50Joseph threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him. 2Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for em...
49Then Jacob called for his sons and said: Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come. 2Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel. 3Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my stren...
48Some time later Joseph was told, Your father is ill. So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him. 2When Jacob was told, Your son Joseph has come to you, Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed. 3Jacob said to Joseph, God A...
47Joseph went and told Pharaoh, My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen. 2He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh. 3Pharaoh asked the...
46So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, Jacob! Jacob! Here I am, he replied. 3I am God, the God of your fa...
45Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, Have everyone leave my presence! So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. 2And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard hi...
44Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack. 2Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack,...
43Now the famine was still severe in the land. 2So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go back and buy us a little more food. 3But Judah said to him, The man warned us solemnly, 'You will not see...
42When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, Why do you just keep looking at each other? 2He continued, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die. 3Then t...
41When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, 2when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. 3After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nil...
40Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. 2Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, 3and put them in custody in the house of the captain of...
39Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. 2The Lord was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the ho...
38At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. 2There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and lay with her; 3she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named...
37Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and h...
36This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom). 2Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite- 3also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of...
