Now Joseph was a carpenter, and used to make nothing else of wood but ox-yokes, and ploughs, and implements of husbandry, and wooden beds.
2And it came to pass that a certain young man ordered him to make for him a couch six cubits long.
3And Joseph commanded his servant to cut the wood with an iron saw, according to the measure which he had sent.
4But he did not keep to the prescribed measure, but made one piece of wood shorter than the other.
5And Joseph was in perplexity, and began to consider what he was to do about this.
6And when Jesus saw him in this state of cogitation, seeing that it was a matter of impossibility to him, He addresses him with words of comfort, saying: Come, let us take hold of the ends of the pieces of wood, and let us put them together, end to end, and let us fit them exactly to each other, and draw to us, for we shall be able to make them equal.
7Then Joseph did what he was bid, for he knew that He could do whatever He wished.
8And Joseph took hold of the ends of the pieces of wood, and brought them together against the wall next himself, and Jesus took hold of the other ends of the pieces of wood, and drew the shorter piece to Him, and made it of the same length as the longer one.
9And He said to Joseph: Go and work, and do what thou hast promised to do.
10And Joseph did what he had promised.