Study Desk

He said, "What should I give you as a promise?" And she said, "The ring you use to mark your name, and its string, and the stick that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her. And she was going to have a baby by him.

So he returned to Judah, and said, "I did not find her. The men of the place said, ‘There has been no woman selling the use of her body here.'"

But when he pulled away his hand, his brother was born. Then she said, "What an opening you have made for yourself!" So he was given the name of Perez.

So Joseph found favor in his eyes, and worked only for him. Potiphar made him the one to watch over his house and take care of all that he owned.

So he put all he owned in Joseph's care. Having Joseph near, he did not need to think about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was strong and good-looking.

So Joseph's boss took him and put him in prison, the place where the men who did wrong against the king were put in chains. So there he was in prison.

The head of the prison put all the men who were in prison into Joseph's care. So whatever was done there was because of Joseph.

So he put them in prison under the care of the head of the soldiers, the same place where Joseph was in prison.

So he asked these men who had worked for Pharaoh and who were with him in prison in his boss's house, "Why are your faces so sad today?"

So the head cup-carrier told his dream to Joseph. He said, "In my dream, there was a vine in front of me.

Pharaoh's cup was in my hand. So I took the grapes and made wine from them and poured it into Pharaoh's cup. And I put the cup into Pharaoh's hand."

So when morning came his spirit was troubled. He called for all the wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams. But there was no one who could tell Pharaoh the meaning of them.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream, I was standing beside the Nile.

The time without food will be so hard that no one in the land will remember when they had much.

"So now let Pharaoh look for a man who is understanding and wise. Let the land of Egypt be put into his care.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all this, there is no one as understanding and wise as you are.

Then Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphenath-paneah. He gave him for a wife Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera who was the religious leader of On. So Joseph went out through the land of Egypt.

So he gathered into the cities all the food of these seven years when there was much in the land of Egypt. He put into each city the food from the fields around it.

So when all the people of Egypt were hungry, they cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. Do what he tells you."

And he said, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go there and buy some for us, so we may live and not die."