is gone from me. If you do not tell me the dream and the interpretation you shall be put to death and your houses shall be exposed to plunder. ⁶ But if you let me know the dream and the interpretation, you shall receive of me gifts and immunities and great honour. At all events, tell me the dream and the meaning of it. ⁷ They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream and we will explain the meaning. ⁸ In reply to which the king said, I know of a truth that you want to gain time, as you see the matter is gone from me. ⁹ If therefore you do not tell me the dream, I take it for granted that you have agreed upon something false and fictitious to be said before me, until the time elapse. Tell me my dream, then I will know that you can tell me the meaning of it. ¹⁰ The Chaldees answered in the presence of the king and said, There is not a man on the earth who can make known what the king requireth; nor doth any king or ruler, however great, ask such a thing, of any soothsayer, magian or Chaldee. 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.

²⁷ And Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, The secret which the king demandeth, it is not in the power of wise men, magians, soothsayers, gazarenes, to tell the king. 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.

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

⁷ And when the soothsayers, the magians, the gazarenes, the Chaldees came in, I told my dream before them; but they did not explain to me the meaning of it until

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.

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. ⁷ And the king cried aloud to bring in the magians, Chaldees, gazarenes. And he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and explain to me the meaning, he shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold for his neck and shall be a chief, third in rank, in my kingdom. ⁸ And when all the king's wise men came in and could neither read the writing nor explain the meaning to the king,

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,

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.

¹⁶ I watched myself; and at the sound of the prayer of my lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the day of affliction, at the time of his coining to the people of my neighbourhood.

¹ After the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold there came magians from the east2 to Jerusalem,

²² So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom .of the Egyptians, and became mighty in council and in actions.

¹⁸ And while some of the epicurean and stoic philosophers were conferring with him, some said, "What would this retailer of scraps say?" And others, "He appeareth to be a proclaimer of strange deities." Because he proclaimed the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection,

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent."

¹⁸ Whosoever you are, let no one deceive himself. If am one among you seemeth to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft." ²⁰ And again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain."

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.

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.

²³ Yet the chief butler made no mention of Joseph, but passed him over in oblivion.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

¹⁰ Behold I have this day set thee over nations and over kingdoms to root out and demolish and destroy; and to rebuild and plant.

³ And the vision which I saw was like that which I beheld when I went to judge the city. And the appearance of the chariot which I saw was the same as that which I saw at the river Chobar. So I fell on my face.

¹⁶ Upon this Pharao sent in haste for Moses and Aaron and said; I have sinned in the sight of the Lord your God and against you;

⁷ The Lord impoverished, and maketh rich; He humbleth, and he exalteth on high. ⁸ He lifteth up the needy from the ground; And raiseth the beggar from a dunghill; To seat them among a people's princes; And he causeth them to possess a throne of glory.

²⁴ Memphibosthe also, the grandson of Saul, came down to meet the king. Now he had not dressed his feet, nor pared his nails, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king went away, to the day he returned, in peace.

²⁹ And having changed his prison garments he eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.

¹ Now when Mordecai knew what was done, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and strewed himself with ashes, and running through the street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, A nation is to be cut off, which hath committed no fault. ² But when he came to the king's gate, he stopped; for it was not lawful for him to enter the court in sackcloth and ashes. ³ And in every country where the writings were published there was a cry with lamentation and great grief among the Jews, and they put on sackcloth and ashes. ⁴ When the queen's maids and chamberlains came in and told her, she was troubled at the news, and sent to clothe Mordecai and to take away his sackcloth from him; but he would not be persuaded.

¹ And on the third day Esther put on her royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king's palace over against the king's house, when the king was sitting on his royal throne, in the royal house, over against the gate.

¹⁹ until his word came to pass; till the oracle of the Lord tried him. ²⁰ The king had sent and loosed him; the chief of peoples had set him at liberty; ²¹ had appointed him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions; ²² that he like himself might instruct princes, and teach his senators wisdom:

⁷ Who raiseth the distressed from the ground, and lifteth the needy from a dunghill: ⁸ to seat him with princes; with the chiefs of his people.

³ that to the mourners in Sion may be given, glory instead of ashes, oil of joy to the mourners, robes of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called generations of righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory.

¹⁰ And they shall rejoice in the Lord with joy.[c] Rejoice in the Lord, my soul, for he hath clothed me with the mantle of Salvation, and with an under garment of gladness, he hath crowned me as a bridegroom with a crown and adorned me as a bride, with jewels,

³² and spoke kindly to him and set his seat above the kings, who were with him in Babylon. ³³ And changed his prison dress, and caused him to eat in his presence, all the days of his life.

²⁵ Thereupon Arioch with haste introduced Daniel to the presence of the king and said to him, I have found among the captives of Israel, a man who can tell the king the interpretation.

⁹ Upon this the chief butler spoke to Pharao, saying, I this day acknowledge my fault. ¹⁰ Pharao was angry with his servants, and ordered us to be confined in the house of the captain of the guards; both me and the chief baker. 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.

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.

¹⁶ But I have heard of thee that thou canst solve difficulties. Now therefore if thou canst read that writing and explain to me the meaning of it, thou shalt be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold for thy neck and be a chief, third in rank, in my kingdom.

¹⁴ Whereupon Israel said to him, Go and see if thy brothers and the flocks be well and bring me word. So he despatched him from the valley of Hebron and he went to Sychem:

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.

