them dwell: and it thou knoweft any man of activi. ty amongst them then make them rulers over my cartel. 17. And they brought their cartel unto Jofeph: and Jofeph gave them bread in exchange for hor fes, and for the flocks,and for the carrel of the herds, and for the affes; and he fed them with bread, for all their cartel, for that year. 10 7 And Jofeph brought in Jacob his father, and fet him before Pharaoh and Jacob blefled Pharaoh.. 8 And Pharaoh faid unto Jacob, How old art thou?18 When that year was 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 arrained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the daysof their pilgrimage.bar in ended,they came unto him. the fecond year, and faid unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is fpent, my lord alfo hath our herds of cattel; there is. not ought left in the fight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands.. 19 Wherefore fhall we die 10 And Jacob blefied before chine eyes, both we Pharaoh, and went out and our land? Buy us and from before Pharaoh.our land for bread, and we Ir And Jofeph placed his father 8 his brethren, and gave them a Poffeffion in the land of Egypt in the beft of the land, in the land of Ramefes, as Pha. raoh had commanded. 12 And Jofeph nourished his father, and his bre thren, and all his fathers honfhold with bread, ac cording 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 reason of the famine. 14 And Jofeph gathered up all the money that was found In the land of E. gypt, and in the land of Canaan for the corn which they bought, and Jofeph brought the mo. rey into Pharaohs houfe. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Jofeph, and faid, Give us bread: for why fhould we dle in thy prefence? for the money faileth. 16 And Jofeph faid, Give your carrel; and 1 will give you for your cattel, If money fail, and our land will be fer vants unto Pharaoh, and give us feed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not defolate. 20 And Jofeph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egypti. ans fold every man his field, becaufe the famine. prevailed over them fo the land became Pharaohs. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities: from one end of the bordersof Egypt, even to the other end thereof. t 22 Only the land ofthe priefts bought he not: for the priests had a portion aligned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion whichPharaoh gave them; wherefore they fold not their lands. 23 Then Jofeph fald un to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day, and your land for Phara oh: lo, bere is feed for you, and ye shall fow the land. 24 And it fhall come to pars in the increase, that you fhal give the fitth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts thall be your own, for feed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your houtholds, and and for foodfor your little ones 25 And they faid, Thou bat faved our lives: let us And grace in the fight of my lord, and we will be Pharaohs fervants. hold. I will make thee 26 And Jofeph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh thould have the fifth part except the land of the priefts only, which became not Pharaohs, And now thy two fons, Ephraim and Manaf feh, which were born unto thee in the land of E. gypt, before I came unto thee inro Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they thall be mine, 6 And thy flue which thou begerreft after them, shall be thine, and fhall be. called after the name of their brethren in their in heritance.subty 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 Ephrach: And I buried her there in the way of Ephrach, the fame ir Bethlehem. 27 And Ifrael dwelt in the land of Egypt in the countrey of Gothen and they had poffeffionschere in, and grew, and multi plied exceedingly to 29 And jacob lived in the land of Egypt feven teen years to the whole age of Jacob was an hun dred fourty 8 feven years. -29 And the time drew nigh thap Ifrael muft die and he called hisfon Jo feph, and aid unro him, if now I have found grace in thy fight, pur, pray thee, thy band under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egype: ( A 8 And Ifrael beheld Joi fephs fons, and faid, Who... are these? 30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thon thalt carry me out of Egypt,and bury me in their buying. place. And he fald, I will do as thou haft taid. to 9 And Jofeph. faid unto his father, They are my fons, whom God hath gl ven me in this place: And he faid,Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will blefs them. 31 And he faid, swear un to me And he fware unto him. And Ifract bowed himfelfupen the bedshead CHAP. XLVIII. 