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min, that it is my mouth that g ch. 42. 23. speaketh unto you.

13 And ye shall tell my father of

all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ve have seen: and ye shall

Before CHRIST

1706

1706.

a ch. 21. 31, 33. & 28. 10. b ch. 26. 24,

haste, and h bring down my father h Acts 7. 14. 25. & 28. 13. hither.

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.

16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his

servants.

T

Heb. was good in the

Pharaoh. ch. 41. 37.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Jo-eyes of seph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canuan;

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 i the fat i of the land.

19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt 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.

ch. 27. 28.

Num. 18. 12, 29.

& 31. 42. ch. 15. 1. Job 33. 14, 15.

d ch. 28. 13.

e ch. 12. 2. Deut. 26. 5. I ch. 28. 15. & 48. 21.

ch. 15. 16. 50. 13, 24,

25. Ex. 3. 8. h ch. 50. 1.

Acts 7. 15.

kch. 45. 19,

21.

who goeth into Egypt. 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 aive: I will go and see him before I die.

CHAPTER XLVI.

1 Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-sheba: 5 Thence he with his company goeth into Egypt. 8 The number of his family that went into Egypt. 28 Joseph meeteth Jacob. 31 He instructeth his brethren how to answer to Pharaoh.

AND

ND Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to a Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices b unto the God of his father Isaac.

2 And God spake unto Israel e in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, 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 e make of thee a great nation:

4 f I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely g bring thee up again: and h Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

5 And Jacob rose up from Beer. sheba: 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.

6 And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Caanan, and came Deut. 26.5. into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him;

Josh. 24. 4.

Ps. 105.23.

Is. 52. 4.

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22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and k five changes k ch. 43. 34. of raiment.

23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses † laden + Heb.

with the good things of Egypt, and carrying. 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 1 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. 1 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

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n Num. 26. 5.

1 Chr. 5. 1.

o Ex. 6. 15.

1 Chr. 4. 24.

Or, Nemuel.

Or, Jarib.

1 Or, Zerah. 1 Chr. 4. 24. 1 Chr. 6.

16. Or, Gershom. 1 Chr. 2. 3. & 4. 21.

r ch. 38. 3, 7, 10.

s ch. 38. 29.

1 Chr 2. 5.

I Chr. 7. 1. Or, Puah, and Jashub.

a Num. 26. 15, &c. Zephon. Or, Ozni. Or, Arod.

x 1 Chr. 7. 30.

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 m these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: n Reuben, Jacob's first-born.

9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10 T And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

11 And the sons of p Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of q Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but r Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul.

13 t 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 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; u Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and' || Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

17 x And the sons of Asher;

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Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and]
Berial, and Serah their sister. And CHRIST
1706.
the sons of Beriah; Heber, and
Malchiel.

18 y These are the sons of Zilpah, y ch. 30. 10. whom Laban gave to Leah hisz ch. 29. 24. daughter and these she bare unto

Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, a Jacob's a ch. 44. 27. wife, Joseph, and Benjamin.

20 Tb And unto Joseph in the b ch. 41. 50. land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah || priest of On bare unto him.

21 c And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, 'd Ehi, and Rosh, e Muppim, and || Huppim, and Árd.

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 g And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These are the sons of Bilhah, i which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

26 k All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his † loins, 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 all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

Or, prince.

c 1 Chr. 7. 6.
& 8. 1.
d Num. 26.
38, Ahiram.

e Num. 26.
39, Shu-
pham.

Before CHRISTI 1706.

1706.

a ch.46.31.

b ch. 45. 10.
& 46. 28.

He presenteth him to Pharaoh.

11

CHAPTER XLVII. Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 7 and his father, before Pharaoh. He giveth them habitation and maintenance. 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.

THEN 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 b the land of Goshen.

2 And he took some of his brec Acts 7. 13. thren, even five men, and c presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said unto his

Chr. 7. 12, ch. 46. 33. brethren, d What is your occupation? And they saia unto Pharaoh, e Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

Shuppim.
Hupham,
Num. 26. 39. e ch. 46. 34.
f 1 Chr. 7.

12.

Or,
Shuham,
Num. 26. 42.

1 Chr. 7.

13.
h ch. 30. 5, 7.

i ch. 29. 29.
k Ex. 1. 5.

Heb.thigh.
ch. 35. 11.

Deut. 26. 5.

