TRANSLATIONS, &c. 275 



At the end of that time, a man came with camels and oxen to drink, 

 and seeing Joseph (who still preserved " his old little garment") a very 

 fine young man, he made a slave of him, and sold him to Pharaoh for 

 camels and gum. 



Joseph soon rose to the charge of every thing in the house, but 

 Pharaoh put him into prison from caprice, and from the apprehension that 

 he was spoiled by indulgence, though Joseph had not done any wrong. 

 He was kept there one year, with two men slaves. A person named 

 Wahd, came to look at them. One of his fellow-prisoners said, " Joseph 

 dreamed last night that a famine will come, and if the king does not take 

 care, it will destroy all, and the king will have a dangerous sickness. I 

 pray you go tell the king to take one bullock, to kill him, and to cook 

 him for the poor, then God will help him in his sickness." Wahd told 

 the king. Joseph's fellow prisoners were sent for and questioned, and 

 they confirmed the story. Joseph was then unfettered, and the king 

 said to him, " You are a stranger, you must keep my keys, all my other 

 servants being born here." The king then said to the others, " All obey 

 this man, and you will please me." Every day Joseph gave out one cup 

 of corn, and every day put a similar one into the store, in anticipation of 

 the famine about which he had dreamed, and he did this for three months. 

 Pharoah had three hundred wives. One wife " took a liking to Joseph, but 

 he refused her embraces, the king heard the noise and came, and Joseph 

 refused to explain, saying, " God has seen and knovv^s, and he is enough 

 for me." Pharoah had sent him away four days, when a councillor of 

 the king's suggested, that he should ascertain if the fragment of linen, 

 left in the woman's hand, belonged to the fore or the hinder part of 

 Joseph's shirt ; if the former, it was Joseph's attempt, if the latter, it 

 was torn by the woman when holding him unwillingly. In this manner 

 Joseph was acquitted, the keys were returned to him, and he again laid 

 up the corn. The famine arrived, and at the end of seven years there 

 was no corn left, but what was in the store. He was applied to for food, 

 and there was a plentiful supply. 



The famine lasted seven years more, and then the king died. The 

 people wanted to make Joseph king. He was sent for, and advised of 

 it by the council, but he said, " I know nothing of such aft'airs, I am 



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