20 (Now the eyes of If rael were dim for age, Jo that he could not fee) And he brought them hear un, to him; and he kiffed them, and embraced them. And it came to pa's after And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, I had not thought fath his two fons, thy feed. Manaffeh and Ephraim. And one told Jacob, and fald, Behold, thy fon Jofeph cometli unto thee, and Ifrael Arengthened himself, and fat upon the bed. 12 And Jofeph brought them our from berween his krees, and he bowed himfelf with his face to the earth. 3 And Jacob fald unto Fofeph God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz In the land of Canaan, and bleffed me. 4 And faid unto me, Be come a 13 And Jofeph took them both, Ephraim in his right. hand toward Ifraels left hand, and Manaffeh in his left hand towards Ifraels right hand, and brought them near unto him. 14 And Ifrael ftretched out his right hand, and kipy laid it upon Ephraims head, who was the young opis er, and his left hand upon Manaffehs head, guiding his hands wittingly, for Manaffehwas the firft.born 15 And he bleffed Jo. nd ro па of Land ther your felves together, that I may tell you that which thall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather your felves.to gether, and hear yefons of Jacob; and hearken unto Ifrael your tacher. anfeph, and faid.God, before 3 Reuben thou art my whom my fathers Abraham and Ifaac did walk, the God which fed me all my 11 fe long unto this day. unto. mine; meon, which The all be firft-born, my might and the beginning of my ftrength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellen cy of power: 4 Unitable as water, thou halt not excell, becaufe thou wenteft up to thy fa 16 The angel which res deemed me from all evil, Blefs the lads: and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers bed: then defiledft thers Abraham and ffaac and let them grow unto a multitude in the midst of heal the earth. iris rark e is the By gi And pray vill 17 And when Jofeph faw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it difpleafed him and he held up his fathers hand, to remove it from Ephraims head unto Manaffehs headed by 18 And Jofeph faid unto his father, Nor fo, my fa ther for this is the firft born: put thy.right hand upon his head; 19 And his father refufed, and faid, I know it,my fon, I know it; he alfo frall become a people, and he alfo fhall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his feed thall become a multi. tude of nations. 20 And he bleffed them that day, faying, In thee thall Ifrael blets, faying, God make thee as Ephra im, and as Manaffeh; and he fet Ephraim before Ma. nafleh. 21 And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, Behold, Idle; but God thall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers... 22 Moreover, I have gi ven to thee one portion an bove thy brethren, which Irook our of the hand of is the Amorite with my fword and with my bow. CHAP. XLIX. thou ft; he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren, Inftruments of cruelty are in their habita. tions. 60 my foul, come not thou into their fecrets; unto their aflembly, mine, honourbe not thou united; for in their anger they flew a man, and in their felfwill theydigged down a wall. 7 Curfed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and fcatter them in ifrael. 8 Judah, thou art be whom thy brethren fhall praife; thy hand shall bein the neck of thine enemies: thy fathers children fall bow down before thee 9Judah is a lions whelp; from the prey, my fon. thou art gone up he stoop. ed down, he couched as a lion, and as an old tion; who shall roufe him up? 10 The fcepter fhall not depart from Judah, nor a law giver from between his feet,untilshitoh come, and unto him/hall the gar thering of the people be 11 Binding his fole unto the vine, and his alles colt unto the choife vine'; he washed bis garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes, fro 12 His-eyes lhe red with wine, and his teeth 13 white with milki zebulun 13 Zebulun fhall dwell at the haven of the fea and he shall be for an haven or thips: and his border hall be unto Zidon. 14 flacher is a strong afs, couching down be tween two burdens 15 And he faw that reft masood, and the land that it was pleafant; and bow ed his fhoulder to bear, and became a fervant unto 17 Dan fhall be a ferpent by the way, an adder im the path that biteth the horie heels, fo that his ri. der hail fall backward. head of him that was fepa 18-1 have waited for thy falvation, O LORD, 19 Gad, a troup thall overcome him: but he thal overcome at the laft. 228 All thefe are the twelve tribes of Ifrael: and and this is it that their father fpake unto them, and blefed them; every one according to his blefling he bleffed them 29 And he charged them, and faid 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; ay his bim בקט iders 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, all 20 Out of Ather his for a poffeffion of a bury a bread fhall be fat, and he ing place. fhall yield royal dainties A 21 Naphtali is a hinde ler loofe: he giveth good ly words. 