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shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to 1the grave. 431 And the famine was sore in the 2 land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy 3 us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your 4 brother be with you. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go 5 down and buy thee food: "but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your 6 brother be with you. "And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had (7 yet a brother? And they said, The

man asked straitly concerning ourselves', and 'concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any wisel know that he would say, Bring your brother down? 8 And Judah said unto Israel his

father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and 9 also our little ones. "I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then 10) let me bear the blame for ever: °for

except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time. (11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it be so now, do this; take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, 'spicery and myrrh, nuts, and (12 almonds and take double money in your hand; and the money that was Ireturned' in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand; peradven13 ture it was an oversight: take also your brother, and arise, go again unto 14 the man and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

1 Heb. Sheol. See ch. xxxvii. 35. Heb. I shall have sinned against thee for ever.

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And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood 16 before Joseph. And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the 'steward' of his house, Bring 'the' men into the house', and slay, and make ready; for the men shall dine 17 with me at noon. "And the man did

as Joseph bade; and the man brought 18 the men into Joseph's house. And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bond19 men, and our asses. And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they 'spake unto him at the door 20 of the house, and said, Oh 'my lord',

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we came indeed down at the first time 21 to buy food: and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging place', that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight and we have brought it again 22 in our hand. And other money have we brought down in our 'hand' to buy food: we know not who put our mon23 ey in our sacks. And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon 24 out unto them. And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses proven25 der. And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread 26 there. And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down' themselves to him to 27 the earth. And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? 28 Is he yet alive? And they said", Thy servant our father is 'well', he is yet alive. And they bowed 'the head', 29) and made obeisance. And he liftedi up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his

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VERSION OF 1611. -XLIII. 7 (us).. of our state. . of.. certainly; 10 this; 11 (must)..best.. in.. spices; 12 brought again.. (it); 14 send away; 16 ruler.. these.. home.. these 19 communed with; 20 sir; 21 inn; 22 hands. . cannot tell; 28 answered.. in good health. . down their heads; 29 lift.

brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. "And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 31 And he washed his face, and 'camel out; and he refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one 'with' another. And 1he took and sent messes unto them from before him but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank', and were merry with him.

441 And he commanded the steward of

his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his 2 sack's mouth. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that 3 Joseph had spoken. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent 4 away, they and their asses. ° And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have 5) ye rewarded evil for good? Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have (6 done evil in so doing. And he over

took them, and he spake unto them 7) these words. "And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh' my lord such words as these? God forbid that thy servants should do 'such a $ thing. Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver (9 or gold? With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. 10 And he said, Now also let it be

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according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my 'bondman; and ye shall be blameless. 11 Then they hasted, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and 12 opened every man his sack. And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was 13 found in Benjamin's sack. Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to 14 the city. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; 'and' he was yet there and they fell before him on 15 the ground. And Joseph said unto

them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man 16 as I can indeed' divine? And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's bondmen', both we, and he also in whose hand' the cup is (17 found. And he said, God forbid that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

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Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even 19 as Pharaoh. °My lord asked his ser

vants, saying, Have ye a father, or a 20 brother? And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father lov21 eth him. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father 23 would die. And thou saidst unto

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brother come down with you, u, ye shall 24 see my face no more. And it came

to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the (25 words of my lord. And our father

said, Go again, buy us a little food. 26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our 27 youngest brother be with us. And

VERSION OF 1611.- younger; 31 went; 33 at; 34 drunk. ing to this: 9 (both); 10 servant; 11 speedily; 14 for; 15 whom; 17 (but).. servant; and; 25 (and). = [22]

2 Heb. drank largely.

XLIV. 6 (same); 7 saith.. accordwot. . certainly; 16 servants. . with

thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two 28 sons and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; 29) and I have' not 'seen' him since: and if ye take this one' also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to 30 the grave. Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; 31 it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32) °For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever. 33) Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up (34 with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

