CHAP. XLVIII. 6. The land of Egypt is before thee: in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. 7. ↑ And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. 10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, t, in in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharoah had com manded. 12. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 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. 17. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. 18. When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my 47 19. Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20. And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians soldevery man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. 21. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22. Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their lands. 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. 25. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 26. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's. 27. 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, I will do as thou hast said. 31. And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. CHAP. XLVIII. thers Abraham and Isaac; and grow into a multitude in the mid earth. 17. And when Joseph saw that laid his right hand upon the head raim, it displeased him: and he he father's hand, to remove it from E head unto Manasseh's head. 18. And Joseph said unto his fat so, my father: for this is the first-b thy right hand upon his head. 19. And his father refused, and know it, my son, I know it: he a become a people, and he also great; but truly his younger brothe greater than he, and his seed shall a multitude of nations. 20. And he blessed them that ing, In thee shall Israel bless, sayi make thee as Ephraim, and as M And he set Ephraim before Manas 21. And Israel said unto Joseph, I die; but God shall be with you, a you again unto the land of your fat 22. Moreover, I have given to portion above thy brethren, which I of the hand of the Amorite with m and with my bow. ND Jacob called unto his s A said, Gather yourselves toget I may tell you that which shall be in the last days. 2. Gather yourselves together, a ye sons of Jacob; and hearken un your father. 3. Reuben, thou art my first-k might, and the beginning of my strei excellency of dignity, and the ex of power. 4. Unstable as water, thou shalt no because thou wentest up to thy fathe then defiledst thou it: he went up to m 5. Simeon and Levi are brethrer ments of cruelty are in their habitat 6. O my soul, come not thou into cret ; unto their assembly, mine hon not thou united: for in their ang slew a man, and in their self-will t ged down a wall. 7. Cursed be their anger, for it was and their wrath, for it was cruel: I CHAP. L. 9. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, || my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up ? 10. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be: 11. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12. His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships: and his border shall be unto Zidon. 14. 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 fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 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 him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb : 26. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of thy progenitors, unto the utmost bound of the everlasting 49 rael: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 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; 30. In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. 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. 1. A ND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3. And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed;) and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. 4. And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5. My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now, therefore, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6. And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 7. And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8. And all the house of Joseph, and his and his fathenla bouge: only thin 1 of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and there || trespass of the servants of the G they mourned with a great and very sore father. And Joseph wept when t lamentation: and he made a mourning for unto him. his father seven days. 11. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizrain, which is beyond Jordan. 12. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 13. For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14. And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 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 brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the The SECOND Book of 22 Pharaoh commandeth the male children to be cast into Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4. Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty: and the land was filled with them. 8. Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 18. And his brethren also wer down before his face; and they hold, we be thy servants. 19. And Joseph said unto th not; for am I in the place of God 20. But as for you, ye thought ev me; but God meant it unto good, to pass, as it is this day, to save n ple alive. 21. Now, therefore, fear ye no nourish you, and your little ones. comforted them, and spake kindly u 22. And Joseph dwelt in Egyp his father's house: and Joseph live dred and ten years. 23. And Joseph saw Ephraim's of the third generation: the childre Machir, the son of Manasseh, wer up upon Joseph's knees. 24. And Joseph said unto his I die: and God will surely visit bring you out of this land unto which he sware to Abraham, to Is to Jacob. 25. And Joseph took an oath of dren of Israel, saying, God will su you, and ye shall carry up my bo hence. 26. So Joseph died, being a hun ten years old: and they embalmed he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Moses, called EXODUS. 10. Come on, let us deal wisely w lest they multiply, and it come to p when there falleth out any war, t also unto our enemies, and fight ag and so get them up out of the land 11. Therefore they did set over th masters to afflict them with their And they built for Pharaoh treasu Pithom and Raamses. 12. But the more they afflicted t more they multiplied and grew. A were grieved because of the children c 13. And the Egyptians made the of Israel to serve with rigour: 14. And they made their lives bit hard bondage, in mortar, and in br in all manner of service in the fi their service, wherein they made the was with rigour. 15. And the king of Egypt spak Hebrew midwives; (of which the r |