The mourning for Jacob. GENESIS, Jacob's funeral. the horse heels, so that his rider shall those which are embalmed: and the fall backward. Egyptians mourned for him threescore 18 I have waited for thy falvation, and ten days. O LORD. 19 Gadya troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the laft. 20 Out of Asher his bread fball be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 21 Naphtali is a hind let loofe: he giveth goodly words. 22 Jofeph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23 The archers have forely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 4 And when the days of his mourn. ing were paft, paft, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, faying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, faying, 5 My father made me fwear, faying, Lo, 1 die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now there. forelet me go up, Ipray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 24 But his bow abode in ftrength, 6 And Pharaoh faid, Go up, and and the arms of his hands were made trong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the thep. herd, the ftone of Ifrael:) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Alnsighty, who shall bless thee with bleffings of heaven above, blessings of thẻ đeếp thật lieth under, bleffings of the breasts, and of the womb: 25 The bleffings of thy father have prevailed above the bleflings of my progenitors unte the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Jofeph, and on the crown of the head of him that was feparate from his brethren. 27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the ipoil. 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Ifrael: and this is it that their father fpake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blefling he blessed them, 29 And he charged them, and faid unto them, I'am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 7 And Jofeph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the fervants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 And all the house of Jofeph, and his brethren, and his father's houfe: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Gofhen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horfemen; and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great. and very fore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father, seven days. 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, faw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they faid, This is agrievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his fons did unto him accord. ing as he commanded them: 13 For his fons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which poffeffion of a burying place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. Machpelah, which is before Mamre, Abraham bought with the field for a in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. 31 There they buried Abratiam and Sarah his wife; there they buried Ifaac and Rebekah his wife; 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 fons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghoft, and was gathered unto his people. kiffed him. CHAP. L. 14 And Jofeph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and alf that went up with him to bury his fa ther, after he had buried his father. 151 And when Joseph's brethren faw that their father was dead, they faid, Jofeph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him, 16 And they fent messengers unto Jofepb, faying, Thy father did command before he died, faying, 17 So fhall ye lay unto Jofeph, Forgive, pray thee now, the trefpafs of thy brethren, and their lin; for they AND Jofeph fell upon his father's did unto thee evil; and now, we pray face, and wept upon him, and thee, forgive the trefpafs the vants of the God of thy father. And Jo*2 And Joseph commanded his fer-feph wept when they spake unto him, vants the phyficians to embalm his father: and the phyficians embalmed Brael." 18 And his brethren alfo went and fell down before his face; and they faid, Behold, we be thy fervants. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for ro And Jofeph faid unto them, Fear him; for fo are fulfilled the days of not: for am 1 11 in the place of God? Joseph's death. EXODUS. Mofes is born. 20 But as for you, ye thought evil Manaffeh were brought up upon Joagainst me; but God meant it unto seph's knees. good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to fave much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones, And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 24 And Joseph faid unto his breren, I die: and God will furely vifit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he fware to Abraham, to Ifaac, and to jacob. 25 And Jofeph took an oath of the 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, children of Ifrael, faying, God will he, and his father's house and furely vifit you, and ye shall carry up Joseph lived an hundred and ten my bones from hence. years. 26 So Jofeph died, being an hun 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's dred and ten years old: and they emchildren of the third generation: the balmed him, and he was put in a coffin children alío of Machir, the son of in Egypt. N THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED EXODUS. CHAP. L lif it be a fon, then ye shall kill him: OW these are the names but if it be a daughter, then she shalt of the children of Ifrael, live. which came into Egypt; every man and his house hold came with Jacob. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 31ffachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Amer. 5 And all the fouls that came out of the loins of Jacob, were feventy fouls: for Jofeph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 And the children of Ifrael were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them, 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he faid unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Ifrael are more and mightier than we: FO Come on, let us deal wifeiy with left they multiply, and it come to pais, that, when there falleth out any war, they join alfo unto our enemies, and fight againft us, and fo get them up out of the land. them; 1"Therefore they did fet over them taik mafters, to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treafure cities, Pithom and Raamfes. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt com. manded them, but faved the men children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and faid unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have faved the men children alive? 19 And the midwives faid unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pafs, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houfes. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, faying, Every fon that is born ye shall caft into the river, and every daughter ye shall fave alive. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a fon 1: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, the hid him three months. 