The cup in Benjamins [ack.

CHAP. XLIV.
Jofephs policy to fly his brethren.

A None, cut mens

GENESIS

houfe, faying, Fill the mens facks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every mans money in his facks mouth.

2 And put my cup, the filver cup, in the facks mouth of the youngest, and his cornmoney: and he did according to the word that Jofeph had spoken.

3 Affoon as the morning was light, the men were fent away, they and their affes.

4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Jofeph faid unto his fteward, Up, follow after the men; and when chou doft overtake them, fay unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? SIs not this if, in which my lord drinketh? and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in fo doing.

69 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these fame words.

7 And they faid unto him, Wherefore faith my lord these words? God forbid that thy fervants fhould do according to this thing.

8 Behold, the money which we found in our lacks mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then fhould we fteal out of thy lords houfe filver or gold?

9 With whom foever of thy fervants it be found, both let him die, and we allo will be my lords bond-men.

10 And he faid, Now alfo let it be accord ing unto your words: he with whom it is Found fhall be my fervant; and ye shall be blameleis.

11 Then they fpeedily took down every man his fack to the ground, and opened every man his fack.

12 And he fearched, and began at the eldeft, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamins fack.

13 Then they rent their cloaths, and laded every man his afs, and returned to the city. 14 And Judah and his brethren came to Jofephs houfe (for he was yet there) and they fell before him on the ground.

15 And Jofeph faid unto them, What deed this that ye have done? wot ye not, that fuch a man as I can certainly divine?

16 And Judah faid, What thall we fay unto may lord? what shall we fpeak? or how hall we clear our felves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy fervants: behold, we are my fords fervants, both we, and be alfo with whom the cup is found.

is

17 And he faid, God forbid that I fhould do to: but the man in whofe hand the cup found, he fhall be my fervant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

189 Then Judah came near unto him, and faid, my lord, let thy fervant, I pray thee, Speak a word in my lords ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy fervant: for ahou art even as Pharaoh.

19 My lord asked his fervants, faying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

Jofeph maketh himself known s 21 And thou faidft unto thy fervants. Bring him down unto me, that I may fet

22 And we laid unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for ifthe thould leave his father, his father would die.

23 And thou faidft unto thy fervants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, you hall fee my face no more.

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

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

26 And we faid, We cannot go down: If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not fee the mans face, except our youngest brother be with us.

27 And thy fervant my father faid unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two fons.

28 And the one went out from me, and I faid, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not fince.

29 And if ye take this alfo from me, and mitchief befall him, ye fhall bring down my gray hairs with forrow to the grave.

30 Now therefore when I come to thy fervant my father, and the lad be not with us; (feeing that his life is bound up in the lads life)

31 It fhall come to país, when he feeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die : and thy fervants fhall bring down the gray hairs of thy fervant our father with forrow to the grave.

32 For thy fervant became furety for the lad unto my father, faying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy fervant abide in ftead of the lad, a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

34 For how fhall I go up to my father, and
the lad be not with me? left peradventure I
fee the evil that fhall come on my father.
CHAP. XLV.

1 Jofeph maketh bimself known to his brethren.
9 He fendeth for his father, 25 who is revi
ved at the news.

Tfer all them that stood by him; and
he cried,Caufe every man to go out from me:
and there stood no man with him, while Jo-
feph made himself known unto his brethren.

Hen Jofeph could not refrain himself be

2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the houfe of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, I am Jofeph; Doth my father yet live? and his brethren could not answer him: for they were troubled at his prefence.

4 And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you; and they came near: and he faid, I am Jofeph your brother, whom ye fold into Egypt.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with your felves, that ye fold me hither: for God did fend me before you, to pre

20 And we faid unto my lord, We have a ferve life. father; an old man, and a child of his old 6 For thefe two years bath the famine been age, a little one: and his brother is dead, in the land and yet there are five years, in and be alone is left of his mother, and his the which shere fhall neither be caring nor Father loveth him

7 And.:

Chap. xlvi.

7 And God feat me before you, to preferve you a pofterity in the earth, and to fave your lives by a great deliverance.

8 So now it was not you that fent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharach, and lord of all his houfe, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

9 Hafte you, and go up to my father, and fay unto him, Thus faith thy fon Jofeph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; Come down unto mo, carry not.

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gothen, and thou shalt be near unto me,

Chad and thy children, and thy childrens children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou haft.

11 And there will I nourish thee (for yet there are five years of famine ;) left thou, and thy houthold, and all that thou haft,

come to poverty.

12 And behold, your eyes fee, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it my mouth that speaketh unto you.

13 And you thall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have leen; and ye thall hafte, and bring down my father hither.

14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamins neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon

his neck.

15 Moreover he kiffed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that, his brethren talked with hint.

Jacob goeth into EgYPES

27 And they told him all the words of Jo
feph, which he had faid unto them and
when he faw the wagons which Jofeph had.
fent to carry him, the fpirit of Jacob their
father revived.
28 And Ifrael faid, enough: Jofepla
my fon yet alive: I will go and fee him
before I die.
CHAP. XLVI.
1 Jacob comforted by God at Beer-Sheba,
5 geeth into Egypt. 8 The number of his fa
mily. 28 Jofeph meeteth him.
he had, and came to Beer-fheba, and
And Ifrael took his journey with all that
offered facrifices unto the God of his father
Ifaac.

