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  • Numbers 26:38 - Here are the names of Benjamin’s sons. They are listed by their families. The Belaite family came from Bela. The Ashbelite family came from Ashbel. The Ahiramite family came from Ahiram.
  • Numbers 26:39 - The Shuphamite family came from Shupham. The Huphamite family came from Hupham.
  • Numbers 26:40 - Bela’s sons came from Ard and Naaman. The Ardite family came from Ard. The Naamite family came from Naaman.
  • Numbers 26:41 - These were the families of Benjamin. The number of the men counted was 45,600.
  • Genesis 37:1 - Jacob lived in the land of Canaan. It’s the land where his father had stayed.
  • Genesis 37:2 - Here is the story of the family line of Jacob. Joseph was a young man. He was 17 years old. He was taking care of the flocks with some of his brothers. They were the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father Jacob. Joseph brought their father a bad report about his brothers.
  • Genesis 37:3 - Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons. That’s because Joseph had been born to him when he was old. Israel made him a beautiful robe.
  • Genesis 37:4 - Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them. So they hated Joseph. They couldn’t even speak one kind word to him.
  • Genesis 37:5 - Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
  • Genesis 37:6 - He said to them, “Listen to the dream I had.
  • Genesis 37:7 - We were tying up bundles of grain out in the field. Suddenly my bundle stood up straight. Your bundles gathered around my bundle and bowed down to it.”
  • Genesis 37:8 - His brothers said to him, “Do you plan to be king over us? Will you really rule over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream. They didn’t like what he had said.
  • Genesis 37:9 - Then Joseph had another dream. He told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said. “I had another dream. This time the sun and moon and 11 stars were bowing down to me.”
  • Genesis 37:10 - He told his father as well as his brothers. Then his father rebuked him. He said, “What about this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers really do that? Will we really come and bow down to the ground in front of you?”
  • Genesis 37:11 - His brothers were jealous of him. But his father kept the dreams in mind.
  • Genesis 37:12 - Joseph’s brothers had gone to take care of their father’s flocks near Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:13 - Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are taking care of the flocks near Shechem. Come. I’m going to send you to them.” “All right,” Joseph replied.
  • Genesis 37:14 - So Israel said to him, “Go to your brothers. See how they are doing. Also see how the flocks are doing. Then come back and tell me.” So he sent him away from the Hebron Valley. Joseph arrived at Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:15 - A man found him wandering around in the fields. He asked Joseph, “What are you looking for?”
  • Genesis 37:16 - He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are taking care of their flocks?”
  • Genesis 37:17 - “They’ve moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went to look for his brothers. He found them near Dothan.
  • Genesis 37:18 - But they saw him a long way off. Before he reached them, they made plans to kill him.
  • Genesis 37:19 - “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
  • Genesis 37:20 - “Come. Let’s kill him. Let’s throw him into one of these empty wells. Let’s say that a wild animal ate him up. Then we’ll see whether his dreams will come true.”
  • Genesis 37:21 - Reuben heard them talking. He tried to save Joseph from them. “Let’s not take his life,” he said.
  • Genesis 37:22 - “Don’t spill any of his blood. Throw him into this empty well here in the desert. But don’t harm him yourselves.” Reuben said that to save Joseph from them. He was hoping he could take him back to his father.
  • Genesis 37:23 - When Joseph came to his brothers, he was wearing his beautiful robe. They took it away from him.
  • Genesis 37:24 - And they threw him into the well. The well was empty. There wasn’t any water in it.
  • Genesis 37:25 - Then they sat down to eat their meal. As they did, they saw some Ishmaelite traders coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, lotion and myrrh. They were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and try to cover up what we’ve done?
  • Genesis 37:27 - Come. Let’s sell him to these traders. Let’s not harm him ourselves. After all, he’s our brother. He’s our own flesh and blood.” Judah’s brothers agreed with him.
  • Genesis 37:28 - The traders from Midian came by. Joseph’s brothers pulled him up out of the well. They sold him to the Ishmaelite traders for eight ounces of silver. Then the traders took him to Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:29 - Later, Reuben came back to the empty well. He saw that Joseph wasn’t there. He was so upset that he tore his clothes.
  • Genesis 37:30 - He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Now what should I do?”
  • Genesis 37:31 - Then they got Joseph’s beautiful robe. They killed a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
  • Genesis 37:32 - They took the robe back to their father. They said, “We found this. Take a look at it. See if it’s your son’s robe.”