²⁷ And the king said to her, Unless the Lord save thee, whence can I save thee, from the threshing floor or from the press?

¹⁸ and they had sought mercy of the God of heaven touching this secret, that Daniel and his friends might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon: 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.

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. ²⁹ Thy thoughts, king, on thy bed ascended to what might come to pass hereafter. And he who revealeth secrets made known to thee the things which must come to pass. 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.

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.

² It hath seemed good in my sight to declare to you the signs and the wonders which the God who is Most High hath done with me.

⁴² saying, O that thou hadst known; even thou; even in this very ay of thine, the things which were for thy peace! But now they are hidden from thine eyes.

⁷ Then having taken him by the right hand he raised him up. And instantly his feet and ankle bones were strengthened;

¹² Now when Peter saw this he thus addressed the people. "Men of Israel, why wonder ye at this? Or why do ye fix your eyes on us, as if we by our own power or piety had made this man walk?

¹⁴ But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, hearing of this, rent their clothes and ran in among the crowd, crying out ¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We are only frail mortals like yourselves, proclaiming to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and all the things which are therein;

¹⁰ But by the favour of God I am what I am; and this favour of his which reached me was not fruitless; but I have laboured more than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

⁵ not that we are of ourselves sufficient to reckon any thing as proceeding from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

¹ "Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When they shall no more say, "As the Lord liveth who brought up the house of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, " but, "As the Lord liveth who gathered all the seed of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries whither he had driven them and reestablished them in their own land" the Lord shewed me two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda and the chiefs and the artisans and the prisoners of war and the rich men from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. ² The one was a basket of very fine figs, such as are first ripe; and the other was a basket of very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. ³ And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias?

⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Like these good figs so will I acknowledge for good those banished Jews whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

⁸ But like those bad figs which for their badness cannot be eaten, thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver up Zedekias king of Juda and his nobles and the remnant of Jerusalem; them who are left in this land and them who dwell in Egypt.

¹⁹ In time of troubles they shall not be shamed, and in days of famine they shall be plentifully fed.

²⁰ but will turn to the right because he is hungry, and devour on the left, but shall not be satisfied. Man is devouring the flesh of his brother's arm;

³ Let thy mouth eat and thy belly be filled with this roll which is given thee. So I ate it, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey.

⁹ So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me that little book." And he said, "Take it and eat it up; and it will make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it will be sweet as honey:" ¹⁰ so I took the little book out of the hand of the angel and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it up my belly was bitter.

⁶ and lo! seven ears thin and blasted sprang up after them.

²⁶ So the inhabitants therein became weak handed; were dismayed and confounded; became like the grass of the field or the green herb; like grass on the house top and that trodden under foot.

⁶ Let them be like a blade on the house tops, which withereth before it is pulled up, ⁷ with which the reaper hath not filled his hand, nor he who gathereth the sheaves, his bosom;

⁷ because they sowed blasted seed, therefore the catastrophe was correspondent; there is not a handful capable of yielding meal. And had it succeeded, strangers would have devoured it.

¹⁶ Ephraim is in distress. His roots are withered. He shall no more produce fruit. For though they bring forth, I will slay the beloved fruit of the womb.

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.

¹⁹ Therefore the sorcerers said to Pharao, This is the finger of God. But Pharao's heart was inflexible and he hearkened not to them as the Lord had said.

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

¹⁴ For at this time I am going to send all my plagues into thy heart and the heart of thy servants and thy people, that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.

⁶ the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for to-morrow, about this time, I will deliver them up vanquished before Israel. Thou shalt hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

² The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath displayed his forgiving mercy before the nations.

²² let them draw near and tell you what will happen, or such things as these before they come to pass. Tell us that we may apply our understanding, and that we may know the final issue, and the train of events leading to it. ²³ Tell us, announce to us the things in successive train to the issue; and we will acknowledge that you are gods. Confer favours and inflict punishments, and we will pay respect and see at once,

⁹ [p] All the nations were assembled together; now let all the archons be assembled: can any among them announce these things? Or can any tell you these things before hand? Let them produce their witnesses and be justified, and let them hear and tell things true.

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. ²⁹ Thy thoughts, king, on thy bed ascended to what might come to pass hereafter. And he who revealeth secrets made known to thee the things which must come to pass.

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.

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

⁴⁰ Two men will then be in the field; the one is taken and the other left.

²³ But be upon your guard. Lo! I have foretold you all things.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the acknowledgment of him

¹ After this I looked and behold a door was opened in the heaven, and the voice which I heard at first like that of a trumpet speaking to me said, Come up hither and I will shew thee the things which must hereafter come to pass.

²⁴ therefore a man is to leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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

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.

⁵ Again he dreamed a second time; and lo! seven ears of corn sprang upon one stalk, choice and good:

²⁹ Behold seven years are coming of great plenty in all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁷ And in the seven years of plenty the land produced in vast abundance

⁵³ And when the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt were past,

¹¹ And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord.

⁶ And thou shalt make fifty links of gold and fasten the curtains one to another with these links; and it shall be one tabernacle.

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.

⁷ because there are three that bear witness, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three are to one and the same thing,

¹⁹ So David went up according to the word of Gad, as the Lord had commanded him.