4 They said moreover unto Phaf ch. 15. 13. raoh, f For to sojourn in the land are we come for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks, g for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants h dwell in the land of Goshen.

g ch. 43. 1.

Acts 7. 11.
h ch. 46. 34.

i ch. 20. 15.

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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; 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 his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

+ Heb. How†

many are the
days of the
years of thy
life?
Heb. 11. 9,
13. Ps.39.12.

PNow let me die, since I have seen p So Luke 2. m Job 14. 1.
thy face, because thou art yet alive 29, 30.
31 And Joseph said unto his bre-

thren, and unto his father's house,

I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, q ch. 47. 1.

and say unto him, My brethren,

and my father's house, which were

in the land of Canaan, are come

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In ch. 25. 7.
& 35. 28.

o ver. 7.

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for their trade hath been to feed
cattle; and they have brought their are men of
flocks, and their herds, and all that cattle.
they have.

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and

Or, as a

shall say, r What is your occupar ch. 47. 2, 3. little child is

tion?

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nourished.
+ Heb. ac-
cording to
the little
ones
ch. 50. 21.

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, 1The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: m few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and n have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob o blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

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 Rameses, 4 as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and ail his father's household, with bread It according to their families.

13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, rso that the land of Egypt, and all the land of Canaan, fainted by reason of the famine.

14 And Joseph gathered up all rch. 41. 30. the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they

Acts 7. 11.

ch. 41. 56.

The Egyptians sell their land. bought and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

GENESIS.

Before CHRIST

1702.

15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came: unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread for why should we diet ver. 19. 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 Heb. led 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.

them.

1701.

2 Sam. 8. 18.

22 u Only the land of the || priests u Ezra 7. 24. bought he not; for the priests had Or,princes. a portion assigned them of Pha-ch. 41. 45. raoh, 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 ones.

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: x let us find grace x ch. 33. 15. 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; y except the land of the y ver. 22.

Before

Joseph visiteth his sick father. Egypt seventeen years: so † the CHRIST whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

1689.

+ Heb. the days of the years of his life. See ver. 9. So Deut.

31. 14.

29 And the time b drew 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 d deal kindly and tru1 Kings 2. 1.ly with me; e bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

c ch. 24. 2.

d ch. 24. 49. Je So ch. 50. 25.

12 Sam. 19. 37.

gch. 49. 29. & 50. 5, 13.

h ch. 48. 2.

1 Kings 1.47. Heb. 11. 21.

1689.

30 But I will lie with my fa thers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and g 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 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 them. 3 He repeateth the pro mise. 5 He taketh Ephraim and Ma nasseh 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 things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

? And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at a ch. 28. 13,a Luz in the land of Canaan, and 19. & 35. 6, blessed me, 9, &c.

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5 T 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.

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.

7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, dRachel 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

priests only, which became not Or,princes. So ch. 33. ther, e They are my sons, whom

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Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons

CHAPTER XLIX.

unto him; and b he kissed them, | Before and embraced them.

CHRIST 1689.

h ch. 27. 27.

11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and lo, God hath shewed me also ich. 45. 26. 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 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 hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first

born.

k

15 T And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, m before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

16 The Angel n 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 tgrow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

1

k ver. 19.

Heb. 11. 21.

mch. 17. 1.

& 24. 40.

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17 And when Joseph saw that his father P laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it || displeased him and he held up his father's P ver. 14. hand, to remove it from Ephraim's his eyes.

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.

Before CHRIST 1689.

c Ps. 34. 11.

d ch. 29. 32. eDeut.21.17.

Ps. 78. 51. + Heb.do not thou excel.

f1 Chr. 5. 1. g ch. 35. 22. 1 Chr. 5. 1. Deut. 27. 20.

Or, my couchisgone. h ch. 29. 33,

34.

Prov. 18. 9. | Or, their swords are

weapons of

violence.

k ch. 34. 25. Prov. 1. 15,

16.

m Ps. 26. 9. Eph. 5. 11. Ps. 16. 9. & 30. 12. & 57. 8.

o ch. 34. 26.

His last prophetic blessing hear, ye sons of Jacob; and c hearken unto Israel your father.

3 Reuben, thou art d my firstborn, my might, e and the begin ning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

4 Unstable as water, †f thou shalt not excel; because thoug wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

5 h Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

60 my soul, I come not thou into their secret; m unto their assembly, n mine honour, be not thou united! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce and their wrath, for it was cruel: P I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

8 T q Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; r thy Or, hough-hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

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u Num. 23. was evil in24. & 24. 9. x Num. 24. 17. Jer. 30.

ch. 28. 8.

