Joseph and Asenath 22

1And, when the seven years of plenty had passed, the seven years of famine began to come.

2And, when Jacob heard about Joseph his son, he came into Egypt with all his kindred in the second year of the famine, in the second month, on the twenty-first of the month, and settled in Geshem.

3And Asenath said to Joseph: "I will go and see thy father, for that thy father Israel is as my father and God."

4And Joseph said to her: "Thou shalt go with me and see my father."

5And Joseph and Asenath came to Jacob in the land of Geshem, and Joseph's brethren met them and made obeisance to them upon their faces on the earth.

6Then both went in to Jacob; and Jacob was sitting upon his bed, and he himself was an old man in a lusty old age.

7And, when Asenath saw him, she marvelled at his beauty, for that Jacob was beautiful to behold exceedingly and his old age as the youth of a comely man, and all his head was white like snow, and the hairs of his head were all close and thick exceedingly, and his beard white reaching to his breast, his eyes cheerful and glistering, his sinews and his shoulders and his arms as of an angel, his thighs and his calves and his feet as of a giant.

8Then Asenath, when she saw him thus, marvelled and fell down and made obeisance on her face upon the earth.

9And Jacob said to Joseph: "Is this my daughter-in-law, thy wife?

10Blessed shall she be of God Most High."

11Then Jacob called Asenath to himself and blessed her and kissed her tenderly; and Asenath stretched out her hands and took hold of Jacob's neck and hung on to his neck and kissed him tenderly.

12And after these things they ate and drank.