  • Genesis 37:33 - Jacob recognized it. He said, “It’s my son’s robe! A wild animal has eaten him up. Joseph must have been torn to pieces.”
  • Genesis 37:34 - Jacob tore his clothes. He put on the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad. Then he mourned for his son many days.
  • Genesis 37:35 - All Jacob’s other sons and daughters came to comfort him. But they weren’t able to. He said, “I will continue to mourn until I go down into the grave to be with my son.” So Joseph’s father mourned for him.
  • Genesis 37:36 - But the traders from Midian sold Joseph to Potiphar in Egypt. Potiphar was one of Pharaoh’s officials. He was the captain of the palace guard.
  • Deuteronomy 33:12 - Here’s what Moses said about Benjamin. “Let the one the Lord loves rest safely in him. The Lord guards him all day long. The one the Lord loves rests in his arms.”
  • Deuteronomy 33:13 - Here’s what Moses said about Joseph. “May the Lord bless Joseph’s land. May he bless it with dew from the highest heavens. May he bless it with water from the deepest oceans.
  • Deuteronomy 33:14 - May he bless it with the best crops the sun can produce. May he bless it with the finest crops the moon can give.
  • Deuteronomy 33:15 - May he bless it with the best products of the age-old mountains. May he bless it with the many crops of the ancient hills.
  • Deuteronomy 33:16 - May he bless it with the best gifts that fill the earth. May he bless it with the favor of the God who spoke out of the burning bush. Let all these blessings rest on the head of Joseph. Let them rest on the head of the one who is prince among his brothers.
  • Deuteronomy 33:17 - His glory is like the glory of a bull born first to its mother. His horns are like the horns of a wild ox. He will use them to destroy the nations. He’ll wipe out the nations that are very far away. The ten thousands of men in Ephraim’s army are like the bull and the ox. So are the thousands in the army of Manasseh.”
  • Genesis 47:1 - Joseph went to Pharaoh. He told him, “My father and brothers have come from the land of Canaan. They’ve brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own. They are now in Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:2 - Joseph had chosen five of his brothers to meet with Pharaoh.
  • Genesis 47:3 - Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What do you do for a living?” “We’re shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh. “And that’s what our fathers were.”
  • Genesis 47:4 - They also said to him, “We’ve come to live in Egypt for a while. There isn’t enough food anywhere in Canaan. There isn’t any grass for our flocks. So please let us live in Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:5 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
  • Genesis 47:6 - The land of Egypt is open to you. Let your father and brothers live in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. Do any of them have special skills? If they do, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
  • Genesis 47:7 - Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in to meet Pharaoh. Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing.
  • Genesis 47:8 - Then Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”
  • Genesis 47:9 - Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my journey through life are 130. My years have been few and hard. They aren’t as many as the years of my father and grandfather before me.”
  • Genesis 47:10 - Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing. Then he left him.
  • Genesis 47:11 - So Joseph helped his father and his brothers make their homes in Egypt. He gave them property in the best part of the land, just as Pharaoh had directed him to do. That part was known as the territory of Rameses.
  • Genesis 47:12 - Joseph also provided food for his father and brothers. He provided for them and the rest of his father’s family. He gave them enough for all their children.
  • Genesis 47:13 - But there wasn’t any food in the whole area. In fact, there wasn’t enough food anywhere. The people of Egypt and Canaan lost their strength because there wasn’t enough food to go around.
  • Genesis 47:14 - Joseph collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan. People paid it to him for the grain they were buying. And Joseph brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.
  • Genesis 47:15 - When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph. They said, “Give us food. What good would it do you to watch us all die? Our money is all gone.”
  • Genesis 47:16 - “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “You say your money is gone. So I’ll trade you food for your livestock.”
  • Genesis 47:17 - They brought their livestock to Joseph. He traded them food for their animals. They gave him their horses, sheep, goats, cattle and donkeys. He helped the people live through that year by trading them food for all their livestock.
  • Genesis 47:18 - When that year was over, they came to him the next year. They said, “We can’t hide the truth from you. Our money is gone. Our livestock belongs to you. We don’t have anything left to give you except our bodies and our land.
  • Genesis 47:19 - What good would it do you to watch us die? Why should our land be destroyed? Trade us food for ourselves and our land. Then we and our land will belong to Pharaoh. Give us some seeds so we can live and not die. We don’t want the land to become a desert.”