19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know q ver. 14. it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall r Num. 1. be greater than he, and his seed 33, 35. & 2. shall become a multitude of na-19, 21. Deut. tions.

33. 17. Rev. 7. 6, 8.

Heb.

20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, fulness. saying, God make thee as Ephraims So Ruth 4. and as Manasseh: and he set E-11, 12. phraim before Manasseh.

21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be t ch. 46. 4. with you, and bring you again unto & 50. 24. the land of your fathers.

21. Zech. 10.

11.

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9 Judah is ta lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: u 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 y a lawgiver z from between his feet, a until Shiloh come: b and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

11 c 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 Te 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.

14 Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed f his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

16 Tg Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 h 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.

22 Moreover ul have given to u Josh.24.32. thee one portion above thy bre-1 Chr. 5. 2. thren, which I took out of the hand John 4. 5. x of the Amorite with my sword xch. 15. 16. Josh. 19. 10, tion, O LORD! and with my bow.

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19 Tk Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

20 TI Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

21 1 m Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

22 T Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well,

1 Deut.33.24. Josh. 19. 24. m Deut. 33.23.

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burial in Canaan. Before and the Egyptians †d mourned for CHRIST him threescore and ten days.

1689.

Heb. wept. d Num. 20.

Heb. daughters. ch. 37. 4. 29. Deut.34. 24, 28. & 39.8. 20. & 42. 21.e Esth. 4. 2. Ps. 118. 13.

Job 29. 20. fch. 47. 29. Ps. 37. 15. p Ps. 132.2,5.

ch. 45. 11.52 Chr. 16. 14. Is. 22.16. & 47. 12. & Matt. 27. 60.

50.21.

r

25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, x who shall bless Ps. 80. 1. thee with blessings of heaven as Is. 28. 16. bove, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb:

ch. 28. 13, 21. & 35. 3.

& 43. 23. u ch. 17. 1.

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26 The blessings of thy father & 35. 11. have prevailed above the bless-x Deut. 33. ings of my progenitors, y 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.

z Deut. 33.

16.

27 Benjamin shall a raven as a a Judg. 20. wolf; in the morning he shall de-21, 25. Ezek. vour the prey, b 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.

22. 25, 27.

b Num. 23. 24. Esth. 8.

11. Ezek. 39. 10. Zech. 14. 1, 7.

29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be ga-c ch. 15. 15. thered unto my people: dbury & 25. 8: me with my fathers e in the cave 2 Sam. 19. that is in the field of Ephron the 37. Hittite,

30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan,

d ch. 47. 30.

e ch. 50. 13.

b 2 Sam. 1.
17. Acts 8.2.

i1 Sam. 31.

13. Job 2. 13.

That is, the mourn

Egyptians.

f which Abraham bought with the f ch. 23. 16.ing of the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.

31 (g There they buried Abrahamg ch. 23. 19. and Sarah his wife; h there they & 25. 9. buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; h ch. 35. 29. and there I buried Leah.)

32 The purchase of the field and

of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth.

33 And when Jacob had made

an end of commanding his sons, he

gathered up his feet into the bed,

and yielded up the ghost, and i was i ver. 29. gathered unto his people.

CHAPTER L.

I The mourning for Jacob. 4 Joseph getteth leave of Pharaoh to go to 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. 25 He taketh an oath of them for his bones. 26 He dieth, and is chested.

AND Joseph a fell upon his father's face, and b'wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to c embalm his father and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed:

a ch. 46. 4.

2 Kings 13. 14.

c ver. 26.

2 Chr. 16.

14.

& 16. 1.

k ch. 49. 29,

30. Acts 7.

16.

1 ch. 23. 16.

m Job 15. 21, 22.

+ Heb. charged.

n Prov. 28. 13.

o ch. 49. 25.

Matt. 26. 12. Mark 14. 8. Luke 24. 1. & 19. 39, 40. 10. p ch 37. 7,

John 12. 7.

4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto e 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 f My father made me swear saying, Lo, 1 die in my grave g 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 threshing-floor 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.

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.

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

13 For k his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abrahamn I bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph 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 Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, m they said, Joseph will peradven ture hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

16 And they † sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

in So shall ye say unto Joseph,

Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; n for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of o 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;

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