Joseph maketh himself known. GENESIS, XLV. 3 Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping. Num. 14. 1. a Acts 7. 13. 4 Or, terrified. Job 4. 5. & 23. 15. Matt. 14. 26. Mark 6. 50. b ch. 37. 28. c. Is. 40. 2. your eyes. d ch. 50. 20. a remnant. fch. 47. 1. 8 ch. 42. 23. CHAPTER XLV. 1 Joseph maketh himself known to his bre- T THEN Joseph could not refrain heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his bre- 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, 5 Now therefore be not grieved, 5 nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: d for God did send 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 shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you 6 to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deli-1 verance. 8 So now it was not you that sent 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. Joseph sendeth for his father. Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the 19 Now thou art commanded, this good of all the land of Egypt is your's. 22 To all of them he gave each man k ch. 43. 34 4 Heb. 23 And to his father he sent after 24 So he sent his brethren away, and And they went up out of Egypt, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. / And 5 Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: 28 And Israel said, It is enough; Jo- Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-sheba. 9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, AND Israel took his journey with and say unto him, Thus saith thy son 11 And there will I nourish thee; 12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is 8 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 A Acts 7. 14. A bring down my father hither. 1 Heb. was good in the eyes of Pharaoh. ch. 41. 37, 4 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 Moreover he kissed all his bre- 16 And the fame thereof was heard a Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices a ch. 21. 31, b unto the God of his father Isaac. 33. & 28. 10. 2 And God spake unto Israel inb ch. 26. 24, the visions of the night, and said, Ja- 25. & 28. 13. cob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3 And he said, I am God, d the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 4fI will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again and h Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 And Jacob 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. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, 7 Or, Jarib 8 Or, Zerah, 1 Chr. 4. 24. Jacob goeth into Egypt. GENESIS, XLVII. 11 And the sons of P Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 And the sons of Issachar ; Tola, and 3 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 Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. He is presented to Pharaoh. Before CHRIST 1706. 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 ver. 32. Egyptians. CHAPTER XLVII. 1 ch. 30. 35. & 31. 5 & 37. 12. 1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 7 and his father, before Pharaoh. 11 Heu ch. 43. 32. giveth them habitation and maintenance. Ex. 8. 26. 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. TH HEN Joseph a 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 the land of Goshen, 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaob. 1700 a ch. 46. 31. b ch. 45. 10. & 46. 28. e Acts 7. 13 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. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daugh-thren, d What is your occupation? And deh. 46. 33. ter, and these she bare unto Jacob, they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants e ch. 46.31. even sixteen souls. are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter 6 Or, prince. of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. e 1 Chr. 7. 6 & 8. 1. d Num. 38, Ahiram. e Num. 26. 39, Shupham. Chr. 7. 12, Shuppim 1 Huphan, Num. 26. 39. Chr. 7. 12. 8 Or, Shuham, Num. 26. 42. IChr. 7. 13. 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, d 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 A ch. 30. 5, 7. Jacob into Egypt, which came out of i ch. 29.29. his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; & Ex. 1. & 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew l'haraoh, 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, rch 47.2, 2. What is your occupation? 36 That ye shall say, Thy servants' 3 And Pharaoh said unto his bre 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are wech. 15. 13. come; for thy servants have no pas- Deut. 26. 5. ture for their flocks; for the famineg ch. 43. 1. 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; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers cer 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? 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 P Rap Ex. 1. II. meses, 9 as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, q ver. & and his brethren, and all his father's houshold, 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. The Egyptians sell their land. Before CHRIST 1702. t ver. 19. 2 Heb. led them. GENESIS, XLVIII. t 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 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 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 ought 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. 22 Only the land of the 3 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. Joseph visiteth his sick father. them. 3 He repeateth the promise. 5 He taketh Ephraim and Manasseh as his own. 7 He telleth Joseph of his mother's grave. 9 He blesseth Ephraim and Manasseh. 17 He preferreth the younger before the elder. 21 He prophesieth their return to Canaan. AND it came to pass after these 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Be- Before CHRIST 1689. 1689. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at a Luza ch. 28. 13, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 19. & 35, 6, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will 9, &c. 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 b ch. 17. 8. 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. 23 Then Joseph said unto the people, 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. c ch. 41. 50. & 46. 20. Josh. 13. 7. & 14. 4. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, d Rachel died by me in the land d ch. 35. 9, of Canaan in the way, when yet there was 16, 19. 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? 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hathe So ch. 33. given me in this place. And he said, 5. Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10 Now & the eyes of Israel were 2 dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, our lives: let us find grace in the had not thought to see thy face: and, sight of my lord, and we will be Pha-lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. raoh's servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; y except the land of the 4 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 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 a 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 buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And h Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. CHAPTER XLVIII. 