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Joseph makes himself known.

GENESIS.

Joseph sends for his father.

28 And the one went out from me, and, children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I all that thou hast :

saw him not since:

11 And there will I nourish thee, (for yet

29 And if ye take this also from me, and there are five years of famine;) lest thou, mischief befall him, ye shall bring down and thy household, and all that thou hast come to poverty.

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 my father, saying, 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 servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

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.

15 Moreover, 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.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say un

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34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradven- to thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, ture I see the evil that shall come on my and go, get you into the land of Canaan; father. 18 And take your father, and your CHAP. XLV. holds, 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.

THE
HEN Joseph could not refrain himself
before all them that stood by him;
and he cried, Cause 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 house of Pharaoh heard.

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 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I 21 ¶ And the children of Israel did so: am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And and Joseph gave them wagons, according to his brethren could not answer him; for the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave 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 your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

them provision for the way.

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

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor 23 And to his father he sent after this angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hi- manner; ten asses laden with the good ther for God did send me before you to things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden preserve life. with corn and bread and meat for his father 6 For these two years hath the famine by the way. been in the land: and yet there are five 24 So he sent his brethren away, and years, in the which there shall neither be they departed: and he said unto them, See earing nor harvest. that ye fall not out by the way.

7 And God sent me before you, to pre- 25 And they went up out of Egypt, serve you a posterity in the earth, and to and came into the land of Canaan unto Jasave your lives by a great deliverance. cob their father,

8 So now it was not you that sent me 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet hither, but God: and he hath made me a alive, and he is governor over all the land of father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he and a ruler throughout all the land of believed them not. Egypt.

27 And they told him all the words of 9 Haste ye, and go up to my father and Joseph, which he had said unto them: and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, when he saw the wagons which Joseph had God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their down unto me, tarry not: father revived:

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of 28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, my son is yet alive: I will go and see him thou, and thy children, and thy children's before I die.

Jacob goes into Egypt. CHAP. XLVI, XLVII. Joseph goes to meet Jacob.

CHAP. XLVI.
ND Israel took his journey with all

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were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which journeersheba, on Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest

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.

3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for 1 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: 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 wagons 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 Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with 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 These 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.

26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, beside Jacob's son's 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 souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, 28 And he sent Judah before him his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goall his seed brought he with him into Egypt. shen; and they came into the land of Go 8 And these are the names of the chil-shen.

dren of Israel, which came into Egypt, Ja- 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, cob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, 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.

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, 11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Ko- and unto his father's house, I will go up, hath, and Merari. and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My 12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and brethren, and my father's house, which 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.

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 Haggai, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, 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.

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?

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.

CHAP. XLVII.

THEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom that they have, are come out of the land Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and of Canaan; and behold, they are in the these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen land of Goshen.

souls.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even 19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; five men, and presented them unto PaJoseph, and Benjamin.

raoh.

20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren,

Joseph's dealing in the famine. GENESIS.

He visits his sick father. What is your occupation? And they said our herds of cattle: there is not ought left unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and both we, and also our fathers. our lands:

4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine to sojourn in the land are we come: for eyes, both we and our land? buy us and thy servants have no pasture for their flocks, our land for bread, and we and our land for the famine is sore in the land of Ca- will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us naan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy seed, that we may live, and not die, that servants dwell in the land of Goshen. the land be not desolate.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee;

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.

6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land inake thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen 21 And as for the people, he removed let them dwell; and if thou knowest any them to cities from one end of the borders men of activity among them, then make of Egypt even to the other end thereof. them rulers over my cattle.

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

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

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How they sold not their lands. old art thou?

23 Then Joseph said unto the people,

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The Behold, I have bought you this day and days of the years of my pilgrimage are your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for an hundred and thirty years: few and evil you, and ye shall sow the land. 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.

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 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.

27 ¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

14 And Joseph gathered up all the mo- 28 ¶ And Jacob lived in the land of ney that was found in the land of Egypt, Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age and in the land of Canaan, for the corn of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven which they bought: and Joseph brought years. the money into Pharaoh's house.

