Joseph presenteth his father Chap. xlvii and brethren to Pharaok. 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Jo-vants have no pasture for their flocks; for the seph and Benjamin. famine is sore in the land of Canaan, 20 And unto Joseph, in the land of Egypt, therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dweis were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Ase-in the land of Goshen. nath, the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On, 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, bare unto him. Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 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. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which and if thou knowest any men or activity were born to Jacob: all the souls were four-among them, then make them rulers over my teen. cattle. 23¶ And the sons of Dan; Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter; and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six. 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the sous of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. 28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen, and presented himself unto him: and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and 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 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, What is your oceupation 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 an 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, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 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 Egypthus 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. 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade 17 And they brought their cattle unto Johath been about cattle from our youth even seph: and Joseph gave them bread in crchange until now, both we and also our fathers; that for horses, and for the locks, and for the catye may dwell in the land of Goshen: for every tle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyp-them with bread for all their cattle for that tians. CHAP. XLVII. 1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 7 and his father, before Pharaoh: 11 he giveth them habitation and maintenance. THEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father, and my brethren, and their Locks, 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 Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers. 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 lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of caltie: there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands. 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 sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them so the land became 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to edjourn in the land are we come; for thy ser- Pharaoh's. Joseph visiteth his sick father. GENESIS. Jacob blesselh his sons. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt, in the way of Ephrath; the same is Betheven 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 wi'! 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. lehem. 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 this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10 (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 shewed me also thy seed. 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 toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was in the country of Goshen; and they had pos- the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's sessions therein, and grew, and multiplied ex-head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen.years: so the whole age of Jacob was an 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. And he 31 And he said, Swear unto me. sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. CHAP. XLVIII. seh was the first-born. 15 ¶ And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaae did walk, the God which fed ne all my life long unto this day, 16 The Angel which 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 midst of the earth. 17 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 first-born: put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know 1 Joseph visits his sick father. 3 Jacob repeats the promise, 21 and prophesieth their return. AND it came to pass after these things, that it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a ne told Joseph, Behold, thy father is people, and he also shall be great; but truly sick and he took with him his two sons, Ma-his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of napasseh and Ephraim. tions. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Althee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he set mighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 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. 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make 22 Moreover, I have given to thee one por of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlast-tion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and ing possession. 5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Ma-with my bow. nasseb, which were born unto thee in the land CHAP. XLIX. of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, [1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them: 3 their blessings in particular: 29 his charge concerning his burial: 33 his death. 6 And thy issue which thou begettest after AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, them, shall be thine, and shall be called after ance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in when yet there was but a little way the way, 40 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father: Jacob blesseth his sons. Chap. 1. His death. 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my [they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on might, and the beginning of my strength, the the crown of the head of him that was separate excellency of diguity, and the excellency of from his brethren. power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, thea defiledst thou if: he went up to my couch. sSimeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 60 my soul, come not thou into their se cret: unto their assembly, mine honour, be Bot thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down 7 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, thou art he whom thy brethren shail praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 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? 27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father syake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing be 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 1 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 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gather-was gathered unto his people. ing of the people be: CHAP. L. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his 1 The mourning for Jacob. 7 The funeral, ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his 24 Joseph prophesieth to his brethren their 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 ir, and became a servant unto tribute. 16 TL hall 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 horse-heels, so that bis 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. return; 26 he dieth. 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 phy sicians 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 Pha22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruit-raoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders ful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. 23 The archers have a rely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 21 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 Saepherd, 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 my progenitors, unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; of the land of Egypt, 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his bre thren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 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. 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 The children of Israel EXODUS. name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. oppressed by a new king. down before his face; and they said, Behold we be thy servants, 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to the field of Machpelah, which Abraham pass, as it is this day, to save much people 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 Aud 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 messengers unto Joseph. saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, alive. 21 Now therefore, fear ye not: I will nouAnd he comrish you, and your little ones. forted them, and spake kindly unto them. 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Idie : and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, 25 And Joseph took an oath of the chi I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee dren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the you, and ye shall carry up my bones from trespass of the servants of the God of thy hence. 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and father And Joseph wept when they spake ten years old: and they embalmed him, and unto him. 18 And his brethren also went, and fell he was put in a colin in Egypt. The Second Book of MOSES, called EXODUS. CHAP. T. 1 The children of Israel multiply: 8 they are oppressed by a new king. 15 The midwives save the males alive. NOW these are the names of the children every Jacob. phard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the of Israel, which came into Egypt: Hebrew midwives; (of which the name of one man and his household came with was Shiphrah, and the name of the other 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. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them. lest they multiply and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Puah:) 16 And he said, When ye de the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye children alive? done this thing, and have saved the men 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20 Therefore 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 them houses. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, say 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters, to afflict them with their burdens.ing, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the CHAP. II. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the 14 And they made their lives bitter with 2 Moses is born, and put into the flags: 6 he is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter: 21 his marriage. A ND there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare s Moses is found Chap. ill. in the flags. son: and, when she saw him that he was a good- | his name Gershom; for he said, I have been ly child, she hid him three months 3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch,and put the child therein; and she laid it in the dags by the viver's brink 4. And his sister stood afar of, to wit what would be done to him. 5% And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river's side: and, when she saw the ark among the flags, she, nt her maid to fetch it. a stranger in a strange land. 23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried: and their cry came up unto God, by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaar, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Is rael, and God had respect unto them. CHAP. II. 1 Moses keepeth Jethro's flock; 2 God appear eth unto him in a burning bush: 9 He sendeth him to deliver Israel. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she ha: compassion on him, and said, This is uncNOW Moses kept the Rock of Jethro his of the Hebrew's children. father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, he led the flock to the back-side of the desert, Shal I go and call to thee a nurse of the He-and came to the mountain of God, even to brew women, that she may nurse the child for thee! 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Go, And the maid went, and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and 1will anng 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 she said, Because I drew him out of the water. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian, smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and, when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see. God called unto him out of the piest of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, 13 And when he went out the second day, and have heard their cry by reason of their behold, two men of the Hebrews strove toge-task-masters; for I know their sorrows; ther: and he said to him that did the wrong, Werefore smitest thou thy fellow ? 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he Bought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's Block. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their fasher, he said, How is it that ye are come so Boon to-day? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the band of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And be said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was coutent to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daux fer. 22 And she bare him a son, and he called 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee: and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? |