The Dreams of Two Prisoners

Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he waited on them, and they continued for some time in custody.

Then he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.

I fell asleep a second time, and I saw in my dream seven ears of grain, full and good, growing on one stalk,

Now the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “It is because of the money, replaced in our sacks the first time, that we have been brought in, so that he may have an opportunity to fall upon us, to make slaves of us and take our donkeys.”

They said, “Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food,

Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

When the time of Israel’s death drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor with you, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal loyally and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.

they spent forty days doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation, and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.

After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and would not let the people go.

The Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”

For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, your officials, and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Tomorrow at this time I will cause the heaviest hail to fall that has ever fallen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

You shall keep this ordinance at its proper time from year to year.

Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you but decide every minor case themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.

but recovers and walks around outside with the help of a staff, then the assailant shall be free of liability, except to pay for the loss of time and to arrange for full recovery.

The Annual Festivals

“Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me.

You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. “No one shall appear before me empty-handed.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

“You shall keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.