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Joseph sends for his father.

GENESIS.

Jacob goes into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor gave three hundred pieces of silver, and angry with yourselves, that ye sold me five changes of raiment. hither: for God did send me before you to 23 And to his father he sent after this preserve life. manner; ten asses laden with the good 6 For these two years hath the famine things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden been in the land: and yet there are five with corn and bread and meat for his fayears, in the which there shall neither be ther by the way. earing nor harvest.

24 So he sent his brethren away, and 7 And God sent me before you, to pre- they departed: and he said unto them, serve you a posterity in the earth, and to See that ye fall not out by the way. save your lives by a great deliverance. 25 ¶ And they went up out of Egypt,

8 So now it was not you that sent me and came into the land of Canaan unto Jahither, but God: and he hath made me a fa-cob their father,

ther to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. alive, and he is governor over all the 9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart faintsay unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, ed, for he believed them not. God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come 27 And they told him all the words of down unto me, tarry not: Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast :

28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and 11 And there will I nourish thee, (for see him before I die. yet there are five years of famine ;) lest

CHAP. XLVI.

thou, and thy household, and all that thou AND Israel took his journey with all be had, and came to Beer-sheba,

hast come to poverty.

12 And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen: and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither.

14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob! and he said, Here am I.

3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: 16 ¶ And the fame thereof was heard in and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren father, and their little ones, and their are come and it pleased Pharaoh well, wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had and his servants. sent to carry him.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say 6 And they took their cattle, and their unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your goods which they had gotten in the land beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Ca- of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

naan;

18 And take your father, and your house- 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, holds, and come unto me and I will give his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. shall eat the fat of the land. 8 And these are the names of the chil19 Now thou art commanded, this do dren of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jaye; take you wagons out of the land of cob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstEgypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

21 And the children of Israel did so and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment: but to Benjamin hel

born.

9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10 T And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

11 ¶ And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and

Joseph goes to meet Jacob.

CHAP. XLVII. Jacob confers with Pharaoh. Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Za-were in the land of Canaan, are come unto rah: but Er and Onan died in the land of me: Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul.

13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14

And the sons of Zebulun; Sered,

and Elon, and Jahleel.

32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, 15 These be the sons of Leah, which What is your occupation? she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his trade hath been about cattle from our youth sons and his daughters were thirty and three. even until now, both we, and also our fa16 T And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and thers: that ye may dwell in the land of Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Éri, and Arodi, Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomiand Areli. nation unto the Egyptians. CHAP. XLVII.

17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah,| and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Se-HEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, ;

Heber, and Malchiel.

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and these 'she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto

20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt Pharaoh. were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, 21 ¶ And the sons of Benjamin were both we, and also our fathers. Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.

23 ¶ And the sons of Dan; Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

were seven.

4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come : for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which 6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and the best of the land make thy father and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell; and if thou knowest any 26 All the souls that came with Jacob men of activity among them, then make into Egypt, which came out of his loins, them rulers over my cattle. besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his fawere threescore and six; ther, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

27 And the sons of Joseph which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The 28 And he sent Judah before him unto days of the years of my pilgrimage are a Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; hundred and thirty years: few and evil and they came into the land of Goshen. have the days of the years of my life been, 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and have not attained unto the days of the and went up to meet Israel his father to years of the life of my fathers in the days Goshen; and presented himself unto him: of their pilgrimage. and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now 11 ¶ And Joseph placed his father and let me die, since I have seen thy face, be- his brethren, and gave them a possession cause thou art yet alive. in the land of Egypt, in the best of the 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh and unto his father's house, I will go up, had commanded.

and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My 12 And Joseph nourished his father, brethren, and my father's house, whichland his brethren, and all his fathe

Joseph's dealing in the famine.

GENESIS.

He visits his sick father.

household, with bread according to their land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh families. should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt, and all the land of Canaan, fainted by reason of the famine.

14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

27 T And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years.

29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, will do as thou hast said.

17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and I for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; 31 And he said, Swear unto me: and and he fed them with bread, for all their he sware unto him. And Israel bowed cattle, for that year. himself upon the bed's head. CHAP. XLVIII.

ND it came to pass after these things,

came unto him the second year, and said at one told Joseph, Behold, thy 18 When that year was ended, they unto him, We will not hide it from my

lord, how that our money is spent; my father is sick and he took with him his lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

not aught left in the sight of my lord, but 2 ¶ And one told Jacob, and said, Beour bodies and our lands: hold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine and Israel strengthened himself, and sat eyes, both we and our land? buy us and upon the bed. our land for bread, and we and our land 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God will be servants unto Pharaoh : and give Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the us seed, that we may live, and not die, land of Canaan, and blessed me, that the land be not desolate. 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will

20 And Joseph bought all the land of make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold I will make of thee a multitude of people; every man his field, because the famine and will give this land to thy seed after prevailed over them: so the land became thee, for an everlasting possession. Pharaoh's. 5 And now, thy two sons, Ephraim

21 And as for the people, he removed and Manasseh, which were born unto thee them to cities from one end of the borders in the land of Egypt, before I came unto of Egypt even to the other end thereof. thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben 22 Only the land of the priests bought and Simeon, they shall be mine. he not; for the priests had a portion as- 6 And thy issue, which thou begettest signed them of Pharaoh, and did eat their after them, shall be thine, and shall be portion which Pharaoh gave them; where- called after the name of their brethren in fore they sold not their lands. their inheritance.

