雅各之妻拉结的儿子是约瑟和便雅悯。

雅各之妻拉结的儿子是约瑟和便雅悯。

雅各之妻拉结的儿子是约瑟和便雅悯。

雅各的妻子拉结生的儿子是约瑟和便雅悯。

雅各的妻子拉结，生了约瑟和便雅悯。

雅各的妻子瑞秋的儿子约瑟和本雅明，

雅各之妻拉結的兒子是約瑟和便雅憫。

雅各之妻拉結的兒子是約瑟和便雅憫。

雅各之妻拉結的兒子是約瑟和便雅憫。

雅各的妻子拉結生的兒子是約瑟和便雅憫。

雅各的妻子拉結，生了約瑟和便雅憫。

雅各的妻子拉結的兒子是約瑟和便雅憫；

雅各的妻子拉結的兒子約瑟、便雅憫；

雅各妻拉結之子、約瑟、便雅憫、

雅各之妻拉結生約瑟、便雅憫。

雅各妻拉結之子約瑟、便雅憫、

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

“ Your servant my father said to us,‘ You know that my wife bore me two sons. (niv)

Jacob was in love with Rachel and said,“ I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.” (niv)

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. (niv)

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.He said to them,“ Listen to this dream I had:We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”His brothers said to him,“ Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers.“ Listen,” he said,“ I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said,“ What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,and Israel said to Joseph,“ As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.”“ Very well,” he replied.So he said to him,“ Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him,“ What are you looking for?”He replied,“ I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”“ They have moved on from here,” the man answered.“ I heard them say,‘ Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.“ Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other.“ Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands.“ Let’s not take his life,” he said.“ Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe— the ornate robe he was wearing—and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.Judah said to his brothers,“ What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.He went back to his brothers and said,“ The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?”Then they got Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.They took the ornate robe back to their father and said,“ We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe.”He recognized it and said,“ It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted.“ No,” he said,“ I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard. (niv)

Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court,“ If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,‘ My father made me swear an oath and said,“ I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”Pharaoh said,“ Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him— the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company.When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said,“ The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father. (niv)

Joseph went and told Pharaoh,“ My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.Pharaoh asked the brothers,“ What is your occupation?”“ Your servants are shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh,“ just as our fathers were.”They also said to him,“ We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”Pharaoh said to Joseph,“ Your father and your brothers have come to you,and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh,Pharaoh asked him,“ How old are you?”And Jacob said to Pharaoh,“ The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed.Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said,“ Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.”“ Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph.“ I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.”So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said,“ We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.Why should we perish before your eyes— we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.Joseph said to the people,“ Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”“ You have saved our lives,” they said.“ May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt— still in force today— that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh’s.Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him,“ If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.”“ I will do as you say,” he said.“ Swear to me,” he said. Then Joseph swore to him, and Israel worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. (niv)

“ Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility.But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb.Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.“ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.” (niv)

The descendants of Benjamin by their clans were: through Bela, the Belaite clan; through Ashbel, the Ashbelite clan; through Ahiram, the Ahiramite clan;through Shupham, the Shuphamite clan; through Hupham, the Huphamite clan.The descendants of Bela through Ard and Naaman were: through Ard, the Ardite clan; through Naaman, the Naamite clan.These were the clans of Benjamin; those numbered were 45,600. (niv)

She named him Joseph, and said,“ May the Lord add to me another son.” (niv)

From the descendants of Benjamin: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400. (niv)

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did,Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well- built and handsome,and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said,“ Come to bed with me!”But he refused.“ With me in charge,” he told her,“ my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.She caught him by his cloak and said,“ Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,she called her household servants.“ Look,” she said to them,“ this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home.Then she told him this story:“ That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me.But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying,“ This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger.Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,each of the two men— the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison— had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house,“ Why do you look so sad today?”“ We both had dreams,” they answered,“ but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them,“ Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him,“ In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”“ This is what it means,” Joseph said to him.“ The three branches are three days.Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph,“ I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”“ This is what it means,” Joseph said.“ The three baskets are three days.Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand—but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. (niv)

About Benjamin he said:“ Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.”About Joseph he said:“ May the Lord bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below;with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield;with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.” (niv)

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. (niv)

Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; (niv)

Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her,“ Don’t despair, for you have another son.”As she breathed her last— for she was dying— she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin. (niv)

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. (niv)