  • Genesis 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. All the people of Egypt sold their fields. They did that because there wasn’t enough food anywhere. So the land became Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:21 - Joseph made the people slaves from one end of Egypt to the other.
  • Genesis 47:22 - But Joseph didn’t buy the land that belonged to the priests. They received a regular share of food from Pharaoh. They had enough food from what Pharaoh gave them. That’s why they didn’t have to sell their land.
  • Genesis 47:23 - Joseph said to the people, “I’ve bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. So here are some seeds for you to plant in the ground.
  • Genesis 47:24 - But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. Keep the other four-fifths for yourselves. They will be seeds for the fields. And they will be food for yourselves, your children, and the other people who live with you.”
  • Genesis 47:25 - “You have saved our lives,” they said. “If you are pleased with us, we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
  • Genesis 47:26 - So Joseph made a law about land in Egypt. It’s still the law today. A fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land belonging to the priests didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:27 - The people of Israel lived in Egypt in the area of Goshen. They received property there. They had children and so became many.
  • Genesis 47:28 - Jacob lived 17 years in Egypt. He lived a total of 147 years.
  • Genesis 47:29 - The time came near for Israel to die. So he sent for his son Joseph. He said to him, “If you are pleased with me, put your hand under my thigh. Promise me that you will be kind and faithful to me. Don’t bury me in Egypt.
  • Genesis 47:30 - When I join the members of my family who have already died, carry me out of Egypt. Bury me where they are buried.” “I’ll do exactly as you say,” Joseph said.
  • Genesis 47:31 - “Give me your word that you will do it,” Jacob said. So Joseph gave him his word. And Israel worshiped God as he leaned on the top of his walking stick.
  • Genesis 50:1 - Joseph threw himself on his father’s body. He wept over him and kissed him.
  • Genesis 50:2 - Then Joseph talked to the doctors who served him. He told them to prepare the body of his father Israel to be buried. So the doctors prepared it.
  • Genesis 50:3 - They took 40 days to do it. They needed that much time to prepare a body in the right way. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob 70 days.
  • Genesis 50:4 - After the days of sadness had passed, Joseph went to Pharaoh’s officials. He said to them, “If you are pleased with me, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
  • Genesis 50:5 - ‘My father made me give my word to him. He said, “I’m about to die. Bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” So let me go there and bury my father. Then I’ll come back.’ ”
  • Genesis 50:6 - Pharaoh said, “Go there and bury your father. Do what he made you promise to do.”
  • Genesis 50:7 - So Joseph went to Canaan to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials went with him. They were the important people of his court and all the leaders of Egypt.
  • Genesis 50:8 - Joseph’s family also went. His brothers and all the rest of his father’s family went. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
  • Genesis 50:9 - Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large group.
  • Genesis 50:10 - They came to Atad, a place where grain was processed. It was near the Jordan River. There they sobbed loudly and bitterly. Joseph set apart seven days of sadness to honor his father’s memory.
  • Genesis 50:11 - The Canaanites living in that area saw how sad all of them were. They said, “The Egyptians are having a very special service for the dead.” That’s why that place near the Jordan River is called Abel of the Egyptians.
  • Genesis 50:12 - So Jacob’s sons did exactly as he had commanded them.
  • Genesis 50:13 - They carried his body to the land of Canaan. They buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought the cave as a place where he could bury his wife’s body. He had bought the cave and the field from Ephron, the Hittite.
  • Genesis 50:14 - After Joseph buried his father, he went back to Egypt. His brothers and all the others who had gone to help him bury his father went back with him.
  • Genesis 35:24 - The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
  • Genesis 30:24 - She said, “May the Lord give me another son.” So she named him Joseph.
  • Genesis 39:1 - Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar had bought him from the Ishmaelite traders who had taken him there. Potiphar was one of Pharaoh’s officials. He was the captain of the palace guard.
  • Genesis 39:2 - The Lord was with Joseph. He gave him great success. Joseph lived in Potiphar’s house.
  • Genesis 39:3 - Joseph’s master saw that the Lord was with him. He saw that the Lord made Joseph successful in everything he did.
  • Genesis 39:4 - So Potiphar was pleased with Joseph and made him his attendant. He put Joseph in charge of his house. He trusted Joseph to take care of everything he owned.
  • Genesis 39:5 - From that time on, the Lord blessed Potiphar’s family and servants because of Joseph. He blessed everything Potiphar had in his house and field.
