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Genesis 44:27
Your servant, my father, said to us,‘ You know that my wife bore me two sons.
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Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said,“ I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
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1 Chronicles 2 2
Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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Genesis 37:1-36
Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.He said to them,“ Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”His brothers asked him,“ Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said,“ Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him,“ What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.Israel said to Joseph,“ Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him,“ Here I am.”He said to him,“ Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him,“ What are you looking for?”He said,“ I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”The man said,“ They have left here, for I heard them say,‘ Let’s go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.They said to one another,“ Behold, this dreamer comes.Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say,‘ An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said,“ Let’s not take his life.”Reuben said to them,“ Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”— that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.He returned to his brothers, and said,“ The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said,“ We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”He recognized it, and said,“ It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said,“ For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
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Genesis 50:1-14
Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying,“ If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,‘ My father made me swear, saying,“ Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”Pharaoh said,“ Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said,“ This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.His sons did to him just as he commanded them,for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.Joseph returned into Egypt— he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
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Genesis 47:1-31
Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said,“ My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.Pharaoh said to his brothers,“ What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh,“ Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”They also said to Pharaoh,“ We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying,“ Your father and your brothers have come to you.The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Pharaoh said to Jacob,“ How old are you?”Jacob said to Pharaoh,“ The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said,“ Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”Joseph said,“ Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him,“ We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.Then Joseph said to the people,“ Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”They said,“ You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty- seven years.The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him,“ If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” Joseph said,“ I will do as you have said.”Israel said,“ Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
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Genesis 49:22-27
“ Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,( from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.“ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”
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Numbers 26:38-41
The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty- five thousand six hundred.
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Genesis 30:24
She named him Joseph, saying,“ May Yahweh add another son to me.”
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Numbers 1:36-37
Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty- five thousand four hundred.
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Genesis 39:1-40:23
Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well- built and handsome.After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said,“ Lie with me.”But he refused, and said to his master’s wife,“ Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.She caught him by his garment, saying,“ Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying,“ Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.She spoke to him according to these words, saying,“ The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying,“ This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying,“ Why do you look so sad today?”They said to him,“ We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them,“ Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him,“ In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”Joseph said to him,“ This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph,“ I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”Joseph answered,“ This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
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Deuteronomy 33:12-17
About Benjamin he said,“ The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.”About Joseph he said,“ His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
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Genesis 35:24
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Exodus 1:3
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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Genesis 35:16-18
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her,“ Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”As her soul was departing( for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
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Exodus 1:5
All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
