Not all history is written on scrolls. Some is carried in hands, in kitchens, in whispers that pass from mothers to daughters.

Asenath records in the new library — a private archive Joseph has built with her and Dinah — preserving Egypt’s famine years and the Hebrew contribution that saved a nation. Her visit to her family stirs old anxieties and new pride as her father, once high priest of On, finally acknowledges her gift as a scribe. She writes not only ledgers, but memory itself.

Meanwhile, Dinah teaches her daughters the art of breadmaking, each fold a prayer and a remembrance of Leah. Her kitchen becomes a sanctuary where faith and memory are preserved beyond stone walls and parchment. “One fold for where we are, one for where we came from, and one for where we are going.”

But while women preserve memory in home and library, shadows lengthen in the temple of Amun. High Priest Nera leads a circle of six priests in a dark incantation, binding Joseph’s steps with curses and oaths. With amulets pulsing and obsidian knives glinting, they swear that if Joseph returns unharmed, they will try again — until his name becomes dust.

This chapter is a striking contrast: the women of faith preserving life, the priests of Amun summoning death. Memory against magic. Bread and scrolls against knives and shadow.

📖 Narrated by M MacIntosh

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