  • Genesis 39:6 - So Joseph took good care of everything Potiphar owned. With Joseph in charge, Potiphar didn’t have to worry about anything except the food he ate. Joseph was strong and handsome.
  • Genesis 39:7 - After a while, his master’s wife noticed Joseph. She said to him, “Come to bed with me!”
  • Genesis 39:8 - But he refused. “My master has put me in charge,” he told her. “Now he doesn’t have to worry about anything in the house. He trusts me to take care of everything he owns.
  • Genesis 39:9 - No one in this house is in a higher position than I am. My master hasn’t held anything back from me, except you. You are his wife. So how could I do an evil thing like that? How could I sin against God?”
  • Genesis 39:10 - She spoke to Joseph day after day. But he told her he wouldn’t go to bed with her. He didn’t even want to be with her.
  • Genesis 39:11 - One day Joseph went into the house to take care of his duties. None of the family servants was inside.
  • Genesis 39:12 - Potiphar’s wife grabbed him by his coat. “Come to bed with me!” she said. But he left his coat in her hand. And he ran out of the house.
  • Genesis 39:13 - She saw that he had left his coat in her hand and had run out of the house.
  • Genesis 39:14 - So she called her servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew slave has been brought here to make fun of us! He came in here to force me to have sex with him. But I screamed for help.
  • Genesis 39:15 - He heard my scream. So he left his coat beside me and ran out of the house.”
  • Genesis 39:16 - She kept Joseph’s coat with her until Potiphar came home.
  • Genesis 39:17 - Then she told him her story. She said, “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to rape me.
  • Genesis 39:18 - But I screamed for help. So he left his coat beside me and ran out of the house.”
  • Genesis 39:19 - Potiphar’s wife told him, “That’s how your slave treated me.” When Joseph’s master heard her story, he became very angry.
  • Genesis 39:20 - So he put Joseph in prison. It was the place where the king’s prisoners were kept. While Joseph was there in the prison,
  • Genesis 39:21 - the Lord was with him. He was kind to him. So the man running the prison was pleased with Joseph.
  • Genesis 39:22 - He put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners. He made him responsible for everything done there.
  • Genesis 39:23 - The man who ran the prison didn’t pay attention to anything in Joseph’s care. That’s because the Lord was with Joseph. He gave Joseph success in everything he did.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Asher.
  • Exodus 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,
  • Genesis 35:16 - They moved on from Bethel. Ephrath wasn’t very far away when Rachel began to have a baby. She was having a very hard time of it.
  • Genesis 35:17 - The woman who helped her saw that she was having problems. So she said to Rachel, “Don’t be afraid. You have another son.”
  • Genesis 35:18 - But Rachel was dying. As she took her last breath, she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
  • Exodus 1:5 - The total number of Jacob’s children and grandchildren was 70. Joseph was already in Egypt.
  • Genesis 49:22 - “Joseph is a vine that grows a lot of fruit. It grows close by a spring. Its branches climb over a wall.
  • Genesis 49:23 - Mean people shot arrows at him. They shot at him because they were angry.
  • Genesis 49:24 - But his bow remained steady. His strong arms moved freely. The hand of the Mighty God of Jacob was with him. The Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, stood by him.
  • Genesis 49:25 - Joseph, your father’s God helps you. The Mighty God blesses you. He gives you blessings from the sky above. He gives you blessings from the deep springs below. He blesses you with children and with a mother’s milk.
  • Genesis 49:26 - Your father’s blessings are great. They are greater than the blessings from the age-old mountains. They are greater than the gifts from the ancient hills. Let all those blessings rest on the head of Joseph. Let them rest on the head of the one who is prince among his brothers.
  • Genesis 49:27 - “Benjamin is a hungry wolf. In the morning he eats what he has killed. In the evening he shares what he has stolen.”
  • Numbers 1:36 - Here is the number of men from the tribe of Benjamin. All the men able to serve in the army were counted. They were 20 years old or more. They were listed by name. They were listed according to the records of their tribes and families.
  • Numbers 1:37 - The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
  • Genesis 29:18 - Jacob was in love with Rachel. He said to Laban, “I’ll work for you for seven years so I can marry your younger daughter Rachel.”
  • Genesis 44:27 - “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife had two sons by me.
