Genesis 41 Cross References - MLV

¹ And it happened 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 cows, fine-looking and fattened and they fed in the reed grass. ³ And behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed and stood by the other cows upon the brink of the river. ⁴ And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven fine-looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.
⁵ And he slept and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, fat and good. ⁶ And behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. ⁷ And the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
⁸ And it happened in the morning, that his spirit was troubled and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no man who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
⁹ Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day. ¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, 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 a young man with us there, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard and we told him. And he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream. ¹³ And it happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was; he restored me to my office and he hanged him.
¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they brought him hastily out of the pit and he shaved himself and changed his garments and came in to Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream and there is no man who can interpret it. And I have heard say of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it. ¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
¹⁷ And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river. ¹⁸ And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed and fine-looking and they fed in the reed grass. ¹⁹ And behold, seven other cows came up after them, poorly and very ill-formed and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. ²⁰ And the lean and ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows. ²¹ And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
²² And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up upon 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 swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no man who could declare it to me.
²⁵ And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. ²⁶ The seven good cows are seven years and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one. ²⁷ And the seven lean and ill-favored cows that came up after them are seven years and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind, they will be seven years of famine.
²⁸ That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh. ²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, ³⁰ and there will arise after them seven years of famine. And all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt and the famine will consume the land. ³¹ And the plenty will not be known in the land because of that famine which follows, because it will be very grievous.
³² And because the dream was doubled to Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God and God will shortly bring it to pass.
³³ Now therefore let Pharaoh look out for a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this and let him appoint overseers over the land and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years. ³⁵ And let them gather all the food of these good years that come and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities and let them keep it. ³⁶ And the food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land not perish 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 to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? ³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you. ⁴⁰ You will be over my house and according to your word all my people will be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
⁴² And Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and arrayed him in garments 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 set him over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh and without you no man will lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over 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 the earth brought out by handfuls in the seven plenteous years. 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 all around every city, he laid up in the same. ⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, because it was without number.
⁵⁰ And two sons were born to Joseph before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, bore to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, because God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house. ⁵² And the name of the second he called Ephraim, because God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
⁵³ And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. ⁵⁴ And the seven years of famine began to come, just-as Joseph had said. And there was famine 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 to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he says to you*, do.
⁵⁶ And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe on all the earth.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, Behold, you are but a dead man, over the woman whom you have taken; she is a man's wife.

¹⁴ And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

²¹ So he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over the River and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him yet the more. ⁶ And he said to them, Hear, I beseech you*, this dream which I have dreamed. ⁷ For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your* sheaves came all around and bowed-down to my sheaf.
⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.
⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing-down to me.
¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow-down ourselves to you to the earth?

⁵ And they dreamed a dream both of them in one night, each man his dream, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the King of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

²² And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born you* will cast into the river and every daughter you* will save alive.

⁹ And it will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, nor listen to your voice, that you will take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which you take out of the river will become blood upon the dry land.

¹⁰ For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from where you* came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs,

¹³ And when Gideon came, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. And he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream. And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and killed* it so that it fell and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat. ¹⁴ And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else except the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has delivered Midian and all the army.

¹ On that night the king could not sleep. And he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles and they were read before the king.

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed.
¹⁶ Then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction

⁵ And the waters will fail from the sea and the river will be wasted and become dry.

³ Speak and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own and I have made it for myself.

⁹ And the land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.
Because he has said, The river is mine and I have made it,

¹ And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. And his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him. ² Then the king commanded to call the magicians and the enchanters and the sorcerers and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
³ And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.

⁵ I saw a dream which made me afraid and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
⁶ Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. ⁷ Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers came in and I told the dream before them, but they did not make the interpretation of it known to me.
⁸ But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And I told the dream before him, saying, ⁹ O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen and the interpretation of it.
¹⁰ Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth and the height of it was great. ¹¹ The tree grew and was strong and the height of it reached to heaven and the sight of it to the end of all the earth. ¹² The leaves of it were fine and the fruit of it much and food was in it for all. The beasts of the field had shadow under it and the birds of the heavens dwelt in the branches of it. And all flesh was fed from it.
¹³ I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven. ¹⁴ He cried aloud and said thus, Hew down the tree and cut off its branches. Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts get away from under it and the fowls from its branches.
¹⁵ Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth. ¹⁶ Let his heart be changed from man's and let a beast's heart be given to him. And let seven times pass over him.
¹⁷ The sentence is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will and sets up over it the lowest of men.
¹⁸ This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. And you, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, inasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation. But you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

