Joseph

And shee called his name Ioseph, saying, The Lord wil giue me yet another sonne.

And assoone as Rahel had borne Ioseph, Iaakob said to Laban, Sende me away that I may go vnto my place and to my countrey.

And he put the maides, and their children formost, and Leah, and her children after, and Rahel, and Ioseph hindermost.

Leah also with her children came neere and made obeysance: and after Ioseph and Rahel drew neere, and did reuerence.

The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph and Beniamin.

These are the generations of Iaakob, when Ioseph was seuenteene yeere olde: he kept sheepe with his brethren, and the childe was with the sonnes of Bilhah, and with the sonnes of Zilpah, his fathers wiues. And Ioseph brought vnto their father their euill saying.

Nowe Israel loued Ioseph more then all his sonnes, because he begate him in his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours.

And Ioseph dreamed a dreame, and told his brethren, who hated him so much the more.

And Israel said vnto Ioseph, Doe not thy brethren keepe in Shechem? come and I will send thee to them.

And the man said, they are departed hece: for I heard them say, Let vs goe vnto Dothan. Then went Ioseph after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

Now when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his particoloured coate that was vpon him.

Then the Midianites marchant men passed by, and they drewe foorth, and lift Ioseph out of the pit, and solde Ioseph vnto the Ishmeelites for twentie pieces of siluer: who brought Ioseph into Egypt.

Afterwarde Reuben returned to the pit, and beholde, Ioseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes,

And they tooke Iosephs coate, and killed a kidde of the goates, and dipped the coate in the blood.

Then he knewe it and said, It is my sonnes coate: a wicked beast hath deuoured him: Ioseph is surely torne in pieces.

Now Ioseph was brought downe into Egypt: and Potiphar an Eunuche of Pharaohs (and his chiefe stewarde an Egyptian) bought him at the hande of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him thither.

And the Lord was with Ioseph, and he was a man that prospered and was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

So Ioseph founde fauour in his sight, and serued him: and he made him ruler of his house, and put all that he had in his hand.

And from that time that he had made him ruler ouer his house and ouer all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptians house for Iosephs sake: and the blessing of the Lord was vpon all that he had in the house, and in the fielde.

Therefore he left all that he had in Iosephs hand, and tooke accompt of nothing, that was with him, saue onely of the bread, which he did eate. And Ioseph was a faire person, and well fauoured.

Nowe therefore after these thinges, his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide, Lye with me.

And albeit she spake to Ioseph day by day, yet he hearkened not vnto her, to lye with her, or to be in her company.

Then on a certaine day Ioseph entred into the house, to doe his businesse: and there was no man of the houshold in the house:

And Iosephs master tooke him and put him in prison, in the place, where the kings prisoners lay bounde: and there he was in prison.

But the Lord was with Ioseph, and shewed him mercie, and got him fauour in the sight of the master of the prison.