¹ Elisha having spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go thou and thy family and sojourn where thou canst; for the Lord hath called for a famine against this land, and it is come upon the land for seven years;

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.

⁴⁶ Now Joseph was thirty years old, when he stood before Pharao king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharao and went through all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And in the seven years of plenty the land produced in vast abundance

⁴⁹ So Joseph collected food like the sand of the sea in great abundance until it could not be numbered, for it was innumerable.

²¹ But though they devoured them, they gave no sign of fulnes. Their appearance was as ugly as before. Then I awoke and again went to sleep,

²⁷ The seven lean cows also which came up after them are seven years; and the seven thin and blasted ears are seven years. There shall be seven years of famine.

⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of his first born Manasses, because God hath made me forget all my troubles and all my father's family. And the name of his second son he called Ephraim, because God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

⁵⁴ the seven years of famine began to come as Joseph said. And there was a famine in the whole earth, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

⁵⁶ As the famine was over the face of the whole earth, when Joseph opened all his granaries and sold to all the Egyptians,

¹³ Now there was no food in the land, for the famine prevailed exceedingly; and both the land of Egypt and the land of Chanaan fainted by reason of the famine.

¹³ So Gad went to David, and delivered the message, and said, Chuse what shall be done to thee. Shall three years of famine come on all thy land? Or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies while they pursue thee? Or shall there be three days of pestilence in thy land? Now therefore consider; and see what answer I shall make to him who sent me.

¹ And the prophet Elias the Thesbite, who was of Thesbon in Galaad, said to Achab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain for years but by the word of my mouth.

¹⁶ When he called for a famine on the land; broke all the stay of bread,

⁷ that they may forget their distress and no more remember their troubles.

¹⁶ which shall be blessed on the earth: for they will bless the true God: and they who swear on the earth, will swear by the true God. For they will forget their former affliction and it shall not recur to their mind:

²⁵ And indeed I tell you, There were many widows in Israel in die days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that there was a great famine over all the land;

¹⁷ Elias was a man frail and mortal like ourselves. In one prayer he prayed that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land during three years and six months.

⁶ Still the hand of the Lord was heavy upon Azotus, and pressed them down. Leaks broke out in their vessels, and their country swarmed with mice, and in the city there was a great confusion of mortality.

²⁰ It reeled to and fro like a drunkard when intoxicated: like a lodge in a vineyard the land shall be shaken. For iniquity hath prevailed over it; and it shall fall and shall not be able to rise.

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.

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.

¹⁹ God is not like a man to be deceived; Nor like a son of man to be threatened. When he hath spoken, will he not perform? When he shall speak, will he not stand to it?

¹⁴ For the Lord may have spoken once, and again; 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;

²⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, as I have spoken so it shall be; and as I have determined, so it shall stand. ²⁵ I will destroy the Assyrians on this land of mine; and on these mountains of mine they shall be trodden down; and their yoke shall be removed from my people; and their reproach shall be taken from their shoulders. ²⁶ [p] This is the counsel which the Lord hath taken against the whole empire, and this is the hand which is lifted high against all the nations. ²⁷ For who can disannul what the holy God hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn aside?

³³ Of thee he will previously demand [and hast thou not provided for his reign] a deep valley and wood laid up in piles; the wrath of the Lord will be fire and wood in abundance like a valley burning with brimstone.

¹⁰ who can declare events before they happen, as if they were already accomplished. When I have spoken, all my counsel shall stand; and all that I have determined, I will effect. ¹¹ Calling from the east a winged fowl, even from a far distant land, for purposes which I have resolved on, I have spoken and brought, I have created and made, I have brought it and made its way prosperous.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall fail; but my words shall not fail.

³⁴ Then the king will say to them on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the formation of the world:

⁴¹ Then he will say to them on his left, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the fire which is everlasting; that prepared for the devil and his angels!

⁴⁰ but to sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, except to those for whom his prepared.

⁹ things indeed, which as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived; " which God hath prepared for them who love him;

¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is to' be established.

¹⁵ and the four angels who were ready prepared were loosed for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, that they might slay the third part of men.

³⁹ Then Pharao said to Joseph, Seeing God hath shewn thee all these things, there is none more prudent and wise than thou thyself.

¹⁹ Now therefore hearken to me and I will advise thee; and God be with thee. Be thou to the people as the Oracle of God; and lay their cases before God; ²⁰ and testify to them the statutes of God and his law; and point out to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do: ²¹ but look out for thyself from among all the people, for able, pious men, men of integrity who hate pride; and set these over them as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens; ²² and let them administer justice to the people on all occasions: and the matter which is too high for them, they shall lay before thee; but causes easily determined they themselves shall decide. Thus they will remove a burden from thee and help thee.

¹³ Appoint for yourselves men of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, for your several tribes, and I will make them leaders over you.

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.

³ look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven men of good reputation, full of a holy spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint to this office.

¹⁴ Moses was angry at the officers of the army; at the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, who came from the war.

¹¹ And the guards stood every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right corner of the house to the corner of the house which is on the left of the altar, and of the house near the king round about. ¹² Then he sent for the king's son and put upon him the nezer and the testimony, and announcing him king, anointed him. Upon which they clapped with the hand, and said, Long live the king.

¹² Though these men were intrusted with the works, yet over them were overseers, namely Jehu and Abdias the Levites of the house of Merari, and Zacharias, and Mosollam, of the house of Kaath. And with regard to all the chiefs of Levi, every one skilled in instrumental musick

⁹ and Joel son of Zechri was overseer over them, and Juda son of Asana for the city was second.

²⁰ In famine he will deliver thee from death, and in battle save thee from the edge of the sword.

¹⁹ to deliver their souls from death; and to nourish them in a famine.

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; and having seen its ways follow the example and be wiser than it. ⁷ For having no cultivated field, no driver, nor master, ⁸ it provideth its food in summer, and layeth up a plentiful supply in harvest. Or go to the bee and learn what a Worker she is: and how seriously she performeth her work, to the labours of which both kings and subjects apply themselves as far as health permits; and to all it is agreeable and honourable. And though her strength be small, having honoured wisdom she is diligently employed.

³ A prudent man seeing the wicked severely punished instructeth himself: but the foolish passed heedlessly by and were punished.

¹² When ills approach, a prudent man is hidden: but the simple pass on to their sorrow.

⁵ So having sent severally for every of his lord's tenants, he said to the first, How much art thou to pay to my lord?

⁴⁸ and he collected all the varieties of food of those seven years, in which there was plenty in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he stored the eatable productions of the fields around. ⁴⁹ So Joseph collected food like the sand of the sea in great abundance until it could not be numbered, for it was innumerable.

⁶ For this is but the second year of famine on the earth and there will be yet five years, in which there will be neither tillage nor harvest, ⁷ so that God hath sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth and to nourish your great remnant.

¹³ Then Moses said, Lord, provide another capable person whom thou wilt send.

¹³ Now there was no food in the land, for the famine prevailed exceedingly; and both the land of Egypt and the land of Chanaan fainted by reason of the famine. ¹⁴ And Joseph collected all the money which was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan for the corn which they bought and which he dealt out to them. And Joseph brought all the money to Pharao's house. ¹⁵ And when all the money was gone, out of the land of Egypt and out of the land of Chanaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread. Must we die in thy presence because we have no money? ¹⁶ Thereupon Joseph said to them, Bring your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle if your money be gone. ¹⁷ So they brought their cattle to Joseph, and he gave them bread for their horses and for their flocks and for their herds and for their asses and supplied them with bread that year for all their cattle. ¹⁸ When that year was ended they came to him the next year and said, Perhaps we may be rejected by our lord: for as our money is gone and our stock and cattle are transferred to thee our lord, there is indeed nothing left us in the presence of our lord, but our persons and our lands. ¹⁹ That we therefore may not die in thy presence and the land become a waste, purchase us and our land for bread, and we with our lands will be servants to Pharao. Give us seed that we may sow and live and not die. So the land will not become desolate. ²⁰ Upon this Joseph purchased all the land of the Egyptians for Pharao. For the Egyptians sold their land to Pharao, because the famine prevailed over them. Thus the land became Pharao's, ²¹ and he reduced the people to a state of vassalage from one border of Egypt to the other, ²² save the land of the priests only. This Joseph did not buy; because Pharao had assigned them a gratuitous portion, and they ate the portion which Pharao assigned them. Therefore they did not sell their land. ²³ Then Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Behold I have this day purchased you and your land for Pharao. Take seed and sow the land. ²⁴ And of the products thereof you shall give Pharao the fifth. And the other four parts shall be your own to sow the land, and to be food for you and all your families. ²⁵ And they said, Thou hast saved our lives. We have found favour in the sight of our lord, and we will be servants to Pharao.

³⁰ When Phineas the priest, and all the chief's of the congregation of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, had spoken, they were pleased.

³⁶ And when the people knew this, they were well pleased with all that the king did before the people.

² And Achab spoke to Nabuthi, saying, Give me this vineyard of thine, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give thee another vineyard better than it; or if it seem good in thy sight, I will give thee money in exchange for thy vineyard, that I may have it for a kitchen garden.

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

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous is tried silver; but the heart of the wicked will not stand the test.

¹¹ It is an apple of gold in a sardine bracelet, thus to speak a word.

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt, and all his household.

¹⁸ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take as thy associate Joshua, son of Nave, a man who hath a spirit in him, and thou shalt lay thy hands on him,

⁸ But there is a spirit in mortals; and it is the inspiration of the Almighty which teacheth.

⁶ Therefore I issued a decree to bring before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might explain to me the meaning of this dream.

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

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.

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.

³ And Daniel was at the head of these. Because there was in him an extraordinary spirit and the king had set him over his whole kingdom,

²⁸ This is the thing which I have said to Pharao, God hath shewn Pharao what he is about to do.

³³ Now therefore look out for a man of prudence and understanding, and set him over the land of Egypt.

⁴ So Joseph found favour in the sight of his master; and he was pleased with him and set him over his household and committed all that he had to Joseph's charge. ⁵ And after he had made him overseer of his household, and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake; and there was a blessing of the Lord on all his substance, in his house and in his field. ⁶ So he left to Joseph's management all that he had, and knew not any thing he had save the bread which he ate. Now Joseph was a comely person an of a very beautiful countenance,

⁸ Now therefore it was not you who sent me hither, but it was God. And he hath made me like a father to Pharao, and lord of all his house and governor of all the land of Egypt. ⁹ Haste therefore and go up to my father and say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me ruler of all the land of Egypt. Come down therefore to me and tarry not.