29 And the time drew nigh that Israel

15 And when money failed in the land must die: and he called his son Joseph, and of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all said unto him, If now I have found grace the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand unGive us bread for why should we die in der my thigh, and deal kindly and truly thy presence? for the money faileth. with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

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, will do as thou hast said.

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17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and 31 And he said, Swear unto me: and he for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; sware unto him. And Israel bowed himand he fed them with bread, for all their self upon the bed's head. cattle, for that year.

CHAP. XLVII.

18 When that year was ended, they came AND it came to pass after these things, unto him the second year, and said unto that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick and he took with him his two

nim, We will not hide it from my lord, how
hat our money is spent; my lord also hath sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Jacob blesses Joseph's sons:

CHAP. XLIX. He blesses his orm sons. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Be- 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not hold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: so, my father: for this is the first-born; put and Israel strengthened himself, and sat thy right hand upon his head. upon the bed. 19 And his father refused, and said, Ì 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God know it, my son, I know it: he also shall Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the become a people, and he also shall be great; land of Canaan, and blessed me, but truly his younger brother shall be great4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make er than he, and his seed shall become a multhee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will titude of nations.

make of thee a multitude of people; and 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, will give this land to thy seed after thee, for In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make an everlasting possession. thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he

5 And now, thy two sons, Ephraim and set Ephraim before Manasseh. Manasseh, which were born unto thee in 21 ¶ And Israel said unto Joseph, Bethe land of Egypt, before I came unto thee hold, I die; but God shall be with you, and into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and bring you again unto the land of your faSimeon, they shall be mine. thers.

6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

7 And as for me, when I came from Pa

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. CHAP. XLIX.

ND Jacob called unto his sons, and

dan, Rachel died by me in the land of Ca- A said, Gather yourselves together, that I

naan, in the way, when yet there was but a

little way to come unto Ephrath: and I bu- may tell you that which shall befall you in ried her there in the way of Ephrath, the the last days. same is Bethlehem.

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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.

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.

11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had 5 ¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren; innot thought to see thy face: and lo, God struments of cruelty are in their habitahath 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 n 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.

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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 they digged down a wall.

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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 Is

14 And Israel stretched out his right rael. hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brewho was the younger, and his left hand thren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands neck of thine enemies; thy father's chilwittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. dren shall bow down before thee.

15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, before whom my fathers Abraham and my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all he couched as a lion, and as an old lion: my life long unto this day, who shall rouse him up?

16 The Angel which redeemed me from 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Juall evil, bless the lads; and let my name be dah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, named on them, and the name of my fa- until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the thers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow gathering of the people be.

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

up his father's hand, to remove it from 12 His eyes shall be red with winc, and Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. This teeth white with milk."

The death of Jacob,

GENESIS.

The mourning for Jacob. 13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven 33 And when Jacob had made an end of of the sea; and he shall be for an haven commanding his sons, he gathered up his of ships; and his border shall be unto feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, Zidon. and was gathered unto his people. CHAP. L.

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.

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 physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an are embalmed; and the Egyptians mournadder in the path, that biteth the horse-ed for him threescore and ten days. heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 4 ¶ And when the days of his mourning 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O were past, Joseph spake unto the house of LORD! Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, 1 pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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.

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: (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:

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, pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

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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 threshing-floor 26 The blessings of thy father have pre-of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and vailed above the blessings of thy progeni- there they mourned with a great and very tors unto the utmost bound of the everlast- sore lamentation: and he made a mourning ing hills; they shall be on the head of Jo- for his father seven days. seph, and on the crown of the head of him 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, 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.

the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning 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 he commanded them:

28 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. 13 For his sons carried him into the land 29 ¶ And he charged them, and said unto of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of them, I am to be gathered unto my people: the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bury me with my fathers in the cave that is bought with the field for a possession of a in the field of Ephron the Hittite, burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before

30 In the cave that is in the field of Mamre. Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for possession of a burying-place.

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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.

14 T 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 ¶ And 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 a messenger unto Jo

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