he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him,
Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Poti-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Poti-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.