Miketz

Two years later Pharaoh dreams: seven fat cows swallowed by seven gaunt ones, seven full ears of grain devoured by seven thin ones. When no magician can interpret, the cupbearer remembers Joseph, who is hurried from the dungeon. The dream is one, Joseph says: seven years of plenty, then seven of famine — and he counsels storing a fifth of the harvest under a discerning overseer. Pharaoh sets Joseph himself over all Egypt, thirty years old, with his signet ring, fine linen, and a new name; Asenath bears him Manasseh and Ephraim before the famine comes.

The famine reaches Canaan, and ten of Joseph's brothers come down to buy grain — bowing to the ground before the brother they do not recognize. Joseph speaks harshly, accuses them as spies, holds Simeon bound, and demands they return with the youngest. Their money turns up in their sacks, and dread settles over them. Jacob refuses to send Benjamin until the grain runs out and Judah pledges himself as surety.

On the second journey Joseph brings the brothers to his own house, releases Simeon, and feasts them — seating them, to their astonishment, in birth order, with Benjamin's portion five times the rest. Then he has his silver divining cup hidden in Benjamin's sack. Overtaken on the road and searched, the brothers tear their clothes and return; Judah offers them all as slaves. Joseph refuses: only the one in whose hand the cup was found stays — the rest may go up in peace to their father.