When Brothers Dwell in Unity

A Song of ^(A)Ascents. Of David.

Joseph Rises to Power

³⁷ This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. ³⁸ And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, ^(A)in whom is the Spirit of God?”^{[a] 39} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. ^40 (B)You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command.^[b] Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.” ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, ^(C)I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” ⁴² Then Pharaoh ^(D)took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and ^(E)clothed him in garments of fine linen ^(F)and put a gold chain about his neck. ⁴³ And he made him ride in his second chariot. ^(G)And they called out before him, “Bow the knee!”^[c] Thus he set him ^(H)over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and ^(I)without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” ⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶ Joseph was thirty years old when he ^(J)entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, ⁴⁸ and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. ⁴⁹ And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, ^(K)like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

⁵⁰ Before the year of famine came, ^(L)two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. ⁵¹ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.”^{[d] 52} The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has ^(M)made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”^[e]

⁵³ The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end, ⁵⁴ and ^(N)the seven years of famine began to come, ^(O)as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

⁵⁶ So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses^[f] and ^(P)sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe ^(Q)over all the earth.

Paul Stoned at Lystra

^19 (A)But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, ^(B)they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. ²⁰ But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ When they had preached the gospel to that city and had ^(C)made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, ^22 (D)strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them ^(E)to continue in ^(F)the faith, and saying that ^(G)through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. ²³ And when they had ^(H)appointed ^(I)elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting ^(J)they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria

²⁴ Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. ²⁵ And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia, ²⁶ and from there they sailed to Antioch, ^(K)where they had been ^(L)commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled. ²⁷ And when they arrived and gathered the church together, ^(M)they declared all that God had done with them, and ^(N)how he had ^(O)opened ^(P)a door of faith to the Gentiles. ²⁸ And they remained no little time with the disciples.