¹On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.

And great crowds were gathered to Him, so that He stepped into a  ¹boat and sat, and all the crowd stood on the shore.

And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying,  ¹Behold, the  ²sower went out to sow.

And as he sowed, some  ¹seeds fell  ²beside the way, and the  ³birds came and devoured them.

And others fell on the  ¹rocky places, where they did not have much earth, and immediately they sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

But when the  ¹sun rose, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered.

And others fell on the  ¹thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

But others fell on the  ¹good earth and yielded fruit, one a hundredfold, and one sixtyfold, and one thirtyfold.

He who has  ¹ears to hear, let him hear.

And the disciples came and said to Him, Why do You speak in parables to them?

And He answered and said to them, Because to you it has been given to know the  ¹mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.

For  ¹whoever has, it shall be given to him, and he will abound; but  ²whoever does not have, even that which he has shall be taken away from him.

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, "In hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive.

For the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have closed, lest they perceive with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart, and they turn around, and I will heal them.”

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to perceive the things that you  ¹see, and have not perceived them, and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.

You therefore hear the parable of the one who sowed.

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the  ¹evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is the one sown beside the way.

And the one sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

Yet he does not have root in himself but lasts only for a time, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

And the one sown in the thorns, this is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of the age and the deceitfulness of riches utterly choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But the one sown on the good earth, this is he who hears the word and understands, who by all means bears fruit and produces, one a hundredfold, and one sixtyfold, and one thirtyfold.

Another parable He set before them, saying, The  ¹kingdom of the heavens has become like a man sowing good seed in his field.

But while the  ¹men slept, his enemy came and sowed  ²tares in the midst of the  ³wheat and went away.

And when the blade sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares appeared also.

And the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where then did the tares come from?

And he said to them, An enemy has done this. And the slaves said to him, Do you want us then to go and  ¹collect them?

But he said, No, lest while  ¹collecting the tares, you uproot the wheat along with them.

Let both  ¹grow together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Collect first the tares and bind them into bundles to burn them up, but the wheat gather into my barn.

Now Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

And Jehovah was  ¹with Joseph, and he became a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

And his master saw that Jehovah was with him and that Jehovah caused all that he did to prosper in his hand.

And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered to him; and he made him overseer of his house and put all that he had in his  ¹charge.

And from the time he made him overseer in his house and put him over all that he had, Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house on account of Joseph; and the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.

And he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and with him there, he was not concerned about anything except the food that he ate. And Joseph was handsome in form and handsome in appearance.

Now after these things his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, Lie with me.

But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, with me here, my master is not concerned about anything in the house, and he has put everything he has in my charge.

There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil, and sin against God?

And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her.

And one such day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house were there in the house.

And she grabbed him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! But he left his garment in her hand, and  ¹fled and went outside.

And when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,

She called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew man to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I called out with a loud voice;

And when he heard that I lifted up my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me, and fled and went outside.

And she placed his garment beside her until his master came home.

And she spoke to him with these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me.

And when I lifted up my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.

And when his master heard the words of his wife that she had spoken to him, saying, This is the way your servant treated me; his anger burned.

And Joseph's master took him and put him into the  ¹prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while he was there in the prison,

Jehovah was with Joseph; and He extended kindness to him and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer.

And the chief jailer put in Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the prison; and whatever was done there, he was the one to do it.

The chief jailer did not supervise anything that was in his charge, because Jehovah was with him; and whatever he did, Jehovah caused it to prosper.

And after these things, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers.

And he put them in custody at the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

And the captain of the guard put Joseph in charge of them, and he ministered to them; and they were in custody for some time.

And the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, both of them had a dream, each man with his own dream in one night, and each dream with its own interpretation.

And Joseph came to them in the morning and looked at them, and they were troubled.

And he asked Pharaoh's officials, who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, Why are your faces so sad today?

And they said to him, We have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it. And Joseph said to them,  ¹Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.

And the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph and said to him, In my dream there was a vine before me,

And on the vine were three branches. And as soon as it budded, its blossoms came out, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I put the cup in Pharaoh's hand.

And Joseph said to him, This is its interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.

But remember my being with you when it is well with you, and please do me a kindness and make mention of me to Pharaoh and so have me brought out of this house.

For I was actually kidnapped out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have not done anything that they should put me into the dungeon.

Now when the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw this in my dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.

And in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.

And Joseph answered and said, This is its interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

Within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh from you.

And on the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.

And he restored the chief of the cupbearers to his cupbearing, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand;

But the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Yet the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

And at the end of  ¹two full years Pharaoh had a dream, and there he was, standing by the  ²River.

And there came up out of the River seven cows, fine-looking and fat-fleshed; and they grazed in the reed grass.

Then there came up after them seven other cows out of the River, ugly-looking and thin-fleshed; and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the River.

And the ugly-looking and thin-fleshed cows ate up the seven fine-looking and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

And he slept and dreamed a second time. And there were seven ears of grain, coming up on one stalk, fat and good.

Then there were seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, that sprouted after them.

And the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.

And in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men; and Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my sins today.

Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody at the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker.

And we both had a dream in one night, I and he; each of us had a dream with its own interpretation.

And a young Hebrew man was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us; to each one he interpreted according to his dream.

And as he interpreted to us, so it happened;  ¹Pharaoh restored me to my office, and he hanged the  ²baker.