So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, ¹  one in whom the Spirit of God is present?” ² 

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you. ¹ 

Now ¹  when the time came for their ²  purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary ³  brought Jesus ⁴  up to Jerusalem ⁵  to present him to the Lord

So ¹  when Joseph and Mary ²  had performed ³  everything according to the law of the Lord, ⁴  they returned to Galilee, to their own town ⁵  of Nazareth. ⁶ 

But ¹  when the feast was over, ²  as they were returning home, ³  the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His ⁴  parents ⁵  did not know it,

This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials. ¹ 

He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh. ¹ 

So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.” ¹ 

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

until the time when his prediction ¹  came true. The Lord’s word ²  proved him right. ³ 

The king authorized his release; ¹  the ruler of nations set him free.

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body ¹  was placed.

Then he had another dream, ¹  and told it to his brothers. “Look,” ²  he said. “I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

So Jacob ¹  said to him, “Go now and check on ²  the welfare ³  of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob ⁴  sent him from the valley of Hebron.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son ¹  of Mary ²  and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.

He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell ¹  me where they are grazing their flocks.”

He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.

but did not have marital relations ¹  with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named ²  Jesus.

Reuben continued, ¹  “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” ²  (Reuben said this ³  so he could rescue Joseph ⁴  from them ⁵  and take him back to his father.)