and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

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27 Benjamin shall raven 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 spake 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 Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

The mourning for Jacob. 4 Joseph getteth leave of Pharaoh to go and bury him. 7 The funeral. 15 Joseph comforteth his brethren, who craved his pardon. 22 His age. 23 He seeth the third generation of his sons. 24 He prophesieth unto his

brethren of their return to Canaan; 25 and taketh an oath of them to carry up his bones. 26 He dieth, and is embalmed. [B. c. 1689.]

AND 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 physicians embalmed Israel.

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3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians 1a mourned for him threescore and ten days.

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His burial.

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.

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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.

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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 cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham 'bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 ¶ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with

Joseph's brethren comforted.

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.

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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 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.

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?

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21 Now therefore fear ye not: "I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph 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 *were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

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24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; and God will surely visit you, and. bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

dren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit 25 And Joseph took an oath of the chilyou, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

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26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

NOW these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the 'loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already..

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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 :

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12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

13 And the Egyptians made the children

of Israel to serve with rigour:

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14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, "in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;

16 And he said, When ye do 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 done this thing, and have saved the men children alive.

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.

The infancy of Moses.

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21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

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4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

5¶ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side: and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to 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 I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

s See 1 Sam. 2. 35. 2 Sam. 7. 11, 13, 27, 29. 1 Kings 2. 24. & 11. 38. Ps. 127.1. t Acts 7. 19.

CHAP. II.—a ch. 6. 20. Num. 26. 59. 1 Chr. 23. 14.
Heb. 11. 23. c ch. 15. 20. Num. 26. 59. d Acts 7. 21.
Heb. 11. 24, 25, 26.

That is, Drawn out. f Acts 7. 23, 24.

b Acts 7. 20.

e Acts 7. 21.

g ch. 1. 11.

He slayeth an Egyptian.

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 a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

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 together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 2

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14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge 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 а well.

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16 "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

18 And when they came to Reuel their father, 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

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He is sent to Pharaoh.

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 taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

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8 And I am come down to "deliver them out 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

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

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ing bush; 9 and sendeth him to deliver Israel. 14 The name of God. 15 His message to Israel. [B. c. 1491.]

NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his

father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, ecen to Horeb.

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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 standest is holy ground.

6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God

That

srb. 4. 25. & 18. 2. t ch. 18. 3. u Acts 7. 29. Heb. 11. 13, 14. A stranger here, x ch. 7. 7. Acts 7. 30. y Num. 20. 16. Deut. 26. 7. P. 12. 5. z Gen. 18, 20, ch. 3. 9. & 22. 23, 27. Deut. 24. 15. James 5. 4. sch. 6. 5. b ch. 6. 5. Ps. 105. 8. 42. & 106, 45. e Gen. 15. 14. & 46. 4. Heb. knew. d eh. 4. 31. 1 Sam. 1. 11. 2 Sam. 16. 12. Luke 1. 25.

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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 them?

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

15 And God said moreover unto Moses,

m Gen. 11. 5, 7. & 18. 21. & 50. 24.

k ch. 1. 11.

n ch. 6. 6, 8.

22. 32. Mark 12. 26. Luke 20. 37. Acts 7.32. h So 1 Kings 19. 13. Is. 6. 1, 5. i ch. 2. 23, 24, 25. Neh. 9. 9. Ps. 106. 44. Acts 7. 34. 1 Gen. 18. 21. ch. 2. 25. & 12. 51. o Deut. 1. 25. & 8. 7, 8, 9, p ver. 17. ch. 13. 5. & 33. 3. Num. 13. 27. Deut. 26. 9, 15. Jer. 11. 5. & 32. 22. Ez. 20. 6. q Gen. 15. 18. t Ps. 105. 26. Mic. 6. 4. u See ch. 1. 6.