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  • Numbers 26:38 - The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
  • Numbers 26:39 - of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
  • Numbers 26:40 - The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
  • Numbers 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families (clans); and those who were numbered, 45,600.
  • Genesis 37:1 - So Jacob (Israel) lived in the land where his father [Isaac] had been a stranger (sojourner, resident alien), in the land of Canaan.
  • Genesis 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers [Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher]; the boy was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s [ secondary] wives; and Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
  • Genesis 37:3 - Now Israel (Jacob) loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a [distinctive] multicolored tunic.
  • Genesis 37:4 - His brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than all of his brothers; so they hated him and could not [find it within themselves to] speak to him on friendly terms.
  • Genesis 37:5 - Now Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him even more.
  • Genesis 37:6 - He said to them, “Please listen to [the details of] this dream which I have dreamed;
  • Genesis 37:7 - we [brothers] were binding sheaves [of grain stalks] in the field, and lo, my sheaf [suddenly] got up and stood upright and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves stood all around my sheaf and bowed down [in respect].”
  • Genesis 37:8 - His brothers said to him, “Are you actually going to reign over us? Are you really going to rule and govern us as your subjects?” So they hated him even more for [telling them about] his dreams and for his [arrogant] words.
  • Genesis 37:9 - But Joseph dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers [as well]. He said, “See here, I have again dreamed a dream, and lo, [this time I saw] eleven stars and the sun and the moon bowed down [in respect] to me!”
  • Genesis 37:10 - He told it to his father as well as to his brothers; but his father rebuked him and said to him [in disbelief], “What is [the meaning of] this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow down to the ground [in respect] before you?”
  • Genesis 37:11 - Joseph’s brothers were envious and jealous of him, but his father kept the words [of Joseph] in mind [wondering about their meaning].
  • Genesis 37:12 - Then his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:13 - Israel (Jacob) said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said, “Here I am [ready to obey you].”
  • Genesis 37:14 - Then Jacob said to him, “Please go and see whether everything is all right with your brothers and all right with the flock; then bring word [back] to me.” So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:15 - Now a certain man found Joseph, and saw that he was wandering around and had lost his way in the field; so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
  • Genesis 37:16 - He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are pasturing our flocks.”
  • Genesis 37:17 - Then the man said, “[They were here, but] they have moved on from this place. I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
  • Genesis 37:18 - And when they saw him from a distance, even before he came close to them, they plotted to kill him.
  • Genesis 37:19 - They said to one another, “Look, here comes this dreamer.
  • Genesis 37:20 - Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits (cisterns, underground water storage); then we will say [to our father], ‘A wild animal killed and devoured him’; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!”
  • Genesis 37:21 - Now Reuben [the eldest] heard this and rescued him from their hands and said, “Let us not take his life.”
  • Genesis 37:22 - Reuben said to them, “Do not shed his blood, but [instead] throw him [alive] into the pit that is here in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him [to kill him]”—[he said this so] that he could rescue him from them and return him [safely] to his father.
  • Genesis 37:23 - Now when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the [distinctive] multicolored tunic which he was wearing;
  • Genesis 37:24 - then they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
  • Genesis 37:25 - Then they sat down to eat their meal. When they looked up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead [east of the Jordan], with their camels bearing ladanum resin [for perfume] and balm and myrrh, going on their way to carry the cargo down to Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood (murder)?
  • Genesis 37:27 - Come, let us [instead] sell him to these Ishmaelites [and Midianites] and not lay our hands on him, because he is our brother and our flesh.” So his brothers listened to him and agreed.
  • Genesis 37:28 - Then as the Midianite [and Ishmaelite] traders were passing by, the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And so they took Joseph [as a captive] into Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:29 - Now Reuben [unaware of what had happened] returned to the pit, and [to his great alarm found that] Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his clothes [in deep sorrow].
  • Genesis 37:30 - He rejoined his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?”
  • Genesis 37:31 - Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;
  • Genesis 37:32 - and they brought the multicolored tunic to their father, saying, “We have found this; please examine it and decide whether or not it is your son’s tunic.”
  • Genesis 37:33 - He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces!”
  • Genesis 37:34 - So Jacob tore his clothes [in grief], put on sackcloth and mourned many days for his son.
  • Genesis 37:35 - Then all his sons and daughters attempted to console him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “I will go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in mourning for my son.” And his father wept for him.
  • Genesis 37:36 - Meanwhile, in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph [as a slave] to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the [royal] guard.
