These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, was feeding the flock with his brothers, with Bilhah’s sons and with Zilpah’s sons, his father’s wives. And he was a youth. And Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
And let them gather all the food of these coming good years. And let them heap up grain under Pharaoh’s hand as food in the cities, and let them keep it.
And Joseph was a son of thirty years as he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the face of Pharaoh and passed over in all the land of Egypt.
And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
And the famine was on the face of all the land. And Joseph opened all which was in them, and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was strong in the land of Egypt.
And that year ended, and they came in to him in the second year and said to him, We cannot conceal from my lord that the silver and the herds of cattle have failed, going to my lord. Nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our lands.
And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to an ever-flowing torrent which is not plowed nor sown. And they shall break the heifer’s neck there by the torrent.
And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands, and commanders of fifties; and to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make weapons for war for him, and weapons for his charioteer.