16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaohs houfe, faying, Jofephs brethren are come: and it pleafed Pharaoh well, and his fervants,

17 And Pharaoh faid unto Jofeph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; fade your beafts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan,

18 And take your father, and your houfolds, and come unto me and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye fhall eat the fat of the land.

19 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 your father, and come.

20 Alfo regard not your ftuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

And the children of Ifrael did fo: and Jofeph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provifion for the way.

22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of filver, and five changes of raiment.

2 And God fpake unto Ifrael in the vi fions of the night, and faid, Jacob, Jacobs And he faid, Here am I.

23 And to his father he fent after this azer; ten affes laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten the-affes laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

3 And he faid, 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.

24 So he fent his brethren away, and they departed: and he faid unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way..

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will alfo furely bring thee up again: and Jofeph fhall put his hand upon thine eyes.

And Jacob rofe up from Beer-heba: and the fons of Ifrael carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had fent to carry him.

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

26 And told him, faying, Jofeph yet alive, and he is governour over all the land of Egypt And Jacobs heart fainted, for he believed them not.

6 And they took their cattel, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his feed with him:

His fons, and his fons fens with him, his daughters, and his fons daughters, and all his feed brought he with him into Egypt.

84 And thefe are the names of the children of Ifrael, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his fons: Reuben Jacobs first-born.

9 And the fons of Reuben; Hanoch and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10 And the fons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin and Zohar, and Shaul the fon of a Canaanitifh woman.

114 And the fons of Levi; Gerthon, Ko... hath, and Merari.

12 And the fons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the fons of Pharez, were Hez ron and Hamul.

13 And the fons of Iffachar; Tola, and Phavah, and Job, and Shimron.

149 And the tons of Zebulan; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15 Thele be the fons of Leah, which the bare unto jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the fouls of his fons and his daughters were thirty and three.

16 And the fons of Gad; Ziphion, and. Haggai, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

179 And the fons of Ather; Jinnah, and Ifhua, and Ifui, and Beriah, and Serah their fifter: and the fons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

18 Thefe are the fons of zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah hi daughter: and thefe the bare unto Jacob, even fixteen fouls.

19. The fons of Rachel Jacobs wife; Jo feph, and Benjamin, 1.

Jofeph metteth his father.

GENESTS.

20 And unto Jofeph in the land of Egypt were born Manafeh and Ephraim, which Afenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

21 And the fons of Benjamin were BeJah, and Becher, and Afhbel, Gera, and Naainan, Ehi, and Roth, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

12 Thefe are the fons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the fouls were fourteen.

23 And the fons of Dan; Hufhim. 24 And the fons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

25 Thefe are the fons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and fhe bare thefe unto Jacob: all the fouls were feven.

26 All the fouls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his feyns, befides Jacobs fons wives, all the fouls were threefcore and fix;

27 And the fons of Jofeph which were born him in Egypt, were two fouls: all the fouls of the boule of Jacob which came into Egypt, were threefcore and ten.

284 And he fent Judah before him unto Jofeph, to direct his face unto Gofhen; and they came into the land of Gothen.

29 And Jofeph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Ifrael his father, to Colhen; and prefented himself unto him: and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

30 And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, Now let me die, fince I have feen thy face, becaufe thou art yet alive.

31 And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, and unto his fathers houfe, I will go up and thew Pharaoh, and fay unto him, My brethren, and my fathers houfe, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

32 And the men are thepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattel; and they have brought their flocks and their herds, and all that they have.

33 And it fhall come to pafs when Pharaoh fhall call you, and shall fay, What is your occupation?

34 That ye fhall fay, Thy fervants trade hath been about cattel, from our youth, even until now, both we and alfo our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Gothen; for every fhepherd an abomination unto the Egyptians.

CHAP. XLVIL Jofeph prefenteth five of his brethren, and his father before Pharaoh. 11 He giveth them

habitation and maintenance.

T
Hen fofeph came and told Pharaoh,
and faid, 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 Gothen.

2 And he took fome of his brethren, even five men, and prefented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh faid unto his brethren, What is your occupation? and they laid unto Pharaoh, Thy fervants are hepherds, both we and alfo our fathers.

4 They faid moreover unto Pharaoh, For to fojourn in the land are we come for thy

Jacob bleffeth Pharash fervants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is fore in the land of Canaan: now therefore we pray thee, let thy fervants dwell in the land of Gothen.

$ And Pharaoh ipake unto Jofeph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the beft of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell, in the land of Gofhen let them dwell: and if thou knoweit any man of activity amongst them, then make them rulers over my cattel.

7 And Jofephi brought in Jacob his father, and fet him before Pharaoh and Jacob bleffed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh faid unto Jacob, How old art thou?

9 And Jacob faid 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 bleffed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

11 And Jofeph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a pofleflion in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramefes,as Pharaoh had commanded.

