unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-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 here. And he said, Bring them, I pray ach. 40.25, 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 33.3. 26. Heb. 11. 21. Cp. ch. 27.4. a Cp. ch. 27.1. p ch. 27. 27. Cp. ch.37. 33 & 45. 25. r ver. 17. s ver. 19. (for mg.). teh. 17. 1 & 24. 40. unto him; Pand 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 see 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 toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 14" 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, 18 guiding his Cp. ver. 13 hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 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 life long unto this day, 16" 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 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 firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 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: how beit his younger bro2. 19, 21. ther shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become 2a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Is ch. 24. 15 31. 11, 13, Ex 2 20. e Isai. 44. 22.3 & 49.7 & 63.9. Cp. 2 Sam. P. 34.22 & 121. 7. ie Amos 9. 12. Acts 15. 17. 2.34.37. g ver. 14. z Xum. 1. 31, 25 Id And Jacob called unto 49 his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days. 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father. of my g Deut. 21. The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not have the excellency; 5 17. Cp. Ps. 78. 51 (mg.) & 105, 36 (mg.). Thy hand shall be on the neck 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; a Or, firstfruits 6 Or, Bubbling over 7 Or, have not thou 11 Or, oren gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, 4 Or, mountain slope 8 Or, compacts Heb. shechem, shoulder. 9 Or, secret 10 Or, men 26. 9. 1 Cp. Ps. 16.9 & 57. 8. m Josh. 11. 6.9. 2 Sam. 8. 4. n See Num. 3.5-13 & Josh. 13. 1-9 & 1 Chr. 4. 24-39. o ch. 2), 35. Cp. ch. 27. 29. And the land that it was plea sant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under C task work. Dan shall djudge his people, 17 Dan shall be a serpent in the 19 way, An adder in the path, 18 I have waited for thy salva- a troop shall press 20 21 22 9i Out of Asher his bread shall And he shall yield royal dain- Naphtali is a hind let loose: Joseph is 10 a fruitful bough, 23 24 But his bow abode in strength, m Job 29.20 And the arms of his hands were 25 made 12 strong, By the hands of the "Mighty Ps. 132. (18 From thence is the shep- And by the Almighty, who 2. 5. Isai. 1. 24. o Ps. 23. 1 16. q ch. 35. 3 & 50. 17. With blessings of heaven above, ch. 17.1 eth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. & 35. 11. 8 Deut. 33. 13. 28 All these are the twelve tribes 1 Or, a lawgiver 2 Or, Till he come to Shiloh, having the obedience of the peoples Or, as read by the ch. 25. 8. ych. 47. 30. z ch. 50. 13. Cp. ch. 23. 9. 16-18. b ch. 23. 19 buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; e eh... there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah: 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph fell 50 upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm Cp. 2 Chr. his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days. d ver. 29. fver. 6. 16. 14 36 Luke 23. John 19. 99, 40. 9 Cp. ver. 10 Num. 20. & Deut. 34. X & 1 Sam. $1.13 & 16.24 & Ecclus. 22.12. See ch. 53. 13. ( 2 Chr. 16. 14. Matt. 27. 4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, & Job 2, 13 & If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father Achmade me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there Isai. 22. 16. 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 brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, Seech. 45. 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 lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made Cp. ver. 3 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 2mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him according as 1 Or, bought 2 Heb. ebel. * Cp. Arts 5. 2. hisch. 49. 29, 30. he commanded them: 13 for 14 And Joseph returned r p Cp. ch. 37.7, 10. ch. 30. 2. Cp. 2 Kin. 5.7. ch. 45. 5, 7. & 47. 12. t ch. 34. 3 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, (for mg.). 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 uCp. Job 42. 16 39. Num. 2. 14, 15. children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. 24 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 ch. 15. 14 which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. For ver. 1-3, see Gen. 35. 23-26 & 46. 8-26. COMMONLY CALLED EXODUS. I Now a these are the names of I the sons 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: and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 And the children of Is rael were fruitful, and increased Acts 7.17. abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. b Gen. 46. 27. Deut. 10. 22. c Gen. 50. 26. d Deut. 26.5. Cp. Gen. 46. 3. e Cited Acts 7. 18. Ps. 103.24. Ps. 83. 8, 4. Acts 7. 19. i ch. 3. 