22 Jofeph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitfull bough by a well; whofe branches run over the wall 23 The archers have forely grieved him, and thor at him, and hated him.. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Ifaac and Rebekah his wife, and there buried! Leah) 24 But his bow abode in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made ftrong, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacobs from thence is the thep herd, the ftone of ifrael. 32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth their of G And th 33 And when Jacob hadith made an end of commande ing his fons, he gathered: up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the gheit,. and was gathered unto his people. Vest 25 Even by the God of thy father who shall help thee,and by the Almighty, who half bless thee with bleflings of heaven above, bjefings of the deep chat lieth under, bleflings of the breafts, and of the womb.doma CHAP. L.. ANd Jofeph fell upon his 2 And Jofeph command 26 The bleflings of thy father have prevailed a bove the bleflings of my progenitours, unto the ure moit bound of the everla-fting hills; they fhall be on the head of Jofeph, and on the crown of the 4 And when the days of his mourning were paft, ED Lisbaz Jofeph WA Ster vi Jofeph pake unto the houfe of Pharaoh, faying, Ifnow I have found grace ing in your eyes, fpeak, I pray rey you, in the ears of Phara ide oh, faylng. My father made me thesware, faying, Lo, I die. and In my grave which I have r f digged for me, in the land and of Canaan,there halt thou bury me. Now therefore fing let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I hem, will come again. Ian 6 And Pharaoh faid, Go my tip, and bury thy father, my according as he made made at thee fware. am the 7 And Jofeph went up to bury his father; and isit with him went up all the elahervants of Pharaoh the e.is elders of his houfe, and all hich the elders of the land of the Egypt. rice 8 And all the houfe of ury Jofeph, and his brethren, and his fathers houfe italy their little ones and his heir flocks, and their ried herds, they left in the his land of Gomen.and ied 9 And there went up with htm both chariots and The harfe-men: and it was a that very great company. the 10 And they came to the threshing floor of Arad, ad. which is beyond Jordan, nd and there they mourned redwith a great and very fore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father bit feven days apoffeffion of a burying place, of Ephiron the Hittite, before Marare.. 14 And Jofeph 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 Jofephs bre thren fawthatthe rather was dead, they faid, Jofeph will peradventure hare uis, and will certainly requita us all the evil which we did unto him. 16 And they fent meffengers unto Jofeph, faying, Thy father did command before he died, faying, 17 So fhall ye fay unto Jofeph, Forgive. pray thee now, the trefpais of thy brethren, and their fin; for they did unto thee evil: And now, we pray thee, forgive the treipals of the servants of the God of thy father. And Jofeph wept when they fake nnto him. 18 And his brethren alfo went, and fell down before his face; and they faid. Behold, we te thy fervants 19 And Jofeph faid unto them, Fear not for am I in the place of God 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me t but God meant it unto good, to bring to pafs, as it is this day, to fave much people alive. OMAKOT 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and fpake kindly unto them. 11 And when the inha bitants of the land, the bis Canaanites, faw the mourning in the floor of Atad, in they faid, This is a grie22 Vous mourning to the Eid gyptians: wherefore the ername of It was called Abelalg mizraim, whis is beyond Jordan.. re 12 And his fons did unto o him according as he had of commanded them. 13 For his fons carried him Inro the land of Caad naan & burled him in the cave of the field of Mach. of pelah; which Abraham bought with the field for Andofeph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers house and Jofeph lived an hundred and ten years. 23 And Jofeph faw Ephraims children, of the third generation: the chil dren alfo of Machir, the fon of Manaffeh were b brought up upon Jofephs knees. 24 And Jofeph fald unto his brethren, I die and God will furely vifit you, and bring you out of this land, |