THEN Joseph could not re 1707 frain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me: and there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself knownuntohisbrethren 2 And he twept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of † Heb. Pharaoh heard. gave Nu. 14.1. 13. 3 And Joseph said unto his bre-forth his thren, I am Joseph; doth my fa- voice in ther yet live? And his brethren weep could not answer him; for they ing. were troubled at his presence. 4 And Joseph said unto his bre-Ac. 7. thren, Come near to me, I pray you: and they came near: and he said, I am Joseph your brother, bwhom ye sold into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: dfor God did send me before you to preserve life. 1706. and sendeth for his father 15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them and after that his brethren talked with him. 16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: † Heb. and it pleased Pharaoh well, wasgood and his servants. the in 3 7. ich.27.28 Nu.18.12 29. +Heb.let Or, ter- 50. b ch. 37. 28. C13. 40.2. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet 2Co. 2.7. there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you, to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 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. + Heb. be anger 1706. d ch. 50. 4. 24, tHeb. to a 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18 And take your father, and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat ithe fat of the land. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye, take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your lit tle ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also fregard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 21 And the children of Israel did so and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the † commandmentof Pharaoh,and gave them provision for the way. 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hunkch. 43. dred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 34. t Heb. 9 Haste ye, and go up to my fa- 11 And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine;) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast come to poverty. 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses fladen with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. 24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 25 T And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph 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 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: Joseph my son is yet alive: 1 will go and see him before I die. Jacob goeth mto Egypt. came to "Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices bunto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spake unto Israel Cin the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob! and he said, Here am I. GENESIS. B. C. 31. 42. ach. 21. 31, 33. & 28. 10. beh. 26. 24, 25. & 28. 13. & ch. 15. 1. Job33.14, Or. prince. 15. 28 13. ch. 12. 2. De. 26. 5. ch. 28. 15. & 48. 3 And he said, I am God, dthe God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there emake of thee a great nation: 4 fI will go down with thee in-dch. to Egypt; and I will also surely 8 bring thee up again: and hJoseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel caried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons kwhich 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: "Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 21. 1Ch. 7.6. & 8. L. Joseph meeteth his father. 19 The sons of Rachel, Ja cob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 bAnd unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Ma nasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Nu. 26. Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, 38, Ahi-dEhi, and Rosh, "Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. ram. Nu. 26. 39, Shu phan. 1 Ch. 7. 12. Shup pim. am. 16. & 50. woman. 1Ch.4.24. Or, Nemuel Or, Ja hch.30.5, 7. ich.29.29. IDe.10.22 14. 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 hThese are the sons of Bilhah, iwhich Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. 26 kAll the souis that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his tloins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; 27 And the sons of Joseph which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: lall the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. m ch. 31.28 And he sent Judah before 21. him unto Joseph, "to direct his ch.47.1. face unto Goshen; and they came "into the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen; and Or, Ze- So ch.45 presented himself unto him: and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. Now let me die, since I have 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. rib. rach, 11 And the sons of PLevi; 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. 16. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul. 13 T'And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 T 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. shom. & 4. 21. 114. PSOLu.2. 31 And Joseph said unto his ch. 38.3, 4ch. 47.1. house, I will go up, and shew brethren, and unto his father's 7. 10. ch.38.29. 1 Ch. 2. 5. Pharaoh, 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 t their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. Nu. 26. 33 And it shall come to pass, 15, &c Zephon. ch. 47. when Pharaoh shall call you, Or.Ozni 2, 3, and shall say, "What is your occupation? Or, 4 17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, rod. and Beriah, and Serah their sis-1 Ch. 7. ter. And the sons of Beriah; 30. Heber, and Malchiel. $ ver. 32. 37. 12. 18 These are the sons of Zil- y ch. 30. pah,whom Laban gave to Leah 10. ach. 43. his daughter: and these she bare z ch. 29. 32. Ex. 8. unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 24. 26. 31 That ye shall say, Thy servants' 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 Egyptians. Joseph visiteth his sick father. CHAPTER XLVII. CHAPTER XLVIL Joseph presenteth five of hisbrethren,1 7 and his father, before Pharaoh. 11 He giveth them habitation and maintenance. 13 He getteth all the Egyp tians' money, 16 their cattle, 18 their lards to Pharaoh. 22 The priests' land! was not bought. 23 He letteth the lan! to them for a fifth part. 23 Jacob's age. 29 He sweareth Joseph to bury him with his fathers. B. C. 1706. ach. 46. b ch. 45. 10. & 46. 28. THEN Joseph came and told 31. 