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Bible Reading for January 13

Genesis 40
[1] And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of
Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. [2] And
Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the
butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. [3] And he put them in ward
in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where
Joseph was bound. [4] And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with
them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. [5] And they
dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man
according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of
the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. [6] And Joseph came in
unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
[7] And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his
lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? [8] And they said
unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And
Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them,
I pray you.
[9] And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my
dream, behold, a vine was before me; [10] And in the vine were three
branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and
the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
[11] And 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. [12] And
Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches
are three days:
[13] Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore
thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand,
after the former manner when thou wast his butler. [14] But think on me
when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me,
and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
[15] For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here
also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. [16]
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto
Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on
my head:
[17] And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for
Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. [18]
And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three
baskets are three days:
[19] Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee,
and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off
thee. [20] And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday,
that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of
the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. [21] And he
restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup
into Pharaoh's hand:
[22] But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. [23]
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

Genesis 41
[1] And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
and, behold, he stood by the river. [2] And, behold, there came up out of
the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a
meadow. [3] And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the
river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the
brink of the river.
[4] And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well
favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. [5] And he slept and dreamed the
second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank
and good. [6] And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind
sprung up after them.
[7] And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And
Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. [8] And it came to pass in the
morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the
magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his
dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
[9] Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my
faults this day:
[10] Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain
of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker: [11] And we dreamed a
dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the
interpretation of his dream. [12] And there was there with us a young man,
an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he
interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did
interpret. [13] And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me
he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. [14] Then Pharaoh sent and
called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he
shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
[15] And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is
none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst
understand a dream to interpret it. [16] And Joseph answered Pharaoh,
saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
[17] And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the
bank of the river:
[18] And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and
well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: [19] And, behold, seven other kine
came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I
never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
[20] And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
[21] And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had
eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I
awoke.
[22] And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk,
full and good:
[23] And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east
wind, sprung up after them:
[24] And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto
the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me. [25] And
Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed
Pharaoh what he is about to do. [26] The seven good kine are seven years;
and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
[27] And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are
seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be
seven years of famine.
[28] This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about
to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
[29] Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
[30] And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the
plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall
consume the land;
[31] And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine
following; for it shall be very grievous. [32] And for that the dream was
doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God,
and God will shortly bring it to pass. [33] Now therefore let Pharaoh look
out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
[34] Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and
take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
[35] And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and
lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the
cities. [36] And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven
years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish
not through the famine.
[37] And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all
his servants.
[38] And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is,
a man in whom the Spirit of God is? [39] And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and
wise as thou art: [40] Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy
word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater
than thou. [41] And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all
the land of Egypt.
[42] And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's
hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about
his neck;
[43] And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they
cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of
Egypt.
[44] And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no
man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. [45] And Pharaoh
called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the
daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land
of Egypt.
[46] And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of
Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went
throughout all the land of Egypt.
[47] And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
[48] And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the
land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field,
which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. [49] And Joseph
gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering;
for it was without number. [50] And unto Joseph were born two sons before
the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest
of On bare unto him. [51] And Joseph called the name of the firstborn
Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my
father's house. [52] And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God
hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. [53] And the
seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
[54] And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had
said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there
was bread.
[55] And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to
Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph;
what he saith to you, do.
[56] And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened
all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore
in the land of Egypt.
[57] And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because
that the famine was so sore in all lands.

Genesis 42
[1] Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his
sons, Why do ye look one upon another? [2] And he said, Behold, I have
heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us
from thence; that we may live, and not die. [3] And Joseph's ten brethren
went down to buy corn in Egypt. [4] But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob
sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall
him. [5] And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for
the famine was in the land of Canaan.
[6] And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to
all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down
themselves before him with their faces to the earth. [7] And Joseph saw his
brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake
roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said,
From the land of Canaan to buy food. [8] And Joseph knew his brethren, but
they knew not him. [9] And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of
them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye
are come. [10] And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are
thy servants come.
[11] We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
[12] And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye
are come.
[13] And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man
in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our
father, and one is not.
[14] And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying,
Ye are spies:
[15] Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go
forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. [16] Send one of
you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that
your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the
life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. [17] And he put them all together into
ward three days. [18] And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and
live; for I fear God:
[19] If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of
your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: [20] But
bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and
ye shall not die. And they did so. [21] And they said one to another, We
are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this
distress come upon us. [22] And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not
unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
[23] And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them
by an interpreter.
[24] And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them
again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him
before their eyes.
[25] Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore
every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way:
and thus did he unto them.
[26] And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. [27]
And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he
espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth. [28] And he said
unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack:
and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another,
What is this that God hath done unto us? [29] And they came unto Jacob
their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto
them; saying, [30] The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to
us, and took us for spies of the country.
[31] And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: [32] We be
twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this
day with our father in the land of Canaan. [33] And the man, the lord of
the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave
one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your
households, and be gone: [34] And bring your youngest brother unto me: then
shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I
deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
[35] And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every
man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father
saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. [36] And Jacob their father
said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and
Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against
me.
[37] And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring
him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee
again.
[38] And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is
dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which
ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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