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  • Numbers 26:38 - Here are the names of Benjamin’s sons. They are listed by their families. The Belaite family came from Bela. The Ashbelite family came from Ashbel. The Ahiramite family came from Ahiram.
  • Numbers 26:39 - The Shuphamite family came from Shupham. The Huphamite family came from Hupham.
  • Numbers 26:40 - Bela’s sons came from Ard and Naaman. The Ardite family came from Ard. The Naamite family came from Naaman.
  • Numbers 26:41 - These were the families of Benjamin. The number of the men counted was 45,600.
  • Genesis 37:1 - Jacob lived in the land of Canaan. It’s the land where his father had stayed.
  • Genesis 37:2 - Here is the story of the family line of Jacob. Joseph was a young man. He was 17 years old. He was taking care of the flocks with some of his brothers. They were the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father Jacob. Joseph brought their father a bad report about his brothers.
  • Genesis 37:3 - Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons. That’s because Joseph had been born to him when he was old. Israel made him a beautiful robe.
  • Genesis 37:4 - Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them. So they hated Joseph. They couldn’t even speak one kind word to him.
  • Genesis 37:5 - Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
  • Genesis 37:6 - He said to them, “Listen to the dream I had.
  • Genesis 37:7 - We were tying up bundles of grain out in the field. Suddenly my bundle stood up straight. Your bundles gathered around my bundle and bowed down to it.”
  • Genesis 37:8 - His brothers said to him, “Do you plan to be king over us? Will you really rule over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream. They didn’t like what he had said.
  • Genesis 37:9 - Then Joseph had another dream. He told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said. “I had another dream. This time the sun and moon and 11 stars were bowing down to me.”
  • Genesis 37:10 - He told his father as well as his brothers. Then his father rebuked him. He said, “What about this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers really do that? Will we really come and bow down to the ground in front of you?”
  • Genesis 37:11 - His brothers were jealous of him. But his father kept the dreams in mind.
  • Genesis 37:12 - Joseph’s brothers had gone to take care of their father’s flocks near Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:13 - Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are taking care of the flocks near Shechem. Come. I’m going to send you to them.” “All right,” Joseph replied.
  • Genesis 37:14 - So Israel said to him, “Go to your brothers. See how they are doing. Also see how the flocks are doing. Then come back and tell me.” So he sent him away from the Hebron Valley. Joseph arrived at Shechem.
  • Genesis 37:15 - A man found him wandering around in the fields. He asked Joseph, “What are you looking for?”
  • Genesis 37:16 - He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are taking care of their flocks?”
  • Genesis 37:17 - “They’ve moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went to look for his brothers. He found them near Dothan.
  • Genesis 37:18 - But they saw him a long way off. Before he reached them, they made plans to kill him.
  • Genesis 37:19 - “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
  • Genesis 37:20 - “Come. Let’s kill him. Let’s throw him into one of these empty wells. Let’s say that a wild animal ate him up. Then we’ll see whether his dreams will come true.”
  • Genesis 37:21 - Reuben heard them talking. He tried to save Joseph from them. “Let’s not take his life,” he said.
  • Genesis 37:22 - “Don’t spill any of his blood. Throw him into this empty well here in the desert. But don’t harm him yourselves.” Reuben said that to save Joseph from them. He was hoping he could take him back to his father.
  • Genesis 37:23 - When Joseph came to his brothers, he was wearing his beautiful robe. They took it away from him.
  • Genesis 37:24 - And they threw him into the well. The well was empty. There wasn’t any water in it.
  • Genesis 37:25 - Then they sat down to eat their meal. As they did, they saw some Ishmaelite traders coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, lotion and myrrh. They were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and try to cover up what we’ve done?
  • Genesis 37:27 - Come. Let’s sell him to these traders. Let’s not harm him ourselves. After all, he’s our brother. He’s our own flesh and blood.” Judah’s brothers agreed with him.
  • Genesis 37:28 - The traders from Midian came by. Joseph’s brothers pulled him up out of the well. They sold him to the Ishmaelite traders for eight ounces of silver. Then the traders took him to Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:29 - Later, Reuben came back to the empty well. He saw that Joseph wasn’t there. He was so upset that he tore his clothes.
  • Genesis 37:30 - He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Now what should I do?”
  • Genesis 37:31 - Then they got Joseph’s beautiful robe. They killed a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
  • Genesis 37:32 - They took the robe back to their father. They said, “We found this. Take a look at it. See if it’s your son’s robe.”
