Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Teach Me Your Paths

^[a] 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.

⁹ “And the patriarchs, ^(A)jealous of Joseph, ^(B)sold him into Egypt; but ^(C)God was with him ¹⁰ and rescued him out of all his afflictions and ^(D)gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ^(E)who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. ¹¹ Now ^(F)there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. ^12 (G)But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. ¹³ And ^(H)on the second visit ^(I)Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and ^(J)Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. ¹⁴ And ^(K)Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, ^(L)seventy-five persons in all. ¹⁵ And ^(M)Jacob went down into Egypt, and ^(N)he died, he ^(O)and our fathers, ¹⁶ and ^(P)they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that ^(Q)Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.