Beresheet, starting at chapter 40
{40:1} It happened after these things, that the butler of the king
of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. {40:2}
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the
chief baker. {40:3} He put them in custody in the house of the captain
of the guard, into the prison, the place where Yosef was bound. {40:4}
The captain of the guard assigned them to Yosef, and he took care of
them. They stayed in prison many days. {40:5} They both dreamed a
dream, each man his dream, in one night, 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. {40:6} Yosef came in to them
in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. {40:7} He
asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's
house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
{40:8} They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no
one who can interpret it."
Yosef said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please
tell it to me."
{40:9} The chief cupbearer told his dream to Yosef, and said to him,
"In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, {40:10} and in the
vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms
shot forth, and the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes. {40:11}
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."
{40:12} Yosef said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the
three branches are three days. {40:13} Within three more days, Pharaoh
will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give
Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his
cupbearer. {40:14} But remember me when it will be well with you, and
show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and
bring me out of this house. {40:15} For indeed, I was stolen away out
of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that
they should put me into the dungeon."
{40:16} When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good,
he said to Yosef, "I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets
of white bread were on my head. {40:17} In the uppermost basket there
was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of
the basket on my head."
{40:18} Yosef answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three
baskets are three days. {40:19} Within three more days, Pharaoh will
lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the
birds will eat your flesh from off you." {40:20} It happened the third
day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his
servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the
head of the chief baker among his servants. {40:21} He restored the
chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand; {40:22} but he hanged the chief baker, as Yosef had
interpreted to them. {40:23} Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember
Yosef, but forgot him.
{41:1} It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. {41:2} Behold, there came
up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and
they fed in the reed-grass. {41:3} Behold, seven other cattle came up
after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood
by the other cattle on the brink of the river. {41:4} The ill-favored
and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat cattle.
So Pharaoh awoke. {41:5} He slept and dreamed a second time: and,
behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
{41:6} Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east
wind, sprung up after them. {41:7} The thin heads of grain swallowed
up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was
a dream. {41:8} 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. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no
one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
{41:9} Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I
remember my faults today. {41:10} Pharaoh was angry with his servants,
and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and
the chief baker. {41:11} We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We
dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. {41:12}
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. To
each man according to his dream he interpreted. {41:13} It happened,
as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and
he hanged him."
{41:14} Then Pharaoh sent and called Yosef, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Pharaoh. {41:15} Pharaoh said to Yosef, "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."
{41:16} Yosef answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will
give Pharaoh an answer of shalom."
{41:17} Pharaoh spoke to Yosef, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the
brink of the river: {41:18} and, behold, there came up out of the
river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the
reed-grass, {41:19} and, behold, seven other cattle came up after
them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw
in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. {41:20} The lean and
ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle, {41:21} and when
they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them,
but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
{41:22} I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up
on one stalk, full and good: {41:23} and, behold, seven heads of
grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after
them. {41:24} 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."
{41:25} Yosef said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What
God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. {41:26} The seven good
cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven
years. The dream is one. {41:27} The seven lean and ill-favored 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. {41:28} That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God
is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh. {41:29} Behold, there come
seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. {41:30}
There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty
will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the
land, {41:31} and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason
of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. {41:32}
The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by
God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
{41:33} Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man,
and set him over the land of Egypt. {41:34} 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. {41:35} 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. {41:36} 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."
{41:37} The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
of all his servants. {41:38} Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we
find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" {41:39}
Pharaoh said to Yosef, "Because God has shown you all of this, there
is none so discreet and wise as you. {41:40} You shall be over my
house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in
the throne I will be greater than you." {41:41} Pharaoh said to Yosef,
"Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." {41:42} Pharaoh
took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Yosef's hand,
and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his
neck, {41:43} and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he
had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the
land of Egypt. {41:44} Pharaoh said to Yosef, "I am Pharaoh, and
without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land
of Egypt." {41:45} Pharaoh called Yosef's name Zaphenath-paneah; and
he gave him Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera [1>]kohen[<1] of On as a
wife. Yosef went out over the land of Egypt.
{41:46} Yosef was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. Yosef went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went
throughout all the land of Egypt. {41:47} In the seven plenteous years
the earth brought forth abundantly. {41:48} 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: the food of the field, which was round about
every city, he laid up in the same. {41:49} Yosef laid up grain as the
sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was
without number. {41:50} To Yosef were born two sons before the year of
famine came, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera [2>]kohen[<2] of
On, bore to him. {41:51} Yosef called the name of the firstborn
Menasheh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all
my father's house." {41:52} The name of the second, he called Efrayim:
"For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
{41:53} The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt,
came to an end. {41:54} The seven years of famine began to come, just
as Yosef had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land
of Egypt there was bread. {41:55} When all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to
all the Egyptians, "Go to Yosef. What he says to you, do." {41:56} The
famine was over all the surface of the earth. Yosef opened all the
store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the
land of Egypt. {41:57} All countries came into Egypt, to Yosef, to buy
grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
{42:1} Now Ya`akov saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Ya`akov
said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" {42:2} 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." {42:3}
Yosef's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. {42:4} But
Ya`akov didn't send Binyamin, Yosef's brother, with his brothers; for
he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." {42:5} The sons of
Yisra'el came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the
land of Kana`an. {42:6} Yosef was the governor over the land. It was
he who sold to all the people of the land. Yosef's brothers came, and
bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. {42:7}
Yosef 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 Kana`an to buy food."
{42:8} Yosef recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.
{42:9} Yosef 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."
{42:10} They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come
to buy food. {42:11} We are all one man's sons; we are honest men.
Your servants are not spies."
{42:12} He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness
of the land."
{42:13} They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons
of one man in the land of Kana`an; and, behold, the youngest is this
day with our father, and one is no more."
{42:14} Yosef said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are
spies.' {42:15} Hereby you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you
shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother come here.
{42:16} 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." {42:17} He
put them all together into custody three days.
{42:18} Yosef said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I
fear God. {42:19} If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers
be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine
of your houses. {42:20} Bring your youngest brother to me; so will
your words be verified, and you won't die."
They did so. {42:21} They said one to another, "We are most
assuredly 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 on us." {42:22} Re'uven 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."
{42:23} They didn't know that Yosef understood them; for there was an
interpreter between them. {42:24} He turned himself about from them,
and wept, and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Shim`on
from among them, and bound him before their eyes. {42:25} Then Yosef
commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's
money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to
them.
{42:26} They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed
from there. {42:27} 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. {42:28} He said to his brothers, "My money is
restored! Behold, it is even in my sack." Their hearts failed them,
and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that
God has done to us?" {42:29} They came to Ya`akov their father to the
land of Kana`an, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
{42:30} "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and
took us for spies of the country. {42:31} We said to him, 'We are
honest men. We are no spies. {42:32} We are twelve brothers, sons of
our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our
father in the land of Kana`an.' {42:33} The man, the lord of the land,
said to us, 'Hereby will I 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. {42:34} 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.'"
{42:35} It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every
man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw
their bundles of money, they were afraid. {42:36} Ya`akov, their
father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is
no more, Shim`on is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All
these things are against me."
{42:37} Re'uven spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I
don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him
to you again."
{42:38} He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in
which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
She'ol."
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Footnotes:
[1] {41:45} priest
[2] {41:50} priest
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