Joseph in the Bible
Meaning: increase; addition
Exact Match
She named him Joseph:
After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland.
He put the female slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
Joseph and Benjamin.
These are the family records of Jacob.
At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives,
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age,
His brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than all of his brothers; so they hated him and could not [find it within themselves to] speak to him on friendly terms.
Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
But Joseph dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers [as well]. He said, “See here, I have again dreamed a dream, and lo, [this time I saw] eleven stars and the sun and the moon bowed down [in respect] to me!”
When Joseph told his father about this, his father rebuked him and asked him, "What kind of dream is that? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come to you and bow down to the ground in front of you?"
Joseph’s brothers were envious and jealous of him, but his father kept the words [of Joseph] in mind [wondering about their meaning].
Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.”
“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.
"Go and see how things are with your brothers," Israel ordered him. "And see how things are with the flock. Bring back a report for me." Then he sent Joseph from the valley of Hebron.
When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
“I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph said. “Can you tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
“They’ve moved on from here,” the man said. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”
Now Joseph's brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying, "Let's not take his life!"
Reuben continued, "Don't shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him." (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)
When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off his robe, the robe of many colors that he had on.
When Midianite
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.
So they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
His father recognized it. “It is my son’s robe,” he said. “A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has been torn to pieces!”
All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. "No," he said, "I will go to the grave mourning my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard.
Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites
The Lord was with Joseph,
who could see that the LORD was with Joseph, because the LORD made everything prosper that Joseph did.
Joseph found favor in his master’s sight
From the time that he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph.
He left all that he owned under Joseph’s authority;
Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.
After some time
Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused
And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
so she grabbed Joseph by his outer garment and demanded "Let's have some sex!"
Instead, Joseph ran outside, leaving his outer garment still in her hand. When she realized that he had left his outer garment right there in her hand, she ran outside
She put Joseph’s garment beside her until his master came home.
And when Joseph’s master heard the words of his wife, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger burned.
and had him thrown into prison,
But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him.
The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority,
The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph’s authority,
and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard
The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he became their personal attendant. And they were in custody for some time.
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they looked distraught.
“We had dreams,” they said to him, “but there is no one to interpret them.”
Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: “In my dream there was a vine in front of me.
“This is its interpretation,”
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.
“This is its interpretation,” Joseph replied. “The three baskets are three days.
But Pharaoh hanged
Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said about you that you can hear a dream and interpret it.”
“I am not able to,”
So Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
What Joseph proposed pleased Pharaoh and all of his advisors,
So Pharaoh asked his officials, "Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?"
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as intelligent and wise as you are.
Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “See, I am placing you over all the land of Egypt.”
Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, and servants called out before him, “Abrek!”
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but no one will be able to raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt without your permission.”
Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah and gave him a wife, Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On.
Joseph was 30 years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.
Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.
Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived.
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”
and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every country, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.
Extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt, and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
Because the famine had spread across the whole country, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.
So 10 of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”
Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.
“Where do you come from?” he asked.
“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
Joseph remembered his dreams about them
But Joseph kept insisting, "It's just as I've said you've come here to spy on our unguarded territories!"
Then Joseph said to them, “I have spoken:
So Joseph imprisoned them together for three days.
On the third day Joseph said to them, “I fear God
They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
Joseph then gave orders to fill their containers with grain, return each man’s money to his sack, and give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out.
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”
The men took this gift, double the amount of money, and Benjamin. They made their way down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his steward,
The man did as Joseph had said and brought them to Joseph’s house.
But the men were afraid because they were taken to Joseph’s house. They said, “We have been brought here because of the money that was returned in our bags the first time. They intend to overpower us, seize us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys.”
So they approached Joseph’s steward
"Everything is fine," the man in charge of Joseph's household told them. "Don't be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I had your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.
The steward brought the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet,
Since the men had heard that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift they had carried into the house, and they bowed to the ground before him.
Joseph asked them how they had been doing. "Is your father well, the older gentleman about whom you spoke?" he inquired. "Is he still alive?"
When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he said, "Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?" Then he said, "May God be gracious to you, my son."
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