H9001–/וַ–v

Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

וַיִּקְרָ֨א (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתֶּן־ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּצֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

וַיֵּצֵ֤א (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעְבֹ֖ר (וַֽ) va “and”

In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

וַתַּ֣עַשׂ (וַ) va. “and”

He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.

וַיִּקְבֹּ֞ץ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתֶּן־ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

וַיִּצְבֹּ֨ר (וַ) va “and”

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

וַיִּקְרָ֥א (וַ) va “and”

The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

וַתִּכְלֶ֕ינָה (וַ) va. “and”

The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

וַתְּחִלֶּ֜ינָה (וַ) va. “and”וַיְהִ֤י (וַ) va “and”

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

וַתִּרְעַב֙ (וַ) va. “and”וַיִּצְעַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁבֹּ֣ר (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּחֱזַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

וַיַּ֣רְא (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

וַיֵּרְד֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

וַיַּ֥רְא (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכִּרֵ֑ם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְנַכֵּ֨ר (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבֵּ֧ר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

וַיַּכֵּ֥ר (וַ) va “and”

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

וַיִּזְכֹּ֣ר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He put them all together into custody three days.

וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף (וַ) va “and”

Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”