the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought an evil report of them to his father.

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hands of the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.

And his master saw that Jehovah was with him and that Jehovah made all he did to prosper in his hand.

And it came to pass, from the time that he had appointed him over his house and all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.

And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lie with me.

There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil, and sin against God?

And it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house were inside,

And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,

And it happened, when he heard that I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me, and fled and went outside.

And she spoke to him with words like these, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came in to me to make sport of me;

And it came to pass, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, Your servant did to me after this manner, that his anger burned.

But Jehovah was with Joseph and extended mercy to him, and He gave him favor in the eyes of the warden of the prison house.

The warden of the prison house did not oversee anything that was under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and whatever he did, Jehovah made it prosper.

And Joseph was lord over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him, their faces to the earth.

Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, Behold, your father is sick; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

And Jacob said to Joseph: God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

But as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (which is Bethlehem).

And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.

And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face; but lo, God has also shown me your seed.

And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them to him.

And he blessed Joseph, and said: God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born to this day,

Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it caused his eye to quiver; so he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head onto Manasseh's head.

But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

Then Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches have run over the wall.

But his bow remained steadfast, and the arms of his hands were made nimble by the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob; from the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounds of the enduring hills. They shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.

And of Joseph he said: Blessed of Jehovah is his land, with the excellence of the heavens, with the dew, and the deep lying beneath,

with the chief things of the ancient mountains, with the excellence of the enduring hills,

His glory is like a firstborn bull, and his horns like the horns of the oryx; together with them He shall thrust the peoples to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Moreover, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions. Then take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions.

And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him

Now a famine and great distress came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no food.

And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's kindred became known to Pharaoh.

So Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and did homage on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.

of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Do not fear; you shall have this son also.

And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.