Genesis 40-42 - Joseph Is Set over Egypt

Joseph Interprets the Officials’ Dreams

Gen 40:23 LSB - [23] Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Gen 8:1 LSB - [1] Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

Gen 19:29 LSB - [29] Thus it happened, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Gen 30:22 LSB - [22] Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

 

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dream

Gen 41:1 LSB - [1] Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.

Gen 41:9 LSB - [9] Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I would bring to remembrance today my [own] offenses.

Joseph Is Set over Egypt

Gen 41:45 LSB - [45] Then Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

Zaphenath-paneah: Probably Egyptian for “God speaks; he lives”

 

The Sons of Joseph

Gen 41:51-52 LSB - [51] And Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," [he said], "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household." [52] And he named the second Ephraim, "For," [he said], "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

Joseph’s Brothers Sent to Egypt

Gen 42:24 LSB - [24] And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

Jacob Is Bereaved

Gen 42:38 LSB - [38] But Jacob said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone remains. If harm should befall him on the journey on which you are going, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow."

Plen­ty in a time of dearth by John Newton

My soul once had its plen­te­ous years,
And throve, with peace and com­fort filled,
Like the fat kine and rip­ened ears,
Which Pha­raoh in his dream be­held.

With pleas­ing frames and grace re­ceived,
With means and or­di­nanc­es fed;
How hap­py for a while I lived,
And lit­tle feared the want of bread.

But fa­mine came and left no sign
Of all the plen­ty I had seen;
Like the dry ears and half-starved kine,
I then looked wi­thered, faint and lean.

To Jo­seph the Egyp­tians went,
To Je­sus I made known my case;
He, when my lit­tle stock was spent,
Opened His ma­ga­zine of grace.

For He the time of dearth fore­saw,
And made pro­vi­sion long be­fore;
That fa­mished souls, like me, might draw
Supplies from His un­bound­ed store.

Now on His boun­ty I de­pend,
And live from fear of dearth se­cure,
Maintained by such a migh­ty friend,
I can­not want till He is poor.

O sin­ners, hear His gra­cious call!
His mer­cy’s door stands op­en wide;
He has enough to feed you all,
And none who come shall be de­nied.