²⁶ and told him saying. Thy son Joseph is alive and he is the governor of all the land of Egypt. Whereupon Jacob was absorpt in thought, for he could not believe them.

¹ Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said to him, Hath not the Lord anointed thee to be ruler ever his people Israel? Thou therefore shalt rule over the people of the Lord, and save them out of the hand of their enemies. And this shall be to thee the sign that the Lord hath anointed thee to be ruler over his heritage;

²⁷ if then my heart hath been secretly enticed, and I have laid my hand on my mouth and kissed it

¹² Keep fast hold of instruction; the Lord may be angry and you may perish out of the right way. When his anger suddenly blazeth forth, happy are all they who have trusted in him.

²⁹ A man clear in his perceptions and quick in the despatch of business should stand before kings and not wait on slothful men.

⁴⁶ Then king Nabuchodonosar fell on his face, and made obeisance to Daniel and ordered holy gifts, and sweet odours to be offered to him. 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. ⁴⁸ Then the king raised Daniel to high rank and gave him many great gifts, and set him over the whole region of Babylon, and a chief satrap over all the wise men of Babylon.

²⁹ Then Baltasar gave orders and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold about his neck, and proclamation was made concerning him that he was a chief, third in rank, in the kingdom.

⁵ And after he had made him overseer of his household, and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake; and there was a blessing of the Lord on all his substance, in his house and in his field.

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.

⁴⁴ Pharao said to Joseph, I am Pharao. Without thee no man shall lift up his hand in all the land of Egypt.

⁶ Joseph was the governor of the country; he sold to all the people of that land. So when Joseph's brothers came they made obeisance to him with their face to the ground.

³ Now Mordecai was viceroy of king Artaxerxes, and was great in the kingdom, and being honoured by the Jews and beloved, he enforced the observance of their religion on all his nation. And Mordecai said, These things have been done by God; for I remember the dream I had concerning these matters, and not one particular has failed [to occur]. A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water. This river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen; and the two dragons are myself and Haman. And the nations were those that gathered to destroy the name of the Jews; and my nation is Israel, they that cried unto God and were delivered. For the Lord hath delivered His people, and the Lord hath saved us from all these evils. And God hath wrought signs and great wonders that have not been performed among the gentiles. Therefore hath he ordained two lots; one for the people of God and another for all the gentiles. And these two lots came in an hour and time and day of judgment before the face of God, and for all nations. And God remembered His people, and vindicated His inheritance. And they shall observe those days in the month Adar-the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month-with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, among His people Israel throughout the generations forever. In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheos, who said he was a priest and a Levite, and his son, Ptolemy, brought this published epistle of Phrurai, which they said was the same [as the original by Mordecai], and which Lysimachos, the son of Ptolemy [Dositheos' son], had interpreted.

² A wise servant will rule over foolish masters; and divide portions among brothers.

⁷ They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream and we will explain the meaning. ⁸ In reply to which the king said, I know of a truth that you want to gain time, as you see the matter is gone from me.

² It hath seemed good in my sight to declare to you the signs and the wonders which the God who is Most High hath done with me. ³ How great and mighty is his kingdom. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; and his dominion is to endless ages.

¹⁸ Then Jesus came near and spoke to them, saying, All power in heaven and on earth is given to me.

⁹ wherefore God highly exalted him, and granted him a name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those beneath the earth; ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father.

¹⁰ Thereupon the king taking off his ring gave it to Haman to seal the writings against the Jews.

¹² So the king's secretaries were convened on the thirteenth day of the first month, and they wrote as Haman directed to the generals and the governors in every province, from India to Ethiopia a hundred and twenty seven provinces, and to the chiefs of the nations according to their dialect in the name of king Artaxerxes,

⁷ So he said to the king, With regard to the man whom the king wisheth to honour, ⁸ Let the king's servants bring out the royal robes with which the king is arrayed, and the horse on which the king rideth, and give them to one of the most honourable of the king's friends, ⁹ and let him array the man whom the king loveth, and mount him on the horse, and make proclamation through the street of the city saying, Thus shall it be done to every man whom the king honoureth. ¹⁰ Then the king said to Haman, Thou hast spoken well, Do thou so to Mordecai the Jew, who is an attendant in the court. Let nothing be omitted of what thou hast spoken. ¹¹ So Haman took the robe and the horse, and having arrayed Mordecai he mounted him on the horse, and went through the street of the city and made proclamation saying, Thus shall it be done to every man whom the king wisheth to honour. ¹² Then Mordecai returned to the court, and Haman went home in grief with his head covered.

² and the king took the ring which he had taken back from Haman and gave it to Mordecai, and Esther set him over all that belonged to Haman.

⁸ Write ye yourselves what you please in my name, and seal it with my ring. For what is written by the king's order, and sealed with my ring cannot be reversed.

¹⁰ then it was written by the king's command and sealed with his ring, [and these letters were sent by posts]

¹⁵ Mordecai went forth, arrayed in a royal robe, wearing a crown of gold and a turban of purple cotton. And upon seeing him the inhabitants of Susoi rejoiced.

⁹ for thou wilt receive a graceful crown for thy head; and a chain of gold for thy neck.

²² She made for her husband double garments; and for herself robes of cotton and purple.

²⁴ She made sindons and sold girdles to the Chananites. She opened her mouth sparingly and with propriety; and had her tongue in due subjection.

