Joseph arrived in Egypt as a slave. Far from home, far from his father, without his colorful tunic. Everything he knew had been left behind. But there was something his brothers couldn't take from him: God was with Joseph.

The Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the royal guard. Potiphar was a powerful and wealthy man in Egypt. Joseph became a slave in his great house.

At first, Joseph was just another slave among many. But soon Potiphar began to notice that there was something different about that young Hebrew. Everything Joseph did prospered. It was as if God's blessing was upon him.

Potiphar saw that the Lord was with Joseph and made everything he undertook prosper in his hands. Joseph found favor in Potiphar's eyes and became his trusted servant. Potiphar made him steward of his house and entrusted him with everything he owned.

From the moment he put him in charge of his house and all his possessions, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house because of Joseph. The Lord's blessing was upon everything he possessed, both in the house and in the field.

Potiphar entrusted everything to Joseph. He worried about nothing except the food he ate. Joseph was responsible for everything - the servants, the fields, the livestock, the finances. And everything prospered under his care.

Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. In time, Potiphar's wife cast her eyes on him and said: "Lie with me."

But Joseph refused and said to his master's wife: "My master does not concern himself with anything in the house because of me. He has entrusted everything he owns to me. No one is greater than I in this house, and nothing has been forbidden to me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I commit such great wickedness and sin against God?"

Joseph knew that this would be wrong in three ways: it would betray his master's trust, it would break her marriage, and most importantly, it would be a sin against God. Even though he was a slave, Joseph chose to do what was right.

Day after day, she pressed Joseph. But he would not listen to her, refusing to lie beside her or be with her. Joseph even avoided being alone in the house when she was there.

One day, Joseph came into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were inside. She grabbed him by his garment, saying: "Lie with me!"

Joseph left his garment in her hands and fled outside. It was better to lose his garment than to sin against God. For the second time in his life, Joseph lost a tunic for doing what was right.

When she saw that Joseph had fled, leaving his garment in her hands, she was furious. A proud and powerful woman was not accustomed to being rejected. Her passion turned to hatred.

She called the household servants and said to them: "See! They brought us a Hebrew to mock us. He came to me to lie with me, but I screamed loudly. When he heard me scream, he left his garment beside me and fled outside."

She kept Joseph's garment until her husband came home. When Potiphar arrived, she told him the same lying story: "The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to mock me. But when I screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled."

Potiphar became furious when he heard his wife's words. He believed her instead of believing Joseph.

Joseph's master had him arrested and threw him into the prison where the king's prisoners were held. And Joseph remained there, in prison.

Once again Joseph had lost everything. First, his brothers sold him as a slave. Now, for doing what was right, he was in prison. It would be easy to become bitter, to question God, to give up doing good.

But Joseph did not give up. Even in prison, Joseph continued trusting in God. And God did not abandon him.

The Lord was with Joseph in prison and showed him kindness. The chief jailer granted him favor. He entrusted to Joseph all the prisoners in the prison, and everything done there was under his direction.

Some time later, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh became angry with these two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, and had them imprisoned in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was held.

The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who attended them. They remained in custody for some time.

One night, both the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the jail, had a dream, each with its own interpretation.

When Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, he noticed they were sad. He asked Pharaoh's officers who were imprisoned with him: "Why do you look so sad today?"

They answered: "We had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them."

Joseph said to them: "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me the dreams."

The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: "In my dream, there was a vine before me. On the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes. I had Pharaoh's cup in my hand. I took the grapes, pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and placed the cup in his hand."

Joseph said to him: "This is the interpretation: the three branches are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will restore you to your position, and you will place the cup in Pharaoh's hand, as you used to do when you were his cupbearer."

Then Joseph made a request to the cupbearer: "But when all goes well with you, remember me and do me the kindness of mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house. For I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in prison."

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph: "I also had a dream. There were three baskets of white bread on my head. In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them from the basket on my head."

Joseph answered: "This is the interpretation: the three baskets are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will cut off your head, hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh."

It was a terrible interpretation, but Joseph told the truth that God showed him.

On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he gave a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand. But he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Everything happened exactly as Joseph had said! God had given Joseph the gift of interpreting dreams, and his words were true.

But the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. He forgot about him completely.

Joseph remained in prison. More time passed. Days, weeks, months. Two whole years passed, and Joseph was still in prison. The cupbearer had completely forgotten about him.

But God had not forgotten Joseph. God's time was coming. The dreams that Joseph had as a young man would still be fulfilled, in a way no one could imagine.