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entertainetb bis brethren. CHAP. XLIV. The cup in Benjamin's fack. 25 And he faid, Peace be to you, drinketh, and whereby indeed he di

fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your facks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

24 And the man brought the men Into Jofeph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet: and he gave their affes provender.

25 And they made ready the prefent againft Jofeph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. 26 And when Jofeph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and howed themselves to him to the earth.

27 And he asked them of their wel. fare, and faid, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye fpake? Is he yet alive?

28 And they answered, Thy fervant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their beads, and made obeifance.

29 And he lifted up his eyes, and faw his brother Benjamin, his mother's fon, and faid, Is this your Younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he faid, God be graclous unto thee, my fon.

30 And Joseph made halte; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he fought where to weep: and he enter edinte bis chamber, and wept there.

31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himfelf, and faid, Set on bread.

vinoth? ye have done evil in so doing, 6 And he overtook them, and he fpake unto them thefe fame words.

7 And they faid unto him, Wherea fore faith my lord these words? God forbid that thy fervants should do aca cording to this thing.

8 Behold, the money, which we found in our facks' mouths, we brought

again unto thee out of the land
naan: how then should we fleal out of
thy lord's house filver or gold ?

9 With whomfoever of thy fervants it be found, both let him die, and we alfo will be my lord's bondmen.,

10 And he faid, Now alfo let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my fervant; and ye shall be blameless.,

If Then they fpeedily took down every man his fack to the ground, and opened every man his fack.

12 And he fearched, and began at the eldelt, and left at the youngefl: and the cup was found in Benjamin's fack, 13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his afs, and re turned 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 Jofeph faid unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that fuch a man as I can certainly divine?

32 And they fet on for him by him. felf, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyp-felves? God hath found out the ini

tians might not eat bread with the Bebrews; for that is an abomination anto the Egyptians.

33 And they fat before him, the firit born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at

another.

34 And he took and fent messes unto them from before hime but Benja min's mefs was five times fo much as any of their's. And they drank, and were merry with him.

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CHAP. XLIV:

ND he commanded the steward of his houfe, faying, Fill the men's facks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his fack's mouth.

2 And put my cup, the filver cup, in the fack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did aconrding to the word that Jofeph had ipoken.

3 As foon as the morning was light, the men were fent away, they and their affes.

4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Jofeph faid unto his fteward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou doft overtake

um, fay unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

51: not this it in which my lord

16 And Judah faid, What shall we fay unto my lord? what shail we fpeaker how shall we clear ourquity of thy fervants: behold, we are my lord's fervants, both we, and be alfo with whom the cup is found.

17 And he faid, God forbid that I should do fo: but the man in whofe hand the cup is found, he shall be my fervant; and as for you, get ye up in peace unto your father.

18 Then Judah came near unte him, and faid, Oh my lord, let thy fervänt, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy fervant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

19 My lord afked his servants, faying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

20 And we faid unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

21 And thou faidst unto thy fervants, Bring him down unto me, that I niay fet mine eyes upon him.

22 And we faid unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, bis father would die.

23 And thou saidft unto thy fer. vants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye e shall fee my face no more.

24 And it came to pass, when we Joseph makets bienfelf known. GENESIS.

He fendeth for his father. came up unto thy fervant my father, lof all his house, and a ruler throughwe told him the words of my lord. out all the land of Egypt.

25 And our father faid, Go again,

and buy us a little food.

26 And we faid, We cannot go down; if our youngeft brother be with us, then will we go down for we may not fee the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and fay unto him, Thus faith thy fon Jofeph, God hath made me lord of ali Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

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, and all that thou haft: 11. And there will I nourish thee; for 28 And the one went out from me, yet there are five years of famine; left

27 And thy fervant my father faid unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two fons:

and I faid, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I faw him not fince:

20 And if ye take this also from me, and mifckief befal him, ye small bring down my gray hairs with forrow to the grave.

30 Now therefore when I come to thy fervant my father, and the lad be not with us; feeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

31 It shall come to pass, when he feeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy fervant shall bring down the gray hairs of thy fervant our father with forrow to the grave.

32 For thy fervant became furety for the lad unto my father, faying, 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 fervant abide inftead 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 met left peradventure I fee the evil that small come on my father. CHAP. XLV.

