¹ Or quand on eut amené Joseph en Egypte, Potiphar, Eunuque de Pharaon, Prévôt de l'hôtel, Egyptien, l'acheta de la main des Ismaélites, qui l'y avaient amené.

² Et l'Eternel était avec Joseph; et il prospéra, et demeura dans la maison de son maître Egyptien.

³ Et son maître vit que l'Eternel [était] avec lui, et que l'Eternel faisait prospérer entre ses mains tout ce qu'il faisait.

⁴ C'est pourquoi Joseph trouva grâce devant son maître, et il le servait. Et [son maître] l'établit sur sa maison, et lui remit entre les mains tout ce qui lui appartenait.

⁵ Et il arriva que depuis qu'il l'eut établi sur sa maison, et sur tout ce qu'il avait, l'Eternel bénit la maison de cet Egyptien à cause de Joseph; et la bénédiction de l'Eternel fut sur toutes les choses qui étaient à lui, tant en la maison, qu'aux champs.

⁶ Il remit donc tout ce qui [était] à lui entre les mains de Joseph, sans entrer avec lui en connaissance d'aucune chose, sinon du pain qu'il mangeait. Or Joseph [était] de belle taille, et beau à voir.

⁷ Et il arriva après ces choses, que la femme de son maître jeta les yeux sur Joseph, et lui dit : Couche avec moi.

⁸ Mais il le refusa, et dit à la femme de son maître : Voici, mon maître n'entre en aucune connaissance avec moi des choses qui sont dans sa maison, et il m'a remis entre les mains tout ce qui lui appartient.

⁹ Il n'y a personne dans cette maison qui soit plus grand que moi, et il ne m'a rien défendu que toi, parce que tu es sa femme; et comment ferais-je un si grand mal, et pécherais-je contre Dieu?

¹⁰ Et quoiqu'elle [en] parlât à Joseph chaque jour, toutefois il ne lui accorda pas de coucher auprès d'elle, ni d'être avec elle.

¹¹ Mais il arriva, un jour qu'il était venu à la maison pour faire ce qu'il avait à faire, et qu'il n'y avait aucun des domestiques dans la maison,

¹² Qu'elle le prit par sa robe, et lui dit : Couche avec moi. Mais il lui laissa sa robe entre les mains, s'enfuit, et sortit dehors.

¹³ Et lorsqu'elle eut vu qu'il lui avait laissé sa robe entre les mains, et qu'il s'en était fui,

¹⁴ Elle appela les gens de sa maison, et leur parla, en disant : Voyez, on nous a amené un homme Hébreu pour se moquer de nous, il est venu à moi pour coucher avec moi; mais j'ai crié à haute voix.

¹⁵ Et sitôt qu'il a ouï que j'ai élevé ma voix, et que j'ai crié, il a laissé son vêtement auprès de moi, il s'est enfui, et est sorti dehors.

¹⁶ Et elle garda le vêtement de Joseph, jusqu'à ce que son maître fût revenu à la maison.

¹⁷ Alors elle lui parla en ces mêmes termes, et dit : Le serviteur Hébreu que tu nous as amené, est venu à moi, pour se moquer de moi.

¹⁸ Mais comme j'ai élevé ma voix, et que j'ai crié, il a laissé son vêtement auprès de moi, et s'en est fui.

¹⁹ Et sitôt que le maître de [Joseph] eut entendu les paroles de sa femme, qui lui disait : Ton serviteur m'a fait ce que je t'ai dit, sa colère s'enflamma.

²⁰ Et le maître de Joseph le prit, et le mit dans une étroite prison; dans l'endroit où les prisonniers du Roi étaient renfermés, et il fut là en prison.

²¹ Mais l'Eternel fut avec Joseph; il étendit [sa] gratuité sur lui, et lui fit trouver grâce envers le maître de la prison.

²² Et le maître de la prison mit entre les mains de Joseph tous les prisonniers qui [étaient] dans la prison, et tout ce qu'il y avait à faire, il le faisait.

²³ [Et] le maître de la prison ne revoyait rien de tout ce que [Joseph] avait entre ses mains; parce que l'Eternel était avec lui, et que l'Eternel faisait prospérer tout ce qu'il faisait.

¹ They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

² The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³ and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

⁴ Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

⁵ It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."

⁶ Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁷ and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"

⁸ Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

⁹ Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"

¹⁰ It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.

¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹² "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

¹³ It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

¹⁴ When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

¹⁵ When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

¹⁶ This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

¹⁷ The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

¹⁸ When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

¹⁹ Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."

²⁰ Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

²¹ They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

²² It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

²³ He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to Bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"

²⁴ They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

²⁵ Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. today you shall not find it in the field.

²⁶ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

²⁷ It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

²⁸ Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

²⁹ Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day.

³¹ The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

³² Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"

³³ Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."

³⁴ As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

³⁵ The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

³⁶ Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.