Study Desk

Then they said to him, "We have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Recount it to me, please."

Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me; God will answer concerning the welfare of Pharaoh."

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Pharaoh's dreams are one and the same; God has declared to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

It is as I have spoken to Pharaoh: God has shown to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

Now as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it means that the matter is confirmed by God, and God will quickly bring it about.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made you know all of this, there is no one so understanding and wise as you are.

And Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."

And he named the second Ephraim, "For," he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

And Joseph said to them on the third day, "Do this and live, for I fear God:

So he said to his brothers, "My money has been returned, and behold, it is even in my sack." And their hearts sank, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

and may God Almighty grant you compassion before the man, so that he will release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

And he said, "Be well, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks; your money has come to me." Then he brought Simeon out to them.

Then he lifted his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son. And he said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" And he said, "May God be gracious to you, my son."

So Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord's slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found."

So now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

So God sent me before you to establish for you a remnant in the earth and to keep you alive for a great remnant of survivors.

So now, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has set me as a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, "God has set me as lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.

So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."