^41:9Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Par`oh, saying, "I remember my faults today. <sup>41:10</sup>Par`oh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker. ^41:11We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. ^41:12There was with us there a young man, a 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 interpreted. ^41:13It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

^41:14Then Par`oh sent and called Yosef, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Par`oh.

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Sheni [2nd]: “Pharaoh said to Yosef, “I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; but I’ve heard it said about you that when you hear a dream, you can interpret it.’”

^41:15Par`oh said to Yosef, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

^41:16Yosef answered Par`oh, saying, "It isn't in me. G-d will give Par`oh an answer of shalom."

^41:17Par`oh spoke to Yosef, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river: ^41:18and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass, ^41:19and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. ^41:20The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle, ^41:21and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke. ^41:22I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good: ^41:23and, behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. ^41:24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."

^41:25Yosef said to Par`oh, "The dream of Par`oh is one. What G-d is about to do he has declared to Par`oh. <sup>41:26</sup>The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one. <sup>41:27</sup>The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. <sup>41:28</sup>That is the thing which I spoke to Par`oh. What G-d is about to do he has shown to Par`oh. <sup>41:29</sup>Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. <sup>41:30</sup>There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, <sup>41:31</sup>and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. <sup>41:32</sup>The dream was doubled to Par`oh, because the thing is established by G-d, and G-d will shortly bring it to pass.

^41:33Now therefore let Par`oh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. <sup>41:34</sup>Let Par`oh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years. ^41:35Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Par`oh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. ^41:36The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

^41:37The thing was good in the eyes of Par`oh, and in the eyes of all his servants. <sup>41:38</sup>Par`oh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of G-d?"

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Shlishi [3rd]: ^41:39Par`oh said to Yosef, "Because G-d has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you. <sup>41:40</sup>You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you." <sup>41:41</sup>Par`oh said to Yosef, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." ^41:42Par`oh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Yosef's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck, <sup>41:43</sup>and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt. <sup>41:44</sup>Par`oh said to Yosef, "I am Par`oh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." <sup>41:45</sup>Par`oh called Yosef's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera kohen of On as a wife. Yosef went out over the land of Egypt.

^41:46Yosef was thirty years old when he stood before Par`oh king of Egypt. Yosef went out from the presence of Par`oh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. ^41:47In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly. ^41:48He 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, he laid up in the same. ^41:49Yosef laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number. ^41:50To Yosef were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera kohen of On, bore to him. ^41:51Yosef called the name of the firstborn Menashsheh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house." ^41:52The name of the second, he called Efrayim: "For G-d has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

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R'vi'i [4th]: ^41:53The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. ^41:54The seven years of famine began to come, just as Yosef had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ^41:55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Par`oh for bread, and Par`oh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Yosef. What he says to you, do." ^41:56The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Yosef opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ^41:57All countries came into Egypt, to Yosef, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

^42:1Now Ya`akov saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Ya`akov said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" ^42:2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die." ^42:3Yosef's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. ^42:4But Ya`akov didn't send Binyamin, Yosef's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." <sup>42:5</sup>The sons of Yisra'el came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Kana`an. ^42:6Yosef was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Yosef's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. ^42:7Yosef saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?"

They said, "From the land of Kana`an to buy food."

^42:8Yosef recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him. ^42:9Yosef remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

^42:10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. ^42:11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

^42:12He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."

^42:13They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kana`an; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

^42:14Yosef said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.' ^42:15Hereby you shall be tested. By the life of Par`oh you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother come here. <sup>42:16</sup>Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Par`oh surely you are spies." ^42:17He put them all together into custody three days.

^42:18Yosef said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear G-d.

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Chamishi [5th]: ^42:19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. ^42:20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die."

They did so. ^42:21They said one to another, "We are most assuredly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come on us." ^42:22Re'uven answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." ^42:23They didn't know that Yosef understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. ^42:24He turned himself about from them, and wept, and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Shim`on from among them, and bound him before their eyes. ^42:25Then Yosef commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.

^42:26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. ^42:27As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. ^42:28He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is even in my sack." Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that G-d has done to us?" ^42:29They came to Ya`akov their father to the land of Kana`an, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, ^42:30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. ^42:31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies. ^42:32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Kana`an.' ^42:33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Hereby will I know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. ^42:34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

^42:35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. ^42:36Ya`akov, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is no more, Shim`on is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All these things are against me."

^42:37Re'uven spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again."

^42:38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to She'ol."

^43:1The famine was severe in the land. ^43:2It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

^43:3Yehudah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.' ^43:4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food, ^43:5but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

^43:6Yisra'el said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

^43:7They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

^43:8Yehudah said to Yisra'el, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones. ^43:9I will be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever, ^43:10for unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second time by now."