THEN fephe could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me, And ftood no man with him, while Jofeph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard,

3 And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? and his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his prefence.

thou, and thy household, and all that thou haft, come to poverty.

12 And, behold, your eyes fee, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that tis my mouth that speaketh unto you 13 And ye ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have feen, and ye thall hafte, and, bring down my father hither.

14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Ben. jamin wept upon his neck.

15 Moreover, he kiffed all his brows thren, 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 pleated Pharaoh well, and his fervants.

17 And Pharaob faid, unto Jofeph,, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye, lade your beafts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

18 And take your father and your housetiolds, and come unto me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

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19 Now thou art commanded, thirdo ye; Take you waggons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

20 Alfo regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's..

21 And the children of Ifrach did fo: and Jofeph gave them waggons according to the commandment of 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 hundred pieces of filver,

4 And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And and five changes of raiment, they came near. And he faid, I Jofeph your brother, whom ye fold into Egypt.

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5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye fold me bither: for God did fend me before you to preferye life.

6 For thefe two years bath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there spall neither be earing nor harvest.

7 And God fent me before you to preferve you a pofterity in the earth, and to fave your lives by a great deli

verance.

23 And to his father he fent after this manner; ten afies laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten sae asses laden with corn and bread, and meat for his father by the way.

24 So he fent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

26 And told him, faying, Jofeph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

8 So now it was not you that fent 27 And they told him all the words me hither, but God and he hath of Jofeph, which he had faid unto made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord them; and when he saw the waggons

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CHAP. XLVII. Jofeph meeteth bim. which Jofeph had sent to carry him, Ephraim, which Afenath the daughter the fpirit of Jacob their father revived: of Poti-pherah priest of On, bare unto

28 And Ifrael faid, It is enough; him.

Joseph my fon is yet alive: 1 will go 21 And the fons of Benjamin were and fee him before I die.

CHAP. XLVI.

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ND lfrael took his journey with
all that he had, and came to Beer-
fheba, and offered facrifices unto the
God of his father Ifaac.

2 And God fpake unto Ifrael in the vifions of the night, and faid, Jacob, Jacuh! And he faid, Here am 1,

3 And he faid, 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 theer into Egypt: and 1 will alfo furely bring thee ap again and Jofeph hall put his hand upon thine eyes.

Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naainan, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the fons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the fouls were fourteen.

23 And the fons of Dan; Hushim. 24. And the fons of Naphtali; Jah. zeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the fons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and the bare these unto Jacob: all the fouls were leven...

26 All the fouls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, befides jacob's fons' wives, all the fouls were threefcore and fix;

27 And the fons of Jofeph, which were born him in Egypt, were two fouls: all the fouls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threefcore and ten.

5 And Jacob rofe up from Beersheba: and the fons of Ifrael, carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh had fent to caary bim. 6 And they took their cattle, and 28 And he fent Judah before him their goods, which they had gotten in unto Jofeph, to direct his face unto the land of Canaan, and came into Gofhen; and they came into the land Egypt, Jacob, and all his feed with him: of Goshen.

7 His fons and his fons' fons with 20 And Jofeph made ready his him, his daughters, and his fons' chariot, and went up to meet Ifrael daughters, and all his feed brought he his father, to Goshen, and presented with him into Egypt.

8 And these are the names of the Children of Ifrael, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his fons: Reuben, Jacob's first born.

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himfelf unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

30 And Ifrael faid unto Joseph, Now let me die, fince I have feen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

And the fons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phailu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 31 And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, 10 And the fons of Simeon; Je-and unto his father's house, I will ga theel, and jamin, and Ohad, and Ja-up, and thew Pharaoh, and fay unte chin, and Zohar, and Shaul the fon of him, My brethren, and my father's Canaanitish wonan.

11 And the fons of Levi, Gershon,

Kohath, and Merari.

129 And the fons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the fons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

139 And the fons of Iffachar; Tola, and Phuvas, and Job, and shimron. 14 And the fons of Zebulun; red, and Elon, and Jahleel.

house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. 33 And it shall come to pafs, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shail say, What is your occupation?

