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

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。

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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；

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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: 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.

“ Then my father said to us,‘ As you know, my wife had two sons,

Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father,“ I’ll work for you for seven years if you’ll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife.”

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived as a foreigner.This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph— a beautiful robe.But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t say a kind word to him.One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever.“ Listen to this dream,” he said.“ We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before mine!”His brothers responded,“ So you think you will be our king, do you? Do you actually think you will reign over us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dreams and the way he talked about them.Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it.“ Listen, I have had another dream,” he said.“ The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!”This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him.“ What kind of dream is that?” he asked.“ Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow to the ground before you?”But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.Soon after this, Joseph’s brothers went to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem.When they had been gone for some time, Jacob said to Joseph,“ Your brothers are pasturing the sheep at Shechem. Get ready, and I will send you to them.”“ I’m ready to go,” Joseph replied.“ Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are getting along,” Jacob said.“ Then come back and bring me a report.” So Jacob sent him on his way, and Joseph traveled to Shechem from their home in the valley of Hebron.When he arrived there, a man from the area noticed him wandering around the countryside.“ What are you looking for?” he asked.“ I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied.“ Do you know where they are pasturing their sheep?”“ Yes,” the man told him.“ They have moved on from here, but I heard them say,‘ Let’s go on to Dothan.’” So Joseph followed his brothers to Dothan and found them there.When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him.“ Here comes the dreamer!” they said.“ Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father,‘ A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”But when Reuben heard of their scheme, he came to Joseph’s rescue.“ Let’s not kill him,” he said.“ Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.Judah said to his brothers,“ What will we gain by killing our brother? We’d have to cover up the crime.Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother— our own flesh and blood!” And his brothers agreed.So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.Some time later, Reuben returned to get Joseph out of the cistern. When he discovered that Joseph was missing, he tore his clothes in grief.Then he went back to his brothers and lamented,“ The boy is gone! What will I do now?”Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.They sent the beautiful robe to their father with this message:“ Look at what we found. Doesn’t this robe belong to your son?”Their father recognized it immediately.“ Yes,” he said,“ it is my son’s robe. A wild animal must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been torn to pieces!”Then Jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned deeply for his son for a long time.His family all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted.“ I will go to my grave mourning for my son,” he would say, and then he would weep.Meanwhile, the Midianite traders arrived in Egypt, where they sold Joseph to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Potiphar was captain of the palace guard.

Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob was embalmed.The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said,“ Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf.Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me,‘ Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request.“ Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said.So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt.Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place( which is near the Jordan) Abel mizraim, for they said,“ This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them.They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial.

Then Joseph went to see Pharaoh and told him,“ My father and my brothers have arrived from the land of Canaan. They have come with all their flocks and herds and possessions, and they are now in the region of Goshen.”Joseph took five of his brothers with him and presented them to Pharaoh.And Pharaoh asked the brothers,“ What is your occupation?” They replied,“ We, your servants, are shepherds, just like our ancestors.We have come to live here in Egypt for a while, for there is no pasture for our flocks in Canaan. The famine is very severe there. So please, we request permission to live in the region of Goshen.”Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,“ Now that your father and brothers have joined you here,choose any place in the entire land of Egypt for them to live. Give them the best land of Egypt. Let them live in the region of Goshen. And if any of them have special skills, put them in charge of my livestock, too.”Then Joseph brought in his father, Jacob, and presented him to Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.“ How old are you?” Pharaoh asked him.Jacob replied,“ I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh again before leaving his court.So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt— the region of Rameses— to his father and his brothers, and he settled them there, just as Pharaoh had commanded.And Joseph provided food for his father and his brothers in amounts appropriate to the number of their dependents, including the smallest children.Meanwhile, the famine became so severe that all the food was used up, and people were starving throughout the lands of Egypt and Canaan.By selling grain to the people, Joseph eventually collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan, and he put the money in Pharaoh’s treasury.When the people of Egypt and Canaan ran out of money, all the Egyptians came to Joseph.“ Our money is gone!” they cried.“ But please give us food, or we will die before your very eyes!”Joseph replied,“ Since your money is gone, bring me your livestock. I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”So they brought their livestock to Joseph in exchange for food. In exchange for their horses, flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and donkeys, Joseph provided them with food for another year.But that year ended, and the next year they came again and said,“ We cannot hide the truth from you, my lord. Our money is gone, and all our livestock and cattle are yours. We have nothing left to give but our bodies and our land.Why should we die before your very eyes? Buy us and our land in exchange for food; we offer our land and ourselves as slaves for Pharaoh. Just give us grain so we may live and not die, and so the land does not become empty and desolate.”So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. All the Egyptians sold him their fields because the famine was so severe, and soon all the land belonged to Pharaoh.As for the people, he made them all slaves, from one end of Egypt to the other.The only land he did not buy was the land belonging to the priests. They received an allotment of food directly from Pharaoh, so they didn’t need to sell their land.Then Joseph said to the people,“ Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. I will provide you with seed so you can plant the fields.Then when you harvest it, one fifth of your crop will belong to Pharaoh. You may keep the remaining four fifths as seed for your fields and as food for you, your households, and your little ones.”“ You have saved our lives!” they exclaimed.“ May it please you, my lord, to let us be Pharaoh’s servants.”Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should receive one fifth of all the crops grown on his land. Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh.Meanwhile, the people of Israel settled in the region of Goshen in Egypt. There they acquired property, and they were fruitful, and their population grew rapidly.Jacob lived for seventeen years after his arrival in Egypt, so he lived 147 years in all.As the time of his death drew near, Jacob called for his son Joseph and said to him,“ Please do me this favor. Put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat me with unfailing love by honoring this last request: Do not bury me in Egypt.When I die, please take my body out of Egypt and bury me with my ancestors.” So Joseph promised,“ I will do as you ask.”“ Swear that you will do it,” Jacob insisted. So Joseph gave his oath, and Jacob bowed humbly at the head of his bed.

