1706. ach. 21. 31, e ch. 12. 2. Deut. 26. 5. feh, 28. 15. & 48. 21. gcb. 15. 16. & 50. 13, 24, 25. Ex. 3. 8. h ch, ), 1. i Acts 7. 15, k ch. 15, 19, 21. 1 Deut. 26, 5. Jesli, 24. 4. Pa. 105. 23. 1s. 52. 4. m Ex. 1. 1. & 6. 11. 28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I dic. CHAPTER XLVI. 1 Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-sheba: AND Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to 3 And he said, I am God, d the God 4 fI 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 iJacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons k 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: 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: n Num. 26, 5. "Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 1 Chr. 5. 1. o Ex. 6. 15. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Ianoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 10 T And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Or, Nemuel.Jachin, and || Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. 1 Chr. 4. 21. Or, Jarib. Or, Zerah, 1 Chr. 4. 24. pl Chr. 6. 1, 16. "Or, Gershom. q 1 Chr. 2. 3. & 4. 21. r ch. 38, 3, 7, 10. ch, 38. 29. 1 Chr. 2. 5. t1 Chr. 7. 1. Or. Puah, and Jashub. u Nam. 20.15, &c. Zepkon. 11 T And the sons of P Levi; || Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 T And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharcz, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 T And the sons of Issachar; 14 T And the sons of Zebulun; 16 T And the sons of Gad; | Joseph meeteth his father, ion, and Haggi, Shuni, and || Ezbon, Before CHRIST 1706. Or, Ocni, Or, Arod. x 1 Chr. 7.30. 17 TAnd the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. 18 Y These are the sons of Zilpah, y ch. 30. 10. whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel "Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 Tb And unto Joseph in the land z ch. 29, 21. ach. 44. 27. beh. 41. 50. of Egypt were born Manasseh and 21 T And the sons of Benjamin 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. el Chr. 7. 6. & 8. 1. d Num. 28.38, • Num. 26 39, Shuppim. f1 Chr. 7. 12. 23 Tf And the sons of Dan; ||Hu- 25 h These are the sons of Bilhah, 27 And the sons of Joseph, which 28 T And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came "into the land of Goshen. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, 32 And the men are shepherds, for 33 And it shall come to pass, when 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' "Ziph-trade hath been about cattle from are men of cattle. rch. 47. 2, 3. A ver. 32. tch, 30, 35, & 34. 5. & 37. 12. 1706. a ch, 48, 81 CHAPTER XLVII. 1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 7 and his father, before Pharaoh. 11 He giveth them habitation and maintenance. 13 He getteth all the Egyptians' money, 16 their cattle, 18 their lands to Pharaoh. 22 The priests' land was not bought. 23 He letteth the land to them for a fifth part. 28 Jacob's age. 29 He sweareth Joseph to bury him with his fathers. THEN Joseph "came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in beh. 45. 10. & b the land of Goshen. 46. 28. e Acts 7. 13. dch. 46, 33, ech. 46. 31. fch. 15. 13. Deut. 26. 5. gch. 43. 1. Acts 7. 11. ch. 40, 34, ich. 20. 15. k ver. 1. 1 Heb. How many are the days of the years of thy life! 1 PA. 39. 12. m Job 14. 1. Ex. 1. 11. & 12. 37. ver. 6. Or, as a little child is nourished, + Heb, ac. cording to the little ones. ch, 50. 21. с 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, d What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said morcover unto Pharaoh, f For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; k 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, 1The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a 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 T 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 P Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, If according to their families. The Egyptians sell their land. 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. Before CHRIST 1706. rch. 41. 30. Acta 7, 11. ch. 41. 56. 1702. 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 ver. 19. 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 exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread for Heb. led 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: 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. them. .1701. Eara 7, 21. tor, princes, 22 "Only the land of the priestsu bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did cat 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. ch. 41. 45. 2 Sam, 8. 18 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the xch, 33.15. z ver. 11. ach. 46, 3. 1689. Heb. the days of the years of his life. See ver. 9. bSo Deut. 31. 14. 1 Kings 2. 1. cch. 21. 2. l ch. 24. 49. • So cl. 50, 25. f2 Sam.19.37. 27 T 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 a hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time bdrew 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 ddeal 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 gch. 49. 29, & of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 50.5, 13. 1689. Ach. 28. 13, 19. & 35, 6, 9, &c. bch, 17. 8. ech. 41.50, & CHAPTER XLVIII. Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons. 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 to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem. 8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? Before CHRIST 1689. il ch. 35. 9, 16, 19. e So ch. 33, 5. 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in thist place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless fch. 27. 4. them. II And Israel said unto Joseph, iIi ch. 45. 28. 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 unto him. k ver. 19. 1 Joseph with his sons visiteth his sick AND, it came to pass after these 2 And one told Jacob, and said, 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 5. And now thy two sons, 6 And thy issue, which thou be- 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 Plaid 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 firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a f multitude of nations. a Deut. 33. 