1 Joseph with his sons visiteth his sick father, 2 Jacob strengtheneth himself to bless. 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, 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 ver. 19. hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 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, Jacob calleth his sons, 18 And Joseph said unto his father, 14 Issachar is a strong ass couchNot so, my father: for this is the first-ing down between two burdens: born; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, 9 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 multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, So Ruth 4. saying, In thee shall Israel bless, 11, 12 saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. tch. 46. 4. & 50. 24. u Josh. 24.32. 1 Chr. 5. 2. John 4. 5. arch. 15. 16. & 34. 28. Josh. 17. 14, &c. 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 portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite a Deut. 33.1. with my sword and with my bow. Amos 3.7. b Deut. 4. 30. Num. 24. 14. Is. 2.2. & 39. 6. Jer. 23.20. Dan. 2. 28,29. Acts 2 17. Heb. 1. 2. CHAPTER XLIX. 1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them. 3 Their blessing in particular. 29 He chargeth them about his burial. 33 He dieth. AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which e Ps. 34. 11. shall befall you bin the last days. d ch. 29. 32 2 Gather yourselves together, and e Deut.21.17. hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. P. 78. 51. 3 Heb. do not thou excel. 1 Chr. 5.1. ch. 35 22 Deut. 27. 20. 1 Chr. 5. 1. • Or, my couch is Rone. A ch.29.33,34. i Prov. 18. 9. 6 Or, their swords are weapons of violence. & ch. 34. 25. Prov. 1. 15, 16. m P. 26. 9. Eph. 5. 11. n P. 16. 9. • ch. 34. 26. 9 ch. 29. 35. Deut. 33. 7. P. 18. 40. ch. 27. 2. 1 Chr. & 2 Hon. & 14. Rev. & & Num. 23 24 & 24.9. Num. 24. 17. Jer. 30. 21. Zech 10. 11. P. 6. 7. & 108.8, or, Num. 21. 18 Deut. 237. 3 Reuben, thou art d my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, 3 thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 5 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 selfwill they 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; 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 deyes 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. 1. 11. 1. & 62 11. Eank. 21. 27. Dan. 9. 25. Matt. 21. 9. Luke 1.82, 22. & n. 22 & 11 10 & 42 1,4 & 9.6, 7, 22, 21 & sú 4, à son 1, 3, 4, & Hag. 27. Luke 2. 30, 31, 32 2 Kings 18. 22 d Prov. 22. Deut. 33. 15, 18. Josh. 19. 10, 11. 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. 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 well; whose 3 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 Pthe 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: 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 crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour 15. Hab. 3.6 the prey, and at night he shall dividez Deut. 33 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. 16. a Judg. 20. 21, 2x Ezek. 22 25, 27. Num. 23. 21. Esth. 8. 29 And he charged them, and said. Ezek. 39. unto them, I am to be gathered unto 10. Zech. 14. my people: d bury me with my fathers. in the cave that is in the field of ech. 15. 13 Ephron the Hittite, & 248. ch. 47. 30. 2 Sam. 19 37 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abrahamech. 50 13 bought with the field of Ephron the ch. 23. 16. 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. ch. 23. 19. & 25.9. ch. 33 20. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he ga thered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered ver. 29. unto his people. CHAPTER L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 4 Jorph get. teth leave of 'harach to go to bury h 7 The funeral. 15 Joseph comforteth his brethren, who craved his pardon. 2: H age. He both the third genation of Au IGNI. 24 He propheveth unto his brethren of their return. 25 He taketh an eath of them for his bones. 26 Lie dieth, and is chested. Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians 2 d 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, 5My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave 8 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. 10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they h mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. Il 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 3 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the Joseph's death. cave of the field of Machpelah, which Before CHRIST 1689. Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, ch. 23. 16. he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 22. 15 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 2 sent a messenger unto 2 Heb. Joseph, saying, Thy father did com- charged. mand before he died, saying, 13. 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; "for they n Prov. 28. 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. 18 And his brethren also went and P fell 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 t 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 3 kindly unto them. o cho 49. 25. p ch. 37. 7,10. 9 ch. 45. 5. Deut. 32. 2 Kings 5. 7. 35. Job 34. 29. Rom. 12. Heb. 10. 19. 30. s Ps. 56. 5. Is. 10. 7. ch. 45. 5, 7. Acts 3. 13, 14, 15. u ch. 47. 12. Matt. 5. 44. 3 Heb. to their hearts. ch.34.3. 1635. 22¶ 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 chil-x Job 42. 16. dren of the third generation: Y the y Num. 32. children also of Machir the son of Ma- 39. nasseh were brought up upon Jo-z ch. 30. 3. seph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and a God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land b which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 4 Heb.borne. a ch. 15. 14. & 46. 4. & 48. 21. Ex. 3.16, 17. Heb. 11. 22. b ch. 15. 18. & 26. 3. & 35. 12. & 46.4. c Ex. 13. 19. 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred Josh. 24. 32. and ten years old: and they dembalmed Acts 7. 16. him, and he was put in a coffin ind ver.2 Egypt. THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, 1635. CALLED 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Bee Acts 7. 19. hold, the people of the children of ƒ Ps. 105. 24. Israel are more and mightier than we : g Ps. 10. 2 10 & Come on, let us deal wisely & 83.3, 4. with them; lest they multiply, and ith Job 5. 13. come to pass, that, when there falleth Ps. 105. 25. out any war, they join also unto our Prov. 16. 25. enemies, and fight against us, and so & 21.30. get them up out of the land. Acts 7. 19. |