34 That ye shall fay, Thy fervants Se-trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and

15 These be the fons of Leah, which alfo our fathers that ye may dwell in the bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, the land of Goshen; for every hepherd with his daughter Dinah: all the fouls is an abomination unto the Egyptians. of his fous, and his daughters were

thirty and three.

CHAP. XLVII.

And the fons of Gad; Ziphion, THE Jeph came and told Pha

and Haggai, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

17 And the fons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Ifui, and Beriah, and Serah their fiffer: and the fons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

18 These are the fons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughfer; and these she bare unto Jacob, even fixteen fouls.

191 The fons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

raoh, and faid, 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 the land of Gofhen. 2 And he took fome of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh faid unto his bre. thren, What is your occupation? And they faid unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and alfo our fathers.

20 And unto Joseph in the land of 4. They faid moreover unto PhaEgypt were born Manaffeh and rach, For to fo ourn in the land are we Jofeph's dealing in the famine: GENESIS. be whiteth bis fick father. come; for thy fervants have no pasture, our land will be fervants unto Pharaoh: for their flocks; for the famine is fore and give us feed that we may live, and in the land of Canaan: now therefore, not die, that the land be not defolate. we pray thee, let thy fervants dwell in 20 And Jofeph bought all the land of the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Jofeph, faying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee;

Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians fold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: fo the land became Pharaoh's.

21 And as for the people, he remo ved them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other

6 The land of Egyptis before thee: in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou send thereof.

knoweft any men of activity among 22 Only the land of the priests bought them, then make them rulers over my the not; for the priests had a portion

cattle.

7. And Jofeph brought in Jacob his father, and fet him before Pharaoh and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh faid unto Jacob, How old art thou?

affigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them wherefore they fold not their

lands.

23 Then Jofeph faid unto the peo. ple; Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, bere is feed for you, and ye shall fow the land. 24 And it thall come to pafs in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall

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 attained unto the days of the years of the life of my be your own, for feed of the field, and fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. for your food, and for them of your 10 And Jacob bleffed Pharaoh, and houfeholds, and for food for your little went out from before Pharaoh.

ones.

11 And Jofeph placed his father 25 And they faid, Thou haft faved and his brethren, and gave them a pof- our lives, let us find grace in the fight feffion in the land of Egypt, in the of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's best of the land, in the land of Rame-fervants.

fes, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according 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 tamine.

26 And Jofeph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

27 And Ifrael dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goften; and they had poffeffions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of: Egypt feventeen years: fo the whole

14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of age of Jacob was an hundred forty and Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for seven years. the corn which they bought: and Jo- 29 And the time drew nigh that If foph brought the money into Pha-rael muft die; and he called his fon Joraoh's house. feph, and taid unto him, If now I have 15 And when money failed in the found grace in thy fight, put, I pray land of Egypt, and in the land of thee, thy hand under my my thigh, and Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto deal kindly and truly with with me ; bury Jofeph, and faid, Give us bread: for me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: why should we die in thy prefence? 30 But I will lie with my fathers; and for the money faileth. thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and 16 And Jofeph Jofep faid, Give your cat-bury me in their burying place. tle; and I will give you for your cat-hotaid, I will do as thou haft faid. Bie, if money fail.

17 And they brought their cattle unto Jofeph: and Jofeph gave them bread in exchange for hortes, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the affes: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

18 When that year was 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; Lay lord alfo hath our herds of cattle there is not aught left in the fight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 19 Wherefore thall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buv us,and our land for bread, and we and

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31 Aud he faid, Swear unto me. And he fware unto him. And Ifrael bowed himself upon the bed's head. CHAP. XLVII.

AND it came to pas after there

things, that one told Jofeph, Beshold, thy father is htk: and he took with hint his two fons, Manafleh and Ephraim.

2 And onr told Jacob, and faid, Behold, thy fon Jofeph cometh unto thee; and Ifrael ftrengthened himfelf, and fak upon the bed.