11 And Jofeph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his fathers houfhold with bread, according to their families.

13 And there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was very fore, fo that the land of Egypt, and all the land of Canaan fainted by reafon of the famine.

14 And Jofeph 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 Jofeph brought the money into Pharaohs houfe.

15 And when money failed in the land. of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto jofeph, and faid, Give us bread: for why fhould we die in thy prefence? for the money faileth.

16 And Jofeph faid,Give your cattel; and r will give you for your cattel, if money fail.

17 And they brought their cattel unto Jofeph: and Jofeph gave them bread in exchange for hortes, and for the flocks, and for the cattel of the herds, and for the afles; and he fed them with bread, for all their cattel, for that year.

18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the fecond year, and faid unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is fpent, my lord allo hath our herds of cattel; there is not ought left in the fight of my lord, but our bodies, and cur lands.

19 Wherefore fall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be fervants unto Pharaoh: and give feed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not defolate.

20 And Jofeph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians fold eveman his field becaule the famine prevailed over them: To the land became Pharaohs.

Chap. xlviij, xlix.

21 And as for the people he removed And as for me, when I came from Padan; them to cities from one end of the borders Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, of Egypt, even to the other end thereof. in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath, the fame Beth-lehem.

Jacob calleth his fons to bless them. 3. Their as Reuben and Simeon, beffing in particular. 29 He chargeth them concerning his burial. 33 His death

6 And thy iffae which thou begettest after

them, fhall be thine, and fhall be called after ANd Jacob called unto his fons and faid,

Jacob bleffeth the tribes.

GENESIS.

Their mourning for him.

2 Gather your felves together, and hear, bleflings of the breafts, and of the womb. ye fons of Jacob; and hearken unto Ifrael 26 The bleflings of thy father, have pre your father. vailed above the bleflings of myprogenitours, unto the utmoft bound of the everlasting hills; they fhall be on the head of Jofeph, and on the crown of the head of him that was feparate from his brethren.

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

4 Unftable as water, thou fhalt not excel, because thou wenteft up to thy fathers bed: then defiledst thou if he went up to my couch.

Simeon and Levi are brethren: inftruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

60 my foul, come not thou into their fecret; unto their aflembly, mine honour, be not thou united for in their anger they flew a man, and in their felf-will they digged down a wall.

Curfed be their anger, for it was herce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will di vide them in Jacob,and scatter them in Ifrael. 8 Judah, thou art he whom the brethren fhall praife; thy hand fhall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy fathers children fhall bow down before thee.

9 Judah a lions whelp from the prey, my fon, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall roufe him up?

to The fceptre fhall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him fhall the gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his fole unto the vine, and his affes colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his cloaths in the blood of grapes.

27 Benjamin hall ravin a wolf: in the morning he thall devour the prey, and at night he hall divide the spoil.

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Ifrael: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blefed them; every one according to his bleffing, he bleed them.

29 And he charged them, and laid 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 poffeffion of a burying-place.

31 (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Ifaac and Rebekab his wife, and there I buried Leah)

32 The purchase of the field,and of the cave that is therein,w from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his fons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. СНАР. 1L.

1 The mourning for Jacob. 7 The funeral. 24 Jofeph prophefieth to his brethren their return. 26 His death.

12 His eyes fhall be red with wine, and ANd Jofeph fell upon his fathers face, and

his teeth white with milk.

139 Zebulun fhall dwell at the haven of the fea: and he shall be for an haven of fhips; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

14 Iffachar is a strong afs, couching down between two burdens.

15 And he faw that reft was good, and the land that it was pleafant; and bowed his fhoulder to bear, and became a fervant unto tribute.

16 Dan hall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Ifrael.

17 Dan fhall be a ferpent by the way, an adder in the path; that biteth the horfe heels, fo that his rider fhall fall backward.

18 I have waited for thy falvation, O LORD. 19 Gad, a troop fhall overcome him: but he thall overcome at the last.

20 ¶ Out of Afher his bread fhall be fat, and he fhall yield royal dainties.

21 Naphtalia hind let loofe: he giveth goodly words.

22 Jofeph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whofe branches run over the wall.

23 The archers have forely grieved him, and hot at him, and hated him.

24 But his bow abode in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made ftrong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: from thence the thepherd, the ftone of Ifrael. 25 Even by the God of thy father, who fhall help thee, and by the Almighty, who fhall blefs thee with the blefings of heaven above, bleflings of the deep that lieth under,

wept upon him, and kiffed him. 2 And Jofeph commanded his fervants the phyficians to embalm his father: and the phyficians embalmed Ifrael.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him (for fo are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed) and the Egyptians mourned for him threefcore and ten days.

4 And when the days of his mourning were paft, Jofeph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, faying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, fpeak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, laying,

5 My father made me fwear, faying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me, in the land of Canaan, there halt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6 And Pharaoh faid, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee fwear.

7qAnd Jofeph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the fervants of Pharaoh, the elders of his houfe, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the houfe of Jofeph and his brethren, and his fathers houfe: only their lit tle ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Gothen.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and horfemen: 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 fore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father feven days,