23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

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7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and buried her there in the way of Ephrath, the same is Bethlehem.

8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?

9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our this place. And he said, Bring them, I lives: let us find grace in the sight of my pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 10 (Now the eyes of Israel were dim 26 And Joseph made it a law over the for age, so that he could not see:) And he

Jacob blesses Joseph's sons:

CHAP. XLIX.

He blesses his own sons.

brought them near unto him; and he kiss-[ 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not exed them, and embraced them. cel; because thou wentest up to thy fa11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had ther's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went not thought to see thy face: and lo, God up to my couch.

hath shewed me also thy seed.

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren: in

12 And Joseph brought them out from struments of cruelty are in their habitabetween his knees, and he bowed himself tions.

with his face to the earth.

6 O my soul, come not thou into their

13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, be not thou united! for in their anger they and Manasseh in his left hand toward Is-slew a man, and in their self-will they rael's right hand, and brought them near digged down a wall.

unto him.

Cursed be their anger, for it was 14 And Israel stretched out his right fierce and their wrath, for it was cruel: hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter who was the younger, and his left hand them in Israel.

upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethwittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. ren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, neck of thine enemies: thy father's chilGod, before whom my fathers Abraham dren shall bow down before thee. and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped 16 The Angel which redeemed me from down, he couched as a lion, and as an old all evil, bless the lads; and let my name lion: who shall rouse him up? be named on them, and the name of my 10 The sceptre shall not depart from fathers Abraham and Isaac: and let them Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his grow into a multitude in the midst of the feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him earth. shall the gathering of the people be.

17 And when Joseph saw that his fa- 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and ther laid his right hand upon the head of his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held washed his garments in wine, and his up his father's hand, to remove it from clothes in the blood of grapes: Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not his teeth white with milk. so, my father: for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

CHAP. XLIX.

13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

14 T Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horseheels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O

LORD.

19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

20 Out of Asher his bread shall be

A said, Gather yourselves together, that

ND Jacob called unto his sons, and fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

21 T Naphtali is a hind let loose: he

I may tell you that which shall befall you giveth goodly words. in the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall:

23 The archers have sorely grieved 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my him, and shot at him, and hated him: might, and the beginning of my strength, 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the excellency of dignity, and the excel- the arms of his hands were made strong by lency of power: the hands of the mighty God of Jacob:

The mourning for Jacob.

GENESIS.

Joseph comforts his brethren. (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of father: and with him went up all the serIsrael :) vants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, 25 Even by the God of thy father, who and all the elders of the land of Egypt, shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his shall bless thee with blessings of heaven brethren, and his father's house: only above, blessings of the deep that lieth un- their little ones, and their flocks, and their der, blessings of the breasts, and of the herds, they left in the land of Goshen. womb:

26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the bead of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

27 ¶ Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, 11 And when the inhabitants of the and at night he shall divide the spoil. land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning

28 All these are the twelve tribes of in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a Israel and this is it that their father spake grievous mourning to the Egyptians: unto them, and blessed them: every one wherefore the name of it was called Abelaccording to his blessing he blessed them. mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

13 Forhis sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the 30 In the cave that is in the field of field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the with the field for a possession of a buryingland of Canaan, which Abraham bought place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, possession of a burying-place. he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

31 (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.)

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. CHAP. L.

15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, brethren, and their sin; for they did unto and wept upon him, and kissed him. thee evil: and now, we pray thee, for2 And Joseph commanded his servants give the trespass of the servants of the God the physicians to embalm his father: and of thy father. And Joseph wept when the physicians embalmed Israel. they spake unto him.

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3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; 18 And his brethren also went and fell for so are fulfilled the days of those which down before his face and they said, Beare embalmed: and the Egyptians mourn- hold, we be thy servants. ed for him threescore and ten days.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear 4 And when the days of his mourning not: for am I in the place of God? were past, Joseph spake unto the house of 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against Pharaoh saying, If now I have found grace me; but God meant it unto good, to bring in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the to pass, as it is this day, to save much peoears of Pharaoh, saying,

ple alive.

5 My father made me swear saying, 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will Lo, I die in my grave which I have dig-nourish you, and your little ones.

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ged for me in the land of Canaan, there he comforted them, and spake kindly unto shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let them. me go up, I pray thee, and bury my fa- 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, ther, and I will come again. and his father's house: and Joseph lived

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury a hundred and ten years. thy father, according as he made thee swear. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's chil7 And Joseph went up to bury his dren of the third generation: the children

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