(3) Now Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons—he was his “child of old age”; and he had made him an ornamented tunic.

(4) And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of his brothers, they hated him so that they could not speak a friendly word to him.

(5) Once Joseph had a dream which he told to his brothers; and they hated him even more.

(6) He said to them, “Hear this dream which I have dreamed:

(7) There we were binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf stood up and remained upright; then your sheaves gathered around and bowed low to my sheaf.”

(8) His brothers answered, “Do you mean to reign over us? Do you mean to rule over us?” And they hated him even more for his talk about his dreams.

(9) He dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers, saying, “Look, I have had another dream: And this time, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

(10) And when he told it to his father and brothers, his father berated him. “What,” he said to him, “is this dream you have dreamed? Are we to come, I and your mother and your brothers, and bow low to you to the ground?”

(11) So his brothers were wrought up at him, and his father kept the matter in mind.

(18) They saw him from afar, and before he came close to them they conspired to kill him.

(19) They said to one another, “Here comes that dreamer!

(20) Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we can say, ‘A savage beast devoured him.’ We shall see what comes of his dreams!”

(21) But when Reuben heard it, he tried to save him from them. He said, “Let us not take his life.”

(22) And Reuben went on, “Shed no blood! Cast him into that pit out in the wilderness, but do not touch him yourselves”—intending to save him from them and restore him to his father.

(23) When Joseph came up to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the ornamented tunic that he was wearing,

(24) and took him and cast him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

(25) Then they sat down to a meal. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels bearing gum, balm, and ladanum to be taken to Egypt.

(26) Then Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain by killing our brother and covering up his blood?

(27) Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let us not do away with him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.

(28) When Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the pit. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who brought Joseph to Egypt.

(29) When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes.

(30) Returning to his brothers, he said, “The boy is gone! Now, what am I to do?”

(31) Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a kid, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

(1) When Joseph was taken down to Egypt, Potiphar, a courtier of Pharaoh and his prefect —an Egyptian official —bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

(2) יהוה was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he stayed in the house of his Egyptian master.

(3) And when his master saw that יהוה was with him and that יהוה lent success to everything he undertook,

(4) he took a liking to Joseph. He made him his personal attendant and put him in charge of his household, placing in his hands all that he owned.

(5) And from the time that the Egyptian put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, יהוה blessed his house for Joseph’s sake, so that the blessing of יהוה was upon everything that he owned, in the house and outside.

(6) He left all that he had in Joseph’s hands and, with him there, he paid attention to nothing save the food that he ate. Now Joseph was well built and handsome.

(7) After a time, his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”

(8) But he refused. He said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me here, my master gives no thought to anything in this house, and all that he owns he has placed in my hands.

(9) He wields no more authority in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except yourself, since you are his wife. How then could I do this most wicked thing, and sin before God?”

(10) And much as she coaxed Joseph day after day, he did not yield to her request to lie beside her, to be with her.

(11) One such day, he came into the house to do his work. None of the household being there inside,

(12) she caught hold of him by his garment and said, “Lie with me!” But he left his garment in her hand and got away and fled outside.

(13) When she saw that he had left it in her hand and had fled outside,

(14) she called out to her servants and said to them, “Look, he had to bring us a Hebrew to dally with us! This one came to lie with me; but I screamed loud.

(15) And when he heard me screaming at the top of my voice, he left his garment with me and got away and fled outside.”

(16) She kept his garment beside her, until his master came home.

(17) Then she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew slave whom you brought into our house came to me to dally with me;

(18) but when I screamed at the top of my voice, he left his garment with me and fled outside.”

(19) When his master heard the story that his wife told him, namely, “Thus and so your slave did to me,” he was furious.

(20) So Joseph’s master had him put in prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. But even while he was there in prison,

(21) יהוה was with Joseph—extending kindness to him and disposing the chief jailer favorably toward him.

(22) The chief jailer put in Joseph’s charge all the prisoners who were in that prison, and he was the one to carry out everything that was done there.

(23) The chief jailer did not supervise anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because יהוה was with him, and whatever he did יהוה made successful.