¹ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
² Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven broke forth upon the great sea. ³ And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another.
⁴ The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings of it were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon two feet as a man and a man's heart was given to it. ⁵ And behold, another beast, a second, like a bear and it was raised up on one side and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: Arise, devour much flesh. ⁶ After this I beheld, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads and dominion was given to it.
⁷ After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, fearful and powerful and exceedingly strong. And it had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces and stamped the residue with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns. ⁸ I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.

¹⁹ Now while sitting upon the judicial-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing between you and that righteous man; for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.

⁶ And the rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

⁴ And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven fine-looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.

²⁰ And the lean and ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows. ²¹ And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

¹⁵ And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and offered up burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and made a feast to all his servants.

¹⁴ butter of the herd and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

¹⁰ Yes, behold, being planted, will it flourish? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.

¹² But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong twigs were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

¹⁵ Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness and his spring will become dry and his fountain will be dried up. He will make spoil of the treasure of all desirable vessels.

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him yet the more.

⁶ And Joseph came in to them in the morning and saw them, and behold, they were sad.

⁸ And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream and there is no man who can interpret it.
And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, I beseech you*.

¹¹ Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. And they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments.

²² And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.

⁷ And the magicians did in like manner with their enchantments and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

¹⁸ And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And there were lice upon man and upon beast. ¹⁹ Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.

¹¹ And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, because the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.

³¹ Do not turn to those who have familiar spirits, nor to the wizards. Do not seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Jehovah your* God.

⁶ And the soul that turns to those who have familiar spirits and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people.

⁹ When you have come into the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, you will not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
¹⁰ There will not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, a psychic, he who practices soothsaying, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or a charmer, or a medium, or a spiritist, or a necromancer. ¹² For whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you. ¹³ You will be perfect with Jehovah your God. ¹⁴ For these nations, that you will dispossess, listen to those who practice soothsaying and to psychics. But as for you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹⁴ The friendship of Jehovah is with those who fear him and he will show them his covenant.

¹⁹ And when they will say to you*, Seek for those who have familiar spirits and for the wizards, who chirp and who mutter, should not a people seek for their God? On behalf of the living seek to the dead?

³ And the spirit of Egypt will fail in the midst of it and I will destroy the counsel of it. And they will seek for the idols and for the charmers and for those who have familiar spirits and for the wizards.

¹¹ The rulers of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How will you* say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise men, the son of long-ago kings? ¹² Where then are your wise men? And let them tell you now and let them know what Jehovah of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt. ¹³ The rulers of Zoan have become fools. The rulers of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go-astray, the chief of her tribes.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder. I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.

¹² Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you may prevail. ¹³ You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the knowers from the new moons, stand up and save you from the things that will come upon you.

²⁰ And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

¹ And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. And his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him. ² Then the king commanded to call the magicians and the enchanters and the sorcerers and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
³ And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream and my spirit is troubled to know the dream. ⁴ Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever. Tell your servants the dream and we will show the interpretation.
⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing has gone from me. If you* do not make the dream and the interpretation of it known to me, you* will be cut in pieces and your* houses will be made a dunghill. ⁶ But if you* show the dream and the interpretation of it, you* will receive gifts and rewards and great honor from me. Therefore show the dream and the interpretation of it to me.
⁷ They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream and we will show the interpretation.
⁸ The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that you* would gain time, because you* see the thing has gone from me. ⁹ But if you* do not make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you*, for you* have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me till the time is changed. Therefore tell me the dream and I will know that you* can show me the interpretation of it.
¹⁰ The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man upon the earth who can show the king's matter. Inasmuch as no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean. ¹¹ And it is a rare thing that the king requires and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

²⁷ Daniel answered before the king and said, The secret which the king has demanded, neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, can show to the king, ²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these:

⁵ I saw a dream which made me afraid and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

⁷ Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers came in and I told the dream before them, but they did not make the interpretation of it known to me.

¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, may the dream be to those who hate you and the interpretation of it to your adversaries.

⁶ Then the king's countenance was changed in him and his thoughts troubled him. And the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees killed* one against another.
⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever will read this writing and show me the interpretation of it, will be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold about his neck and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.
⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

¹¹ There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. And the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, I say, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans and soothsayers,

²⁸ Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me much and my countenance was changed in me, but I kept the matter in my heart.

²⁷ And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick certain days. Then I rose up and did the king's business. And I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.

¹⁶ I heard and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

¹ Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise-men from the east came into Jerusalem,

²² Now Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and works.

¹⁸ Now also some of the Epicureans and Stoic philosophers were encountering him and some were saying, Whatever does this babbler wish to say?
Some said, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons, because he is proclaiming the good-news of Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁹ For it has been written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will reject the understanding of the intelligent ones.’

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone seems to be wise in this age among you, let him become foolish, in order that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, ‘ It is he who grabs the wise in their craftiness'; ²⁰ and again, ‘The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.’

¹ And it happened after these things, that the cupbearer of the King of Egypt and his baker, offended their lord the King of Egypt. ² And Pharaoh was angry against his two officers, against the chief of the cupbearers and against the chief of the bakers. ³ And he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

¹⁴ But have me in your remembrance when it will be well with you and I beseech you, show kindness to me and make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this house.

²³ Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

³⁶ And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

²⁰ And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison.

⁵ And they dreamed a dream both of them in one night, each man his dream, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the King of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
⁶ And Joseph came in to them in the morning and saw them, and behold, they were sad. ⁷ And he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in confinement in his master's house, saying, Why do you* look so sad today?
⁸ And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream and there is no man who can interpret it.
And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, I beseech you*.

¹ And Joseph was brought down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.

¹² And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three tendrils are three days; ¹³ within yet three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office. And you will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when you was his cupbearer.
¹⁴ But have me in your remembrance when it will be well with you and I beseech you, show kindness to me and make mention of me to 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 I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.
¹⁶ When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. ¹⁷ And there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh in the uppermost basket and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.
¹⁸ And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are three days; ¹⁹ within yet three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree and the birds will eat your flesh from you.

¹² And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three tendrils are three days;

²⁰ And it happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast to all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. ²¹ And he restored the chief of the cup-bearers to his office of cup-bearer again and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand, ²² but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

¹⁰ See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

³ And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar. And I fell upon my face.

¹⁶ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your* God and against you*.

⁷ Jehovah makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. ⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's and he has set the world upon them.

²⁴ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

²⁹ and changed his prison garments. And Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life,

¹ Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and a bitter cry. ² And he came even before the king's gate, for none might enter inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
³ And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews and fasting and weeping and wailing and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
⁴ And Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told it to her. And the queen was exceedingly grieved. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and to take his sackcloth from him, but he did not receive it.

¹ Now it happened on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king's house, opposite the king's house. And the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, opposite the entrance of the house.

¹⁹ Until the time that his word happened, the word of Jehovah tried him.
²⁰ The king sent and released him, even the ruler of peoples and let him go free. ²¹ He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, ²² to bind his rulers at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.

⁷ He raises up a poor man out of the dust and lifts up a needy man from the dunghill, ⁸ that he may set him with rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah. My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

³² And he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, ³³ and changed his prison garments. And he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.

²⁵ Then Arioch brought Daniel in before the king in haste and said thus to him: I have found a man of the sons of the captivity of Judah, who will make known the interpretation to the king.

⁹ Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day. ¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, 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 a young man with us there, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard and we told him. And he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream. ¹³ And it happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was; he restored me to my office and he hanged him.

¹² inasmuch as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding, interpreting of dreams and showing of dark sentences and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called and he will show the interpretation.

¹⁶ But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me the interpretation of it, you will be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold about your neck and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.

¹⁴ And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flock and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron and he came to Shechem.

⁶ And he said, Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you*, I Jehovah will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

²⁷ And he said, If Jehovah does not help you, from where shall I help you? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?

¹⁸ that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
¹⁹ Then the secret was shown to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. ²⁰ Daniel answered and said, Praise the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his. ²¹ And he changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. ²² He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells with him.
²³ I thank you and praise you, O you, God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might and has now made known to me what we desired of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.

