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Bible Reading for January 13
Genesis Chapter 40
1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler of the king of
Egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers, against the chief of
the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the
prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound.
4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them:
and they continued a season in ward.
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each
man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of
the king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison.
6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and,
behold, they [were] sad.
7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that [were] with him in the ward of his
lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to day?
8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no
interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, [Do] not interpretations
[belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you.
9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream,
behold, a vine [was] before me;
10 And in the vine [were] three branches: and it [was] as though it budded,
[and] her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe
grapes:
11 And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
12 And Joseph said unto him, This [is] the interpretation of it: The three
branches [are] three days:
13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee
unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the
former manner when thou wast his butler.
14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray
thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this
house:
15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also
have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto
Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets on
my head:
17 And in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of bakemeats for
Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation thereof: The
three baskets [are] three days:
19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and
shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
20 And it came to pass the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's birthday, that he
made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief
butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the
cup into Pharaoh's hand:
22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
Genesis Chapter 41: Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream 1 And it came to pass at
the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the
river.
2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and
fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill
favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the [other] kine upon the brink of the
river.
4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured
and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn
came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after
them.
7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh
awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream.
8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent
and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and
Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them
unto Pharaoh.
9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults
this day:
10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of
the guard's house, [both] me and the chief baker:
11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his dream.
12 And [there was] there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the
captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to
each man according to his dream he did interpret.
13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored
unto mine office, and him he hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of
the dungeon: and he shaved [himself], and changed his raiment, and came in
unto Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and [there is] none
that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, [that] thou canst
understand a dream to interpret it.
16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me: God shall give
Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of
the river:
18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well
favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill
favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
badness:
20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten
them; but they [were] still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full
and good:
23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind,
sprung up after them:
24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told [this] unto the
magicians; but [there was] none that could declare [it] to me.
25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is] one: God hath
shewed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do.
26 The seven good kine [are] seven years; and the seven good ears [are] seven
years: the dream [is] one.
27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them [are]
seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be
seven years of famine.
28 This [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God [is] about
to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of
Egypt:
30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty
shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine
following; for it [shall be] very grievous.
32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; [it is] because the
thing [is] established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him
over the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint officers over the land, and take
up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up
corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of
famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through
the famine.
37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his
servants.
38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is],
a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?
39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this,
[there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art]:
40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my
people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of
Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand,
and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried
before him, Bow the knee: and he made him [ruler] over all the land of Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man
lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife
Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over
[all] the land of Egypt.
46 And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of
Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout
all the land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land
of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which
[was] round about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left
numbering; for [it was] without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which
Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, [said he],
hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be
fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were
ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said:
and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh
for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he
saith to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all
the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the
land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy [corn]; because that
the famine was [so] sore in all lands.
Genesis Chapter 42
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons,
Why do ye look one upon another?
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down
thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he
said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the
famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to
all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down
themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto
them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And
they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto
them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
11 We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men], thy servants are no spies.
12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are
come.
13 And they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the sons of one man in
the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest [is] this day with our father,
and one [is] not.
14 And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto you, saying, Ye
[are] spies:
15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth
hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in
prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there be any] truth in you: or
else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.
17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I fear
God:
19 If ye [be] true [men], let one of your brethren be bound in the house of
your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified,
and ye shall not die. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty concerning our
brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we
would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin
against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is
required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph understood [them]; for he spake unto them by
an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them
again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before
their eyes.
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every
man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus
did he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he
espied his money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack's mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, [it is] even
in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to
another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?
29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him
all that befell unto them; saying,
30 The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us
for spies of the country.
31 And we said unto him, We [are] true [men]; we are no spies:
32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our father; one [is] not, and the youngest
[is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know
that ye [are] true [men]; leave one of your brethren [here] with me, and take
[food for] the famine of your households, and be gone:
34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye [are] no
spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and
ye shall traffick in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's
bundle of money [was] in his sack: and when [both] they and their father saw
the bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my
children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin
[away]: all these things are against me.
37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him
not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead,
and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go,
then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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