Joseph

Who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in custody: and whatsoever was done, was under him.

He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in which Joseph also was prisoner.

But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.

And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad,

They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,

Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:

The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream, said: I also dreamed a dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon my head:

Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:

The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn.

But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.

Forthwith at the king's command Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to him.

And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them:

Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.

So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,

Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?

And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt.

And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck.

And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue the saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt.

(Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao), and he went round all the countries of Egypt.

And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.

And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.

And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.