- Potiphar: And to whom are these prayers addressed to? Which gods?
- Joseph: Only one, my lord.
- Potiphar: Only one god. Must be very poor indeed.
- [crowd laughs]
- Joseph: My God provides for all my needs.
- Potiphar: He hasn't done very well for you, has he?
- [more laughter]
- Ednan: I thought you were pious, boy. Are you too good to pray to our gods?
- Joseph: No, not too good. Only... I, I only pray to the God of my fathers.
- Ednan: Well you won't find Him in Egypt.
- Joseph: I have seen the evils of rape! It is hateful to me and an abomination in the eyes of God.
- Pharaoh: The answer is obvious. Then can be no better man for this job then this man himself.
- [gestures to Joseph]
- Pharaoh: Can we find anyone endowed with a spirit of God as he is?
- Pharaoh's Wife: I think not.
- Pharaoh: Well said wife.
- Simeon: First he sets Joseph above us and now Benjamin...
- Judah: [grabs him] Then so be it! We will not tease God another time!
- Potiphar's Wife: [after Joseph is spared execution] You sent him to prison? At your pleasure? What about my honor?
- Potiphar: What honor?
- Potiphar's Wife: How dare you!
- Potiphar: I know you, wife. I know you.
- Potiphar's Wife: You don't understand. Whatever you may think of me... how could you? How could you humiliate me like that?
- Potiphar: Because one humiliation deserves another. Wife, anyone who knows Joseph also knows that if he swears by his God then he's telling the truth.
- Potiphar: You had better prostrate quickly.
- Joseph: You know I cannot.
- Pharaoh: [furious] You what?
- Joseph: Clearly the Pharaoh is greatness itself but my faith decrees that I can only kneel before God - even on pain of death.
- Pharaoh: [laughs] Come forward. Take heed, magicians. Whatever happens, I know this man won't lie to me.
- Pharaoh: Look upon my face.
- Joseph: But surely, great Pharaoh, this is forbidden.
- Pharaoh: Only to people who know I am a god. Since you hold some primitive being in higher regard, I think you can look upon me without burning up. Go on, try it.
- Joseph: What is your name?
- Benjamin: I am called Benjamin, master. How is it that the master comes to speak our tongue? Has you traveled to our lands?
- Joseph: [recoils] God be gracious to you, my son.
- [Joseph leaves and cries to himself]
- Benjamin: Was I wrong to ask the master how he came to speak our tongue?
- Ednan: The master has traveled far and wide. He knows a great deal.
- Potiphar: I'd be careful if I were you. You worship as you like in Canaan but in Egypt only Pharaoh, son of Ra, is god.
- Potiphar: Do you think you could bring some order in my home if I brought you out of the fields?
- Joseph: Out of the fields, master, I can do anything.
- Potiphar: Then out of the fields you shall be! We will see just how things flourish under your hand or perhaps, the hand of your God.
- Joseph: [screams] God! My God! Why have You forsaken me?
- Pharaoh's Wife: [whispers] He is a beautiful boy.
- Asenath: Yes, he is.
- Pharaoh's Wife: Do you know what his crime was?
- Asenath: I've heard the rumors but I don't believe them. He doesn't strike me as a fool. And everyone knows that Potiphar's wife deceives him.
- Joseph: Forgiveness is greater than vengeance; compassion more powerful than anger.
- Potiphar: As I myself have learned.
- Joseph: Your husband has entrusted me with everything in his house. The only thing I cannot touch is you!
- [pushes himself away]
- Joseph: How could I betray your husband and sin against God?
- Potiphar's Wife: The time will come.
- Joseph: Forgiveness is greater than vengeance. Compassion more powerful than anger.
- Simeon: Come to save him, have you?
- Reuben: I won't have the boy's blood on my hands.
- Judah: It's too late for that now.
- Pharaoh's Wife: Asaneth on the other hand...
- Pharaoh: Yes, let me guess. She's so taken with this foreign slave. Oh yes, nothing escape's Pharaoh's eye when it comes to a woman.
- [Paces and looks at Asaneth]
- Pharaoh: She thinks he has the answer.
- Asenath: By your own word lord, we know he does nothing against his conscience - even on pain of death. And you yourself seemed reluctant to have him hanged. There must have been a reason why you withheld your mighty hand and spared him to see another day.
- Pharaoh: [places his ring on Joseph's finger] I make you the governor of all Egypt. I place you over my house, my people, my kingdom. From this day forward no man shall life a hand or foot without your consent. Your name shall be "Zapaneth Paneah".
- [beckons to Asaneth]
- Pharaoh: And this fine woman shall be your wife.
- Joseph: What is your name?
- Asenath: I am Asenath, daughter of the high priest of On.
- Joseph: What is my name, my new name? I have forgotten it already.
- Asenath: Zapaneth Paneah.
- Joseph: Zapaneth Paneah. What does it mean?
- Asenath: The savior. Am I pleasing to you?
- Joseph: Yes, greatly.
- Reuben: Father, I cannot leave Simeon in prison. If I fail to bring Benjamin back I offer the lives of my own two sons.
- Jacob: How typical of you, Reuben. If I lose Benjamin I can begin exterminating my entire family!
- Judah: You're a very courageous girl, Tamar.
- Tamar: But not brave enough to face death.
- Judah: That won't happen. I have enough to answer for. The crime of taking your life for something I have done is more than I can bear.
- [embraces her]
- Judah: You were right and I was wrong. I should have given you to Selah. The only sin there is belongs to me.
- Judah: You will live to have your child and raise him as a mother should. Living in your own tent with respect and love.
- [kisses Tamar]
- Merchant: He's submissive, he's obedient, and he knows his place! Never opens his mouth except to pray.
- Potiphar: Is that true, boy?
- Merchant: Answer the master!
- [Joseph nods]
- Joseph: I am not a vindictive man. You can return to your father. I shall keep only Benjamin.
- All brothers: No!
- Joseph: You DARE to raise your voice to me? Men can die for less!
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