Joseph presenteth his father Chap. xlvi and brethren to Pharaok. 191 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Jo-vants have no pasture for their flocks; for the seph and Benjamin. famine is sore in the land of Canaan, now 20 And unto Joseph, in the land of Egypt, therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dweh were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Ase- in the land of Goshen. nath, 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 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, besides Jacob's sons' 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 sous of the house of Jaenb, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. 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: 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 oceupation! 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 Egyp tians. CHAP. XLVII. 1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 7 and his father, before Pharaoh: 11 he giveth them habitation and maintenance. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unte 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. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said 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 blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph placed his father and his bretliren, 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. 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. 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 crchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. 18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands. T THEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father, and my brethren, and their Locks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, and, behold, they are in the land of Go- both we and our land? Buy us and our land sben. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 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 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What desolate. is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to prevailed over them so the land became sojourn in the land are we come; for thy ser- Pharaoh's. Joseph visiteth his sick father. GENESIS. Jacob blesseth his som 5. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there 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 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 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 wi'l 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. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen.years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him. If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with 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 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 himself upon the bed's head. A CHAP. XLVIII. in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem. 8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10 (Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.) And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath 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 in his right hand toward Israel's left hand. and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unte 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 he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaae did walk, the God which fed ine all my life long unto this day, 16 The Angel which redeemed me frons 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 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. 1 Joseph visits his sick father. 3 Jacob repeats the promise, 21 and prophesieth their return. ND it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick and he took with him his two sons, Ma-his younger brother shall be greater than he, nasseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an 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 Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 6 And thy issue which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inherit ance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way 40 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 and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover, I have given to thee one por tion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. CHAP. XLIX. 1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them: 3 their blessings in particular: 29 his charge concerning his burial: 33 his death. A ND 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: Jacob blesstth his sons. Chap. 1. His death. 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my they shall be on the head of Joseph, and one might, and the beginning of my strength, the the crown of the head of him that was separate 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. s Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 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. 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 Israel. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shail 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: i 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. 13 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. 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 er, and became a servant unto tribute. 16L hall 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-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. 19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be 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 weil, whose branches run over the wall. 23 The archers have a rely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 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 syake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said 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 Abrahain bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying place. 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. CHAP. L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 7 The funeral, 24 Joseph prophesieth to his brethren their return; 26 he dieth. A ND 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 phy sicians 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, in 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 shalt thou bury me. Now therefore, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 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. 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 they mourned with a great and very sore above, blessings of the deep that lieth un- lamentation and he made a mourning for his der, blessings of the breasts and of the father seven days. womb: 10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and there 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, 26 The blessings of thy father have pre-the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the vailed above the blessings of my progenitors, floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the The children of Israel EXODUS. name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. 13 For his sons carried brim into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 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 messengers unto Joseph. saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, oppressed by a nen king. 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 nou rish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 221 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Idie: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I pray thee now, the trespass of thy bre- 25 And Joseph took an oath of the chil thren, and their sin; for they did unto thee dren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the you, and ye shall carry up my bones from trespass of the servants of the God of thy hence. father And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and 18 And his brethren also went, and fell, he was put in a coffin in Egypt. The Second Book of MOSES, called EXODUS. Thard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in CHAP. T. 1 The children of Israel multiply: 8 they are all manner of service in the field: all their oppressed by a new king. 15 The midwives service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. save the males alive. TOW these are the names of the children N 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the Joins of Jacob were seventy souls; for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them. lest they multiply: and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and aght against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters, to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives; (of which the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:) 16 And he said, When ye de the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye children alive? done this thing, and have saved the men 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, say ing, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. CHAP. II. 2 Moses is born, and put into the flags: 6 he is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter; 21 his marriage. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they a man of the house of Levi, were grieved because of the children of Israel. of Levi. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of and took to wife a daughter Israel to serve with rigour. 14 And they made their lives bitter with 2 And the woman conceived, and bare s 42 AND there went L Moses is found Chap. ilt. in the Aage. son: and, when she saw him that he was a good- his name Gershom; for he said, I have been ly child, she hid him three months 3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with piteh, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the dags by the river's brink 4 And his sister stood afar of, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash Arrarif at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river's side: and, when she saw the ar's among the flags, shes, nt her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and. behold, the babe wept. And she hat compassion on him, and said, This is unc of the Hebrew's children. a stranger in a strange lard. 23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their cry came 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. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. CHAP. 11. 1 Moses keepeth Jethro's flock: 2 God appear eth unto him in a burning bush: 9 He sendeth him to deliver Israel. N OW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, he led the flock to the back-side of the desert, Shail I go and call to thee a nurse of the He-and came to the mountain of God, even to brew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Go, And the maid went, and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and 1-ll me thre thy wages, And the noman took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian, smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see. God called unto him out of the midst of the bush. and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou stancest 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. 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their 12 And he looked this way and that way. and, when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove toge-task-masters; for I know their sorrows; ther: and he said to him that did the wrong, 8 And I am come down to deliver them out Werefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judze over us! intendest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from 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 Bock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them sway: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their faSher, 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 where 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 daux fer. of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, 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. 11 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 shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto 22 And she bare him a son, and he called them? |