When Joseph was taken, his father Jacob lost his sight because of the tears of blood that flowed from his eyes. The name of Joseph was always on his lips. At last the Angel Gabriel went to him and said: ' If ever again you utter the word ''Joseph'' I will strike your name from the roll of prophets and messengers.' When Jacob received this message from God the name of Joseph was lifted from his tongue, but he did not cease to repeat it in his heart. One night he saw Joseph in a dream, and would have called to him, but remembering God's command, he beat his breast and heaved a sad sigh from his immaculate heart. Then Gabriel came: ' God says that although you have not pronounced the name "Joseph" with your tongue, you have heaved a sigh, and thus destroyed all the effect of your repentance.'

And Israel said unto Joseph : " Now let me die since I have seen thee, and now may the Lord God of Israel be blessed, the God of Abraham and the God o...

And Joseph went to meet his father Jacob, to the land of Goshen, and he fell on his father's neck and wept.

Joseph is not and Simeon also is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. On me hath your wickedness come." x

And he said unto him : " Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing." And he said : " Now I know why his name is named Jacob : beho...

And Joseph and his brothers ate bread before their father and drank wine, and Jacob rejoiced with exceeding great joy because he saw Joseph eating wit...

.... And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.

And he mourned for Joseph one year, and did not cease, for he said " Let me go down to the grave mourning for my son." *

And the Lord appeared to him by night and blessed him and said unto him : ' " Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall they name thy name....

And he mourned all that night, for they had brought it to him in the evening, and he became feverish with mourning for his death, and he said : " An e...

They said, Is not this Joseph's son? And Jesus said,

And there was no Satan nor any evil all the days of the life of Joseph which he lived after his father Jacob, for all the Egyptians honoured the child...

¶When Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go...

When the wise men were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, take the child and his mother, and flee...

" And they said unto him : " It is he." And he said : " The Lord be gracious to thee, my son ! "

And he placed two fingers of Jacob on his eyes, and he blessed the God of gods, and he covered his face and stretched out his feet and slept the sleep...

And the Lord gave Joseph favour and mercy in the eyes of Pharaoh, and Pharaoh said unto his servants : " We shall not find such a wise and discreet ma...

And do thou, my son, Jacob, draw near and kiss me."

And the sons of Jacob slaughtered a kid, and dipped the coat of Joseph in the blood, and sent (it) to Jacob their father on the tenth of the seventh m...

And he blessed Jacob and said : " My son, over whom with all my heart and my affection I rejoice, may Thy grace and Thy mercy be lift up x upon him an...

And Jacob went in to Isaac his father, to the chamber where he lay, and his two sons were with him, and he took the hand of his father, and stooping d...