12 But the more they afflicted them, 3 And when the could not longer the more they multiplied and grew, And they were grieved because of the children of Ifrael. hide him, the took for him an ark of balrushes, and daubed it with flime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and the laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Drael to ferve with rigour: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of fervice in the field: all their fervice, where-came down a to wash berself at the river; 2 in they made them ferve, was with rigour. 15 And the king of Egypt fpake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; 4 And his fifter stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh and her maidens walked along by the river's fide; and when the faw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she faw the child: and, behold, the babe 16 And he faid, When ye do the wept. And she had compaffion on office of a thidwife to the Hebrew him, and faid, This is one of the wetien, and fee them upon the ftools; Hebrews' children. Moses fleeth into Midian. EXODUS. The burning busр. 7 Then faid his fifter to Pharaoh'sland God remembered his covenant daughter, Shall I go and call to thee with Abraham, with Ifaac, and with nurse of the Hebrew women, that Jacob. she may nurse the child forthee? 25 And God looked upon the chil 8 And Pharaoh's daughter faid unto dren of Ifrael, and God had refpect her, Go. And the maid went and unto them. called the child's mother. CHAP. III. NoJethrois Jow Mofes kept father the the lack flock the of 9 And Pharaoh's daughter faid unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy priest of Midian: and he led the flock wages. And the woman took the child, to the back fide of the defert, and and nurfed it. came to the mountain of God, even to TO And the child grew, and she Horeb. brought him unto Pharaoh's daugh- 2 And the angel of the LORD apter, and he became her fon. And the peared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not confumed. 3 And Mofes faid, I will now turn called his name Mofes: and she faid, Because I drew him out of the water. 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and look-afide, and fee this great fight, why ed on their burdens: and he spied an the bush is not burnt. Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of 4 And when the LORD faw that he his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he faw that there was no man, he flew the Egyptian, and hid him in the fand. 13 And when he went out the fecond day, behold, two men of the Hebrews ftrove together: and he faid to him that did the wrong, Wherefore fmiteft thou thy fellow? turned afide to fee, God called unto him out of the midft of the bush, and faid, Mofes, Mofes! And he faid, Here am 1. 5 And he faid, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou ftandeft is holy ground. 6 Moreover he faid, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Ifaac, and the God of Jacob. And Mofes hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 14 And he faid, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendeft thou to kill me, as thou killedft the Egyptian? And Mofes feared, and faid, 7 And the LORD faid, I have furely Surely this thing is known. feen the affliction of my people which 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this are in Egypt, and have heard their cry thing, he fought to flay Mofes. But by reafon of their task matters; for I Mofes fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he fat down by a well. IÓ Now the priest of Midian had feven daughters: and they came and water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. drew 17 And the shepherds came and know their forrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and drove them away but Mofes stood the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and Mojes is fent to deliver Ifrael. CHAP. IV. up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he faid, How is it that ye are come fo foon to day? 19 And they faid, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the thepherds, and alfo drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And he faid unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Mofes was content to dwell with the man and he gave Mofes Zipporah his daughter. 22 And the bare bim a fon, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a ftranger in a ftrange land. 23 And it came to pafs in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Ifrael fighed by reafon of the bondage, and they cried; and their cry came up unto God by reafon of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning; the Jebulites, 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Ifrael is come unto me and I have alfo feen the oppreffion wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayeft bring forth my people the children of Ifrael out of Egypt. 11 And Mofes faid unto God, Who am I, that I fhould go unto Pharaoh, and that I fhould bring forth the chil. dren of Ifrael out of Egypt? 12 And he faid, Certainly I will te with thee; and this shall be a tokep unto thee, that I have fent thee: when thou haft brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall ferve God upon this mountain. 13 And Mofes faid unto God, Be. hold, when I come unto the children of Ifrael, and shall fay unto them, The God of your fathers hath fent me unto you; and they shall fay to nie, What is his name? what shall lunto them! Moses' figns. 14 And God faid unte Mofes, I AM the God of Jacob, hath appeared THAT I AM: and he faid, Thus shalt unto thee, Thou lay unto the children of Ifrael, 16 And the LORD faid furthermore AM hath fent me unto you. unto him, Put now thine hand into 15 And God faid moreover unto thy bofom. And he put his hand into Mofes. Thus shalt thou say unto the his bofom: and when he took it out, children of Ifrael, The LORD God of behold, his hand was leprous as fnow. your fathers, the God of Abraham, 7 And he faid, Put thine hand into the God of Ifaac, and the God of Ja- thy bofom again. And he put his cob, hath sent me unto you: this is hand into his bofom again, and pluckmy name for ever, and this is my meed it out of his bofom; m; and, behold, morial unto all generations. the elders of 16 Go, and gather the Hrael together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Ifaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, faying, 1 you, and jeen that which is done to you in Egypt: it was turned again as his other flesh. of 9 And it shall come to pafs, if they will not believe also these two figns, neither hearken unto thy voice, that 17 And I have faid, I will bring you thou shalt take of the water of the up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto river, and pour it upon the dry land: the land of the Canaanites, and the and the water which thou takeft out Hittites, and the Amorites, and the of the river shall become blood upon Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the the dry land. Jebufites, unto a land flowing with wilk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy ther heretofore, nor fince thou haft voice and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Ifrael, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall fay unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we befeech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may facrifice to the LORD our God. 19 And I am fure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20 And I will ftretch out my hand, and finite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midit thereof: and after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favour the fight of the Egyptians: and it all come to pass, that, when ye go, ye fhall not go en:pty: 12 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that foyuraeth in her house, jewels of filver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your fons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall mail the Egyptians. CHAP. IV. AND Mofes anfwered and faid, But, behold, they will not believe ne, nor hearken unto iny voice: for they will fay, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee. 10 And Mofes faid unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, nei fpoken unto thy fervant: but I am flow of speech, and of a flow tongue. II And the LORD faid unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the feeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? 