  • Deuteronomy 33:12 - Of Benjamin he said, “May the beloved of the Lord dwell in safety by Him; He shields and covers him all the day long, And he dwells between His shoulders.”
  • Deuteronomy 33:13 - And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by the Lord be his land, With the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And from the deep water that lies beneath,
  • Deuteronomy 33:14 - With the precious fruits of the sun, And with the precious produce of the months.
  • Deuteronomy 33:15 - With the best things of the ancient mountains, And with the precious things of the everlasting hills,
  • Deuteronomy 33:16 - With the precious things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor and goodwill of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let these blessings come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him who was distinguished [as a prince] among his brothers.
  • Deuteronomy 33:17 - His majesty is like a firstborn young bull, And his horns like the horns of the wild ox; With them he will gore the peoples, All of them together, to the ends of the earth. And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”
  • Genesis 47:1 - Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan, and they are in the land of Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:2 - He took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
  • Genesis 47:3 - And Pharaoh said to his brothers [as Joseph expected], “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers [before us].”
  • Genesis 47:4 - Moreover, they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live temporarily (sojourn) in the land [of Egypt], for there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants [in our land], for the famine is very severe in Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:5 - Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
  • Genesis 47:6 - The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know of any men of ability among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”
  • Genesis 47:7 - Then Joseph brought Jacob (Israel) his father and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
  • Genesis 47:8 - And Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How old are you?”
  • Genesis 47:9 - Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”
  • Genesis 47:10 - And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and departed from his presence.
  • Genesis 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and brothers and gave them a possession in Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses (Goshen), as Pharaoh commanded.
  • Genesis 47:12 - Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to [the needs of] their children.
  • Genesis 47:13 - Now [in the course of time] there was no food in all the land, for the famine was distressingly severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan languished [in destitution and starvation] because of the famine.
  • Genesis 47:14 - Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan [in payment] for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
  • Genesis 47:15 - And when the money was exhausted in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes? For our money is gone.”
  • Genesis 47:16 - Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, since the money is gone.”
  • Genesis 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for the horses and the flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
  • Genesis 47:18 - When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord [the fact] that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of livestock; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.
  • Genesis 47:19 - Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
  • Genesis 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:21 - And as for the people, he relocated them [temporarily] to cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.
  • Genesis 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived on the amount which Pharaoh gave them, so they did not sell their land.
  • Genesis 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, “Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you shall plant the land.
  • Genesis 47:24 - At harvest time [when you reap the increase] you shall give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be your own to use for seed for the field and as food for you and those of your households and for your little ones.”
  • Genesis 47:25 - And they said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
  • Genesis 47:26 - And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt—valid to this day—that Pharaoh should have the fifth part [of the crops]; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:27 - Now [the people of] Israel lived in the country of Egypt, in [the land of] Goshen, and they gained possessions and acquired property there and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
  • Genesis 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was a hundred and forty-seven years.
  • Genesis 47:29 - And when the time drew near for Israel to die, 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 [promise to] deal loyally and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,
  • Genesis 47:30 - but when I lie down with my fathers [in death], you will carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place [at Hebron in the cave of Machpelah].” And Joseph said, “I will do as you have directed.”
  • Genesis 47:31 - Then he said, “Swear to me [that you will do it].” So he swore to him. Then Israel (Jacob) bowed in worship at the head of the bed.
  • Genesis 50:1 - Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him [tenderly].
  • Genesis 50:2 - Then Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm (mummify) his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel (Jacob).
  • Genesis 50:3 - Now forty days were required for this, for that is the customary number of days [of preparation] required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept and grieved for him [in public mourning as they would for royalty] for seventy days.
  • Genesis 50:4 - When the days of weeping and public mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to [the nobles of] the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
  • Genesis 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear [an oath], saying, “Hear me, I am about to die; bury me in my tomb which I prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.” So now let me go up [to Canaan], please, and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”
  • Genesis 50:6 - And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
  • Genesis 50:7 - So Joseph went up [to Canaan] to bury his father, and with him went all the officials of Pharaoh, [the nobles of his court and] the elders of his household and all [the nobles and] the elders of the land of Egypt—
  • Genesis 50:8 - and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household. They left only their little ones and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
  • Genesis 50:9 - Both chariots and horsemen also went up [to Canaan] with Joseph; and it was a very great company.
  • Genesis 50:10 - When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a great lamentation (expressions of mourning for the deceased) and [extreme demonstrations of] sorrow [according to Egyptian custom]; and Joseph observed a seven-day mourning for his father.
  • Genesis 50:11 - When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim (mourning of Egypt); it is west of the Jordan.