²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these: ²⁹ As for you, O king, your thoughts came upon your bed, what should happen hereafter. And he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.
³⁰ But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living man, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

⁴⁷ The king answered to Daniel and said, Of a truth your* God is the God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.

² It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

⁴² saying, If you had known in this day, even you, for-sure, the things which are for your peace! But now they were hidden from your eyes.

⁷ And he clutched him by the right hand and lifted him up and instantly his feet and his ankles were strengthened.

¹² Now having seen them, Peter answered to the people, Men, Israelites! Why are you marveling over this one? Or why are you staring at us, as though by our own power or godliness we have made him able to walk?

¹⁴ But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard it, they ripped their garments and dashed into the crowd, crying out ¹⁵ and saying, Men! Why are you doing these things? We are also human, of like-feelings with you and are proclaiming the good-news to you : to turn away from these futile things to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

¹⁰ But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me.

⁵ not that we are sufficient from ourselves, to reason anything as out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God;

¹ Jehovah showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon.
² One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten they were so bad.
³ Then Jehovah said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs, very good and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten they are so bad.

⁵ Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

⁸ And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten they are so bad, surely Jehovah says thus: So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah and his rulers and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ They will not be put to shame in the time of evil and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

²⁰ And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry. And he will eat on the left hand and they will not be satisfied. They will eat every man the flesh of his own arm–

³ And he said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat and fill your guts with this roll that I give you. Then I ate it and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

⁹ And I went to the messenger, saying to him that he should give me the book.
And he says to me, Take it and devour it, and it will make your belly bitter, but it will be sweet like honey in your mouth. ¹⁰ And I took the book out of the messenger’s hand and devoured it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth and when I ate it, my belly was made bitter.

⁶ And behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

²⁶ Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up, ⁷ with which the reaper fills not his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

⁷ For they sow the wind and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade will yield no meal. Perhaps it yields, strangers will swallow it up.

¹⁶ Ephraim is struck. Their root is dried up. They will bear no fruit. Yes, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

⁸ And it happened in the morning, that his spirit was troubled and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no man who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

¹⁹ Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.

¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

¹⁴ For this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart and upon your servants and upon your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

⁶ And Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this time I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You will hock their horses and burn their chariots with fire.

² Jehovah has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

²² Let them bring forth and declare to us what will happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them and know the latter end of them, or show us things to come.
²³ Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you* are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed and behold it together.

⁹ Let all the nations be gathered together and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses that they may be justified, or let them hear and say, It is truth.

²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these: ²⁹ As for you, O king, your thoughts came upon your bed, what should happen hereafter. And he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.

⁴⁵ Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. And the dream is certain and the interpretation of it sure.

⁷ Surely the lord Jehovah will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; the one is taken and the one is left.

²³ But you, beware. Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

¹⁷ in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,

¹ I saw after these things, and behold, a door has been opened in heaven and the first voice which I heard speaking with me, a voice like that of a trumpet, saying, Come up here and I will be showing you what things are essential to happen after these things.

²⁴ Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cling to his wife and the two will be one flesh.

¹⁸ And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are three days;

² And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fine-looking and fattened and they fed in the reed grass.

⁵ And he slept and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, fat and good.

²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,

⁴⁷ And the earth brought out by handfuls in the seven plenteous years.

⁵³ And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

¹¹ And thus you* will eat it: with your* loins girded, your* shoes on your* feet and your* staff in your* hand. And you* will eat it in haste. It is Jehovah's Passover.

⁶ And you will make fifty clasps of gold and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps. And the tabernacle will be one whole.

⁴ and all were drinking the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking from a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ.

⁷ Because there are three who are testifying,

¹⁹ And David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Jehovah commanded.

¹ Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go and your household and journey wherever you can journey, for Jehovah has called for a famine and it will also come upon the land seven years.

²⁵ And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. ²⁶ The seven good cows are seven years and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.

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 the earth brought out by handfuls in the seven plenteous years.

⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, because it was without number.

²¹ And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

²⁷ And the seven lean and ill-favored cows that came up after them are seven years and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind, they will be seven years of famine.

⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, because God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house.

