And Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

So she called his name Joseph, and said, Jehovah shall add to me another son.

And they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was still some ground to cover to arrive at Ephrath, Rachel was giving birth, and she had hard labor.

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.

And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons;

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

All those who came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls (for Joseph was in Egypt already).

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a sojourner, in the land of Canaan.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a tunic reaching to the soles of his feet.

And Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more.

For behold, we were binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.

Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: and behold, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.

And his brothers were jealous of him; but his father treasured up these words.

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.

And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, What are you seeking?

And the man said, They have departed from here, for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.

And they said to one another, Behold, this master of dreams is coming!

But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not smite his soul.

So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic reaching to the soles of his feet.

And they sat down to eat food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, going and bringing them down to Egypt.

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers agreed.

And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

And they took Joseph's tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

And he recognized it and said, It is my son's tunic. An evil beast has devoured him. Joseph has been rent and torn to pieces.

And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, I will go down into Sheol mourning for my son. Thus his father wept for 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 it came to pass after these things that the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt committed offense against their lord, the king of Egypt.

And he put them into custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison house, the place where Joseph was confined.

And the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream, both of them, each man's dream in one night and each man's dream with its own interpretation.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in the custody of his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces sad today?

And the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, Behold, in my dream a vine was before me,

And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

Yet within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you shall put Pharaoh's cup into his hand according to the former custom, when you were his cupbearer.

For truly I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing here that they should have put me into the dungeon.

And in the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.

Yet within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.

And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing again, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

And Joseph came and reported to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.

And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you.

And Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

And when the money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the money has failed.

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys. Thus he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land not be desolate.

And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.

Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

And they said, You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

And Israel remained in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they settled on property they owned there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.

And the time drew near for Israel to die. And he called his son Joseph and said to him, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

And he said, Swear to me. And he swore to him. And Israel prostrated himself on the head of the bed.

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 Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

Forty days were fulfilled for him, for such are the days fulfilled for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me. Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and return.

And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great company.

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a great mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is on the other side of Jordan.

For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.

From the sons of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:

those who were numbered of the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell in safety by Him, who shelters him all the day long; and he shall dwell between His shoulders.

with the excellent yield of the sun, with the excellent produce of the months,

with the excellence of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush; let it come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.