The Holy Scripture
Chapter I
1 It came to pass in the first year of the seven years of plenty, in the second month, that Pharaoh sent out Joseph to go round the whole land of Egypt.
2 And Joseph came, in the fourth month of the first year, on the eighteenth day of the month, into the district of Heliopolis.
3 And he was collecting all the corn of that land, as the sand of the sea.
4 Now there was in that city a man, a satrap of Pharaoh; and this man was the chief of all Pharaoh's satraps and lords.
5 And he was very rich, and wise, and generous, and he was Pharaoh's counsellor, and his name was Pentephres; and he was the priest of Heliopolis (of On) 3 His daughter, Asenath, was the the fairest of all the virgins of the earth; and seemed rather to be a daughter of Israel than an Egyptian.
6 And Pentephres had a virgin daughter of about eighteen years of age, tall and beautiful and graceful, more beautiful than any other virgin in the land.
7 And she was quite unlike the daughters of the Egyptians, but in every respect like the daughters of the Hebrews.
8 And she was as tall as Sarah, and as beautiful as Rebecca, and as fair as Rachel; and this virgin's name was Aseneth.
9 And the fame of her beauty spread through all that land, even to its remotest corners; and all the sons of the lords and of the satraps and of the kings sought her hand in marriage, young men all of them.
10 And there was great rivalry between them because of her, and they began to fight among themselves because of Aseneth.
11 And Pharaoh's eldest son heard about her, and he begged his father to give her to him as his wife.
12 And he said to him, "Give me Aseneth the daughter of Pentephres the priest of Heliopolis as my wife." And his father Pharaoh said to him, "Why should you want a wife of lower station than yourself?
13 Are you not king of all the earth?
14 No! See now, the daughter of King Joakim is betrothed to you, and she is a queen and very beautiful indeed: take her as your wife."