3And Jacob faid unto Jofeph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and bleffed me, unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee,

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And faid

Jatob bleffeth Jofepb'sjons: CHAP. XLIX. be blesseth his own fons. and I will make of thee a multitude of 20 And he bleffed them that day, people; and will give this land to thy faying, In thee shall Israel bless, fayfeed after thee for an everlasting pof-ing, God make thee as Ephraim and fetion. as Manaffeh: and he fet Ephraim

5 And now thy two fons, Ephraim before Manaffeh. and Manaffeh, which were born unto 21 And Ifrael faid unto Joseph, thee in the land of Egypt, before 1 Behold, I die: but God shall be with came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: you, and bring you again unto the as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be land of your fathers.

mine,

22 Moreover I have given to thee 6 And thy iffue, which thou begetteft one portion above thy brethren, which after them, thall be thine, and shall be I took out of the hand of the Amorite called after the name of their brethren with my fword and with my bow. in their inheritance.

CHAP. XLIX.

7 And as for me, when I came from AND Jacob called unto his fons, and

Padan, Rachel died by me in the land faid, Gather yourselves together, of Canaan, in the way, when yet there that I may tell you that which shall was but a little way to come unto befal you in the last days.

Ephrath: and I buried her there in 2 Gather yourselves together, and the way of Ephrath; the fame is Beth-lehem.

hear, ye fons of Jacob; and hearken unto Ifrael your father.

8 And Ifrael beheld Joseph's fons, 3 Reuben, thou art my first born, and faid, Who are these? my might, and the beginning of my 9 And Jofeph faid unto his father, strength, the excellency of dignity. They are my fons, whom God hath and the excellency of power: given me in this place. And he faid, 4 Unftable as water, thou shalt not Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and excel; because thou wenteft up to thy I will bless them.

father's bed; then defiledft thou it:

10 Now the eyes of Ifrael were dim he went up to my couch. for age, so that he could not fee. And 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; he brought them near unto him; and inftruments of cruelty are in their he killed them, and embraced them. habitations.

11 And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, 160 my foul, come not thou into had not thought to fee thy face; and, their secret; unto their afsembly, lo, God hath shewed me also thy feed. mine honour, be not thou united: for 12 And Jofeph brought them out in their anger they flew a man, and in from between his knees, and he bowed their felf will they digged down a wall. himself with his face to the earth. 7. Cursed be their anger, for it was 13 And Jofeph took them both, fierce; and their wrath, for it was Ephraim in his right hand toward cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and irael's left hand, and Manaffeh in his fcatter them in Ifrael. left hand toward Ifrael's right hand, 8 Judah, thou art be whom thy and brought them near unto him. brethren shall praise: thy hand ball 14 And Ifrael ftretched out his right be in the neck of thine enemies; thy hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's father's children shall bow down be.. head, who was the younger, and his fore thee.

left hand upon Manaffeh's head, guid-9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the ing his hands wittingly; for Manaffeh prey, my fon, thou art gone up: he was the first born.

ftooped down, he couched as a lion, 15 And he bleffed Jofeph, and faid, and as an old lion; who shall rouse God before whom my fathers Abraham him up? and Ifaac did walk, the God which fed 10 The fceptre shall not depart from me all my life long unto this day, Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his 16 The angel which redeemed me feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him from all evil, bless the lads; and let shall the gathering of the people be. my name be named on them, and the II Binding his foal unto the vine, name of my fathers Abraham and and his aff's colt unto the choice vine; Ifaac; and let them grow into a mul-he washed his garments in wine, anti titude in the midft of the earth,

17 And when Joseph faw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it difpleased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manafieh's head.

his clothes in the blood of grapes;
12 His eyes shall be red with wine,
and his teeth white with milk.

13 Zebulun shall dwell at the ha
ven of the fea; and he shall be for an
haven of ships; and his border shall be
unto Zidon.
14 Iffachar is a strong afs couching

18 And Joseph faid uuto his father, Not fo, my father: for this is the first down between two burdens: born; put thy right hand upon his head. 15 And he faw that rest was good, 19 And his father refused, and faid, and the land that it was pleafant; ana I know it, my fon, I know it: he alfo bowed his shoulder to bear, and befall become a people, and he alfo came a servant unto tribute...

shall be great: but truly his younger 16 Dan shall judge his people, as brother thall be greater than he, and one of the tribes of Ifrael. Sis feed fhall become a multitude of 17 Dan shall be a ferpent by the matibtis. Iway, an adder in the path: that biteth

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