Gen. 37:1‑36• 1And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
2These [are] Jacob's generations. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he [was] a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought their evil report to his father.
3And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he [was] son of his old age; and he gave him a coat of many colours.
4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] to his brethren; and they hated him yet more.
6And he said to them, Hear, pray, this dream which I have dreamed.
7And, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the midst of the field; and, behold, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about and bowed down to my sheaf.
8And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed reign over us? or wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet more for his dreams, and for his words.
9And he dreamed yet another dream and told [it] to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars bowed down to me.
10And he told [it] to his father, and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall indeed I and thy mother and thy brethren come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.
12And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
13And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the flock] in Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here [am] I .
14And he said to him, Go, pray, see after thy brethren's welfare and the flocks' welfare; and bring me word again. And he sent him out of the vale of Hebron; and he came to Shechem.
15And a man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
16And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, pray, where they feed.
17And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went to his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
18And they saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him.
19And they said one to another , Behold, this master of dreams cometh.
20And now come, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
21And Reuben heard, and delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not take his life.
22And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this pit that [is] in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him (in order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father).
23And it came to pass, when Joseph was come to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of the colours that [was] on him;
24and they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit [was] empty: [there was] no water in it.
25And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth and balsam and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt.
26And Judah said to his brethren, What profit [is it] if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened.
28And there passed by Midianitish men, merchants; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver [pieces]; and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
29And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
30And he returned to his brethren and said, The child [is] not; and I, whither shall I go?
31And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a buck of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood,
32and they sent the coat of the colours, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son's coat or not.
33And he knew it, and said, [It is] my son's coat: an evil beast hath devoured him; surely Joseph is torn in pieces.
34And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35And all his sons rose up, and all his daughters, to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. And his father wept for him.
36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, chamberlain of Pharaoh, captain of the guard . (Gen. 37:1‑36)
Gen. 39:1‑23• 1And Joseph was brought down into Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither.
2And Jehovah was with Joseph; and he was a prosperous man, and he was in his master the Egyptian's house.
3And his master saw that Jehovah [was] with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4And Joseph found favour in his eyes, and served him; and he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] was his he put into his hand.
5And it came to pass, from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that was his, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was on all that was his in house and in field.
6And he left all that [was] his in Joseph's hand, and took cognizance of nothing with him save the bread which he ate.
7And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife raised her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!
8But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master takes cognizance of nothing with me: what is in the house, and all that he hath, he hath given to my hand.
9None [is] greater in this house than I; nor hath he withheld from me anything but thee, because thou [art] his wife. And how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
10And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, and he hearkened not to her, to lie with her and to be with her,
11and it came to pass about this time that on a certain day that be went into the house to do his business, and none of the men [was] there in the house.
12And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and ran outside.
13And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had fled outside,
14that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he hath brought in to us a Hebrew man to mock us: he came in to me, to lie with me;, and I cried with a loud voice;
15and it came to pass when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and ran outside.
16And she laid up his garment by her till his master came to his house.
17And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant whom thou hast brought to us came in to mock me;
18and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled outside.
19And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying, After this manner did thy bondman to me, that his wrath was kindled.
20And Joseph's master took him and put him in the tower-house, a place where the king's prisoners [were] confined; and he was there in the tower-house.
21And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended mercy to him, and gave him favour in the eyes of the chief of the tower-house.
22And the chief of the tower-house committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the tower-house; and whatever they were doing there he did.
23The chief of the tower-house looked not to anything under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and what he did Jehovah made to prosper. (Gen. 39:1‑23)
Gen. 48:1‑22• 1And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick. And he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
2And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee; and Israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed.
3And Jacob said to Joseph, The Almighty God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me
4and said to me, Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and I will give this land to thy seed after thee, an everlasting possession.
5And now thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, [shall be] mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon.
6And thy family which thou hast begotten after them shall be thine: they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance,
7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
8And Israel beheld Joseph's sons and said, Who [are] these?
9And Joseph said to his father, They [are] my sons whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee unto me, that I may bless them.
10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age—he could not see. And he brought them nearer to him; and he kissed them and embraced them.
11And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and, behold, God hath also let me see thy seed.
12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and bowed down with his face to the earth.
13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israel's right hand, and brought [them] near to him.
14And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid [it] on Ephraim's head—and he [was] the younger—and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding wittingly his hands, for Manasseh [was] the first-born.
15And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom walked my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, the God that tended me all my life long till this day,
16the angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth .
17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
18And Joseph said to his father, Not so my father, for this [is] the first-born: put thy right hand on his head.
19But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become a fullness of nations.
20And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh; and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21And Israel said to Joseph, Behold I die; and God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
22And I have given to thee one slope [shoulder] above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. (Gen. 48:1‑22)