Genesis — Chapter 39

After manie dayes therfore his Miftreffe caft her eyes on. lofeph , and faid: Sleep with me..8. Who (b) in no wife affenting to 1b) Tem > pe fe) Prudence, to lie with me ; and when I had cricd out , 15. and he heard my voice, (4) Tofeph en- dowed with al vertues Was a fpecial mir- li, delofeph. et. The foure cardinal ver- tues reigned. in him, rance,: (ce) Iuftice, (d) Fortituac. f. God is more fpecially with his feruants in affliction then in profperitie. S. Amb. li. de Tofeph.c. 5. 4 GENESIS. lofeph. returning home, 17, and faid: There came vnto me the Hebrew fer- uant , wnom thou dideft bring hither , for to delude me: 18, and waen he heard me crie , he lett rhe cloake which I held, and fled forth. 19. His Mafter hearing thefe things , and giuing ouer light credit to his Wiucs words , was very wrath : 20. and deliuered Iofeph into prifon, where the Kings prifoners were kept, and he was there {hut vp. 21.And (f) our Lord was with Tofeph , and hauing mercie vpon him gaue him grace in the fight of the chiete ot the prifon. 22, Who deliuered in his hand al the prifoners that were keptin cuftodie: and whatfoeuer was done , was vnder him. 2;, Neither did himfclfe know any thing , ha- uing committed al things to him : for our Lord was with him , and dircéted al his workes. CHAP XL Iofeph interpreteth the dreames of two Eunnchs prifoners , 12. that the one should be reftored to bus office, 16, the other be hanged. 20. The third day the enent declared the saterpretations ro berrue , but lofephas forgotten, HESE things being fodone , it chanced that two Eu- nuchs , the cup-bearer of the King of Agypt , and his baker , offended againft their Lord. 2. And Pharao being wrath again{t them ( forthe one was chiefe of the cup- bearers , the other chicte baker) 3. he fent them into the prifon of the captaine of the foldiers , in the which Iofeph alfo was prifoner, 4, Butthe keeper of the prifon deliuered them to lofeph,who alfo miniftred to them : fome litle time was paffed , and they were kept in-cuftodie, 5, And they faw each of them both a dreame in one night, according to an interpretation agreeing to themfelues:6.to whom when Jofeph was entred in the merning , and faw them fad, 7. he asked them , faying: Why is your countenance fadder to day then it was wont? 8. Who anfwered : We haue {cena dreame , and there is no bodie to interprete it to vs. And lofeph faid tothem : Why“ doth not interpretation belong to God?Tel me what you haue feen. 9. The chiete of the cup-bearers firft told his dreame : 1 faw before mea vine > 1c. wherin were three branches , growing by litle and litle into buds , and after the bloflomes the grapes waxed ripe : 11. and the cup of Pharao in my hand ; and I tooke the grapes , and wrong them into the cu which I held , and I gaue the cup to Pharao, 12. lofeph an{wered:This is the interpretation of the dreame : Thethree branches , areyetthree dayes:13.after the which Pharao wil reméber thy {cruice,& wil reltore thee to thy old degree:& thou fhialt gine him the cup according to thyne office , as before thou haddeft wont to doe. 14. Only remember me, when Jofeph. GENESIS. when it fhal be wel wirhthee, and doe me this mercie , to put Pharao in mind that he take me out of this priion: 15, becaufe 1 was taken away by ftealth, out of the land of the Hebrewes , and here an innocent waslcaft intothelake. 16. The Matter of the bakers feeing that he had wifely refolued the dreame, he faid : And I allo faw adreame, That I had three baskets of meale vpon my head: 17. and that in one 1g of baking , and thatthe birds did eate outof it, 18. lofeph aniwered: Dan, 4.! This is the interpretation of the dreame: The three baskets , are yet three dayes:19 after the which Pharao wil take thy head trom thee, and hang thee (4) on the croffe , and the foules fhal teare thy fleth.29. The third day atter this was the birth-day of Pharao: who making a great feaftro his feruants, at the banket heremembred the Matter of the cup-bearers,and the chiefe of the bakers, 21. And he reftored the one into his place, to reach himthe cup , 22.the other he hanged ona gibber, that the truth of the interpreter might be approued. 23. And yet not- with{tanding the chiefe of thc cup-bearers , profperous things {uccee- ding, forgat his interpreter. ANNOTATION §&,

might lawfully marie the widow; whofe firft fonne should be counted and cailed the fonne and heyre of his vncle dead before, The fame was eftablished hy the law of Moyfes ‘Deut.2 cm) Which being now abrogated , it remaineth inthe Churches power ro conftitute a law in thisbehalf , and confequently to difpence inthe fame , fo farre asis agrea- ble with the law of nazurc, Wherof fee more Leuit. 18, CHAP. GENESIS. I!3 Tofeph. CHAP XXXIX. lofeph being in great credite with bis Mafter , bath the whole charge of his houfe. 7. Contemning bis Myfiris folicttation to sncontinence , 13. 15 falfly accufed by ber to hy Majter , 20. and caft into prifon. 21. Where. sgaine be Setterh credite , and bath the charge of al the prifoners, MEAG HERFORE lofeph was brought into Agypt , and ee Putiphar an Eunuch of Pharao, Prince of his armie , a Xe man of £¢cypt bought him, at the hand of the Ifmaelites, @), by whom he was brought. 2. And (2) our Lord was with WAS him , and he wasa man that in al things did profperoufly : and he dwelt in his Mafters houfe , 3. who knew verie wel that our ae Lord was with him , and thar aj things which he did.were directed by him in his hand. 4. And lofeph tound.arace before his Mafter , and mi- niftred to him: by whom being made ruler ouer al his things , he go- uerned thre houfe committed to him , and al things that were deliuered voto him: 5, and our Lord bleffed-the houfe of the Agyptian for Io- fephs fake, and multiplied as welin houtes, as in lands al his-fubftance, And Jofeph was of beautiful countenance , and comely fauoured to that wicked aét , faid to her: Behold , my Mafter hauing dcliuered al things ynto me , knoweth not what he hath in his owne houfe : 9. nei- ther is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath net deliuered to me, betide thee , that art his wife: (c). how therfore can] doe this wicked thing ,.and finne againt my God? 10. With thefe kind of words (4). day by day both the woman was importune vpon the yong.man, and he retufed the aduoutrie. 11, And it chan- ced on a certame day ,.that Jofeph went into the houfe , and did fome bufinefie without anic man with him : 12. and the catching the skirt of his garment , faid : Sieep with me. Who (e} lecuing the cloake in her hand , fled , and went forth ‘abroad. 13. And when the woman faw the garment inher hands , and her {clfe to be contermned, 14. fhe calied to her the men of her houfe, and faid to them: See he hath broughtin an Hebrew to delude vs : he came vpon me tor he letsthe cloake that J held, and fled forth. 1 6..For an argusnent ther- fore of her credit fhe referued the cloake , & fhewedit to her hufband R 2 returning lrour of cha- iftitie. S. smb,