“ Joseph is the foal of a wild donkey, the foal of a wild donkey at a spring— one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.Archers attacked him savagely; they shot at him and harassed him.But his bow remained taut, and his arms were strengthened by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.May the God of your father help you; may the Almighty bless you with the blessings of the heavens above, and blessings of the watery depths below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.May my fatherly blessings on you surpass the blessings of my ancestors, reaching to the heights of the eternal hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, who is a prince among his brothers.“ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring his enemies in the morning and dividing his plunder in the evening.”

These were the clans descended from the sons of Benjamin: The Belaite clan, named after their ancestor Bela. The Ashbelite clan, named after their ancestor Ashbel. The Ahiramite clan, named after their ancestor Ahiram.The Shuphamite clan, named after their ancestor Shupham. The Huphamite clan, named after their ancestor Hupham.These were the subclans descended from the Belaites: The Ardites, named after their ancestor Ard. The Naamites, named after their ancestor Naaman.These were the clans of Benjamin. Their registered troops numbered 45,600.

And she named him Joseph, for she said,“ May the Lord add yet another son to my family.”

Benjamin 35,400

When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.The Lord was with Joseph, so he succeeded in everything he did as he served in the home of his Egyptian master.Potiphar noticed this and realized that the Lord was with Joseph, giving him success in everything he did.This pleased Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal attendant. He put him in charge of his entire household and everything he owned.From the day Joseph was put in charge of his master’s household and property, the Lord began to bless Potiphar’s household for Joseph’s sake. All his household affairs ran smoothly, and his crops and livestock flourished.So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph there, he didn’t worry about a thing— except what kind of food to eat! Joseph was a very handsome and well built young man,and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully.“ Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.But Joseph refused.“ Look,” he told her,“ my master trusts me with everything in his entire household.No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.”She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible.One day, however, no one else was around when he went in to do his work.She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding,“ Come on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away, but he left his cloak in her hand as he ran from the house.When she saw that she was holding his cloak and he had fled,she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running.“ Look!” she said.“ My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us! He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed.When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”She kept the cloak with her until her husband came home.Then she told him her story.“ That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our house tried to come in and fool around with me,” she said.“ But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!”Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her.So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.But the Lord was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the Lord made Joseph a favorite with the prison warden.Before long, the warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and over everything that happened in the prison.The warden had no more worries, because Joseph took care of everything. The Lord was with him and caused everything he did to succeed.Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup bearer and chief baker offended their royal master.Pharaoh became angry with these two officials,and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them.While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup bearer and baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning.When Joseph saw them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset.“ Why do you look so worried today?” he asked them.And they replied,“ We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.”“ Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied.“ Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”So the chief cup bearer told Joseph his dream first.“ In my dream,” he said,“ I saw a grapevine in front of me.The vine had three branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon it produced clusters of ripe grapes.I was holding Pharaoh’s wine cup in my hand, so I took a cluster of grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”“ This is what the dream means,” Joseph said.“ The three branches represent three days.Within three days Pharaoh will lift you up and restore you to your position as his chief cup bearer.And please remember me and do me a favor when things go well for you. Mention me to Pharaoh, so he might let me out of this place.For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph,“ I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”“ This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him.“ The three baskets also represent three days.Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he prepared a banquet for all his officials and staff. He summoned his chief cup bearer and chief baker to join the other officials.He then restored the chief cup bearer to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup.But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream.Pharaoh’s chief cup bearer, however, forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought.

Moses said this about the tribe of Benjamin:“ The people of Benjamin are loved by the Lord and live in safety beside him. He surrounds them continuously and preserves them from every harm.”Moses said this about the tribes of Joseph:“ May their land be blessed by the Lord with the precious gift of dew from the heavens and water from beneath the earth;with the rich fruit that grows in the sun, and the rich harvest produced each month;with the finest crops of the ancient mountains, and the abundance from the everlasting hills;with the best gifts of the earth and its bounty, and the favor of the one who appeared in the burning bush. May these blessings rest on Joseph’s head, crowning the brow of the prince among his brothers.Joseph has the majesty of a young bull; he has the horns of a wild ox. He will gore distant nations, even to the ends of the earth. This is my blessing for the multitudes of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.”

The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,

Leaving Bethel, Jacob and his clan moved on toward Ephrath. But Rachel went into labor while they were still some distance away. Her labor pains were intense.After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed,“ Don’t be afraid— you have another son!”Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named the baby Ben oni( which means“ son of my sorrow”). The baby’s father, however, called him Benjamin( which means“ son of my right hand”).

In all, Jacob had seventy descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there.