⁵⁴ And the seven years of famine began to come, just-as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

⁵⁶ And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

¹³ And there was no bread in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

¹³ So Gad came to David and told him and said to him, Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or will there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now decide and see what answer I will return to him who sent me.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the travelers of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

¹⁶ And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread.

⁷ Let him drink and forget his need and remember his misery no more.

¹⁶ so that he who graces himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth. Because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from my eyes.

²⁵ But in truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was locked for three years and six months, as such there became a large famine over all the land;

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like-feelings to us and he prayed with much prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months.

⁶ But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod and he destroyed them and killed* them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders of it.

²⁰ The earth will stagger like a drunken man and will sway to and fro like a hammock. And the transgression of it will be heavy upon it and it will fall and not rise again.

⁷ For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your* sheaves came all around and bowed-down to my sheaf.

⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing-down to me.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good?

¹⁴ For God speaks once, yes twice, though man does not regard it. ¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed.

²⁴ Jehovah of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so will it happen and as I have purposed, so will it stand, ²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then will his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from their shoulder.
²⁶ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For Jehovah of hosts has purposed and who will annul it? And his hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?

³³ For a Topheth is prepared of old, yes, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of Jehovah kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning and from long-ago things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel will stand and I will do all my pleasure, ¹¹ calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also make it occur. I have purposed. I will also do it.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth will be passing away, but my words may never pass away.

³⁴ Then the King will be saying to those at his right, Come-here, those who have been blessed from my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the conception of the world:

⁴¹ Then he will also say to them at the left, Travel away from me, you those who have been cursed into the everlasting fire which has been prepared for the devil and his messengers:

⁴⁰ But to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give, but it is for them for whom it has been prepared.

⁹ but as it has been written, ‘Things which the eye did not see and the ear did not hear and things which did not come up in the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love him.’

¹ This will be the third-time I am coming to you. (Upon the mouth of two or three witnesses every declaration will be established.)

¹⁵ And the four messengers were loosed, who have been prepared for the hour and the day, and month and year, in order that they should kill the third of men.

³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

¹⁹ Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel and God be with you. You be a leader for the people toward God and bring you the cases to God. ²⁰ And you will teach them the statutes and the laws and will show them the way in which they must walk and the work that they must do.
²¹ Moreover you will provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens, ²² and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it will be, that every great matter they will bring to you, but every small matter they will judge themselves. So it will be easier for yourself and they will bear the burden with you.

¹³ Take for you* wise men and understanding and known, according to your* tribes and I will make them heads over you*.

²⁷ Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

³ Therefore brethren, elect out of you seven men well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we might designate over this need.

¹⁴ And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

¹¹ And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king all around.
¹² Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown upon him and gave him the testimony. And they made him king and anointed him. And they clapped their hands and said, Live, O king.

¹² And the men did the work faithfully.
And the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward and others of the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.

⁹ And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword.

¹⁹ to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. ⁷ Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ provides her bread in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.

³ A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer for it.

¹² A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself. The simple pass on and suffer for it.

⁵ And calling to him each one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first, How much do you owe to my lord?

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 all around every city, he laid up in the same. ⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, because it was without number.

⁶ For the famine has been in the land these two years and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. ⁷ And God sent me before you* to preserve for you* a remnant on the earth and to save you* alive by a great deliverance.

¹³ And he said, Oh, Lord, I beseech you, send by the hand of him whom you will send.

¹³ And there was no bread in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. ¹⁴ And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
¹⁵ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, why should we die in your presence? Because our money fails.
¹⁶ And Joseph said, Give your* cattle and I will give you* for your* cattle, if money fails. ¹⁷ And they brought their cattle to Joseph. And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses and for the flocks and for the herds and for the donkeys. And he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
¹⁸ And when that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands. ¹⁹ 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 to Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live and not die and that the land not be desolate.
²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For the Egyptians, every man, sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's. ²¹ And as for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. ²² Only he did not buy the land of the priests, because the priests had a portion from Pharaoh and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.
²³ Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you* this day and your* land for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you* and you* will sow the land. ²⁴ And it will happen at the harvest gathering, that you* will give a fifth to Pharaoh and four parts will be your* own, for seed of the field and for your* food and for those of your* households and for food for your* little ones.
²⁵ And they said, You have saved our lives. Let us find favor in the sight of my lord and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

³⁰ And when Phinehas the priest and the rulers of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

³⁶ And all the people took notice of it and it pleased them, as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

² And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard that I may have it for a garden of herbs because it is near to my house. And I will give you for it a better vineyard than it, or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth of it in money.

