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And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand: but he didn't find her.

But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Look, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand:

he is not greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

But have me in your remembrance when it shall be well with you, and show kindness, I pray you, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.

And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the sacred scholars of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them the things he dreamt; but there was none that could interpret them to Pharaoh.

and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it to the sacred scholars; but there was none that could declare it to me.

And the seven years of famine began to come, according to as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob didn't send with his brothers; for he said, If I do perhaps harm will befall him.

And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said to them. From where do you come? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

And Joseph knew his brothers, but they didn't know him.

And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food have your slaves come.

And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land you have come.

if you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

and bring your youngest brother to me: then I shall know that you are no spies, but that you are true men: so I will deliver you your brother, and you shall traffic in the land.