dwelt in the land of which sojourned in of Canaan.
These are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph ten tending the sheep of his father with his brothers, being young among the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And they brought against Joseph fault to Israel their father.
But Jacob loved Joseph beyond all his sons, for the son And he made for him garment
seeing that him over all of his sons, they detested him, and were not able to speak to him, not one thing peaceable.
dreaming a dream, reported it his brothers.
And he said to them, Hear this dream which I dreamed!
I imagined you all were binding sheaves in the middle of the plain. And there rose up my sheaf, and it was straight up. moving around did obeisance to my sheaf.
said Do you mean in reigning you will reign over us, or in dominating you will dominate us? And they added still to detest him because of his dreams, and because of his words.
And he saw dream And he described it his father, and his brothers. And he said, Behold, I dreamed dream as if the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars did obeisance to me.
And reproached and said to him, What which you dreamed? Is it so indeed in having come I will come also, and your mother, and your brothers, to do obeisance to you upon the ground?
envied but his father kept the saying.
went to graze the sheep of their father in Shechem.
And Israel said to Joseph, Did not your brothers tend in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Behold, I am ready.
said see if are in health and the sheep, and announce it to me! And he sent him from the valley of Hebron. And he came into Shechem.
And found wandering in the plain. asked saying, What
And he said, my brothers report to me where they graze!
said They have departed from here. For I heard them saying, Let us go unto Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
And they spied him far off before his approaching to them. And they acted wickedly to kill him.
And said each to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes.
Now then, come, let us kill him and toss him into one of the wells! And we shall say, wild beast devoured him. And we shall see what will be of his dreams.
hearing rescued him from out of their hands. And he said, Do not strike him life.
said You should not shed blood, put him into one of these wells of the ones in the wilderness, a hand against him, that he might rescue him from out of their hands, and that he might give him his father.
And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off the one around him.
And taking him, they tossed him into the well. But the well water
And they sat to eat bread. And looking up with the eyes they saw. And behold, journeying Ishmaelites having come from Gilead, and their camels full of incenses, and balm, and balsam. And they were going leading down into Egypt.
said to his brothers, What profit if we kill our brother, and hide his blood?
Come let us give him to these Ishmaelites, and the hands of ours, let them not be upon him! for he is our brother, and flesh hearkened
And came near the Midianite merchants, and they drew out and hauled Joseph from out of the well. And rendered twenty And they led Joseph into Egypt.
returned upon the well, and he did not see Joseph in the well, and he tore his clothes.
And he turned towards his brothers, and he said, The boy is not, and I, where shall I go yet?
And taking the garment of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and tainted the garment in the blood.
And they sent garment and they carried it their father, and said, This we found, if son or not?
And he recognized it, and said, of my son wild beast devoured him, a wild beast seized Joseph.
tore his clothes, and placed sackcloth upon his loin, and mourned for his son days
came together And they came to comfort him, and he did not want to be comforted, saying that, I will go down to my son in mourning into Hades. And wept
And the Midianites gave Joseph into Egypt to Potiphar the castrato of Pharaoh