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 bthe land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are ch. 46. shepherds, both we, and also 34 our fathers. © Ac. 7. 13. d ch. 46. 33. 13. De. 26. 5. Bch.43.1. Ac. 7.11. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the fch. 15. 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 ser-h ch. 46. vants bdwell in the land of Goshen. 34 15. k ver. 4. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph,saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 8 The land of Egypt is before ich. 20. thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; kin 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 bis father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. † Heb. How many are the days of the years of thy life? 1 He. 11. 39. 12. 9, 13. Ps. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said 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 1. my life been, and "have not attained unto the days of the & 35. 28. years of the life of my fathers ver. 7. in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pha-P Ex. 1. raoh, and went out from before 11. & 12. Pharaoh. B. C. 1706. rch. 41. 30. Ac. 7. ch. 41. 56. 1702. Jacob blesseth Joseph's soUS all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt,andallthelandofCanaan, 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 Plia raoh's house. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyp tians came unto Joseph, and tver. 19. said, Give us bread: for 'why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. ↑Heb. ledthem. 1701. "Ezra 7. Job 14. 24. 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 tied 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 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. 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests Pharaoh, and did eat their porhad a portion assigned them of tion 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. Jacob dwelleth in Goshen. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; Yexcept the land of the 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 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 burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. CHAPTER XLVIII. Joseph with his sons visiteth his sick father, 1. 2 Jacob strengtheneth himself to bless them. 3 He repeateth the promise. 5 He taketh Ephraim and Manassel 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. GENESIS. 1689. ND it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manassel and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh untothee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto ine at "Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, And said unto me, Behold, I 35. 6, 9, ch. 28. 13, 19. & &c. will 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 ever-bch. 17.8. lasting possession. 5 And now, thy two sons, ch. 41. Ephraim and Manasseh, which 50. & 16. were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto 13.7.&14. thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall bei 4. B. C. 1689. dch. 35.9, 16, 19. The Egyptians sell their land. thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 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? 9 And Joseph said unto his fa So ch. ther, They are my sons, whom 33. 5. God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. fch. 27.4. Ech. 27.1. †Heb. heavy. 18.6.10.& 59. L. ch.27.27 ich.45.26 10 (Now the eyes of Israel were tdim for age, so that he could not see:) And he brought them near unto him; and he kissedthem, and embracedthem. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I 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 to ward 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 kver. 19. Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. He. 11. 21. ch.17.1. & 24. 40. "ch. 28. 15. & 31. 11, 13. 24. P's. 34.22. & 121. 7. Am. 9. 12. Ac.15. 17. Heb. as fishes do increase: See Nu. 26. 34, 37. Pver. 14. hvas evil in his ees. ch. 28. 8. 15 1 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, 16The Angel "which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fa thers 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 on 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 first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. ver. 14. said, "I know it, my son, I know 19 And his father refused, and No.1.33, it he also shall become a peo35.&2.19, 21.De.33 ple, and he also shall be great: 17. Re. 7. but truly his younger brother 6, 8. shall be greater than he, and tHeb. his seed shall become a fmultifulness.tude of nations. 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 † 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 Ep.5.11 PPs. 132. hands of Pthe mighty God of Ja 20. Ps.37. strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the "Ps. 16.3. 2, 5. & 30. 12. ch.45.11 cob: (from thence is the shep& 57. 8. & 47. 12. herd, the stone of Israel:) & 50. 21. 25 Even by the God of thy fa Ps.80.1. ther, who shall help thee, and Is. 28.16. by the Almighty, who shall tch.28.13, bless thee with blessings of hea ven 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 bless ings of my progenitors, unto the hills; they shall be on the head utmost bound of the everlasting of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 27 1 Benjamin shall raven as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, band at night he shall divide the spoil. enemies; thy father's children ICh. 5. 2. shall bow down before thee. tHo. 5. 4. 16. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from Re. 5. 5. the prey, my son, thou art gone "Nu. 23. up: he stooped down, he couch- 24.&24.9. ed as a lion, and as an old lion: Nu. 24. who shall rouse him up? 17. Je. 30. 25. Ez.22. 10 The sceptre shall not de21. Zech. 25, 27. part from Judah, nor a lawgi-YPs. 60.7. 24. Es. 8. Nu. 23. ver from between his feet, un- &108.80r 11.Ez.39. 28 All these are the twelve til Shiloh come: band unto him Nu.21.18. 10.Zec.14 tribes of Israel: and this is it shall the gathering of the peo-De.28.57 1, 7. that their father spake unto ple be. 11 Binding his foal unto the & 62, 11. ch.15.15. them, and blessed them: every one according to his blessing he & 25. 8. Ez.21.27. vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his gar- Mat.21.9.2 Sa. 19. dch.47.30 blessed them. Da. 9. 25. La. 1, 32, 33. b Is. 2. 2. & 11. 10. & 42. 1, 4. & 49. 37. 4,7, 22, 23. & 55.4, 5. & 60. 1, 3, 4, 5. Haggai 2. 7. ch. 50. Lu. 2. 30, 31, 32.2 Ki. 18. 32.disty 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: dbu ry me with my fathers in the |