¹⁰ What! thy cheeks are beautiful as a turtle dove's: and thy neck as strings of pearls.

¹⁰ And I clothed thee with embroidery and shod thee with purple sandals and girded thee with a cotton zone and threw around thee a mantle of tissue. ¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets round thy wrists and a chain round thy neck,

⁷ cotton with embroidery from Egypt was the covering of thy bed. To add to thy glory, and that thou mightest clothe thyself with blue and purple, thy clothing came from the isles of Elisa.

⁴⁶ Then king Nabuchodonosar fell on his face, and made obeisance to Daniel and ordered holy gifts, and sweet odours to be offered to him. 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.

⁷ And the king cried aloud to bring in the magians, Chaldees, gazarenes. And he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and explain to me the meaning, he shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold for his neck and shall be a chief, third in rank, in my kingdom.

²² But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.

¹⁶ And the first came and said, My lord, that pound of thine, hath gained ten pounds. ¹⁷ Whereupon he said to him, Well done, good servant! because thou hast been faithful in a very small trust, be thou the governor of ten cities. ¹⁸ Then the second came and said, My lord, that pound of thine hath gained five pounds. ¹⁹ Whereupon he said to him, Be thou also governor of five cities.

³⁰ The man the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and put us in prison as coming to spy the country;

³³ Upon which the man the lord of the country said to us, By this I shall know that you are men of peace. Leave here with me one brother; and taking the corn purchased for your family go

⁸ Now therefore it was not you who sent me hither, but it was God. And he hath made me like a father to Pharao, and lord of all his house and governor of all the land of Egypt.

⁸ Let the king's servants bring out the royal robes with which the king is arrayed, and the horse on which the king rideth, and give them to one of the most honourable of the king's friends, ⁹ and let him array the man whom the king loveth, and mount him on the horse, and make proclamation through the street of the city saying, Thus shall it be done to every man whom the king honoureth.

¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those beneath the earth;

⁷ But among all the children of Israel and their cattle not even a dog shall bark at man or beast, that thou mayst know what a distinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and the Israelites.

²² that he like himself might instruct princes, and teach his senators wisdom:

¹⁸ Melchisedek also the king of Salem carried out bread and wine. Now he was a priest of the most High God,

²⁰ And to Joseph children were born in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth the daughter of Petephres, the priest of Heliopolis, bore to him, namely, Manasses and Ephraim. And to Manasses, there were sons born, whom his concubine Syra bore to him, namely, Machir. And Machir begot Galaad. And the sons of Ephraim the brother of Manasses were Soutalaam and Taam. And the sons of Soutalaam, Edom.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Madiam had seven daughters who tended the flocks of their father Jothor. And they having come to the well began to draw water to fill the troughs that they might water the flocks of their father Jothor,

¹⁸ and Banaias son of Jodae was counsellor; and the Chelethites, and the Phelethites, and David's sons, were the palace guards.

²⁶ and Iras the son of Jarim was priest for David.

¹⁷ The young men of Heliopolis and Boubaste shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

¹ Now it happened in those days, that an edict came forth from Caesar Augustus, that this whole inhabited land should be enrolled.

²⁸ And one of them named Agabus rising up signified by the spirit that there would very soon be a great famine throughout the whole inhabited land, which accordingly came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

² and this is the history of Jacob's posterity. When Joseph was seventeen years of age and feeding his father's sheep with his brothers, as he was young, namely with the sons of Balla and the sons of Zelpha his father's wives, they carried an ill report against Joseph to Israel their father.

³ from twenty five years and upwards, to fifty years, every one who goeth in to minister; to do all the services of the tabernacle of the testimony.

²¹ And when David came to Saul, and stood before him, he loved him greatly, and made him his armour bearer.

⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

⁶ And the king laid the matter before the elders who stood before Solomon his father while he was alive, and said, How do you advise me to answer this people?

⁸ But he slighted the counsel of the old men, which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who had been brought up with him, and who waited on him,

¹⁹ And the king conversed with them. And among them all there were none found equal to Daniel and Ananias and Misael and Azarias. So they stood before the king.

²³ Now this very Jesus had been about thirty years under governance, being, as was supposed, a son of Joseph, son of Eli,

³⁶ Watch therefore, on every occasion, praying that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which will soon come to pass; and to stand before the son of man.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you, without blemish, before his glory with great joy

¹² And Isaak sowed in that land and got that year an hundred fold of barley. And the Lord blessed him

¹⁶ Let there be in the land a settlement on the tops of the mountains; the fruit thereof will overtop Libanus: and they of a city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.

³⁴ And let Pharao appoint and set governors of districts over the whole land, and let them send in a fifth of all the products of the land of Egypt, during the seven years of plenty, ³⁵ and collect all the eatables of those seven good years which are coming. And let food be collected under the care of Pharao, and eatables stored in the cities. ³⁶ So shall food be kept in the country, against the seven years of famine which will be in the land of Egypt, and the country will not be wasted with the famine.

²¹ and he reduced the people to a state of vassalage from one border of Egypt to the other,

¹⁷ with blessings I will indeed bless thee; and I will multiply thy seed abundantly as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the sea shore: and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their adversaries;

⁵ For they came up with cattle. And their tents were pitched like locusts for multitude: and they and their camels were innumerable. And they came into the land of Israel, and wasted it;

¹² Now Madiam, and Amalek, and all the children of the east lay along in the valley, like grasshoppers, for multitude, and their camels were innumerable. They were like the sand on the sea shore for multitude.

