Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God ¹  appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees ¹  and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, ¹  a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches ²  climb over the wall.

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. ¹  He wept over him and kissed him.

Joseph instructed the physicians in his service ¹  to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

So they sent word ¹  to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave these instructions before he died:

But Joseph answered them, “Don’t be afraid. Am ¹  I in the place of God?

All the people ¹  who were directly descended ²  from Jacob numbered seventy. ³  But Joseph was already in Egypt, ⁴ 

They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.

You delivered ¹  your people by your strength ²  – the children of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah)

He sent a man ahead of them ¹  – Joseph was sold as a servant.

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom ¹  Jesus was born, who is called Christ. ² 

After Herod ¹  had died, an ²  angel of the Lord ³  appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

Now ¹  when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. ² 

to a virgin engaged ¹  to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, ²  and the virgin’s name was Mary.

So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger. ¹ 

Now ¹  there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council, ²  a good and righteous man.

So they ¹  proposed two candidates: ²  Joseph called Barsabbas (also called Justus) and Matthias.

The ¹  patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold ²  him into Egypt. But ³  God was with him,

until another king who did not know about ¹  Joseph ruled ²  over Egypt. ³