Joseph

And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son.

And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.

And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.

Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like manner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:

And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:

And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.

And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:

And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:

And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.

And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought.

And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in his master's house:

And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and ministered to him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house committed to him, and all things that were delivered to him:

And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.

Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold.

And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.

With such words as these day by day, both the woman was importunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery.

Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house, and was doing some business, without any man with him:

And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king's prisoners were kept, and he was there shut up.

But the Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him favour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison: