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famine was sore upon them: 'and' 21 the land became Pharaoh's. And as for the people, 1he removed them to the cities from one end of the 'border of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22°Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion 'from1 Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; where23 fore they sold not their 'land'. Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh : lo, here is seed for (24 you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass 'at the 'ingatherings', that lye shall give 'a' fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, 25 and for food for your little ones. 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. And Joseph made it a 'statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's. 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they Igat them possessions! therein, and Iwere fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, werel an hundred forty and seven years. And the time drew near 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 (30 me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but

when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me

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he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. 481 And it came to pass after these things, that one 'said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and 2 Ephraim. And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee and Israel strengthened

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3 himself, and sat upon the bed. And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company! of peoples'; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlast(5) ing possession. And now thy two sons, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and 6 Simeon, shall be mine. "And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren 7 in their inheritance. And as for me, when I came from 'Paddanꞌ, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some! way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Eph8 rath (the same is Beth-lehem). And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, 9 Who are these? And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto 10 me, and I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11) And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath let me 'seel thy seed also. 12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand Itoward Israel's right hand, and 14 brought them near unto him. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was 15 the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph, and said, 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which hath fed me all my 16 life long unto this day, the angel which hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name

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be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the 17 midst of the earth. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his 19 head. 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: 'howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become 1a mul20 titude of nations. "And he blessed them that day, saying, "In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he 21 set Ephraim before Manasseh. And

Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your 22 fathers. 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.

491 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter' days.

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Unto their assembly, 'my glory', be not thou united;

For in their anger they slew a man, And in their selfwill they thoughed 10 an ox'.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;

And their wrath, for it was cruel :
I will divide them in Jacob,

And scatter them in Israel.

Judah, Ithee shall thy brethren praise:

Thy hand shall be 'on' the neck of thine enemies;

Thy father's 'sons' shall bow down before thee.

Judah is a lion's whelp;

From the prey, my son, thou art

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Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between 'the sheep

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And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to

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And became a servant under taskwork'.

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Dan shall judge his people,

As one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent in the way,
An ladder in the path,

That biteth the 'horse's' heels,

So that his rider 'falleth' backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Gad, a troop "shall 'press upon him:

But he shall 'press upon their heel'.

*Out of Asher his bread shall be fat,

And he shall yield royal dainties.

Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a 'fountain; His branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him,

And shot at him, and 'persecuted!

him :

But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made 'strong,

By the hands of the Mighty One! of Jacob,

(From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel,)

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 'coucheth beneath',

Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

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 head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of

him 10that was separate from his brethren.

Benjamin is a wolf that ravineth':

In the morning he shall devour the prey,

And at leven he shall divide the spoil.

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father

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spake unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he 29 blessed them. 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 30 field of Ephron the Hittite, 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 from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace: 31 there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried 32 Leah the field and the cave that is therein, which' was 'purchased' from (33 the children of Heth. And when Jacob made an end of charging' his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and 501 was gathered unto his people. And 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 lembalming and the Egyptians 'wept for him threescore and ten days.

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And when the days of 'weeping for him' 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, 5 saying, 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, Í pray thee, and bury my father, and I will 6 come again. And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as 7 he made thee swear. 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 8 the elders of the land of Egypt, and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of 9 Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen and 10) it was a very great company. And they

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came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they lamented' with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for 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 1mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him according 13 as he commanded them: °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 buryingplace, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

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And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after 15 he had buried his father. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, 'It may be that! Joseph will hate us, and will 'fully requite us all the evil which we did 16 unto him. And they sent a 'message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the 'transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for 'that they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the 'trans

gression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when 18 they spake unto him. And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be 19 thy servants. And Joseph said unto them, Fear not for am I in the place 20 of God? And as for you, ye 'meant' evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived 23 an hundred and ten years. °And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were 24 born upon Joseph's knees. °And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die:

but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, 25 to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from 26 hence. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED

EXODUS.

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Now these are the names of the Isons of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household 2 came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, 3 Levi, and Judah; °Issachar, Zebulun, 4 and Benjamin; Dan and Naphtali, 5 Gad and Asher. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: 'and' Joseph was 6 in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that gen7 eration. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed

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VERSION OF 1611.- 10 mourned: 15 peradventure.. certainly; 16 messenger; 17 trespass .. trespass; 20 But.. thought..unto; 23 brought up; 24 and.

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the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad1. And they were grieved because of the children of 13 Israel. And the Egyptians made

the children of Israel to serve with (14 rigour and they made their lives

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bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name 16 of the other Puah: and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a 17 daughter, then she shall live.

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the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, 18 but saved the men children alive. And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the (19 men children alive? And the mid

wives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the 'midwife come 20 unto them. And God dealt well

with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made 22 them houses. And Pharaoh charged

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all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter 2 of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid (3) him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to Iknow what would be done to him.

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5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to 'bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to 6 fetch it. And she opened it, 'and' saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the He(7 brews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her,

Go. And the maid went and called 9 the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. (10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name "Moses, and said, Because I "drew him out of the water.

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And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting an' Hebrew, one of 12 his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he 'smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And he went out the second day, 'and', behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore 14 smitest thou thy fellow? And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? 'thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely 15 the thing is known. "Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by 16 a well. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs 17 to water their father's flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped 18 them, and watered their flock. And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that 'yel are come (19 so soon to-day? And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand

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