Daily
Feast
(Fifteenth
Day)
Genesis 41:9 – 42:37
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
The First Book of Moses
Genesis
41
9 Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh,
saying, “I remember my faults today. 10
Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house
of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker. 11 We dreamed a dream in one night, he and I.
Each man dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream. 12 There was with us there a young man, 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 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 dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his
clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. 15
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who
can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you
can interpret it.”
16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in
me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream,
behold, I stood on the brink of the river; 18
and behold, seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river. They
fed in the marsh grass; 19 and behold,
seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I
never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. 20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first
seven fat cattle; 21 and when they had
eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were
still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke. 22
I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one
stalk, full and good; 23 and behold,
seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up
after them. 24 The thin heads of grain
swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but
there was no one who could explain it to me.”
25 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 cattle are seven years; and
the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one. 27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up
after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted
with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. 28 That is the thing which I have spoken to
Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. 29 Behold, seven years of great plenty
throughout all the land of Egypt are coming. 30
Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be
forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, 31 and the plenty will not be known in the land
by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. 32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the
thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
33
“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, 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’s produce in the seven plenteous years. 35 Let them gather
all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of
Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 36 The food will be to supply the land against
the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land
will not perish through the famine.”
37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes of all his servants. 38
Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in
whom is the Spirit of God?” 39 Pharaoh
said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so
discreet and wise as you. 40 You shall
be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in
the throne I will be greater than you.” 41
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of
Egypt.” 42 Pharaoh took off his signet
ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of
fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. 43 He made him ride in the second chariot which
he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of
Egypt. 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am
Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land
of Egypt.” 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s
name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of
On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood
before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47
In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly. 48 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. He
stored food in each city from the fields around that city. 49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea,
very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number. 50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year
of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to
him. 51 Joseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and
all my father’s house.” 52 The name of
the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my
affliction.”
53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the
land of Egypt, came to an end. 54 The
seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine
in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55 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
The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the
store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of
Egypt. 57 All countries came into Egypt,
to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
42
1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt,
and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” 2 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is
grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live,
and not die.” 3 Joseph’s ten brothers
went down to buy grain from Egypt. 4 But
Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said,
“Lest perhaps harm happen to him.” 5 The
sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land
of Canaan. 6 Joseph was the governor
over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s
brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he
recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with
them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?”
They
said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they
didn’t recognize him. 9 Joseph
remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are
spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants
have come to buy food. 11 We are all one
man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to
see the nakedness of the land!”
13 They said, “We, your servants, are twelve
brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest
is today with our father, and one is no more.”
14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you,
saying, ‘You are spies!’ 15 By this you
shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless
your youngest brother comes here. 16
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound,
that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the
life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.” 17
He put them all together into custody for three days.
18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this,
and live, for I fear God. 19 If you are
honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go,
carry grain for the famine of your houses. 20
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and
you won’t die.”
They
did so. 21 They said to one another, “We
are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his
soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has
come upon us.” 22 Reuben answered them,
saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you
wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.” 23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them;
for there was an interpreter between them. 24
He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them,
and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their
eyes. 25 Then Joseph gave a command to
fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and
to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain,
and departed from there. 27 As one of
them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his
money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 28 He said to his brothers, “My money is
restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned
trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
29 They came to Jacob their father, to
the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, 30 “The
man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the
country. 31 We said to him, ‘We are
honest men. We are no spies. 32 We are
twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today
with our father in the land of Canaan.’ 33
The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you
are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the
famine of your houses, and go your way. 34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not
spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and
you shall trade in the land.’ ”
35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each
man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their
bundles of money, they were afraid. 36
Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children!
Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All
these things are against me.”
37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my
two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring
him to you again.”
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