Judah's intreaty.

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

20 And we faid unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

21 And thou faidft unto thy fervants, Bring him down unto me, that I may fet mine eyes upon him.

22 And we faid unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

23 And thou faidft unto thy fervants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye fhall fee my face no more. 24 And it came to pafs, when we came up unto thy fervant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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

26 And we faid, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not feel the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

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

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

29 And if ye take this alfo from me, and mifchief befall him, ye fhall bring down my gray hairs with forrow to the grave. 30 Now therefore when I come to thy fervant my father, and the lad be not with us; feeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

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

go out from me. And there ftood no man with him, while Jofeph made himfelf known unto his brethren.

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

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

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

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourfelves, that ye fold me hither: for God did fend me before you to preserve life.

6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there fhall neither be earing nor harvest.

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

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

9 ¶ Hafte ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus faith thy fon Jofeph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

10 And thou fhalt dwell in the land of Gothen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou haft :

II And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; left thou, and thy houfhold, and all that thou haft, come to poverty.

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

CHAP. XLV. 1 Jofeph maketh himself known to his brethren. 9 He fendeth for his father, 25 auho is revived at the news.

HEN Jofeph could not refrain him

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your beafts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

18 And take your father and your houfholds, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of E. gypt, and ye fhall eat the fat of the land.

19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Alfo regard not your ftuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.

and the fons of Ifrael carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had fent to carry him.

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 feed with him:

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

8 ¶ And thefe are the names of the

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

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

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

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

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

27 And they told him all the words of Jofeph, which he had faid unto them: and when he faw the wagons which Jofeph had fent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

28 And Ifrael faid, It is enough; Jofeph my fon is yet alive: I will go and fee him before I die.

CHAP. XLVI.

I Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-Sheba. 5 He goeth into Egypt. 8 The number of bis family. 28 Jofeph meeteth him.

gypt, Jacob and his fons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

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

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

II And the fons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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

13 And the fons of Iffachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 And the fons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

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

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

17 And the fons of Afher; Jimnah, and Ifhuah, and Ifui, and Beriah, and Serah their fifter: and the fons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

18 These are the fons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and

that he had, and came to Beerfheba, and offered facrifices unto the God of his father Ifaac.

fouls.

19 The fons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Jofeph, and Benjamin.

3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

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

5¶ And Jacob rose up from Beer-fheba:

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

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

23 And the fons of Dan; Hufhim.

Jofeph meeteth his father:

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

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

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

27 And the fons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two fouls: all the fouls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threefcore and ten. 28 ¶ And he fent Judah before him unto Jofeph, to direct his face unto Gofhen; and they came into the land of Gofhen.

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

30 And Ifrael faid unto Joseph, Now let me die, fince I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

31 And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, and unto his father's houfe, I will go up, and fhew Pharaoh, and fay 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 fhepherds, 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 fhall come to pass, when Pharaoh fhall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

34 That ye fhall fay, Thy fervants' 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 Gofhen; for every fhepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

CHAP. XLVII.

for thy fervants have no pafture for their flocks; for the famine is fore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy fervants dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh fpake unto Jofeph, faying, 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 ang men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

7¶ And Jofeph brought in Jacob his father, and fet him before Pharaoh : and Jacob bleffed Pharaoh.

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

9 And Jacob faid unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob bleffed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

II ¶ And Jofeph placed his father and his brethren, and give them poffeffion in the land of Egypt, in the beft of the land, in the land of Ramafes, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's houfhold, with bread, according to their families.

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

14 And Jofeph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought and Jofeph brought the money info Pharaoh's house.

2 And he took fome of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh faid unto his brethren, What is your occupation? and they said unto Pharaoh, Thy fervants are hepherds, both we, and alfo our fathers.

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

17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horfes, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the affes: 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 faid unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent ; my

lord

Facob blefeth his fons.

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 Ifaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midft

of the earth.

17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it difpleafed him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manaflch's head.

18 And Jofeph faid unto his father, Not fo, my father: for this is the firftborn; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refufed, and faid, I know it, my fon, I know it he alfo fhall become a people, and he alfo fhall be great but truly his younger brother Thall be greater than he, and his feed thall become a multitude of nations.

20 And he bleffed them that day, faying, In thee fhall Ifrael bless, faying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manaffeh : and he fet Ephraim before Manafieh.

21 ¶ And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, Behold, Idie: but God fhall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took | out of the hand of the Amorite with my fword and with my bow.

CHAP. XLIX.

Jacob calleth his fons to bless them. 3 Their bleffing in particular. 29 His charge concerning his burial. 33 His death.

AND Jacob called unto his fons, and

faid, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which thall befal you in the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye fons of Jacob; and hearken unto Ifrael your father.

3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my ftrength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

4 Unftable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wenteft up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren fhall praife: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children fhall bow down before thee.

9 Judah is a lion's whelp from the prey, my fon, thou art gone up: he ftooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

10 The fceptre fhall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him hall the gathering of the people be.

II Binding his fole unto the vine, and his afs's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

12 His eyes fhall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

13 Zebulun fhall dwell at the haven of the fea; and he shall be for an haven of fhips; and his border shall be unto Zidoń. 14 flachar is a ftrong afs couching down between two burdens:

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

16 Dan fhall judge his people, as one of the tribes of fírael.

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

18 I have waited for thy falvation, Ơ LORD.

19 Gad, a troop fhall overcome him:

but he fhall overcome at the last.

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

21 Naphtali is a hind let loofe he giveth goodly words.

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

23 The archers have forely grieved him, and fhot 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 Ja cob; (from thence is the shepherd, the ftone of Ifrael :)

6 O iny foul, come not thou into their fecret; unto their affembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they flew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

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