For I was stolen out of the land of Canaan, and sold as a slave and I have done nothing wrong, to deserve being put in this prison. But when you go out of prison, please to remember me, and try to find some way to get me, too, out of this prison. In three days King Pharaoh will call you out of prison, and will put you back in your place and you shall stand at his table, and shall give him his wine, as you have given it before. Then Joseph said, 'This is what your dream means. And I picked the grapes, and squeezed their juice into King Pharaoh's cup, and it became wine and I gave it to King Pharaoh to drink, just as I used to do when I was beside his table.' He said, 'In my dream I saw a grape-vine with three branches and as I looked the branches shot out buds, and the buds became blossoms, and the blossoms turned into clusters of ripe grapes. Perhaps my God will help me to understand them.' 'Tell me,' said Joseph, 'what your dreams were. 'Why do you look so sad to-day?' Joseph was cheerful and happy in his spirit, and he wished others to be happy, even in prison.ДЄnd one of the men said, 'Each one of us dreamed last night a very strange dream and there is no one to tell us what our dreams mean.'ДЇor in those times, before God gave the Bible to men, he often spoke to men in dreams and there were wise men, who could sometimes tell what the dreams meant. One morning, when Joseph came into the room in the prison where the butler and the baker were kept, he found them looking quite sad.

These two men were under Joseph's care, and Joseph waited on them, for they were men of rank. One was the king's chief butler, who served the king with wine the other was the chief baker, who served him with bread. While Joseph was in prison, two men were sent there by the king of Egypt, because he was displeased with them. Joseph did right, and served God and God blessed Joseph in everything. The keeper of the prison scarcely looked into the prison at all, for he had confidence in Joseph, that he would be faithful and wise in doing the work given to him. In a very little while Joseph was placed in charge of all his fellow-prisoners, and took care of them just as he had taken care of everything in Potiphar's house.

The keeper of the prison saw that Joseph was not like the other men around him, and he was kind to Joseph. How hard it was for Joseph to be charged with a crime, when he had done no wrong, and to be thrust into a dark prison among wicked people!Д«ut Joseph had faith in God, that at some time all would come out right: and in the prison he was cheerful, and kind, and helpful, as he had always been.

Her husband believed her, and was very angry at Joseph, and put him in the prison with those who had been sent to that place for breaking the laws of the land.

She told her husband falsely that Joseph had done a wicked deed. For some years Joseph continued in the house of Potiphar, a slave in name, but in reality the master of all his affairs, and ruler over his fellow-servants.Д«ut Potiphar's wife, who at first was very friendly to Joseph, afterward became his enemy, because Joseph would not do wrong to please her. Joseph was a beautiful boy, and cheerful and willing in his spirit, and able in all that he undertook so that his master, Potiphar, became very friendly to him, and after a time he placed Joseph in charge of his house, and everything in it. The Ishmaelites sold Joseph as a slave to a man named Potiphar, who was an officer in the army of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. How strange it must have seemed to the boy who had lived in tents, to see the great river Nile, and the cities, thronged with people, and the temples, and the mighty pyramids! These men carried Joseph southward over the plain which lies beside the great sea on the west of Canaan and after many days they brought Joseph to Egypt. The men who bought Joseph from his brothers were called Ishmaelites, because they belonged to the family of Ishmael, who, you remember, was the son of Hagar, the servant of Sarah.

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