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Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Verse ConceptsCommendationPalacesRoyal HousesPraising Specific PeopleImmigrants

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningThose Who Did Not Tell

Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTThe King's Orders

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer, the captain of the bodyguard.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsExecutionersCommerce

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsRankTradeAnger Of Man, UnrighteousGod's Mercy, Example Of

Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

Verse ConceptsNamed People Angry With Others

He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so sad today?”

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOther Sad People

Now Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; so I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”

Verse ConceptsPressingProviding Wine

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementRestorationLifting HeadsReinstating People

Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house.

Verse ConceptsRemembering PeoplePeople Releasing Othersjail

and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Verse ConceptsBirds EatingAnimals EatingTop Of Things

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyHeadsRemoving HeadsAnimals Eating PeopleLifting HeadsEating CorpsesBirds EatingPeople Hung To Death

Thus it came about on 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.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ReasonsBanquets, Events CelebratedGuestsMealsBirthdaysBirthdays CelebratedLifting Headscelebrating

He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

Verse ConceptsCupbearerReinstating People

Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.

Verse ConceptsSleep, PhysicalTwo Years

The ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

Verse ConceptsFat AnimalsAnimals EatingThin Bodies

The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsThin Bodies

Now in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByMorningRestlessnessWisdom, Human NatureMagiciansWise MenKings SummoningNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I would make mention today of my own offenses.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerRemindersButlersMemoriesPainful MemoriesReminders Of Sin

Pharaoh was furious with his servants, and he put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, both me and the chief baker.

Verse ConceptsBakingCaptainsNamed People Angry With Others

Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPrisonersShavingPrisonsAccommodationsChanging ClothesIndividuals RunningClean ClothesKings SummoningPeople Set Free By PeopleEtiquette

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one can interpret it; and I have heard it said about you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsInterpretation Of DreamsDreams InterpretedNo One Available

Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

Verse ConceptsHumilityMission, Of IsraelGod Will AnswerNot Me

So Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

Verse ConceptsRiver BanksRiver Nile

Now Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same; God has told to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

Verse ConceptsFutureKnowing God, Nature OfRevelation, In OtInterpretation Of DreamsPredicting The Future

It is as I have spoken to Pharaoh: God has shown to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The Future

Now as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it means that the matter is determined by God, and God will quickly bring it about.

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwiceGod Not DelayingEverything Happening For A Reason

Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDiscretionAuthority Delegated To People

Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.

Verse ConceptsTaxationFractions, One FifthPlenty In EgyptAuthority Delegated To People

Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and let them guard it.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

Now the proposal seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.

Verse ConceptsGood Words

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is a divine spirit?”

Verse ConceptsFindingThe Spirit Of GodUnique IndividualsExcellence

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment Of GovernorsWisdom, Human NatureUnique IndividualsGod's Things Revealed

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

Verse ConceptsGovernorsRulersEntrustingAuthority Delegated To Peopleinvesting

Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put the gold necklace around his neck.

Verse ConceptsFingersNecksequipping, physicalClothingChainsGoldLinenOrnamentsRingsRobesSeals

Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Though I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission no one shall raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”

Verse ConceptsThis Is MeAuthority Delegated To People

Then Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningChanged NamesPeople Renaming PeopleAuthority Delegated To People

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThirtyTravelAuthority Delegated To People

So when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, you shall do.”

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

by this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here!

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

Send one of you that he may get your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it.

Verse ConceptsIdentity

Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Verse Conceptsevil, victory overGovernorsRulersPromotionSpiritual FathersGod Sending ProphetsCaused By GodProvidence, Of God In CircumstancesIdentityIdentity In Christ

Now when the news was heard in Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.

Verse ConceptsFameNews

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go to the land of Canaan,

Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

Verse ConceptsJourneyPeople Providing Food

Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Verse ConceptsCartsImmigrants

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular Questions

Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

He took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsFive People

Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”

Verse ConceptsOccupationsThose Who Kept Stock

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

Verse ConceptsSojourningNo FoodLiving In The Land

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsPeople Who Blessed Others

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from his presence.

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsidePeople Who Blessed Others

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

Joseph gathered 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.

Verse ConceptsPalacesFinancesSaving Money

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.

Verse ConceptsFieldsProperty, LandPurchasingReal EstatePeople Possessing Other Things

Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersDividing Food

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.

Verse ConceptsCultivationLiteral PlantingPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedssowing

At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”

Verse ConceptsLiteral Planting

So they said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Verse ConceptsSubjectionKept Alive By MenGroups Of SlavesIndividuals Saving Others

Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day

When the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,

Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Verse ConceptsCeremoniesOld Age, Attitudes To

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.”

Verse ConceptsVigourNot Like PeopleBirthWomen WorkingHaving A Babychildbearing

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofCommands, in OTKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesKilling IsraelitesThe King's Orders

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.

Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?”

Verse ConceptsNursesNamed Sisters

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Verse ConceptsNursesbaby

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofMoses, Life OfSonsGrowing UpAdoptionBringing People Out Of Other PlacesPeople With Apt Names

When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalFugitivesSittingPeople Sitting DownAttempting To Kill Specific People

The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHardened HeartsGod Hardening PeopleHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPower, HumanOther Miracles

And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

Verse ConceptsFeastsAaron, Moses SpokespersonA Feast In The WildernessFestivals Observed

Again Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their labors!”

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters over the people and their foremen, saying,

Verse ConceptsOverseersTaskmasters

So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I am not going to give you any straw.

Verse ConceptsHeraldTaskmasters

Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesFloggingIncomplete Works

Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

Verse ConceptsAskingWhy Do You Do This?

When they left Pharaoh’s presence, they met Moses and Aaron as they were waiting for them.

Verse ConceptsWaitingMeeting PeoplePeople Waiting

They said to them, “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, for you have made us odious in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

Verse ConceptsNosesSmellsApproval To Kill

Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.”

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing Evil

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodLooking At God's Works

Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”

But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?”

Verse ConceptsEloquencedoubtersHesitationLipsDoubtShynessTimidityUncircumcised In Heart

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsAaron, PositionAaron, Moses SpokespersonBringing Israel Out Of EgyptOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Orders

They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was the same Moses and Aaron.