⁵ And the Philistines assembled for battle against Israel; and there came up against Israel, thirty thousand charioteers, and six thousand cavalry, and people like the sand on the sea shore for multitude, and they encamped at Machmas, over against Baithoron, southward.

³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east.

²⁷ and rained upon them flesh, like dust: and feathered fowls as the sand of the sea;

⁴⁵ And Pharao called Joseph's name Psonthomphanech and gave him Aseneth a daughter of Petephres the priest of Heliopolis to be his wife.

⁵ Now therefore thy two sons, who have been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasses, like Reuben and Symeon, shall be mine.

³⁰ But after these there will come seven years of famine. And they will cause the coming plenty to be forgotten in all Egypt. And the famine will consume the land,

¹³ Joseph taking his two sons, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left and Manasses in his left hand towards Israel's right, brought them near to him. ¹⁴ But Israel stretching out his right hand laid it on Ephraim's head [now he was the youngest] and his left hand on Manasses' head crossing his hands.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first born, put thy right hand on his head. ¹⁹ But he refused and said, I know; my son; I know. This indeed will be a people and will be exalted. But his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will be a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day and said, By you Israel will bless saying, God make thee like Ephraim and Manasses. So he put Ephraim before Manasses.

¹⁷ His beauty is that of a firstling bull, His horns are the horns of an Unicorn, With these he will push the nations at once, Even from the limits of the land. These are the myriads of Ephraim; And these the thousands of Manasses.

⁵ Because at his wrath there is vexation; but in his favour, life; in the evening weeping may pitch its tent; and in the morning, joy.

¹¹ Thou didst turn my mourning into joy; thou didst rend in pieces my sackcloth and gird me with gladness,

¹⁰ Hear, daughter, and behold, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house.

¹⁶ I will not contend with you forever, nor will I be continually angry with you, for from me spirit is to proceed and I have made every breathing soul.

⁶ And I will increase thee exceedingly, and cause thee to become nations; and kings shall spring from thee:

³ And may my God bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayst become a multitude of nations.

³² And Leia conceived and bore Jacob a son and called his name Reuben; saying, Because the Lord hath seen my affliction; therefore he hath given me a son. Now therefore my husband will love me. ³³ And she conceived again, and bore to Jacob another son, and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I am slighted, he hath given me this son also; so she called his name Symeon. ³⁴ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now will my husband abide with me for I have born him three sons; therefore she called his name Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Now for this also I will praise the Lord, therefore she called his name Judas. Then she ceased from bearing.

⁶ And Rachel said, God hath judged for me and hath heard my voice and given me a son: for this cause she called his name Dan. ⁷ And Balla, Rachel"s maid conceived again and bore to Jacob another son. ⁸ Whereupon Rachel said, God helped me when I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Nephthaleim. ⁹ Now when Leia saw that she had ceased from bearing, she also took her maid Zelpha and gave her to Jacob for a wife, and he went in unto her. ¹⁰ And Zelpha, Leia's maid conceived and bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ Whereupon Leia said, Good luck. So she called his name Gad. ¹² And Zelpha, Leia's maid conceived again and bore Jacob another son. ¹³ Upon which Leia said, Happy am I; for the women will call me happy. So she called his name Aser.

¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth! ¹⁷ Now when Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on Ephraim's head, it appeared amiss to him; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to the head of Manasses. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first born, put thy right hand on his head. ¹⁹ But he refused and said, I know; my son; I know. This indeed will be a people and will be exalted. But his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will be a multitude of nations.

²² Joseph is a fruitful son. My fruitful son was envied. Abide with me, my younger son, Against whom calumniators brought false accusations.

²³ and saw Ephraim's children to the third generation; and the children of Machir the son of Manasses were also dandled on his knees;

¹⁷ he had sent before them a man, Joseph was sold for a servant. ¹⁸ They had humbled his feet with fetters, his life was spent in irons;

¹ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God: ² priests, speak to the understanding of Jerusalem; comfort her; for her humiliation is accomplished; her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the hand of the Lord [blessings] double to the punishment of her sins.

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

²⁹ Behold seven years are coming of great plenty in all the land of Egypt. ³⁰ But after these there will come seven years of famine. And they will cause the coming plenty to be forgotten in all Egypt. And the famine will consume the land, ³¹ so that the plenty will not be known in the land, by reason of the famine which will come after it: for it will be very great.

²⁰ As a dream of one awaked out of sleep. Thou, Lord, in thy city wilt spurn their ghost;

²⁵ And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

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.

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.

² Behold I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down thither and buy us a little food that we may live and not die.

⁵ Now when the sons of Israel went to buy in company with others who were going, for the famine was in the land of Chanaan, ⁶ Joseph was the governor of the country; he sold to all the people of that land. So when Joseph's brothers came they made obeisance to him with their face to the ground.

¹ Still the famine prevailed in the land.

¹¹ And I will nourish thee there, [for the famine will continue five years longer] that thou and thy sons and all that belong to thee may not be consumed.

¹¹ And there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan. It was indeed a great affliction and our fathers found no sustenance.

