Joseph

She called him Yosef [may he add], saying, "May ADONAI add to me another son."

After Rachel had given birth to Yosef, Ya'akov said to Lavan, "Send me on my way, so that I can return to my own place, to my own country.

putting the slave-girls and their children first, Le'ah and her children second, and Rachel and Yosef last.

Le'ah too and her children approached and prostrated themselves; and last came Yosef and Rachel; and they prostrated themselves.

The sons of Rachel were Yosef and Binyamin.

Here is the history of Ya'akov. When Yosef was seventeen years old he used to pasture the flock with his brothers, even though he was still a boy. Once when he was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Now Isra'el loved Yosef the most of all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long-sleeved robe.

Yosef had a dream which he told his brothers, and that made them hate him all the more.

Isra'el asked Yosef, "Aren't your brothers pasturing the sheep in Sh'khem? Come, I will send you to them." He answered, "Here I am."

The man said, "They've left here; because I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dotan.'"Yosef went after his brothers and found them in Dotan.

So it was that when Yosef arrived to be with his brothers, they stripped off his robe, the long-sleeved robe he was wearing,

So when the Midyanim, merchants, passed by, they drew and lifted Yosef up out of the cistern and sold him for half a pound of silver shekels to the Yishma'elim, who took Yosef on to Egypt.

Re'uven returned to the cistern, and, upon seeing that Yosef wasn't in it, tore his clothes in mourning.

They took Yosef's robe, killed a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood.

He recognized it and cried, "It's my son's robe! Some wild animal has torn Yosef in pieces and eaten him!"

Yosef was brought down to Egypt, and Potifar, an officer of Pharaoh's and captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Yishma'elim who had brought him there.

ADONAI was with Yosef, and he became wealthy while he was in the household of his master the Egyptian.

Yosef pleased him as he served him, and his master appointed him manager of his household; he entrusted all his possessions to Yosef.

From the time he appointed him manager of his household and all his possessions, ADONAI blessed the Egyptian's household for Yosef's sake; ADONAI's blessing was on all he owned, whether in the house or in the field.

So he left all his possessions in Yosef's care; and because he had him, he paid no attention to his affairs, except for the food he ate. Now Yosef was well-built and handsome as well.

In time, the day came when his master's wife took a look at Yosef and said, "Sleep with me!"

But she kept pressing him, day after day. Nevertheless, he didn't listen to her; he refused to sleep with her or even be with her.

However, one day, when he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men living in the house was there indoors,

Yosef's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept; and there he was in the prison.

But ADONAI was with Yosef, showing him grace and giving him favor in the sight of the prison warden.