12 Now, therefore, go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. 13 And he faid, O my Lord, fend, I pray thee, by the hand of him wham thou wilt fend. 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Mofes, and he faid, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can fpeak well. And alfo, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he feeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. 15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth and 1 will be with the mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. 16 And he shall be thy fpokesman unto the people and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a him inftead mouth, and thou shalt be to of God. 17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do figns. 2 And the LORD faid unto him, 18 And Mofes went and returned to That is that in thine hand? And he A tod. Jethro his father in law, and faid unto him, Let me go, 1 pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and fee whether they be yet alive. And Jethro faid to Mofes, Go in peace. 4 And the LORD faid unto Mofcs, 19 And the LORD faid unto Mofes Path thine hand, and take it by in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for tail. And he put forth his hand, all the men are dead which fought ght it, and it became a rod in thy life. 20 And Mofes took his wife and his 5. That they may believe that the fons, and fet them itponan afs, and he Go of their fathers, the God returned to the land of Egypt: and 1 the God of Ifaac, and Motes took the rod of Godin his hand Band: E EXODUS. The Ifraelites' task increased. Deliverance promised. 21 And the Lordfaid unto Mofes, 8 And the tale of the bricks, which When thou goeft to return into Egypt, they did make heretofore, fee that thou do all those wonders upon them; ye ye thall lay shall not diminish aught before Pharaoh, which I have put in thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and facri thine hand: but I will harden his ple go. 22 And thou shalt fay unto Pharaoh, Thus faith the LORD, Ifrael is my fon, even my first born: 23 And I lay unto thee, Let my fon go, that he may ferve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will flay thy fon, even thy first born. 24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and fought to kill him. 125 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the forefkin of her fon, and caft it at his feet, and faid, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. 26 30 he let him go: then the faid, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcifion. 27 And the LORD faid to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Mofes. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. 28 And Mofes told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had fent him, and all the figns which he had comimanded him. 29 And Mofes and Aaron wentand gathered together all the elders of the children of Ifrael: 30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the fight of the people.. 9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. 10 And the taskmafters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, faying, Thus faith Pharaoh, I will not give you ftraw. 11 Goye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished. 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of ftraw. 13 And the taskmafters hafted them, faying, Fulfil your works, your daily taiks, as when there was ftraw. 14 And the officers of the children of Ifrael, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had fet over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore? 15 Then the officers of the children of Ifrael came and cried unto Pharaob, faying, Wherefore dealeft thou thus with thy fervants? 16 There is nostraw given unto thy fervants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy fervants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. 17 But he faid, Ye are idle, ye are 31 And the people believed and idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and when they heard that the LORD had do facrifice to the LORD vifited the children of Ifrael, and that 18 Go therefore now, and work; for he had looked upon their affliction, there shall no ftraw be given you, yet then they bowed their heads and wor-shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. shipped. CHAP. V. AND afterwards Mofes and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, Let my people go, that they may hold a feaft unto me in the wildernefs. 2 And Pharaoh faid, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let frael go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Ifrael go. 3 And they faid, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days journey into the defert, and facrifice untothe LORD our God; left he fall upon us with peftilence, or with the fword. 4 And the king of Egypt faid unto them, Wherefore do ye, Mofes and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 19 And the officers of the children of Ifrael did fee that they were in evil cafe, after it was faid, Ye shall not minith aught from your bricks of your daily task. 20 Andthey met Mofes and Aaron, who ftood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: 21 And they faid unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; be. cause ye have made our favour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his fervants, to put a fword in their hands to flay us. 22 And Mofes returned unto the LORD, and faid, LORD, wherefore haft thou to evil entreated this people? why is it that thou haft fent me? 23 For fince I came to Pharaoh to fpeak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither haft thou delivered thy people at ali. CHAP. VI. THEN the LORD faid unto Mofes, 5 And Pharaoh faid, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them reft from their burdens. 61 And Pharaoh commanded the Now halt thou see what I will do fame day the tafk-mafters of the peo-to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand ple, and their officers, faying, mall he let them and with strong hand shall he drive them out mereve the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for them. felves. of his land. 2 And God spake unto Mofes, and fald unte him, 1 am the LORD: |