  • Genesis 50:12 - So Jacob’s sons did for him as he had commanded them;
  • Genesis 50:13 - for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
  • Genesis 50:14 - After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him.
  • Genesis 35:24 - and the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
  • Genesis 30:24 - She named him Joseph (may He add) and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”
  • Genesis 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the [royal] guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.
  • Genesis 39:2 - The Lord was with Joseph, and he [even though a slave] became a successful and prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.
  • Genesis 39:3 - Now his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to prosper (succeed) in his hand.
  • Genesis 39:4 - So Joseph pleased Potiphar and found favor in his sight and he served him as his personal servant. He made Joseph overseer over his house, and he put all that he owned in Joseph’s charge.
  • Genesis 39:5 - It happened that from the time that he made Joseph overseer in his house and [put him in charge] over all that he owned, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph; so the Lord’s blessing was on everything that Potiphar owned, in the house and in the field.
  • Genesis 39:6 - So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s charge; and with Joseph there he did not [need to] pay attention to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and attractive in form and appearance.
  • Genesis 39:7 - Then after a time his master’s wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, “Lie with me.”
  • Genesis 39:8 - But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me in the house, my master does not concern himself with anything; he has put everything that he owns in my charge.
  • Genesis 39:9 - He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God [and your husband]?”
  • Genesis 39:10 - And so it was that she spoke to Joseph [persistently] day after day, but he did not listen to her [plea] to lie beside her or be with her.
  • Genesis 39:11 - Then it happened one day that Joseph went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the men of the household was there in the house.
  • Genesis 39:12 - She caught Joseph by his [outer] robe, saying, “Lie with me!” But he left his robe in her hand and ran, and got outside [the house].
  • Genesis 39:13 - When she saw that he had left his robe in her hand and had run outside,
  • Genesis 39:14 - she called to the men of her household and said to them, “Look at this, your master has brought a Hebrew [into the household] to mock and insult us; he came to me to lie with me, and I screamed.
  • Genesis 39:15 - When he heard me screaming, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house].”
  • Genesis 39:16 - So she left Joseph’s [outer] robe beside her until his master came home.
  • Genesis 39:17 - Then she told her husband the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you brought among us, came to me to mock and insult me;
  • Genesis 39:18 - then as soon as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house].”
  • Genesis 39:19 - And when Joseph’s master heard the words of his wife, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger burned.
  • Genesis 39:20 - So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.
  • Genesis 39:21 - But the Lord was with Joseph and extended lovingkindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden.
  • Genesis 39:22 - The warden committed to Joseph’s care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was in charge of it.
  • Genesis 39:23 - The warden paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with him; whatever Joseph did, the Lord made to prosper.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
  • Exodus 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
  • Genesis 35:16 - Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath (Bethlehem), Rachel began to give birth and had difficulty and suffered severely.
  • Genesis 35:17 - When she was in hard labor the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid; you now have another son.”
  • Genesis 35:18 - And as her soul was departing, (for she died), she named him Ben-oni (son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin ( son of the right hand).
  • Exodus 1:5 - All the descendants of Jacob were seventy people; Joseph was [already] in Egypt.
  • Genesis 49:22 - “Joseph is a fruitful bough (a main branch of the vine), A fruitful bough by a spring (a well, a fountain); Its branches run over the wall [influencing others].
  • Genesis 49:23 - The [skilled] archers have bitterly attacked and provoked him; They have shot [at him] and harassed him.
  • Genesis 49:24 - But his bow remained firm and steady [in the Strength that does not fail], For his arms were made strong and agile By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (By the name of the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
  • Genesis 49:25 - By the God of your father who will help you, And by the Almighty who blesses you With blessings of the heavens above, Blessings lying in the deep that couches beneath, Blessings of the [nursing] breasts and of the [fertile] womb.
  • Genesis 49:26 - The blessings of your father Are greater than the blessings of my ancestors [Abraham and Isaac] Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; They shall be on the head of Joseph, Even on the crown of the head of him who was the distinguished one and the one who is prince among (separate from) his brothers.
  • Genesis 49:27 - “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And at night he divides the spoil.”
  • Numbers 1:36 - Of the sons of Benjamin, their descendants, by their families (clans), by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
  • Numbers 1:37 - those of the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
  • Genesis 29:18 - Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you [as a hired workman] for seven years [in return] for [the privilege of marrying] Rachel your younger daughter.”
  • Genesis 44:27 - Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife [Rachel] bore me [only] two sons.