⁴⁰ Thou shalt be over my household and to thy command all my people shall pay obedience. Only on the throne will I be greater than thou. ⁴¹ Moreover Pharao said to Joseph, Behold I have set thee this day over all the land of Egypt,

²⁵ For behold they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for fifty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a kab of vetches for five shekels of silver. ²⁶ And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him and said, Save me, my lord, king! ²⁷ And the king said to her, Unless the Lord save thee, whence can I save thee, from the threshing floor or from the press? ²⁸ Then the king said to her, What is the matter with thee? And the woman said, This woman said to me, Give thy son that we may eat him to-day; and we will eat my son to-morrow. ²⁹ So when we had boiled my son and eaten him, I said to her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him; but she hath hidden her son.

¹ There came also to Jeremias a word of the Lord concerning the drought. ² Judea mourned and her gates were deserted: and darkness overspread the land and the cry of Jerusalem ascended. ³ When her nobles sent their underlings for water; they went to the wells and found no water and returned with their vessels empty. ⁴ A stop was put to the works of the field because there was no rain. The husbandmen were confounded; they covered their heads. ⁵ The hinds calved in the field and left their young because there was not a green plant. ⁶ The wild asses stood in the forests and snuffed up the wind: their eyes failed because there was no grass.

³ Surely jackals drew out the breasts; their whelps suckled the daughters of my people, to make them unnatural as the ostrich in the desert. ⁴ The tongue of a sucking babe cleaved to the roof of its mouth for thirst: infants asked for bread, there is none who breaketh it for them. ⁵ They who had fed upon dainties perished in the highways; they who had been nursed in scarlet were covered with dung. ⁶ The transgression of the daughter of my people was greater than that of Sodom which was overthrown suddenly, without tiring hands with it. ⁷ Her Nazarites were purer than snow; they were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy than a sapphire. Behold their change! ⁸ Their visage became blacker than soot. They are not distinguished in the streets. Their skin is shrivelled to their bones. They are withered. They are become like a stick. ⁹ The victims of the sword are more beautiful than those slain by famine. These stalked about pierced through for want of the fruits of the field. ¹⁰ The hands of tender hearted women boiled their own children; these were food for them in the extreme distress of the daughter of my people.

¹⁷ and lo! a voice from heaven said,"This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased."

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! from the cloud, a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

¹⁴ Now the Word became incarnate, and dwelt as in a tent among us, and we beheld his glory; a glory as of an only begotten from the father. He was full of grace and truth. ¹⁵ Of him John testifieth when he cried, saying, "This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." ¹⁶ And of his fulness we have all received even grace for grace.

¹⁹ And my God will supply all your wants, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ Because all the plenitude was pleased to dwell in him, and by him to reconcile all to himself,

¹⁴ And Joseph collected all the money which was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan for the corn which they bought and which he dealt out to them. And Joseph brought all the money to Pharao's house. ¹⁵ And when all the money was gone, out of the land of Egypt and out of the land of Chanaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread. Must we die in thy presence because we have no money? ¹⁶ Thereupon Joseph said to them, Bring your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle if your money be gone. ¹⁷ So they brought their cattle to Joseph, and he gave them bread for their horses and for their flocks and for their herds and for their asses and supplied them with bread that year for all their cattle. ¹⁸ When that year was ended they came to him the next year and said, Perhaps we may be rejected by our lord: for as our money is gone and our stock and cattle are transferred to thee our lord, there is indeed nothing left us in the presence of our lord, but our persons and our lands. ¹⁹ That we therefore may not die in thy presence and the land become a waste, purchase us and our land for bread, and we with our lands will be servants to Pharao. Give us seed that we may sow and live and not die. So the land will not become desolate. ²⁰ Upon this Joseph purchased all the land of the Egyptians for Pharao. For the Egyptians sold their land to Pharao, because the famine prevailed over them. Thus the land became Pharao's, ²¹ and he reduced the people to a state of vassalage from one border of Egypt to the other, ²² save the land of the priests only. This Joseph did not buy; because Pharao had assigned them a gratuitous portion, and they ate the portion which Pharao assigned them. Therefore they did not sell their land. ²³ Then Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Behold I have this day purchased you and your land for Pharao. Take seed and sow the land. ²⁴ And of the products thereof you shall give Pharao the fifth. And the other four parts shall be your own to sow the land, and to be food for you and all your families.

¹⁷ And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that God will take account of Tyre, and she shall be restored to her former state, and be a mart for all the kingdoms of the World; which are on the face of the earth.

³ Whereupon he said to me, This is the curse which is going forth over the face of the whole earth. Since every thief on the one hand is to be punished with death, and every false swearer on the other hand is to be punished;

³⁵ For it will come as a net upon all who are settled on the face of the whole earth

²⁶ and hath made of one blood the whole nation of men to inhabit the whole face of the earth, having marked out times previously arranged in order, and the boundaries of their habitation,

¹ And when Jacob found that there was a sale in Egypt he said to his sons, Why sit ye still?

⁵ Now when the sons of Israel went to buy in company with others who were going, for the famine was in the land of Chanaan,

²⁰ You indeed consulted against me for evil: but God determined concerning me for good, to bring to pass as at this day, that much people might be nourished.

²⁸ lest they who dwell in the land, out of which thou hast brought them, should speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them; and because he hated them, he led them out into the wilderness to kill them.

¹⁶ When he called for a famine on the land; broke all the stay of bread, ¹⁷ he had sent before them a man, Joseph was sold for a servant.