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CHAP. XLV.

Makes himself known.

eity, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto Bring him down unto me, that I may set
his steward, Up, follow after the men; and mine eyes upon him.
when thou dost overtake them, say unto 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad
them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil cannot leave his father: for if he should
for good?
leave his father, his father would die.

5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

67 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.

7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:

23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

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

25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

26 And we said, We cannot go down: 8 Behold, the money which we found in if our youngest brother be with us, then our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto will we go down; for we may not see the thee out of the land of Canaan: how then man's face, except our youngest brother should we steal out of thy lord's house sil- be with us.

ver or gold?

27 And thy servant my father said unto

9 With whomsoever of thy servants it us, Ye know that my wife bare me two be found, both let him die, and we also sons: will be my lord's bond-men.

10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since :

29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

30 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.

14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, (for he was yet there :) 32 For thy servant became surety for and they fell before him on the ground. the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring ring 15 And Joseph said unto them, What him not unto thee, then I shall bear the deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not blame to my father for ever. that such a man as I can certainly divine? 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy 16 And Judah said, What shall we say servant abide instead of the lad a bondunto my lord? what shall we speak? or man to my lord; and let the lad go up how shall we clear ourselves? God hath with his brethren. found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. venture I see the evil that shall come on

34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perad

17 And he said, God forbid that I should my father.

do so: but the man in whose hard the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

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CHAP. XLV.

CHEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out 18 Then Judah came near unto him, from me and there stood no man with and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray him, while Joseph made himself known thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and unto his brethren. let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And

20 And we said unto my lord, We have his brethren could not answer him; for

a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one: and his brother is dead, a and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

they were troubled at his presence.

4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you and they came near. And he said, I am Joseph

21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

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Joseph sends for his father.

GENESIS.

Jacob goes into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor gave three hundred pieces of silver, and angry with yourselves, that ye sold me five changes of raiment. hither: for God did send me before you to 23 And to his father he sent after this preserve life. manner; ten asses laden with the good

6 For these two years hath the famine things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden been in the land: and yet there are five with corn and bread and meat for his fayears, in the which there shall neither be ther by the way.

earing nor harvest.

25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Ja

24 So he sent his brethren away, and 7 And God sent me before you, to pre- they departed: and he said unto them, serve you a posterity in the earth, and to See that ye fall not out by the way. foll save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a fa- cob their father, ther to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. alive, and he is governor over all the

9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart faintsay unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, ed, for he believed them not. God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come 27 And they told him all the words of down unto me, tarry not: Joseph, which he had said unto them: and

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of when he saw the wagons which Joseph had

Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast :

11 And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine;) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast come to poverty.

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 bring down my father hither.

14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck..

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.

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CHAP. XLVI.

ND Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob! and he said, Here am I.

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3 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:

15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine and wept upon them: and after that his eyes. brethren talked with him.

5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba:

16 And the fame thereof was heard in and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren father, and their little ones, and their are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had and his servants.

sent to carry him.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say 6 And they took their cattle, and their unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your goods which they had gotten in the land beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Ca- of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob,

naan;

and all his seed with him;

18 And take your father, and your house- 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, holds, and come unto me and I will give his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye allhis seed brought he with him into Egypt. shall eat the fat of the land.

8 And these are the names of the chil

19 Now thou art commanded, this do dren of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jaye; take you wagons out of the land of cob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstEgypt for your little ones, and for your born. wives, and bring your father, and come. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, 20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he

and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10 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,
Kohath, and Merari.
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And the sons of Judah; Er, and Joseph goes to meet Jacob.

CHAP. XLVII. Jacob confers with Pharaoh.

Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Za- were in the land of Canaan, are come unto
rah: but Er and Onan died in the land of me:
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were
Hezron, and Hamul.

13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

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 occupation?

15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his trade hath been about cattle from our youth sons and his daughters were thirty and three. even until now, both we, and also our fa16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and thers: that ye may dwell in the land of Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomi

and Areli.

17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

nation unto the Egyptians.
CHAP. XLVII.

HEN Joseph came

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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

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. of Goshen. 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife;

Joseph, and Benjamin.

2 And he took some of his brethren,
even five men, and presented them unto
Phah.

20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt
were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren,
Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest What is your occupation? And they said
of On bare unto him.
unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds,

21 And the sons of Benjamin were both we, and also our fathers.
Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh,
Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and For to sojourn in the land are we come:
Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.

for thy servants have no pasture for their
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, say-
ing, Thy father and thy brethren are come

unto thee:

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 brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen
let them dwell; and if thou knowest any
26 All the souls that came with Jacob men of activity among them, then make

were seven.

into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and

them rulers over my cattle.

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his fa-
ther, and set him before Pharaoh: and
Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

27 And the sons of Joseph which were
born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How
souls of the house of Jacob, which came

old art thou?

into Egypt, were threescore and ten. 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The

28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen;

days of the years of my pilgrimage are a
hundred and thirty years: few and evil

and they came into the land of Goshen. have the days of the years of my life been,
29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and have not attained unto the days of the
and went up to meet Israel his father to years of the life of my fathers in the days
Goshen; and presented himself unto him: of their pilgrimage.
and he fell on his neck, and wept on his 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and
neck a good while.

went out from before Pharaoh.