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  • Numbers 26:38 - The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
  • Numbers 26:39 - of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
  • Numbers 26:40 - The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
  • Numbers 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families (clans); and those who were numbered, 45,600.
  • Genesis 37:1 - So Jacob (Israel) lived in the land where his father [Isaac] had been a stranger (sojourner, resident alien), in the land of Canaan.
  • Genesis 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers [Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher]; the boy was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s [ secondary] wives; and Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
  • Genesis 37:3 - Now Israel (Jacob) loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a [distinctive] multicolored tunic.
  • Genesis 37:4 - His brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than all of his brothers; so they hated him and could not [find it within themselves to] speak to him on friendly terms.
  • Genesis 37:5 - Now Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him even more.
  • Genesis 37:6 - He said to them, “Please listen to [the details of] this dream which I have dreamed;
  • Genesis 37:7 - we [brothers] were binding sheaves [of grain stalks] in the field, and lo, my sheaf [suddenly] got up and stood upright and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves stood all around my sheaf and bowed down [in respect].”
  • Genesis 37:8 - His brothers said to him, “Are you actually going to reign over us? Are you really going to rule and govern us as your subjects?” So they hated him even more for [telling them about] his dreams and for his [arrogant] words.
  • Genesis 37:9 - But Joseph dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers [as well]. He said, “See here, I have again dreamed a dream, and lo, [this time I saw] eleven stars and the sun and the moon bowed down [in respect] to me!”
  • Genesis 37:10 - He told it to his father as well as to his brothers; but his father rebuked him and said to him [in disbelief], “What is [the meaning of] this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow down to the ground [in respect] before you?”
  • Genesis 37:11 - Joseph’s brothers were envious and jealous of him, but his father kept the words [of Joseph] in mind [wondering about their meaning].
  • Genesis 37:12 - Then his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:13 - Israel (Jacob) said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said, “Here I am [ready to obey you].”
  • Genesis 37:14 - Then Jacob said to him, “Please go and see whether everything is all right with your brothers and all right with the flock; then bring word [back] to me.” So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:15 - Now a certain man found Joseph, and saw that he was wandering around and had lost his way in the field; so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
  • Genesis 37:16 - He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are pasturing our flocks.”
  • Genesis 37:17 - Then the man said, “[They were here, but] they have moved on from this place. I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
  • Genesis 37:18 - And when they saw him from a distance, even before he came close to them, they plotted to kill him.
  • Genesis 37:19 - They said to one another, “Look, here comes this dreamer.
  • Genesis 37:20 - Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits (cisterns, underground water storage); then we will say [to our father], ‘A wild animal killed and devoured him’; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!”
  • Genesis 37:21 - Now Reuben [the eldest] heard this and rescued him from their hands and said, “Let us not take his life.”
  • Genesis 37:22 - Reuben said to them, “Do not shed his blood, but [instead] throw him [alive] into the pit that is here in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him [to kill him]”—[he said this so] that he could rescue him from them and return him [safely] to his father.
  • Genesis 37:23 - Now when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the [distinctive] multicolored tunic which he was wearing;
  • Genesis 37:24 - then they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
  • Genesis 37:25 - Then they sat down to eat their meal. When they looked up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead [east of the Jordan], with their camels bearing ladanum resin [for perfume] and balm and myrrh, going on their way to carry the cargo down to Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood (murder)?
  • Genesis 37:27 - Come, let us [instead] sell him to these Ishmaelites [and Midianites] and not lay our hands on him, because he is our brother and our flesh.” So his brothers listened to him and agreed.
  • Genesis 37:28 - Then as the Midianite [and Ishmaelite] traders were passing by, the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And so they took Joseph [as a captive] into Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:29 - Now Reuben [unaware of what had happened] returned to the pit, and [to his great alarm found that] Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his clothes [in deep sorrow].
  • Genesis 37:30 - He rejoined his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?”
  • Genesis 37:31 - Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;
  • Genesis 37:32 - and they brought the multicolored tunic to their father, saying, “We have found this; please examine it and decide whether or not it is your son’s tunic.”
  • Genesis 37:33 - He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces!”
  • Genesis 37:34 - So Jacob tore his clothes [in grief], put on sackcloth and mourned many days for his son.
  • Genesis 37:35 - Then all his sons and daughters attempted to console him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “I will go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in mourning for my son.” And his father wept for him.
  • Genesis 37:36 - Meanwhile, in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph [as a slave] to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the [royal] guard.
