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And God said to him, I am the Almighty God: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee; and kings shall come out of thy loins.

And God went up from him in the place where he had talked with him.

And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el.

There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [your dreams], I pray you.

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God will do he has made known to Pharaoh.

This is the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has let Pharaoh see.

And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God will hasten to do it.

And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find [one] as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none [so] discreet and wise as thou.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh—For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

And the name of the second he called Ephraim—For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear God.

And he said to his brethren, My money is returned [to me], and behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this [that] God has done to us?

And the Almighty God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved of children, am bereaved.

And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; your money came to me. And he brought Simeon out to them.

And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son!

And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak, and how justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of thy servants; behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he in whose hand the cup has been found.

And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve life.