CHAP. XLVII.

THEN Joseph came told

GENESIS.

change for horses, and for the flocks, and for of the herds, and for the asses; and for and told Pharach, the cattle he fed them with bread for all their cattle and their flocks, and their herds, and all that that year. they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

came unto

18 When that year was ended, they unto him the second year, and said him, We will not hide it from my lord,

2 And he took some of his brethren, even how that our money is spent; my lord also five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. hath our herds of cattle: there is not ought 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, left in the sight of iny lord, but our bodies What is your occupation? And they said and our lands: anto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds,

both we, and also our fathers.

19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? boy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be

4 They said, moreover, unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, servants have no pasture for their flocks; for that we may live, and not die, that the land the faraine is sore in the land of Canaan: be not desolate.

now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants

dwell in the land of Goshen.

20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, every man his field, because the samine '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.

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: for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eut their portion sold not their lands.

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they and set him before Pharaoh and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

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

231 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.

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an bun- 24 And it shall come to pass, in the indred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own,

not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.

fo And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went

out from before Pharaoh.

111 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.

crease, that ye shall give the fifth pari unto 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 1 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money was an hundred forty and seven years. that was found in the land of Egypt, and in 29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must the land of Canaan, for the corn which they die and he called his son Josepli, and said bought: and Joseph brought the money into unto him, If now I have found grace in thy Pharaoh's house.

sight, put, 1 pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

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 30 But I will lie with my fathers; and thou

us bread: for why should we die in thy pre-
tence? for the money faileth.

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and
I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17 And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in ex-

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shalt carry ine out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. 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 himen upon the bed's head

CHAP. XLVIII.
hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head un
pass after these things, to Manasseh's head.

ND it came to

A that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not is sick and he took with him his two sons, so, my father: for this is the first-born; put Manasseh and Ephraim.

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 tru he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed 31 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Al- ly his younger brother shall be greater thar mighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make 20 And he blessed them that day, saying thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make make of thee a multitude of people; and wili thee as Ephraim, and as Manasseh. And he give this land to thy seed after thee for an set Ephraim before Manasseh.

everlasting possession.

5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Fgypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mime.

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.

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 por tion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

CHAP. XLIX.

AND Jacob caled unto his sons, and said,

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

7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Ca- days. naan in the way, when yet there was but a 2 Gather yourselves together and hear, ye little way to come unto Ephrath: and 1 bu- sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your ried her there in the way of Ephrath; the father. same is Beth-lehem.

81 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and sud, 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.

31 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. 51 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instru. ments of cruelty are in their habitations.

6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not not thou united! for in their anger they slew thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hatira man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.

shewed me also thy seed.

12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed hiinself with his face to the earth.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will di vide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 81 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of

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 thine enemies: thy father's children shall right hand, and brought them near unto him. bow down before thee.

14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, the younger, and his left hand upon Manas-he couched as a lion, and as an old lion, sch's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for who sl.all rouse him up?

Manasseh was the first-born.

15 And he 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 grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

17 And when Joseph saw that his father late his right hand upon the head of Eplirain, displeased kim: and he held up his father's

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 teeth white with milk.

131 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and ne sivall be for all ven of ships and Lis border shall be anto Z

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GENESIS.

14 Issachar is a strong ass couching physicians to embalm his father: and the down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the Jand 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 horse-heeis, so that his rider shall fall backward.

181 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.

physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed and the 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, ir, the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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 sealt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will

21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giv-come again.

eth 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:

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,

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:) they left in the land of Goshen.

25 Even by the God of thy father, who 9 And there went up with him both cha

shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who snall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb :

riots 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

26 The blessings of thy father have pre- they mourned with a great and very sore vailed above the blessings of my progenitors lamentation: and he made a mourning for unto the utinost bound of the everlasting his father seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, hills: they shall be on the head of Josepli, and on the crown of the head of him that the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the

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.

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.

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 cominanded them:

13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan. and buried him in the cave of the 29 And he charged them, and said unto field of Macipelah, which Abraham bought them, I am to be gathered unto my people: with the field, for a possession of a burying. bury me with my fathers in the cave that is place, of Epliron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, in the field of Ephron the Hittite; 30 In the cave that is in the field of Mach-and his brethren, and all that went up with pelah, which is before Mamre, in the land him to bury his father, after he had buried of Canaan, which Abraham bought with his father. the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possescion of a burying-place.

15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah will peradventure hate us, and will cer. his wife; there they buried Isaac and Re-tainly requite us all the evil which we did

kah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

32 The purchase of the field, and of the eave that is therein, was from the children of Hath.

33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his seet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, aud was gathered unto his people

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ND Joseph fell upon his father's face,
and wept upon him, and kissed him

unto him.

16 And they sent a messenger unto Jo seph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy bre thren, 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.

2 And Joseph commanded bis servants the 18 And his brethren also went an! fell

down before his face; and they said, Behold, the third generation: the children also of we be thy servants. Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; (up upon Joseph's knees. for am I in the place of God? 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I But as for you, ye thought evil against die; and God will surely visit you, and me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to bring you out of this land unto the lard pass, as it is this day, to save much people which lie sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and alive. to Jacob. 1 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nou- 25 And Joseph took an oath of the chitrish you, and your little ones. And he com- dren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit forted them, and spake kindly unto them. you, and ye shall carry up my bones from 21 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and hence. his father's house: and Joseph lived an hun- 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and dred and ten years. ten years old: and they embalmed him, and 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

The Second Book of Moses, called EXODUS.

14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in trick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the

16 And he said, When ye do the office of child for thee? a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye And the maid went and called the child's shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she mother.

EXODUS.

it for me, burned with are, and the push was not con and nurse Take this child away, And the sumed. and I will give thee thy wages. woman took the child, and nursed it.

3 And Moses said, I will now turu aside

10 And the child grew, and she brought and see this great sight, why the bush is no him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became burnt. ber son. And she called his name Moses: and 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned the said, Because I drew him out of the water. aside to see, God called uuto him out of the

11 And it came to pass in those days, midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. When Moses was grown, that he went out And he said, Here am 1.

unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whercon thou standest is holy ground.

6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. 71 And the LORD said, I have surely seen

12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he New the Egyptiau, and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, the affliction of my people which are in E Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

gypt, and have heard their cry by reason of 8 And I am come down to deliver them cat 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince their taskmasters; for I know their soITOWS and a judge over us? Intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. them up out of that land unto a good land 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

16. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?

19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And he said unto his daughters, And wnere is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

the Littites, and the Amorites, and the Pe rizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

111 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and

22 And she bare him a son, and he called shall say unto them, The God of your fathers his name Gershom; for he said, I have been hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say a stranger in a strange land.

23 11 And it came to pass in process of unto them? time, that the king of Egypt died: and the 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM enildren of Israel sighed by reason of the THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou bondage, and they cried; and their cry came say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath up unto God, by reason of the bondage.

24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

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sent me unto you.

15 And God said moreover unto Moser, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the 25 And God looked upon the children of God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this Israel, and God had respect unto them. is my name for ever, and this is my memoCHAP. III. TOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his rial unto all generations. father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel to he led the flock to the back-side of the de-gether, and say unto them, The LORD God sert, and came to the mountain of God, even of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of I saac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, say to Horeb. vited you, and seen tha ad, I will bring you up Egypt:

2 And the Angel of the LORD appeared un-ing, I have surely 17 And I nav to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a which is done to bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush

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