¹⁹ Until the time that his word happened, the word of Jehovah tried him.

²⁰ The tongue of a righteous man is choice silver. The heart of the wicked is little.

¹¹ A timely word spoken is apples of gold in a lattice-work of silver.

¹⁰ and liberated him from all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom in front of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who designated him leader over Egypt and his whole house.

¹⁸ And Jehovah said to Moses, You take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit and lay your hand upon him,

⁸ But there is a spirit in man and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

⁶ Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

⁸ But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And I told the dream before him, saying, ⁹ O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen and the interpretation of it.

¹⁸ This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. And you, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, inasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation. But you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

¹⁴ I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

³ Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

²⁸ That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

³³ Now therefore let Pharaoh look out for a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.

⁴ And Joseph found favor in his sight and he ministered to him. And he made him overseer over his house and all that he had, he put into his hand.
⁵ And it happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house and over 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. ⁶ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand and he knew nothing that was with him, save the bread which he ate. And Joseph was handsome and fine-looking.

⁸ So now it was not you* that sent me here, but God and he has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
⁹ You* hasten and go up to my father and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph; God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.

²⁶ And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, because he did not believe them.

¹ Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it upon his head and kissed him and said, Is it not that Jehovah has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed and my mouth has kissed my hand

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

²⁹ See a man diligent in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before insignificant men.

⁴⁶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshiped Daniel and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors to him. ⁴⁷ The king answered to Daniel and said, Of a truth your* God is the God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.
⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel great and gave him many great gifts and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold about his neck and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

⁵ And it happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house and over 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.

²² And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever they did there, he was the doer of it.

⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh and without you no man will lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.

⁶ And Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves to him with their faces to the earth.

³ For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus and great among the Jews and accepted of the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his seed.

² A servant who deals wisely will have rule over a son who causes shame and will have part in the inheritance among the brothers.

⁷ They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream and we will show the interpretation.
⁸ The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that you* would gain time, because you* see the thing has gone from me.

² It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me. ³ How great are his signs and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and his dominion is from generation to generation.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and upon earth.

⁹ Hence, God also highly exalted him, and granted to him the name which is above every name; ¹⁰ in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, those from the heavenly and earthly and subterranean places, ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁰ And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

¹² Then the king's scribes were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it. And there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps and to the governors who were over every province and to the rulers of every people, to every province according to the writing of it and to every people after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written. And it was sealed with the king's ring.

⁷ And Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor, ⁸ let royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear and the horse that the king rides upon and on the head of which a royal crown is set. ⁹ And let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble rulers, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city and proclaim before him, Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.
¹⁰ Then the king said to Haman, Make haste and take the apparel and the horse, as you have said and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken. ¹¹ Then Haman took the apparel and the horse and arrayed Mordecai and caused him to ride through the street of the city and proclaimed before him, Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.
¹² And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hastened to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

² And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

⁸ Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you*, in the king's name and seal it with the king's ring, for the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

¹⁰ And he wrote the name of king Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by post on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king's service bred of the stud,

¹⁵ And Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white and with a great crown of gold and with a robe of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.

⁹ Because they will be a wreath of charm to your head and chains about your neck.

²² She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them and delivers belts to the merchant.

¹⁰ Your cheeks are lovely with plaits of hair, your neck with strings of jewels.

¹⁰ I also clothed you with embroidered work and shod you with a certain skin. And I girded you around with fine linen and covered you with silk. ¹¹ And I decked you with ornaments and I put bracelets upon your hands and a chain on your neck.

⁷ Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign. Blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.

⁴⁶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshiped Daniel and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors to him. ⁴⁷ The king answered to Daniel and said, Of a truth your* God is the God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.

⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever will read this writing and show me the interpretation of it, will be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold about his neck and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.