  • Genesis 37:33 - Jacob recognized it. He said, “It’s my son’s robe! A wild animal has eaten him up. Joseph must have been torn to pieces.”
  • Genesis 37:34 - Jacob tore his clothes. He put on the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad. Then he mourned for his son many days.
  • Genesis 37:35 - All Jacob’s other sons and daughters came to comfort him. But they weren’t able to. He said, “I will continue to mourn until I go down into the grave to be with my son.” So Joseph’s father mourned for him.
  • Genesis 37:36 - But the traders from Midian sold Joseph to Potiphar in Egypt. Potiphar was one of Pharaoh’s officials. He was the captain of the palace guard.
  • Deuteronomy 33:12 - Here’s what Moses said about Benjamin. “Let the one the Lord loves rest safely in him. The Lord guards him all day long. The one the Lord loves rests in his arms.”
  • Deuteronomy 33:13 - Here’s what Moses said about Joseph. “May the Lord bless Joseph’s land. May he bless it with dew from the highest heavens. May he bless it with water from the deepest oceans.
  • Deuteronomy 33:14 - May he bless it with the best crops the sun can produce. May he bless it with the finest crops the moon can give.
  • Deuteronomy 33:15 - May he bless it with the best products of the age-old mountains. May he bless it with the many crops of the ancient hills.
  • Deuteronomy 33:16 - May he bless it with the best gifts that fill the earth. May he bless it with the favor of the God who spoke out of the burning bush. Let all these blessings rest on the head of Joseph. Let them rest on the head of the one who is prince among his brothers.
  • Deuteronomy 33:17 - His glory is like the glory of a bull born first to its mother. His horns are like the horns of a wild ox. He will use them to destroy the nations. He’ll wipe out the nations that are very far away. The ten thousands of men in Ephraim’s army are like the bull and the ox. So are the thousands in the army of Manasseh.”
  • Genesis 47:1 - Joseph went to Pharaoh. He told him, “My father and brothers have come from the land of Canaan. They’ve brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own. They are now in Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:2 - Joseph had chosen five of his brothers to meet with Pharaoh.
  • Genesis 47:3 - Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What do you do for a living?” “We’re shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh. “And that’s what our fathers were.”
  • Genesis 47:4 - They also said to him, “We’ve come to live in Egypt for a while. There isn’t enough food anywhere in Canaan. There isn’t any grass for our flocks. So please let us live in Goshen.”
  • Genesis 47:5 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
  • Genesis 47:6 - The land of Egypt is open to you. Let your father and brothers live in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. Do any of them have special skills? If they do, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
  • Genesis 47:7 - Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in to meet Pharaoh. Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing.
  • Genesis 47:8 - Then Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”
  • Genesis 47:9 - Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my journey through life are 130. My years have been few and hard. They aren’t as many as the years of my father and grandfather before me.”
  • Genesis 47:10 - Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing. Then he left him.
  • Genesis 47:11 - So Joseph helped his father and his brothers make their homes in Egypt. He gave them property in the best part of the land, just as Pharaoh had directed him to do. That part was known as the territory of Rameses.
  • Genesis 47:12 - Joseph also provided food for his father and brothers. He provided for them and the rest of his father’s family. He gave them enough for all their children.
  • Genesis 47:13 - But there wasn’t any food in the whole area. In fact, there wasn’t enough food anywhere. The people of Egypt and Canaan lost their strength because there wasn’t enough food to go around.
  • Genesis 47:14 - Joseph collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan. People paid it to him for the grain they were buying. And Joseph brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.
  • Genesis 47:15 - When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph. They said, “Give us food. What good would it do you to watch us all die? Our money is all gone.”
  • Genesis 47:16 - “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “You say your money is gone. So I’ll trade you food for your livestock.”
  • Genesis 47:17 - They brought their livestock to Joseph. He traded them food for their animals. They gave him their horses, sheep, goats, cattle and donkeys. He helped the people live through that year by trading them food for all their livestock.
  • Genesis 47:18 - When that year was over, they came to him the next year. They said, “We can’t hide the truth from you. Our money is gone. Our livestock belongs to you. We don’t have anything left to give you except our bodies and our land.
  • Genesis 47:19 - What good would it do you to watch us die? Why should our land be destroyed? Trade us food for ourselves and our land. Then we and our land will belong to Pharaoh. Give us some seeds so we can live and not die. We don’t want the land to become a desert.”
