Makes himself known. Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. 23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. 24 And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food. 26 And we said, We cannot go down: 8 Behold, the money which we found in if our youngest brother be with us, then our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto will we go down; for we may not see the thee out of the land of Canaan: how then man's face, except our youngest brother should we steal out of thy lord's house sil-be with us. ver or gold? 27 And thy servant my father said unto 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it us, Ye know that my wife bare me two be found, both let him die, and we also sons: will be my lord's bond-men. 10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless. CHAP. XLV. He accuses them of theft: city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? 5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. 6¶ And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words. 7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: 11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. 14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, (for he was yet there :) and they fell before him on the ground. 15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? 16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. 17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hard the cup is found, he shall be my and for you, get you up in peace unto your fas 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 28 And the one went out from me, and said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since : I 29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;) 31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perad venture I see the evil that shall come on my father. CHAP. XLV. THEN Joseph could not refrain 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 known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. old age, a little one: and his brother is 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, dead, and he alone is left of his mother, Come near to me, I pray you: and they and his father loveth him. came near. And he said, I am Joseph 21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. GENESIS. Joseph sends for his father. Jacob goes into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor gave three hundred pieces of silver, and angry with yourselves, that ye sold me five changes of raiment. hither: for God did send me before you to 23 And to his father he sent after this preserve life. manner; ten asses laden with the good 6 For these two years hath the famine things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden been in the land and yet there are five with corn and bread and meat for his fayears, in the which there shall neither be ther by the way. earing nor harvest. 7 Ånd God sent me before you, to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 24 So he sent his brethren away, and 25 T And they went up out of Egypt, 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. 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the 9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart faintsay unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, ed, for he believed them not. God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come 27 And they told him all the words of down unto me, tarry not: 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: 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, 28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joand all that thou hast : seph my son is yet alive: I will go and CHAP. XLVI. 11 And there will I nourish thee, (for see him before I die. yet there are five years of famine ;) lest You, and thy household, and all that thou A that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, his with all hast come to poverty. 12 And behold, your eyes see, and the and offered sacrifices unto the God of his eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my father Isaac. mouth that speaketh unto you. 13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither. 2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob! and he said, Here am I. seen: 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him. 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 also surely bring thee up again : and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their 16 T And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren father, and their little ones, and their are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had and his servants. sent to carry him. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Ca 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; naan; : 18 And take your father, and your house- 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and 19 Now thou art commanded, this do dren of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jaye; take you wagons out of the land of cob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstEgypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. born. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 21 And the children of Israel did so and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 10 ¶ And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, And the sons of Levi; Gershon, 22 To all of them he gave each man Joseph goes to meet Jacob. CHAP. XLVII. Jacob confers with Pharaoh. Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Za-were in the land of Canaan, are come unto rah: but Er and Onan died in the land of me : Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were 32 And the men are shepherds, for their Hezron, and Hamul. trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. 13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 ¶ And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These be the sons of Leah, which What is your occupation? she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his trade hath been about cattle from our youth sons and his daughters were thirty and three. even until now, both we, and also our fa16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and thers: that ye may dwell in the land of Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomiand Areli. nation unto the Egyptians. CHAP. XLVII. 17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Se-Haid, My father and my brethren, HEN and told the sons of Beriah ;| rab their sister. and their flocks, and their herds, and all 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom that they have, are come out of the land of Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and these Canaan; and behold, they are in the land she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. of Goshen. 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Phah. 20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest What is your occupation? And they said of On bare unto him. unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the 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 servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, 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. 33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which, 6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and the best of the land make thy father and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls 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 over my cattle. were seven. 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his fawere threescore and six; ther, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 27 And the sons of Joseph which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. 28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a 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 blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now 11 T And Joseph placed his father and let me die, since I have seen thy face, be- his brethren, and gave them a possession cause thou art yet alive. in the land of Egypt, in the best of the 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh and unto his father's house, I will go up, had commanded. and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My 12 And Joseph nourished his father, brethren, and my father's house, whichland his brethren, and all his father's 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen; and presented himself unto him: and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. Joseph's dealing in the famine. GENESIS. household, with bread according to their land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of had possessions therein, and grew, and Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they multiplied exceedingly. 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 Pharaoh's house. seventeen years: so the whole age of Ja28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt cob was a hundred forty and seven years. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all must die: and he called his son Joseph, 29 And the time drew nigh that Israel the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, and said unto him, If now I have found Give us bread: for why should we die in grace in thy sight, put, thy presence? for the money faileth. and truly with me; bury me not, I pray hand under my thigh, and deal kindly pray thee, thy thee, in Egypt: I 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury 30 But I will lie with my fathers, and me in their burying-place. And he said, will do as thou hast said. 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave tnem bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and I for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread, for all their he sware unto him. And Israel bowed 31 And he said, Swear unto me: and cattle, for that year. himself upon the bed's head. CHAP. XLVIII. came unto him the second year, and said at one told Joseph, Behold, thy 18 When that year was ended, they ND it came these unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my father is sick: and he took with him his lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands: 2 T And one told Jacob, and said, Beand Israel strengthened himself, and sat hold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: upon the bed. Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will 20 And Joseph bought all the land of make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold I will make of thee a multitude of people; every man his field, because the famine and will give this land to thy seed after prevailed over them: so the land became thee, for an everlasting possession. Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed and Manasseh, which were born unto thee 5 And now, thy two sons, Ephraim them to cities from one end of the borders in the land of Egypt, before I came unto of Egypt even to the other end thereof. thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben 22 Only the land of the priests bought and Simeon, they shall be mine. 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. 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 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. ones. 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 after them, shall be thine, and shall be 6 And thy issue, which thou begettest called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. Padan, Rachel died by me I said, Who are these? 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They for age, so that he could not see :) And he 44 Jacob blesses Joseph's sons: He blesses his own sons. CHAP. XLIX. brought them near unto him; and he kiss- 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not exed them, and embraced them. cel; because thou wentest up to thy fa11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had ther's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went not thought to see thy face: and lo, God up to my couch. hath shewed me also thy seed. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; in12 And Joseph brought them out from struments of cruelty are in their habitabetween his knees, and he bowed himself tions. with his face to the earth. 60 my soul, come not thou into their 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, be not thou united! for in their anger they and Manasseh in his left hand toward Is- slew a man, and in their self-will they rael's right hand, and brought them near digged down a wall. unto him. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was 14 And Israel stretched out his right fierce: and their wrath, for it was cruel: hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter who was the younger, and his left hand them in Israel. upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands 8 ¶ Judah, thou art he whom thy brethwittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. ren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, neck of thine enemies; thy father's chilGod, before whom my fathers Abraham dren shall bow down before thee. and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 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? 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 Isaac: and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 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. 17 And when Joseph saw that his fa- 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and ther laid his right hand upon the head of his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held washed his garments in wine, and his up his father's hand, to remove it from clothes in the blood of grapes: Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 12 His eyes 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 a haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. 14 ¶ Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens: 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shal! 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. 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. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 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 LORD! out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. CHẤP XLIX. 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 horseheels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O 19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him : but he shall overcome at the last. 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be ND Jacob called unto his sons, and fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. A said. Gather yourselves together, that 21 ¶ Naphtali is a hind let loose: he I may tell you that which shall befall you giveth goodly words. in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 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 strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: |