  • Deuteronomy 33:12 - Of Benjamin he said, “May the beloved of the Lord dwell in safety by Him; He shields and covers him all the day long, And he dwells between His shoulders.”
  • Deuteronomy 33:13 - And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by the Lord be his land, With the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And from the deep water that lies beneath,
  • Deuteronomy 33:14 - With the precious fruits of the sun, And with the precious produce of the months.
  • Deuteronomy 33:15 - With the best things of the ancient mountains, And with the precious things of the everlasting hills,
  • Deuteronomy 33:16 - With the precious things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor and goodwill of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let these blessings come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him who was distinguished [as a prince] among his brothers.
  • Deuteronomy 33:17 - His majesty is like a firstborn young bull, And his horns like the horns of the wild ox; With them he will gore the peoples, All of them together, to the ends of the earth. And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”
  • Genesis 47:1 - Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan, and they are in the land of Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:2 - He took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
  • Genesis 47:3 - And Pharaoh said to his brothers [as Joseph expected], “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers [before us].”
  • Genesis 47:4 - Moreover, they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live temporarily (sojourn) in the land [of Egypt], for there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants [in our land], for the famine is very severe in Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:5 - Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
  • Genesis 47:6 - The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know of any men of ability among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”
  • Genesis 47:7 - Then Joseph brought Jacob (Israel) his father and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
  • Genesis 47:8 - And Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How old are you?”
  • Genesis 47:9 - Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”
  • Genesis 47:10 - And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and departed from his presence.
  • Genesis 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and brothers and gave them a possession in Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses (Goshen), as Pharaoh commanded.
  • Genesis 47:12 - Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to [the needs of] their children.
  • Genesis 47:13 - Now [in the course of time] there was no food in all the land, for the famine was distressingly severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan languished [in destitution and starvation] because of the famine.
  • Genesis 47:14 - Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan [in payment] for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
  • Genesis 47:15 - And when the money was exhausted in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes? For our money is gone.”
  • Genesis 47:16 - Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, since the money is gone.”
  • Genesis 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for the horses and the flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
  • Genesis 47:18 - When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord [the fact] that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of livestock; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.
  • Genesis 47:19 - Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
  • Genesis 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:21 - And as for the people, he relocated them [temporarily] to cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.
  • Genesis 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived on the amount which Pharaoh gave them, so they did not sell their land.
  • Genesis 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, “Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you shall plant the land.
  • Genesis 47:24 - At harvest time [when you reap the increase] you shall give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be your own to use for seed for the field and as food for you and those of your households and for your little ones.”
  • Genesis 47:25 - And they said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
  • Genesis 47:26 - And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt—valid to this day—that Pharaoh should have the fifth part [of the crops]; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:27 - Now [the people of] Israel lived in the country of Egypt, in [the land of] Goshen, and they gained possessions and acquired property there and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
  • Genesis 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was a hundred and forty-seven years.
  • Genesis 47:29 - And when the time drew near for Israel to die, 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 [promise to] deal loyally and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,
  • Genesis 47:30 - but when I lie down with my fathers [in death], you will carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place [at Hebron in the cave of Machpelah].” And Joseph said, “I will do as you have directed.”
  • Genesis 47:31 - Then he said, “Swear to me [that you will do it].” So he swore to him. Then Israel (Jacob) bowed in worship at the head of the bed.
  • Genesis 50:1 - Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him [tenderly].
  • Genesis 50:2 - Then Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm (mummify) his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel (Jacob).
  • Genesis 50:3 - Now forty days were required for this, for that is the customary number of days [of preparation] required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept and grieved for him [in public mourning as they would for royalty] for seventy days.
  • Genesis 50:4 - When the days of weeping and public mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to [the nobles of] the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
  • Genesis 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear [an oath], saying, “Hear me, I am about to die; bury me in my tomb which I prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.” So now let me go up [to Canaan], please, and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”
  • Genesis 50:6 - And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
  • Genesis 50:7 - So Joseph went up [to Canaan] to bury his father, and with him went all the officials of Pharaoh, [the nobles of his court and] the elders of his household and all [the nobles and] the elders of the land of Egypt—
  • Genesis 50:8 - and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household. They left only their little ones and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
  • Genesis 50:9 - Both chariots and horsemen also went up [to Canaan] with Joseph; and it was a very great company.
  • Genesis 50:10 - When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a great lamentation (expressions of mourning for the deceased) and [extreme demonstrations of] sorrow [according to Egyptian custom]; and Joseph observed a seven-day mourning for his father.
  • Genesis 50:11 - When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim (mourning of Egypt); it is west of the Jordan.