²² But the father said to his bondservants, Bring out the foremost robe and clothe him, and give him a ring for his hand and shoes for his feet;

¹⁶ Now the first came before him, saying, Lord, your two-hundred denarius coin has been worked up to ten two-hundred denarius coins more. ¹⁷ And he said to him, Well done, you good bondservant, because you became faithful in the least matters; you have ten cities, be the authority over them,. ¹⁸ And the second came, saying, Your two-hundred denarius coin, Lord, has produced five two-hundred denarius coins. ¹⁹ But he also said to him, You, become the authority over five cities.

³⁰ The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us and took us for spies of the country.

³³ And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I will know that you* are true men. Leave one of your* brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your* houses and go your* way,

⁸ So now it was not you* that sent me here, but God and he has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁸ let royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear and the horse that the king rides upon and on the head of which a royal crown is set. ⁹ And let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble rulers, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city and proclaim before him, Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

¹⁰ in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, those from the heavenly and earthly and subterranean places,

⁷ But against any of the sons of Israel will not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast, that you* may know how that Jehovah makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

²² to bind his rulers at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.

¹⁸ And Melchizedek King of Salem brought out bread and wine. And he was priest of God Most High.

²⁰ And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, bore to him.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites and David's sons were chief ministers.

²⁶ and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.

¹⁷ The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth will fall by the sword and these cities will go into captivity.

¹ Now it happened in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the inhabited-earth.

²⁸ Now there stood up one of them, Agabus by name, and he signified through the Spirit that a great famine is about to be upon the whole inhabited-earth; which also happened on the days of Claudius Caesar.

² These are the genealogies of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives and Joseph brought the evil report of them to their father.

³ from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

²¹ And David came to Saul and stood before him. And he loved him greatly and he became his armor bearer.

⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned forty years.

⁶ And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you* to me to return an answer to this people?

⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.

¹⁹ And the king spoke with them. And among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king.

²³ And he was approximately thirty years old, when beginning to teach, (as it was supposed, the son of Joseph). Although Jesus, himself was a descendant from Heli,

³⁶ Therefore, watch in every season, beseeching, in order that you might be deemed worthy to flee away from all the things which are about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.

²⁴ Now to the one who is able to guard us from falling and to stand us in the sight of his glory, unblemished in gladness,

¹² And Isaac sowed in that land and found a hundredfold in the same year. And Jehovah blessed him.

¹⁶ There will be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains. The fruit of it will shake like Lebanon. And they from the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.

³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this and let him appoint overseers over the land and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years. ³⁵ And let them gather all the food of these good years that come and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities and let them keep it. ³⁶ And the food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land not perish through the famine.

²¹ And as for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is upon the sea _shore and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies

⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number and they came into the land to destroy it.

¹² And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

⁵ And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.

³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred female-donkeys and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

²⁷ He also rained meat upon them as the dust and winged birds as the sand of the seas.

²² As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites that minister to me.

⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

⁵ And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine, Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

³⁰ and there will arise after them seven years of famine. And all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt and the famine will consume the land.

¹³ And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand and brought them near to him.
¹⁴ And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands deliberately, because Manasseh was the firstborn.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, because this is the firstborn, put your right hand upon his head.
¹⁹ And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he and his seed will become a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day, saying, In you will Israel bless, saying, God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

¹⁷ The first-offspring of his herd, majesty is his. And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox. With them he will push the peoples, all of them, even the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

⁵ Because his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may abide for the night, but joy is in the morning.

¹¹ You have turned for me my mourning into dancing. You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter and consider and incline your ear. Forget also your own people and your father's house.

¹⁶ For I will not contend everlasting, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me and the souls that I have made.

⁶ And I will make you exceedingly fruitful. And I will make nations of you and kings will come out of you.

³ And God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

³² And Leah conceived and bore a son and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my affliction, because now my husband will love me.
³³ And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also. And she called his name Simeon.
³⁴ And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.
³⁵ And she conceived again and bore a son. And she said, This time I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.

⁶ And Rachel said, God has judged me and has also heard my voice and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.
⁷ And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. ⁸ And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and I have indeed prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.
⁹ When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid and gave her to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, Good-fortune! And she called his name Gad.
¹² And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son. ¹³ And Leah said, I am fortunate! For the daughters will call me fortunate. And she called his name Asher.