  • Genesis 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. All the people of Egypt sold their fields. They did that because there wasn’t enough food anywhere. So the land became Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:21 - Joseph made the people slaves from one end of Egypt to the other.
  • Genesis 47:22 - But Joseph didn’t buy the land that belonged to the priests. They received a regular share of food from Pharaoh. They had enough food from what Pharaoh gave them. That’s why they didn’t have to sell their land.
  • Genesis 47:23 - Joseph said to the people, “I’ve bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. So here are some seeds for you to plant in the ground.
  • Genesis 47:24 - But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. Keep the other four-fifths for yourselves. They will be seeds for the fields. And they will be food for yourselves, your children, and the other people who live with you.”
  • Genesis 47:25 - “You have saved our lives,” they said. “If you are pleased with us, we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
  • Genesis 47:26 - So Joseph made a law about land in Egypt. It’s still the law today. A fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land belonging to the priests didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
  • Genesis 47:27 - The people of Israel lived in Egypt in the area of Goshen. They received property there. They had children and so became many.
  • Genesis 47:28 - Jacob lived 17 years in Egypt. He lived a total of 147 years.
  • Genesis 47:29 - The time came near for Israel to die. So he sent for his son Joseph. He said to him, “If you are pleased with me, put your hand under my thigh. Promise me that you will be kind and faithful to me. Don’t bury me in Egypt.
  • Genesis 47:30 - When I join the members of my family who have already died, carry me out of Egypt. Bury me where they are buried.” “I’ll do exactly as you say,” Joseph said.
  • Genesis 47:31 - “Give me your word that you will do it,” Jacob said. So Joseph gave him his word. And Israel worshiped God as he leaned on the top of his walking stick.
  • Genesis 50:1 - Joseph threw himself on his father’s body. He wept over him and kissed him.
  • Genesis 50:2 - Then Joseph talked to the doctors who served him. He told them to prepare the body of his father Israel to be buried. So the doctors prepared it.
  • Genesis 50:3 - They took 40 days to do it. They needed that much time to prepare a body in the right way. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob 70 days.
  • Genesis 50:4 - After the days of sadness had passed, Joseph went to Pharaoh’s officials. He said to them, “If you are pleased with me, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
  • Genesis 50:5 - ‘My father made me give my word to him. He said, “I’m about to die. Bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” So let me go there and bury my father. Then I’ll come back.’ ”
  • Genesis 50:6 - Pharaoh said, “Go there and bury your father. Do what he made you promise to do.”
  • Genesis 50:7 - So Joseph went to Canaan to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials went with him. They were the important people of his court and all the leaders of Egypt.
  • Genesis 50:8 - Joseph’s family also went. His brothers and all the rest of his father’s family went. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
  • Genesis 50:9 - Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large group.
  • Genesis 50:10 - They came to Atad, a place where grain was processed. It was near the Jordan River. There they sobbed loudly and bitterly. Joseph set apart seven days of sadness to honor his father’s memory.
  • Genesis 50:11 - The Canaanites living in that area saw how sad all of them were. They said, “The Egyptians are having a very special service for the dead.” That’s why that place near the Jordan River is called Abel of the Egyptians.
  • Genesis 50:12 - So Jacob’s sons did exactly as he had commanded them.
  • Genesis 50:13 - They carried his body to the land of Canaan. They buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought the cave as a place where he could bury his wife’s body. He had bought the cave and the field from Ephron, the Hittite.
  • Genesis 50:14 - After Joseph buried his father, he went back to Egypt. His brothers and all the others who had gone to help him bury his father went back with him.
  • Genesis 35:24 - The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
  • Genesis 30:24 - She said, “May the Lord give me another son.” So she named him Joseph.
  • Genesis 39:1 - Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar had bought him from the Ishmaelite traders who had taken him there. Potiphar was one of Pharaoh’s officials. He was the captain of the palace guard.
  • Genesis 39:2 - The Lord was with Joseph. He gave him great success. Joseph lived in Potiphar’s house.
  • Genesis 39:3 - Joseph’s master saw that the Lord was with him. He saw that the Lord made Joseph successful in everything he did.
  • Genesis 39:4 - So Potiphar was pleased with Joseph and made him his attendant. He put Joseph in charge of his house. He trusted Joseph to take care of everything he owned.
