The Holy Scripture
Chapter VIII
1 And Aseneth's mother went up to the top storey and brought Aseneth down to Joseph; and Pentephres said to his daughter Aseneth, "Greet your brother, for he too is a virgin as you are to-day, and he detests all strange women just as you detest strange men." 27 "God keep thee," replied Asenath, "for thou art blessed of God most high." 28 And Joseph answered, "May the God of life bless thee evermore."
2 And Aseneth said to Joseph, "May you have joy, my lord, blessed as you are of God Most High"; and Joseph said to her, "May God, who has given all things life, bless you." 29 Then commanded Poti-pherah that she should kiss Joseph; but as she drew near Joseph set his hand against her breast and said-
3 And Pentephres said to Aseneth, "Come near and kiss your brother."
4 And when she came near to kiss Joseph, Joseph stretched his right hand out, and laid it against her breast, and said, 30 "It is not meet that a man who worships the living God, and eateth the bread of life and drinketh from the chalice without corruption, should embrace the strange womman, who bows down before deaf and dumb idols; who serves them with the kisses of her mouth; is anointed with their reprobate oil, and eats an accursed bread, and drinks unsanctified wine from their table."
5 "It is not right for a man who worships God, who with his mouth blesses the living God, and eats the blessed bread of life, and drinks the blessed cup of immortality, and is anointed with the blessed unction of incorruption, to kiss a strange woman, who with her mouth blesses dead and dumb idols, and eats of their table the bread of anguish, and drinks of their libations the cup of treachery, and is anointed with the unction of destruction
6 A man who worships God will kiss his mother and his sister that is of his own tribe and kin, and the wife that shares his couch, who with their mouths bless the living God.
7 So too it is not right for a woman who worships God to kiss a strange man, because this is an abomination in God's eyes." Chapter 3 Of the penitence of Asenath, and of the consolation of an angel; how he came from Heaven to the chanber of Asenath, and spake with her and sweetly comforted her. 1 ¶ When Asenath heard Joseph speak these words she was sore vexed, even unto tears; wherefore Joseph took pity upon her and blessed her, laying his hand upon her head.
8 And when Aseneth heard what Joseph said, she was most distressed and cried out aloud; and she fixed her gaze on Joseph, and her eyes were filled with tears.
9 And Joseph saw her and his heart went out to her -- for Joseph was tender-hearted and compassionate and feared the Lord.
10 And he lifted up his right hand above her head and said, "O Lord, the God of my father Israel, the Most High, the Mighty One, Who didst quicken all things, and didst call them from darkness into light. And from error into truth, and from death into life; Do thou, O Lord, thyself quicken and bless this virgin,
11 And renew her by thy spirit, and remould her by thy secret hand, And quicken her with thy life. And may she eat the bread of thy life, And may she drink the cup of thy blessing, She whom thou didst choose before she was begotten, And may she enter into thy rest, which thou has prepared for thine elect."