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Then sayde Iudas vnto Thamar his sonnes wyfe. Remayne a wyddow in thy fathers house, tyll my sonne Sela be growne: for he thought: peraduenture he might dye also like as his brethren. So Thamar wente hir waye, and remained in hir fathers house.

And ye LORDE was wt Ioseph, in so moch yt he became a luckye ma, & was in his master ye Egipcians house.

And his master sawe yt the LORDE was wt him: for what so euer he dyd, the LORDE made it to prospere in his hade:

so yt he founde fauor in his masters sight, & was his seruaunt. He made him ruler of his house, and put all that he had, vnder his hande.

And there is no man so greate in the house as I, and he hath kepte nothinge fro me, excepte the: for thou art his wife. How shulde I then do so greate euell, and synne agaynst God?

so that he committed all the presoners of the preson vnto his hades: that what so euer were done, might be done by him.

For the officer of the preson sawe, yt the LORDE was with him in all yt was vnder his handes, and that what so euer he dyd, the LORDE made it to come prosperously to passe.

And the chefe marshall put Ioseph vnto them, yt he might serue them. And so they were in preson for a season.

Why loke ye so sadly to daye?

and restored the chefe butlar to his butlar shipe agayne, so that he reached the cuppe in to Pharaos hande.

And as he declared it vnto vs, so came it to passe. So I was restored vnto myne office, and he was hanged.

And after them I sawe other seue kyne come out, thynne, euell fauoured, and leenfleshed. So euell fauoured sawe I neuer in all the lande of Egipte.

and after the same there shall come seuen yeares of derth, so that all this plenteousnes shalbe forgotten in ye lande of Egipte: and the derth shall consume the lande,

so that the plenteousnes shal not be perceaued in the lande, because of the derth that commeth therafter, for it shall be very greate.

And sayde vnto Iosep: For so moch as God hath shewed ye all this, there is none of soch vnderstondinge & wyßdome as thou.

And he called him Zaphnath Paena, & gaue him a wife, euen Asnath the doughter of Potiphar the prest of On. So Ioseph wente out, for to vyset the lande of Egipte.

And the londe dyd so those seuen plenteous yeares, and they gathered

So Ioseph layed vp the corne in stoare, and that moch aboue measure, as the sonde of the see: in so moch yt he left of nombrynge of it, for it coude not be nombred.

So whan there was derth in all ye lade, Ioseph opened all yt was by him, & solde vnto the Egipcians. Thus ye derth preuayled in the lande,

So Iosephs ten brethre wente downe to bye corne in Egipte.