  • Genesis 39:5 - From that time on, the Lord blessed Potiphar’s family and servants because of Joseph. He blessed everything Potiphar had in his house and field.
  • Genesis 39:6 - So Joseph took good care of everything Potiphar owned. With Joseph in charge, Potiphar didn’t have to worry about anything except the food he ate. Joseph was strong and handsome.
  • Genesis 39:7 - After a while, his master’s wife noticed Joseph. She said to him, “Come to bed with me!”
  • Genesis 39:8 - But he refused. “My master has put me in charge,” he told her. “Now he doesn’t have to worry about anything in the house. He trusts me to take care of everything he owns.
  • Genesis 39:9 - No one in this house is in a higher position than I am. My master hasn’t held anything back from me, except you. You are his wife. So how could I do an evil thing like that? How could I sin against God?”
  • Genesis 39:10 - She spoke to Joseph day after day. But he told her he wouldn’t go to bed with her. He didn’t even want to be with her.
  • Genesis 39:11 - One day Joseph went into the house to take care of his duties. None of the family servants was inside.
  • Genesis 39:12 - Potiphar’s wife grabbed him by his coat. “Come to bed with me!” she said. But he left his coat in her hand. And he ran out of the house.
  • Genesis 39:13 - She saw that he had left his coat in her hand and had run out of the house.
  • Genesis 39:14 - So she called her servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew slave has been brought here to make fun of us! He came in here to force me to have sex with him. But I screamed for help.
  • Genesis 39:15 - He heard my scream. So he left his coat beside me and ran out of the house.”
  • Genesis 39:16 - She kept Joseph’s coat with her until Potiphar came home.
  • Genesis 39:17 - Then she told him her story. She said, “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to rape me.
  • Genesis 39:18 - But I screamed for help. So he left his coat beside me and ran out of the house.”
  • Genesis 39:19 - Potiphar’s wife told him, “That’s how your slave treated me.” When Joseph’s master heard her story, he became very angry.
  • Genesis 39:20 - So he put Joseph in prison. It was the place where the king’s prisoners were kept. While Joseph was there in the prison,
  • Genesis 39:21 - the Lord was with him. He was kind to him. So the man running the prison was pleased with Joseph.
  • Genesis 39:22 - He put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners. He made him responsible for everything done there.
  • Genesis 39:23 - The man who ran the prison didn’t pay attention to anything in Joseph’s care. That’s because the Lord was with Joseph. He gave Joseph success in everything he did.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:2 - Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Asher.
  • Exodus 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,
  • Genesis 35:16 - They moved on from Bethel. Ephrath wasn’t very far away when Rachel began to have a baby. She was having a very hard time of it.
  • Genesis 35:17 - The woman who helped her saw that she was having problems. So she said to Rachel, “Don’t be afraid. You have another son.”
  • Genesis 35:18 - But Rachel was dying. As she took her last breath, she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
  • Exodus 1:5 - The total number of Jacob’s children and grandchildren was 70. Joseph was already in Egypt.
  • Genesis 49:22 - “Joseph is a vine that grows a lot of fruit. It grows close by a spring. Its branches climb over a wall.
  • Genesis 49:23 - Mean people shot arrows at him. They shot at him because they were angry.
  • Genesis 49:24 - But his bow remained steady. His strong arms moved freely. The hand of the Mighty God of Jacob was with him. The Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, stood by him.
  • Genesis 49:25 - Joseph, your father’s God helps you. The Mighty God blesses you. He gives you blessings from the sky above. He gives you blessings from the deep springs below. He blesses you with children and with a mother’s milk.
  • Genesis 49:26 - Your father’s blessings are great. They are greater than the blessings from the age-old mountains. They are greater than the gifts from the ancient hills. Let all those blessings rest on the head of Joseph. Let them rest on the head of the one who is prince among his brothers.
  • Genesis 49:27 - “Benjamin is a hungry wolf. In the morning he eats what he has killed. In the evening he shares what he has stolen.”
  • Numbers 1:36 - Here is the number of men from the tribe of Benjamin. All the men able to serve in the army were counted. They were 20 years old or more. They were listed by name. They were listed according to the records of their tribes and families.
  • Numbers 1:37 - The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
  • Genesis 29:18 - Jacob was in love with Rachel. He said to Laban, “I’ll work for you for seven years so I can marry your younger daughter Rachel.”
  • Genesis 44:27 - “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife had two sons by me.
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