1. Acts 2. 17. e Ps. 34. 11. e Deut. 21.17. Ps. 78. 51. CHAPTER XLIX. 1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them. 3 Their blessing in particular. 29 He chargeth them about his burial. 33 H dieth. AND Jacob called unto his sons, a and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you bin the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and blessing, and death. 15 And he saw that rest was good, Before and the land that it was pleasant; CHRIST and bowed f his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 1689. f 1 Sam. 10.9 8 Deut, 33, 22. Judg. 18.1,2. 16 TDan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17h Dan shall be a serpent by the Judg. 18.27. way, tan adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. + Heb. an arrowsnake. 18 I have waited for thy salvation, i P. 25. 5. & O LORD. 19 Tk Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. 119. 166, 174. Is. 25. 9. k Deut. 33.20, 1 Chr. 5. 18. 20 T1 Out of Asher his bread shall 1 Deut. 23. 21. be fat, and he shall yield royal dain m Josh. 19. 21. ties. 21 T Naphtali is a hind let loose: m Deut. 33. he giveth goodly words. 22 T Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose f Heb. do not hear, ye sons of Jacob; and heark-t branches run over the wall: en unto Israel your father. thou excel. fl Chr. 5. 1. g ch. 35. 22. Deut. 27, 20. 1 Chr. 5. 1. Or, my couch is gone. h ch. 29. 33, 34. i Prov. 18. 9. Or, their averds are weapons of violence. k ch. 34. 25. 1 Prov. 1. 15, 16. m Ps, 26. 9. Eph. 5. 11. n Pa. 16, 9. & 30. 12. & 57. o chỉ 34. 20. Or, houghed oxen. Josh. 19. 1. & 21. 5, 6, 7. 1 Chr. 4. 24, 39. qch, 29, 35. Deut. 33. 7. r Ps. 18. 40. a ch. 27. 29. 1 Chr. 5. 2. t Hos, 5, 11, Rev. 5, 5. u Num. 23.24. & 21. 9. Num. 24.17. er. 30. 21, Zech, 10. 11. y Ps. fil. 7. & 108. 8 .8. or, Num. 21. 18. Deut. 28, 57. 62.11. 3T Reuben, thou art dmy firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, tfthou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it he went up to my couch. 5 h Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.. GO my soul, I 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 selfwill tey digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: PI will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall 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; band unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding 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: 121lis d eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13 Te Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sca; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. 14 ¶ Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 23. + Heb. daughters. 28. & 59. 20. & 42 21. Ps. 118. 13. Ps. 37. 15. Ps. 132. 2. 5. 23 The archers have "sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: nch. 37. 4, 21, 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of P the mighty Job 29. 20. God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel;) 25 Even by the God of thy father, ach. 45. 11. & 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: 47. 12. & 50. 21. r Ps. 80. I. Is. 28. 16. tch. 28. 13,21 & 35. 3, & 43 23. u ch. 17. 1. & 35. 11. x Deut. 33.13. 26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the Deut, 33.15. crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 27 T Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 28 T 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. C 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: dbury 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, f which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. 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, ach. 46. 4. b2 Kin.13.14. c ver. 28. 2 Chr. 16. 14. Matt, 26. 12. Mark 14. 8. & 16, 1. Luke 24. L. CHAPTER L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 4 Joseph get teth leave of Pharaoh to go to bury him. 7 The funeral. 15 Joseph comforteth his brethren, who craved his pardon. 22 His age. 23 He seeth the third gen eration of his sons. 24 He prophesieth unto his brethren of their return. 25 He taketh an oath of them for his bones. 26 He dieth, and is chested. Joseph comforteth his brethren. 1689. keh. 19. 29. 12 And his sons did unto him ac- Before cording as he commanded them: CHRIST 13 For k his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham I bought with the field for a possession of a burying-1 ch. 23, 16. place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 T And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his AND Joseph "fell upon his fa- father, after he had buried his fa ther's face, and him, and kissed him. wept upon 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for John 12.7.& him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians fdmourned for him threescore and ten days. 19. 39, 40. + Heb, wept. d Num. 20.29. Deut. 34. 8. . Esth. 4. 2. fch. 47.29. Is, 22, 16. Matt. 27. 60. 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, say82 Chr. 16. 14. ing, 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. h2 Sam. 1. 17. Acts 8. 2. 11 Sam. 31.13. Job 2. 13. That is, The mourning of the Egyptians. 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 of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. ther. 30. Acta 7. 16. 22. + Heb. charged. 15 T And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, "they m Job 15. 21, 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 Joseph, 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 brethren, and their sin; for a Prov. 28.13. 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. o chỉ 49, 24, 18 And his brethren also went and P fell down before his face; and they pch.37.7, 10. said, Behold, we be thy servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: "for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: "I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake † kindly unto them. 22 T And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Josephi lived a hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh 2 were † brought up upon Joseph's knees. |