¹⁶ the messenger who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads and let my name be named on them and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
¹⁷ And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. And he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, because this is the firstborn, put your right hand upon his head.
¹⁹ And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he and his seed will become a multitude of nations.

²² Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a fountain, his daughters run over the wall.

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's sons of the third generation. Also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a servant.
¹⁸ They hurt his feet with fetters. He was placed in iron.

¹ Comfort you*, comfort my people, says your* God. ² Speak comfortably to Jerusalem and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.

⁶ who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, ³⁰ and there will arise after them seven years of famine. And all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt and the famine will consume the land. ³¹ And the plenty will not be known in the land because of that famine which follows, because it will be very grievous.

²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when you waken, you will despise their form.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise evil things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

³ And behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed and stood by the other cows upon the brink of the river. ⁴ And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven fine-looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.

⁶ And behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. ⁷ And the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

² And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. You* get down there and buy for us from there, that we may live and not die.

⁵ And the sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, because the famine was in the land of Canaan. ⁶ And Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves to him with their faces to the earth.

¹ And the famine was severe in the land.

¹¹ And there will I nourish you, because there are yet five years of famine, lest you come to poverty, you and your household and all that you have.

¹¹ Now there came a famine and great affliction upon the whole of Egypt and Canaan and our fathers were finding no sustenance.

⁴⁰ You will be over my house and according to your word all my people will be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.

²⁵ And there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver and the fourth part of a two-quart container of dove's manure for five pieces of silver.
²⁶ And as the King of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. ²⁷ And he said, If Jehovah does not help you, from where shall I help you? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress? ²⁸ And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son that we may eat him today and we will eat my son tomorrow. ²⁹ So we boiled my son and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, Give your son that we may eat him. And she has hid her son.

¹ The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
² Judah mourns and the gates of it languish. They sit in black upon the ground and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. ³ And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded and cover their heads, ⁴ because of the ground which is cracked. Because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame; they cover their heads. ⁵ Yes, the female-deer also in the field calves and forsakes it because there is no grass. ⁶ And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

³ Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. ⁴ The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread and no man breaks it to them.
⁵ Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. ⁶ For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment and no hands were laid upon her.
⁷ Her ranking men were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was as of sapphire. ⁸ Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.
⁹ Those who are slain with the sword are better than those who are slain with hunger, for these are a flowing away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
¹⁰ The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹⁷ and behold, a voice came out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted.

⁵ While he is still speaking, behold, a radiant cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted; hear him!

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and resided among us (and we saw his glory, glory like that of the only begotten from the Father), full of favor and truth. ¹⁵ John testifies concerning him and has cried, saying, This one was he of whom I spoke, He who is coming after me, has become before me, because he was first, then me. ¹⁶ And we all received out of his fullness and favor in exchange-for favor.

¹⁹ Now my God will be filling every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ Because it delighted God that all the fullness is to dwell in him;

¹⁴ And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
¹⁵ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, why should we die in your presence? Because our money fails.
¹⁶ And Joseph said, Give your* cattle and I will give you* for your* cattle, if money fails. ¹⁷ And they brought their cattle to Joseph. And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses and for the flocks and for the herds and for the donkeys. And he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
¹⁸ And when that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands. ¹⁹ 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 to Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live and not die and that the land not be desolate.
²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For the Egyptians, every man, sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's. ²¹ And as for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. ²² Only he did not buy the land of the priests, because the priests had a portion from Pharaoh and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.
²³ Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you* this day and your* land for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you* and you* will sow the land. ²⁴ And it will happen at the harvest gathering, that you* will give a fifth to Pharaoh and four parts will be your* own, for seed of the field and for your* food and for those of your* households and for food for your* little ones.

¹⁷ And it happened after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah examined Tyre and she has repented of her gift, that she play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

³ Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals will be cut off on the one side according to it and everyone who swears will be cut off on the other side according to it.

³⁵ for it will be coming like a snare upon all those sitting upon the face of all the earth.

²⁶ And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the borders of their residence;

¹ Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt. And Jacob said to his sons, Why do you* look one upon another?

⁵ And the sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, because the famine was in the land of Canaan.

²⁰ And as for you*, you* meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

²⁸ lest the land from where you brought us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.

¹⁶ And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread. ¹⁷ He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a servant.