Egypt

But there was a famine in the land, so Avram went down into Egypt to stay there, because the famine in the land was severe.

When he came close to Egypt and was about to enter, he said to Sarai his wife, “Here now, I know that you are a good-looking woman;

so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and kill me but keep you alive.

When Avram entered Egypt, the Egyptians did notice that the woman was very beautiful.

Avram went up from Egypt - he, his wife and everything he had, and Lot with him - into the Negev.

Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Yarden was well watered everywhere, before ADONAI destroyed S'dom and 'Amora, like the garden of ADONAI, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Tzo'ar.

That day ADONAI made a covenant with Avram: "I have given this land to your descendants - from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River -

He lived in the Pa'ran Desert, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Yishma'el's sons lived between Havilah and Shur, near Egypt as you go toward Ashur; he settled near all his kinsmen.

ADONAI appeared to him and said, "Don't go down into Egypt, but live where I tell you.

Then they sat down to eat their meal; but as they looked up, they saw in front of them a caravan of Yishma'elim coming from Gil'ad, their camels loaded with aromatic gum, healing resin and opium, on their way down to Egypt.

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.

In Egypt the Midyanim sold Yosef to Potifar, one of Pharaoh's officials, a captain of the guard.

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.

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.

Some time later it came about that the Egyptian king's cupbearer and baker gave offense to their lord the king of Egypt.

One night the two of them, the king of Egypt's cupbearer and his baker, there in prison, both had dreams, each dream with its own meaning.

In the morning he found himself so upset that he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one there could interpret them for him.

After them, there came up out of the river seven more cows, poor, miserable-looking and lean -I've never seen such bad-looking cows in all the land of Egypt!

Here it is: there will be seven years of abundance throughout the whole land of Egypt;

but afterwards, there will come seven years of famine; and Egypt will forget all the abundance. The famine will consume the land,

"Therefore, Pharaoh should look for a man both discreet and wise to put in charge of the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh should do this, and he should appoint supervisors over the land to receive a twenty percent tax on the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

This will be the land's food supply for the seven years of famine that will come over the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish as a result of the famine."

Pharaoh said to Yosef, "Here, I place you in charge of the whole land of Egypt."