30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now 11 And Joseph placed his father and let me die, since I have seen thy face, be- his brethren, and gave them a possession cause thou art yet alive. in the land of Egypt, in the best of the 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh and unto his father's house, I will go up, had commanded. and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My 12 And Joseph nourished his father, brethren, and my father's house, whichland his brethren, and all his father's

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Joseph's dealing in the famine.

GENESIS.

He visits las sick father.

household, with bread according to their land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh families. should have the fifth part; except the land 13 And there was no bread in all the of the priests only, which became not Phaland; for the famine was very sore, so that raoh's. the land of Egypt, and all the land of Ca- 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of naan, fainted by reason of the famine. Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they

14 And Joseph gathered up all the mo-had possessions therein, and grew, and ney that was found in the land of Egypt, multiplied exceedingly. and in the land of Canaan, for the corn 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt which they bought: and Joseph brought seventeen years: so the whole age of Jathe money into Pharaoh's house.

cob was a hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph,

15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, and said unto him, If now I have found Give us bread: for why should we die in grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy thy presence? for the money faileth. hand under my thigh, and deal kindly 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and truly with me; bury me not, I pray and I will give you for your cattle, if mo- thee, in Egypt:

ney fail.

30 But I will lie with my fathers, and 17 And they brought their cattle unto thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in me in their burying-place. And he said, exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and I will do as thou hast said. for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; 31 And he said, Swear unto me: and and he fed them with bread, for all their he sware unto him. And Israel bowed

cattle, for that year.

himself upon the bed's head.
CHAP. XLVIII.

18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said AND it came to pass after these things, unto him, We will not hide it from my that one told Joseph, Behold, lord, how that our money is spent; my father is sick: and he took with him his lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. not aught left in the sight of my lord, but 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Be

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.

hold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

3 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

20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold I will make of thee a multitude of people; every man his field, because the famine and will give this land to thy seed after prevailed over them: so the land became thee, for an everlasting possession. Pharaoh's.

5 And now, thy two sons, Ephraim

21 And as for the people, he removed and Manasseh, which were born unto thee them to cities from one end of the borders in the land of Egypt, before I came unto of Egypt even to the other end thereof. thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben

22 Only the land of the priests bought and Simeon, they shall be mine. he not; for the priests had a portion as- 6 And thy issue, which thou begettest signed them of Pharaoh, and did eat their after them, shall be thine, and shall be portion which Pharaoh gave them; where- called after the name of their brethren in fore they sold not their lands.

their inheritance.

23 Then Joseph said unto the people, 7 And as for me, when I came from Behold, I have bought you this day and Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for Canaan, in the way, when yet there was 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 will be Pharaoh's servants.

26 And Joseph made it a law over the

but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of 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 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

Jacob blesses Joseph's sons:

CHAP. XLIX.

He blesses his own sons. brought them near unto him; and he kiss-❘ 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not exed them, and embraced them. cel; because thou wentest up to thy fa11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had ther's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went not thought to see thy face: and lo, God up to my couch. hath shewed me also thy seed.

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; in

12 And Joseph brought them out from struments of cruelty are in their habitabetween his knees, and he bowed himself, tions. with his face to the earth.

6 O my soul, come not thou into their 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, be not thou united! for in their anger they and Manasseh in his left hand toward Is- slew a man, and in their self-will they rael's right hand, and brought them near digged down a wall.

unto him.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was

14 And Israel stretched out his right fierce and their wrath, for it was cruel : hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter who was the younger, and his left hand them in Israel.

upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy breth-
wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. ren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the
15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, neck of thine enemies; thy father's chil-
God, before whom my fathers Abraham dren shall bow down before thee.
and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the
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.

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?

10 The sceptre shall not depart from
Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his
feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him
shall the gathering of the people be.

17 And when Joseph saw that his fa- 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and ther laid his right hand upon the head of his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held washed his garments in wine, and his up his father's hand, to remove it from clothes in the blood of grapes:

Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not his teeth white with milk.
so, my father: for this is the first-born; 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven
put thy right band upon his head.
of the sea; and he shall be for a haven
19 And his father refused, and said, I of ships; and his border shall be unto
know it, my son, I know it: he also shall
become a people, and he also shall be
great: but truly his younger brother shall
be greater than he, and his seed shall be- 15 And he saw that rest was good, and
come a multitude of nations.

20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set 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. 22 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.

CHẤP XLIX.

Zidon.

14 Issachar is a strong ass, couching
down between two burdens:

the land that it was pleasant; and bowed
his shoulder to bear, and became a servant
unto tribute.

16 Dan shall 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 horseheels, so that his 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

AND Jacob called unto his sons, and fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

3. Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall:

23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob:

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