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When Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram's wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,

Verse ConceptsCommendationPalacesRoyal HousesPraising Specific PeopleImmigrants

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

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

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTThe King's Orders

Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsExecutionersCommerce

Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

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

Pharaoh was enraged with his two officials, the cupbearer and the baker,

Verse ConceptsNamed People Angry With Others

So he asked Pharaoh's officials, who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why do you look so sad today?"

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOther Sad People

Now Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh's hand."

Verse ConceptsPressingProviding Wine

In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you did before when you were cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementRestorationLifting HeadsReinstating People

But remember me when it goes well for you, and show me kindness. Make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,

Verse ConceptsRemembering PeoplePeople Releasing Othersjail

In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head."

Verse ConceptsBirds EatingAnimals EatingTop Of Things

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you."

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

On the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He "lifted up" the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ReasonsBanquets, Events CelebratedGuestsMealsBirthdaysBirthdays CelebratedLifting Headscelebrating

He restored the chief cupbearer to his former position so that he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand,

Verse ConceptsCupbearerReinstating People

At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,

Verse ConceptsSleep, PhysicalTwo Years

The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Verse ConceptsFat AnimalsAnimals EatingThin Bodies

The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsThin Bodies

In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

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

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I recall my failures.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerRemindersButlersMemoriesPainful MemoriesReminders Of Sin

Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards -- me and the chief baker.

Verse ConceptsBakingCaptainsNamed People Angry With Others

It happened just as he had said to us -- Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker."

Verse ConceptsReinstating PeoplePeople Hung To Death

Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPrisonersShavingPrisonsAccommodationsChanging ClothesIndividuals RunningClean ClothesKings SummoningPeople Set Free By PeopleEtiquette

Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams."

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsInterpretation Of DreamsDreams InterpretedNo One Available

Joseph replied to Pharaoh, "It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh."

Verse ConceptsHumilityMission, Of IsraelGod Will AnswerNot Me

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

Verse ConceptsRiver BanksRiver Nile

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

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

This is just what I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The Future

The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwiceGod Not DelayingEverything Happening For A Reason

"So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDiscretionAuthority Delegated To People

Pharaoh should do this -- he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Verse ConceptsTaxationFractions, One FifthPlenty In EgyptAuthority Delegated To People

They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh's authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.

Verse ConceptsGood Words

So Pharaoh asked his officials, "Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?"

Verse ConceptsFindingThe Spirit Of GodUnique IndividualsExcellence

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!

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

"See here," Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt."

Verse ConceptsGovernorsRulersEntrustingAuthority Delegated To Peopleinvesting

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph's. He clothed him with fine linen clothes and put a gold chain around his neck.

Verse ConceptsFingersNecksequipping, physicalClothingChainsGoldLinenOrnamentsRingsRobesSeals

Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, "Kneel down!" So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSalutationsBowing Before JosephAuthority Delegated To People

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

Verse ConceptsThis Is MeAuthority Delegated To People

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningChanged NamesPeople Renaming PeopleAuthority Delegated To People

Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThirtyTravelAuthority Delegated To People

When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, "Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you."

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

Then Judah approached him and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh's household heard about it.

Verse ConceptsIdentity

So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over 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 it was reported in the household of Pharaoh, "Joseph's brothers have arrived." It pleased Pharaoh and his servants.

Verse ConceptsFameNews

Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

So the sons of Israel did as he said. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

Verse ConceptsJourneyPeople Providing Food

Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

Verse ConceptsCartsImmigrants

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Pharaoh will summon you and say, 'What is your occupation?'

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular Questions

Joseph went and told Pharaoh, "My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsFive People

Pharaoh said to Joseph's brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did."

Verse ConceptsOccupationsThose Who Kept Stock

Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants' flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."

Verse ConceptsSojourningNo FoodLiving In The Land

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

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsPeople Who Blessed Others

Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How long have you lived?"

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."

Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsidePeople Who Blessed Others

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's palace.

Verse ConceptsPalacesFinancesSaving Money

Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh's slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate."

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh's.

Verse ConceptsFieldsProperty, LandPurchasingReal EstatePeople Possessing Other Things

But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersDividing Food

Joseph said to the people, "Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

Verse ConceptsCultivationLiteral PlantingPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedssowing

When you gather in the crop, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children."

Verse ConceptsLiteral Planting

They replied, "You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh's slaves."

Verse ConceptsSubjectionKept Alive By MenGroups Of SlavesIndividuals Saving Others

So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's royal court, "If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

So Pharaoh said, "Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do."

So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh's officials went with him -- the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,

Verse ConceptsCeremoniesOld Age, Attitudes To

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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 like the Egyptian women -- for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!"

Verse ConceptsVigourNot Like PeopleBirthWomen WorkingHaving A Babychildbearing

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live."

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

Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,

Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?"

Verse ConceptsNursesNamed Sisters

Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes, do so." So the young girl went and got the child's mother.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Verse ConceptsNursesbaby

When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "Because I drew him from the water."

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

When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalFugitivesSittingPeople Sitting DownAttempting To Kill Specific People

The Lord said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

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

Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the desert.'"

Verse ConceptsFeastsAaron, Moses SpokespersonA Feast In The WildernessFestivals Observed

Pharaoh was thinking, "The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor."

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:

Verse ConceptsOverseersTaskmasters

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, "Thus says Pharaoh: 'I am not giving you straw.

Verse ConceptsHeraldTaskmasters

The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh's slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, "Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past -- both yesterday and today?"

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesFloggingIncomplete Works

The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, "Why are you treating your servants this way?

Verse ConceptsAskingWhy Do You Do This?

But Pharaoh replied, "You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.'

Verse Conceptshumor

When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

Verse ConceptsWaitingMeeting PeoplePeople Waiting

and they said to them, "May the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!"

Verse ConceptsNosesSmellsApproval To Kill

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing Evil

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodLooking At God's Works

"Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land."