Judah's humble supplication. Before CHAP. XLV, XLVI. 25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a CHRIST little food. 1707. 37.33. 26 And we said, We cannot go down if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Chap. 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. 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto e Chap. my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 43. 9. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 34 For how-shall I go up to my father, and the lad + Heb. be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that find my father. shall + come on my father. + Heb. CHAP. XLV. 1 Joseph maketh himself known to his brethren, and comforteth them with God's past providence; he sendeth for his father by them: 16 Pharaoh is pleased. 21 Joseph furnisheth them for their journey. 25 Jacob is revived. THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before Joseph sendeth for his father. CHRIST 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and Before thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, 1706. 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. 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. 13 And 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 Moveover, 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 Pharaoh well, and his servants. +Heb wus good eyes of 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy in the brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan, 18 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 fat of the land. Pharao 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; Take you waggons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of + liebs all the land of Egypt is yours. let not your eyes 21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph spare, &c gave them waggons, according to the commandment † Heb. of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause | raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the forth his house of Pharaoh heard. pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. mouths carrying 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses + laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten + Heb... she-asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. 24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's Heb 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 waggons 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.. Jacob and his family go into Egypt. CHRIST 1706. GENESIS. Before 2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 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 will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 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 waggons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Joshua Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: Psalm 105. 23. Isaiah 52.4. b Exod. 1.1. & a 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed, brought he with him into Egypt. 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: c Numb. Reuben, Jacob's first-born. 6. 14. 26. 5. Chron. 5. 1. d Exod. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, Chron. and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son 6. 15. 4.24. c 1 Chr. of a Canaanitish woman. 11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and 6. 1, 16. Merari. f1 Chr. 2. 3. & 4. 21. 12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but & Er and Onan Chap. died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez 38. 3. h1 Chr. 7.1. 11 Chr. 7.30. k Chap. 41. 50. Or, prince. 11 Chr. 7.6. & 8. 1. 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. 15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. 16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 And the sons of Ashur; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 kAnd unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath, the daughter of Poti-pherah || priest of On, bare unto him. 21 'And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 22 There are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 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. Joseph meeteth his father, &c. 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, Before which came out of his + loins, besides Jacob's sons' CHRIST wives, all the souls were threescore and six; 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Heb. thigh. Egypt, were two souls: mall the souls of the house of Ja- m Deut. cob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. 10. 22, 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: been 32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath + H to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, men of 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? 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we and also our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen: for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. came 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 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. 4 They said moreover unto Pharach, For to sojourn in the land are we come; 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, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 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: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. cattle. 1706. + Heb. How 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set manyare him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. the days 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, + How old art thou? years of 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the thy life? years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: 11.9, 15 of the a Hebr. Before few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, Jacob's charge to Joseph, &c. CHRIST 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Before Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the 1701. fifth part; except the land of the || priests only, which life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 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 breOr, thren, and all his father's household, with bread, || +acasa little Child is cording to their families. nourish ed. 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. || Or princes. 1689. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred + Heb. forty and seven years. the days of the 13 And there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt, ❘ hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with 29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: years of + Heb. ones. 1702. 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 Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. 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 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 c Hebr. head. 11.21. CHAP. XLVIII. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 1 Joseph with his sons visiteth his sick father, who strengtheneth himself to bless them: 3 he repeateth God's promise; taketh Ephraim and Manasseh as his own; and telleth Joseph of his mother's grave: 8 he blesseth Joseph's two sons, and preferreth the younger before the elder: 21 he prophesieth their return to Canaan, &c. AND it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son 1689. 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the + Heb. asses; and he + fed them with bread for all their cattle led them. for that year. 1701. Or, 18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide | Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is not ought 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 Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22 Only the land of the || priests bought he not: princes. 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 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four | whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, 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. Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. F heavy. Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons. Before GENESIS. 12 And Joseph brought them out from between 1689. his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the d Hebr. 41. 21. + Heb. 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, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. 15 And dhe blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me 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 as fishes + grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. do increase. 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 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 become a Fulneb. multitude of nations. + Heb. do not thou excel. a Chap. 35.22. 1 Chron. 5. 1. || Or, 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.aut CHAP. XLIX. : 1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them; 3 their particular blessings; he prophesieth of Christ: 29 he chargeth them about his burial, and dieth. AND Jacob called unto his sons, and 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: 4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: || he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; || instruments my couch of cruelty are in their habitations. is gone. || Ог, their swords 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self will pons of they || digged down a wall. are wea violence. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their houghed wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. oxen. The particular blessings of Jacob's sons. CHRIST 1689. 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall Before 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? 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: 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes : 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teethwhite with milk. 413 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. Ils 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 bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. + Heb. an ar snake. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that his rowrider shall fall backward. 10181 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 words. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly daugh 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. Taleb 123 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot ters. 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; (from thence is the Shepherd, 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: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.add 29 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. Before Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, C9 for a possession of a burying-place. 1669. wept. 31 (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I 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 commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Julia chATCHAP. L. 1 The mourning for Jacob: 7 the funeral. 15 Joseph comforteth hisbrethren: 22 he seeth the third generation; 24 he prophesieth his brethren's return : 26 he dieth. Joseph comforteth his brethren. 14 And Joseph returned into Eygpt, he, and his 22. 16. brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which 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 those which are embalmed:) and the Heb. 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, 47.29. a Chap. 5a 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. 46.97. 10,22, 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, 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 thrashing-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: we did unto him. + Heb. 16 And they + sent sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, charged. Thy father did command before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 18 And his brethren also went and fell 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 me; but God meant it unto 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. d Chap. 45.5. + Heb. to their e Numb. 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's hearts. house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 1635. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of 22. 29. Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees. Heb. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and borne. God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this 11. 22. land, unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. g Exod. f Hebr. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of is. 19. 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 1635. years old: and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. The Second Book of MOSES, called EXODUS. CHAP. I. 1 The children of Israel after Joseph's death multiply greatly. 15 The godliness of the midwives. 22 Pharaoh commandeth the male-children to be cast into the river. OW these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. N 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 Ja cob were thoseph was in Egyptalready. multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth |