Today’s
Reading : Genesis 41 – 42 and Matthew 21 (KJV)
Genesis 41
Gen
41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full
years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Gen 41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river
seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed;
and they fed in a meadow.
Gen 41:3 And, behold, seven other kine
came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed;
and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
Gen 41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed
kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
Gen 41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time:
and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
Gen 41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with
the east wind sprung up after them.
Gen 41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven
rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it
was a dream.
Gen 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his
spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and
all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was
none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Gen 41:9 Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh,
saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Gen 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put
me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both
me and the chief baker:
Gen 41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and
he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Gen 41:12 And there
was there with us a young man, a Hebrew,
servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us
our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
Gen 41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us,
so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
Gen 41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they
brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in
unto Pharaoh.
Gen 41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed
a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard
say of thee, that thou canst understand
a dream to interpret it.
Gen 41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not
in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Gen 41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream,
behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
Gen 41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the river
seven kine, fatfleshed and
well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
Gen 41:19 And, behold, seven other kine
came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed,
such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
Gen 41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
Gen 41:21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not
be known that they had eaten them; but they were
still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
Gen 41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven
ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
Gen 41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after
them:
Gen 41:24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good
ears: and I told this unto the
magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
Gen 41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of
Pharaoh is one: God hath showed Pharaoh
what he is about to do.
Gen 41:26 The seven good kine
are seven years; and the seven good ears
are seven years: the dream is one.
Gen 41:27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are
seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven
years of famine.
Gen 41:28 This is
the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he showeth unto
Pharaoh.
Gen 41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great
plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
Gen 41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years
of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the
famine shall consume the land;
Gen 41:31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land
by reason of that famine following; for it shall
be very grievous.
Gen 41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto
Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Gen 41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man
discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:34 Let Pharaoh do this,
and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the
land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Gen 41:35 And let them gather all the food of those
good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them
keep food in the cities.
Gen 41:36 And that food shall be for store to the land
against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that
the land perish not through the famine.
Gen 41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Gen 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we
find such a
one as this is,
a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
Gen 41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as
God hath showed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
Gen 41:40 Thou shalt be over
my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the
throne will I be greater than thou.
Gen 41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set
thee over all the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand,
and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and
put a gold chain about his neck;
Gen 41:43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot
which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up
his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah
priest of On. And Joseph went out over all
the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:46 And Joseph was
thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went
out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth
brought forth by handfuls.
Gen 41:48 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, laid he up in the same.
Gen 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the
sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it
was without number.
Gen 41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the
years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bore unto him.
Gen 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn
Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my
father's house.
Gen 41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim:
For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Gen 41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that
was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Gen 41:54 And the seven years of dearth began to come,
according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the
land of Egypt there was bread.
Gen 41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished,
the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians,
Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Gen 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the
earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and
the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph
for to buy corn; because that the famine
was so sore in all lands.
Genesis 42
Gen
42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in
Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
Gen 42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there
is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may
live, and not die.
Gen 42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy
corn in Egypt.
Gen 42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent
not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
Gen 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in
the land of Canaan.
Gen 42:6 And Joseph was
the governor over the land, and he it was
that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed
down themselves before him with their
faces to the earth.
Gen 42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew
them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly unto them; and he
said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy
food.
Gen 42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew
not him.
Gen 42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he
dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are
spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Gen 42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to
buy food are thy servants come.
Gen 42:11 We are
all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
Gen 42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the
nakedness of the land ye are come.
Gen 42:13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the
land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is
this day with our father, and one is
not.
Gen 42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that
I spoke unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
Gen 42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of
Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
Gen 42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your
brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether
there be
any truth in you: or else by the life of
Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
Gen 42:17 And he put them all together into ward three
days.
Gen 42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This
do, and live; for I fear God:
Gen 42:19 If ye be
true men, let one of your brethren be
bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
houses:
Gen 42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so
shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Gen 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that
we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear;
therefore is this distress come upon us.
Gen 42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I not
unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Gen 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke unto them by an interpreter.
Gen 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and
wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them
Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Gen 42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks
with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them
provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
Gen 42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and
departed thence.
Gen 42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give
his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
Gen 42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is
restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to
another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
Gen 42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto
the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
Gen 42:30 The man, who
is the lord of the land, spoke roughly
to us, and took us for spies of the country.
Gen 42:31 And we said unto him, We are true men;
we are no spies:
Gen 42:32 We be
twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is
not, and the youngest is this day with
our father in the land of Canaan.
Gen 42:33 And the man, the lord of the country, said
unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are
true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of
your households, and be gone:
Gen 42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then
shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are
true men: so
will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
Gen 42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their
sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was
in his sack: and when both they and
their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Gen 42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me
have ye bereaved of my children:
Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Gen 42:37 And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying,
Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I
will bring him to thee again.
Gen 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with
you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by
the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow
to the grave.
Matthew 21
Mat
21:1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and
were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives,
then sent Jesus two disciples,
Mat 21:2 Saying unto them, Go
into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
Mat 21:3 And if any man say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
Mat 21:4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
Mat 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy
king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an
ass.
Mat 21:6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus
commanded them,
Mat 21:7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on
them their clothes, and they set him
thereon.
Mat 21:8 And a very great multitude spread their
garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way.
Mat 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that
followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest.
Mat 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the
city was moved, saying, Who is this?
Mat 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the
prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Mat 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and
cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables
of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
Mat 21:13 And said unto them, It
is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Mat 21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the
temple; and he healed them.
Mat 21:15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw
the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and
saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
Mat 21:16 And said unto him, Hearest
thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
thou hast perfected praise
Mat 21:17 And he left them, and went out of the city
into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Mat 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the
city, he hungered.
Mat 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he
came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever.
And presently the fig tree withered away.
Mat 21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig
tree withered away!
Mat 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Mat 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the
chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching,
and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this
authority?
Mat 21:24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mat 21:25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we
shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
Mat 21:26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the
people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Mat 21:27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot
tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Mat 21:28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.
Mat 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
Mat 21:30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
Mat 21:31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Mat 21:32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Mat 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and
digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Mat 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Mat 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Mat 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Mat 21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mat 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Mat 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Mat 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Mat 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy
those wicked men, and will let out his
vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their
seasons.
Mat 21:42 Jesus saith unto
them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on
this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Mat 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had
heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Mat 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him,
they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.