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 2the 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. °1And' 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

Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9 Haste 'ye', 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 'ye! 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.

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 your 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 victual for his

4 Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping.

5 Or, to be a great \company that escapel

XLV. 5 therefore; 6 earing; 7 pos

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 'ruler1 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 6 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, 9 Jacob's firstborn. And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Pallu, and 10 Hezron, and Carmi. And the sons of Simeon; 1Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. 11 And the sons of Levi; 4Gershon, Ko12 hath, and Merari. And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah,

1 In Num. xxvi. 12, 1 Chr. iv. 24, Nemuel.

In 1 Chr. iv. 24, Jarib. [Zerah. 3 In Num. xxvi. 13, 1 Chr. iv. 24, In 1 Chr. vi. 16, Gershom.

In Chr. vii. 1, Puah, Jashub. See Num. xxvi. 23, 24

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 Puvah', and 'lob', 14 and Shimron. And the sons of Zebulun; 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 the 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 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,

11 In Num. xxvi. 39, Hupham. 12 In Num. xxvi. 42, Shuham. 13 In 1 Chr. vii. 13, Fahsiel.

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came

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 'servants 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.

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

1 Or, men of activity 2 Or, Isojournings

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, land' that the land be not desolate. 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the

Heb. cattle of the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds.

5 Heb. led them as a shepherd.

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 'from 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 lingatherings', that 'yel shall give la' 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 ser(26 vants. And Joseph made it a 'stat

ute 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,

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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. 29 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: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. 481 And it came to pass after these things, that one Isaid 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

1 According to Samar., Sept. and Vulg., he made bondmen of them, from &c.

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 'Paddan', 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

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.

Assemble yourselves, and hear,
sons of Jacob;

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And hearken unto Israel your father.

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His eyes shall be red with wine,
And his teeth white with milk.

Zebulun shall dwell at the 18haven

of the sea:

And he shall be for lan1 18haven of

ships;

And his border shall be 14 upon

Zidon.

Issachar is a strong ass,

Couching down between 'the sheep

folds1:

And he saw 15la resting place that lit' was good,

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

bear,

And became a servant under taskwork'.

Shiloh,