^43:11Their father, Yisra'el, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; ^43:12and take double money in your hand, with the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight. ^43:13Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man. ^43:14May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

^43:15The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Binyamin; and rose up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Yosef.

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Shishi [6th]: ^43:16When Yosef saw Binyamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon."

^43:17The man did as Yosef commanded, and the man brought the men to Yosef's house. ^43:18The men were afraid, because they were brought to Yosef's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall on us, and take us for bondservants, along with our donkeys." ^43:19They came near to the steward of Yosef's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house, ^43:20and said, "Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: ^43:21and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand. ^43:22We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."

^43:23He said, "Shalom be to you. Don't be afraid. Your G-d, and the G-d of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Shim`on out to them. ^43:24The man brought the men into Yosef's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder. ^43:25They made ready the present for Yosef's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

^43:26When Yosef came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth. ^43:27He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

^43:28They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage. ^43:29He lifted up his eyes, and saw Binyamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

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Shvi'i [7th]: ^43:30Yosef made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and he sought a place to weep; and he entered into his room, and wept there. ^43:31He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."

^43:32They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. ^43:33They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another. ^43:34He sent portions to them from before him, but Binyamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

^44:1He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. ^44:2Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Yosef had spoken. ^44:3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. ^44:4When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Yosef said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good? ^44:5Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'" ^44:6He overtook them, and he spoke to them these words.

^44:7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing! ^44:8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Kana`an. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house? ^44:9With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."

^44:10He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."

^44:11Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. ^44:12He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Binyamin's sack. ^44:13Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.

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Maftir [Concluding]: ^44:14Yehudah and his brothers came to Yosef's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. ^44:15Yosef said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

^44:16Yehudah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? G-d has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."

^44:17He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in shalom to your father."

^3:15Shlomo awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Yerushalayim, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

^3:16Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him. ^3:17The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. ^3:18It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. ^3:19This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it. ^3:20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. ^3:21When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.

^3:22The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.

^3:23Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living. ^3:24The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the king. ^3:25The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

^3:26Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. ^3:27Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it.

^3:28All Yisra'el heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of G-d was in him, to do justice.

^4:1King Shlomo was king over all Yisra'el.

^27:15Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired. ^27:16They had then a notable prisoner, called Bar-Abba. ^27:17When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Bar-Abba, or Yeshua, who is called Messiah?" ^27:18For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

^27:19While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." ^27:20Now the chief kohanim and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Bar-Abba, and destroy Yeshua. ^27:21But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?"

They said, "Bar-Abba!"

^27:22Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Yeshua, who is called Messiah?"

They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"

^27:23But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?"

But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"

^27:24So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

^27:25All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

^27:26Then he released to them Bar-Abba, but Yeshua he flogged and delivered to be crucified. ^27:27Then the governor's soldiers took Yeshua into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him. ^27:28They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him. ^27:29They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Yehudim!" ^27:30They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. ^27:31When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

^27:32As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Shim`on by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. ^27:33They came to a place called "Gulgolta," that is to say, "The place of a skull." ^27:34They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink. ^27:35When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots, ^27:36and they sat and watched him there. ^27:37They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS YESHUA, THE KING OF THE YEHUDIM."

^27:38Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left. ^27:39Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, ^27:40and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of G-d, come down from the cross!"

^27:41Likewise the chief kohanim also mocking, with the scribes, the Perushim, and the elders, said, ^27:42"He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Yisra'el, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. ^27:43He trusts in G-d. Let G-d deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of G-d.'" ^27:44The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

^27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. ^27:46About the ninth hour Yeshua cried with a loud voice, saying, "`Eli, `Eli, lima shavakhtani?" That is, "My G-d, my G-d, why have you forsaken me?"

Additional B'rit Chadashah reading: Acts 7:9-16

^7:9"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Yosef, sold him into Egypt. G-d was with him, ^7:10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Par`oh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. <sup>7:11</sup>Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Kana`an, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. ^7:12But when Ya`akov heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. <sup>7:13</sup>On the second time Yosef was made known to his brothers, and Yosef's race was revealed to Par`oh. ^7:14Yosef sent, and summoned Ya`akov, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. <sup>7:15</sup>Ya`akov went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers, ^7:16and they were brought back to Shekhem, and laid in the tomb that Avraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Chamor of Shekhem.

The Blessing of the Messiah
Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai Eh-lo-hay-noo, meh-lekh ha-oh-lahm, ah-sher keed-sha-noo beed-va-reh-kha v'na-tahn la-noo et Yeshua M'shee-khay-noo, v'tzee-va-noo l'he-oat oar la-oh-lahm. O-mein. Blessed are You, O Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us in Your Word, and given us us Yeshua, our Messiah, and commanded us to be a light to the world. Amen.

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