then decide as seemeth wise in thy sight."

Pharaoh yielded, he promised to do as they wished, and
he appointed the following day as the time for examining
Joseph, who had returned to his prison in the meantime,
for, on account of his wife, his master feared to have him
stay in his house. During the night Gabriel appeared unto
Joseph, and taught him all the seventy languages, and he
acquired them quickly after the angel had changed his name
from Joseph to Jehoseph. The next morning, when he came
into the presence of Pharaoh and the nobles of the kingdom,
inasmuch as he knew every one of the seventy languages,
he mounted all the steps of the royal throne, until he reached
the seventieth, the highest, upon which sat the king, and
Pharaoh and his princes rejoiced that Joseph fulfilled all the

 
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