7. b 8 Now there arose 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 1 more and mightier than we: 10 come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land. II Therefore they did set over them taskmasters ito afflict them with their burdens. Gen. 15.18. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and 'Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they 2m were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel "to serve with rigour: 14 and they made their lives 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. Deut. 26. 6. j ch. 2. 11 & 5. 4, 5 & G. 6, 7. Ps. 81. 6. Cp. 2 Chr. 16. 4. 1 Cp. ch. 12. 37 11. & Gen. 47. m Num. 22. 3 (mg. for 7-19. 23 See ch. 3. & 6.9 & Num. 20. 15 women, and see them upon the birthstool; 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 done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? 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 midwife come unto them. 20" And God dealt well r Cp. 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, saying, 'Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. I And there went "a man of ch. 6. 20. 2 the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And 1 Chr. 23. the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of 3 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 know what would be done to him. 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 fetch it. 6 And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and 3 That is, papyrus. 4 That is, bitumen. 1 Or, too many and too mighty for us 2 Or, abhorred And a Acts 7.21. Cp. Heb. 11.24. b2 Sam. 22. 17. Ps. 18. 16. Acts 7. 23. Heb. 11. 24-25. d See ch. 1. Aets 7. 25-2. 12. 14. Heb. 11.27. Gen. 24 11 call thee a nurse of the Hebrew wo- 11 And it came to pass in those I Now Moses was keeping the Cp. ch. 3. 3 flock of Jethro his father in law, out 16. 2 ch. 4. 27 & 18.5 33. 1 Kin. 19.8. a 2 Esd. 14. 3. For ver. see Acts 7. 30-35. b Isai. 63. 9. Mal. 3. 1 (ng) 2.33. a Deut. 33. 16. e Josh. 5. 15. Cp. ch. 19. Cp. 2 Esd. c ch. 19. 3. 12 5.1. ch. 4. 5. Gen. 28. 13. 1 Kin. 18. 36. Cited Matt. 22. & Mark 12. Cp. Luke 20.37. and looked on their "burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting an He- the priest of Midian: and he led brew, one of his brethren. 12 And the flock to the back of the wilderhe looked this way and that way, ness, and came to the mountain of and when he saw that there was no God, unto Horeb. 2" And the ane Acts 7. 24. man, he smote the Egyptian, and gel of the LORD appeared unto him hid him in the sand. 13 And he in a flame of fire out of the midst 2-8, went out the second day, and, be- of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove hold, the bush burned with fire, together: and he said to him that and the bush was not consumed. did the wrong, Wherefore smitest 3 And Moses said, I will turn aside thou thy fellow? 14 And he said, now, and see this great sight, why Cp. Luke Who made thee a prince and a the bush is not burnt. 4 And when judge over us? thinkest thou to kill the LORD saw that he turned aside me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? to see, God called unto him And Moses feared, and said, Surely of the midst of the bush, and said, the thing is known. 15 Now when Moses, Moses. And he said, Here Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought am I. 5 And he said, Draw not A Acts 7:29 to slay Moses. But Moses fled nigh hither: put off thy shoes from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt from off thy feet, for the place 32 in the land of Midian: and he sat whereon thou standest is holy down by i a well. 16 Now the ground. 6 Moreover he said, I am priest of Midian had seven daugh- the God of thy father, the God of Cp. 1 Kin. ters: and they came and drew Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the water, and filled the troughs to wa- God of Jacob. And Moses hid his ter their father's flock. 17 And the face; for he was afraid to look shepherds came and drove them upon God. 7 And the LORD said, away but Moses stood up and I have surely seen the affliction of helped them, and watered their my people which are in Egypt, and flock. 18 And when they came to have heard their cry by reason of Reuel their father, he said, How their taskmasters; for I know their Ch. 21 is it that ye are come so soon to-day? sorrows; 8 and I am come down 19 And they said, An Egyptian de- to deliver them out of the hand of. 24. livered us out of the hand of the the Egyptians, and to bring them shepherds, and moreover he drew up out of that land unto a good water for us, and watered the flock. land and a large, unto a land flow20 And he said unto his daughters, ing with milk and honey; unto the And where is he? why is it that ye place of "the Canaanite, and the have left the man? call him, that he Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Gen. 1.54 may eat bread. 21 And Moses was Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the content to dwell with the man: and Jebusite. 9 And now, behold, ° "the he gave Moses Zipporah his daugh- cry of the children of Israel is come 22 And she bare a son, and he unto me: moreover I have seen the 14, 22. 1 Heb. Mosheh. 2 Heb. mashah, to draw out. 3 Heb. Ger. $29.2. jch. 3. L. Gen. 24.11 & 29. 10. |