451 Then Joseph could not refrain him

self before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself 2 known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud and the Egyptians heard', and the house of Pharaoh 3 heard.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled 4 at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your broth5 er, whom ye sold into Egypt. And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to 6) preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in the which there shall be neither plowing nor 7 harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant' in the earth, and to save you alive by (8 a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to

1 Heb. evil.

2 Heb. Sheol. See ch. xxxvii. 35.

3 Or, his soul\ is \knit with the lad's Isoul See 1 Sam. xviii. 1.

Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler lover all the land of Egypt. 9 Haste 'yel, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: 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 11) thy herds, and all that thou hast: and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou', and thy household, and all that thou hast. 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 'yeꞌ have seen; and ye shall haste and 14 bring down my father hither. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon 15 his neck. And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

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16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased 17 Pharaoh well, and his servants. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land 18 of Canaan; and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the 19 fat of the land. Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for little ones, and for your wives, and bring 20 your father, and come. Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the 21 land of Egypt is yours. And the Isons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave 22 them provision for the way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and 23 five changes of raiment. And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and Ivictual for his

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XLV. 5 therefore; 6 earing; 7 posterity.. your lives; 8 (a).. throughout; 9 you; 13 you.. you; 15 Moreover; 21 children; 23 meat.

24 father by the way. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall 25 not out by the way. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father. 26 And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is 'ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of 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: 28 and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

461 And Israel took his journey with

all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the 2 God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And 3 he said, Here am I. 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 5 upon thine eyes. "And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his 1 seed with him: his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

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And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Pallu', and 10 Hezron, and Carmi. 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, Ko12 hath, and Merari. And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah,

and 'Perez', and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron 13 and Hamul. And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and 5Puvah', and 'lob', 14 and Shimron. And the sons of Ze

bulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in 'Paddan1-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were 16 thirty and three. And the sons of Gad; "Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and "Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and 17 Areli. And the sons of Asher; 'Imnah', and 'Ishvah', and 'Ishvi', and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Mal18 chiel. These are the sons of Zilpah, 'which' Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto 19 Jacob, even sixteen souls. The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph and 20 Benjamin. And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath daughter of Poti-phera priest of On (21 bare unto him. And the sons of Benjamin; Bela and, Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, 10 Muppim, and "Huppim, 22 and Ard. These are the sons of

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Rachel, which were born to Jacob: 23 all the souls were fourteen. And the 24 sons of Dan; 12Hushim. And the

sons of Naphtali; 18Jahzeel, and Guni, 25) and Jezer, and 14Shillem. These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob: all the souls 26 were seven. All the 15souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were three27 score and six; and the sons of Joseph, which were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

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And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to shew the way before him! unto Goshen; and they came into the 29) land of Goshen. And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him,

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and fell on his neck, and wept on his 30 neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, 'that thou art yet 31 alive. And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; 32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of 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, (34 What is your occupation? that ye shall say, Thy Iservants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is 'an abomination unto the Egyptians.

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471 Then Joseph went in' and told

Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, 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 from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them (3 unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, (4) and our fathers. And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for 'there is no pasture for thy servants' 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 6 are come unto thee: the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh : 8 and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ° And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? 9) And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The

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days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of 10 their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from 'the pre11 sence of Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh 12 had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

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And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the 14 famine. 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 Pha15 raoh's house. And when the money Iwas all spent 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 our 16 money faileth. And Joseph said,

Give your cattle; and I will give you (17 for your cattle, if money fail. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph : and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for (18) that year. And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's'; there is nought' left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, 19 and our lands: wherefore 'should' 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, and that the land be not desolate. 20 Sol Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the

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VERSION OF 1611.-30 because; 31 shew; 32 their trade hath . . to feed; 34 servants' trade hath ..about.. (also). — XLVII. 1 came; 2 some of..even; 3 (also); 4 moreover.. (For). . servants have their; 6 man of activity amongst; 8 old art thou; 10 before; 13 (all); 15 failed.. the; 17 (the cattle of); 18 (it). . lord also had our.. not ought; 19 shall; 20 And. [45]

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