  • Genesis 50:12 - So Jacob’s sons did for him as he had commanded them;
  • Genesis 50:13 - for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
  • Genesis 50:14 - After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him.
  • Genesis 35:24 - and the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
  • Genesis 30:24 - She named him Joseph (may He add) and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”
  • Genesis 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the [royal] guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.
  • Genesis 39:2 - The Lord was with Joseph, and he [even though a slave] became a successful and prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.
  • Genesis 39:3 - Now his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to prosper (succeed) in his hand.
  • Genesis 39:4 - So Joseph pleased Potiphar and found favor in his sight and he served him as his personal servant. He made Joseph overseer over his house, and he put all that he owned in Joseph’s charge.
  • Genesis 39:5 - It happened that from the time that he made Joseph overseer in his house and [put him in charge] over all that he owned, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph; so the Lord’s blessing was on everything that Potiphar owned, in the house and in the field.
  • Genesis 39:6 - So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s charge; and with Joseph there he did not [need to] pay attention to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and attractive in form and appearance.
  • Genesis 39:7 - Then after a time his master’s wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, “Lie with me.”
  • Genesis 39:8 - But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me in the house, my master does not concern himself with anything; he has put everything that he owns in my charge.
  • Genesis 39:9 - He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God [and your husband]?”
  • Genesis 39:10 - And so it was that she spoke to Joseph [persistently] day after day, but he did not listen to her [plea] to lie beside her or be with her.
  • Genesis 39:11 - Then it happened one day that Joseph went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the men of the household was there in the house.
  • Genesis 39:12 - She caught Joseph by his [outer] robe, saying, “Lie with me!” But he left his robe in her hand and ran, and got outside [the house].
  • Genesis 39:13 - When she saw that he had left his robe in her hand and had run outside,
  • Genesis 39:14 - she called to the men of her household and said to them, “Look at this, your master has brought a Hebrew [into the household] to mock and insult us; he came to me to lie with me, and I screamed.
  • Genesis 39:15 - When he heard me screaming, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house].”
  • Genesis 39:16 - So she left Joseph’s [outer] robe beside her until his master came home.
  • Genesis 39:17 - Then she told her husband the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you brought among us, came to me to mock and insult me;
  • Genesis 39:18 - then as soon as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house].”
  • Genesis 39:19 - And when Joseph’s master heard the words of his wife, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger burned.
  • Genesis 39:20 - So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.
  • Genesis 39:21 - But the Lord was with Joseph and extended lovingkindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden.
  • Genesis 39:22 - The warden committed to Joseph’s care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was in charge of it.
  • Genesis 39:23 - The warden paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with him; whatever Joseph did, the Lord made to prosper.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
  • Exodus 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
  • Genesis 35:16 - Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath (Bethlehem), Rachel began to give birth and had difficulty and suffered severely.
  • Genesis 35:17 - When she was in hard labor the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid; you now have another son.”
  • Genesis 35:18 - And as her soul was departing, (for she died), she named him Ben-oni (son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin ( son of the right hand).
  • Exodus 1:5 - All the descendants of Jacob were seventy people; Joseph was [already] in Egypt.
  • Genesis 49:22 - “Joseph is a fruitful bough (a main branch of the vine), A fruitful bough by a spring (a well, a fountain); Its branches run over the wall [influencing others].
  • Genesis 49:23 - The [skilled] archers have bitterly attacked and provoked him; They have shot [at him] and harassed him.
  • Genesis 49:24 - But his bow remained firm and steady [in the Strength that does not fail], For his arms were made strong and agile By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (By the name of the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
  • Genesis 49:25 - By the God of your father who will help you, And by the Almighty who blesses you With blessings of the heavens above, Blessings lying in the deep that couches beneath, Blessings of the [nursing] breasts and of the [fertile] womb.
  • Genesis 49:26 - The blessings of your father Are greater than the blessings of my ancestors [Abraham and Isaac] Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; They shall be on the head of Joseph, Even on the crown of the head of him who was the distinguished one and the one who is prince among (separate from) his brothers.
  • Genesis 49:27 - “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And at night he divides the spoil.”
  • Numbers 1:36 - Of the sons of Benjamin, their descendants, by their families (clans), by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
  • Numbers 1:37 - those of the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
  • Genesis 29:18 - Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you [as a hired workman] for seven years [in return] for [the privilege of marrying] Rachel your younger daughter.”
  • Genesis 44:27 - Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife [Rachel] bore me [only] two sons.
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