CHAP. XLVII. TH change for horses, and for the flocks, and for HEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and and said, My father, and my brethren, he fed them with bread for all their cattle for and their flocks, and their herds, and all that that year. they have, are come out of the land of Ca-| 18 When that year was ended, they came 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine 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 21 And as for the people, he removed them best of the land make thy father and bre-to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt thren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let even to the other end thereof. 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? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of 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. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 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. 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. 11 ¶ And Joseph placed his father and his land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh 27¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, 13 ¶ And there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt, and all the land of Canaan, fainted by reason of the famine. 22 Only the land of the priests bought 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 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. 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 in crease, 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. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time 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 deal kindly and truly with me; 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy pre-shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in sence? for the money faileth. their burying-place. And he said, I will do 30 But I will lie with my fathers; and thou 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and as thou hast said. I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he 17 And they brought their cattle unto sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself Joseph: and Joseph gav them bread in ex-upon the bed's head CHAP. XLVIII. AND it came to pass after these things. to Manasseh's head. that one Behold, thy is sick and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.} 2 And one told Jacob, and said. Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but tru 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Al-ly his younger brother shall be greater than mighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land he, and his seed shall become a multitude of of Canaan, and blessed me, nations. 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. 5 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 hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head un 8 ¶ And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. CHAP. XLIX. after the name of their brethren in their in- AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, yourselves together, that I may heritance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Pa- tell you that which shall befall you in the last dan, Rachel died by me in the land of Ca-days. naan in the way, when yet there was but Gather yourselves together and hear, ye little way to come unto Ephrath and 1 bu-sons of Jacob and hearken unto Israel your ried her there in the way of Ephrath; the father. same is Beth-lehem. 31 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 10 (Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.) And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. 12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 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 out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. 15¶ And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 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. 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 51 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their se cret; unto their assembly, 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: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8¶ Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 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 brougint them near unto him, 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, the younger, and his left hand upon Manas-he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; seh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for who shall rouse him up? Manasseh was the first-born. 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 a Il 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 eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, the sea; and he shall be for an haven of shir It displeased him: and he held up his father's and his border shall be unto Zidon. 14¶ Issachar is a strong ass couching down physicians to embalm his father: and the between two burdens: physicians embalmed Israel. 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; land that it was pleasant; and bowed his for so are fulfilled the days of those which shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. tribute. 16 T 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 horse-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 4 T And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying. If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. 19¶ Gad, a troop shall overcome him; but he shall overcome at the last. 20 ¶ Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 211 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giv-come again. eth goodly words. 21 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. I 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, die: in my grave 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 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 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, 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: (from thence is the Shepherd, the stone of Israel :) 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 let in the land of Goshen. 25 Even by the God of thy father, who 9 And there went up with him both chashall help thee; and by the Almighty, who riots and horsemen; and it was a very great shall bless thee with blessings of heaven company. above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, 10 And they came to the thrashing-floor blessings of the breasts and of the womb. of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and there 26 The blessings of thy father have pre-they mourned with a great and very sore vailed above the blessings of my progenitors lamentation: and he made a mourning for unto the utmost bound of the everlasting his father seven days. hills they shall be on the head of Joseph, 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, and on the crown of the head of him that the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the was separate from his brethren. 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: 27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf in the morning he shall devour the prey, 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. 29 And he charged them, and said 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; 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 ¶ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, 30 In the cave that is in the field of Mach- and his brethren, and all that went up with pelah, which is before Mainre, in the land him to bury his father, after he had buried of Canaan, which Abraham bought with his father. the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a posses- 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw sion of a burying-place. that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. unto him. 32 The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth. 16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command be. fore he died, saying, 33 And when Jacob had made an end of 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. CHAP. L. A ND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the I pray thee now, the trespass of thy bre thren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, the third generation: the children also of we be thy servants. Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; up upon Joseph's knees. for am I in the place of God? 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against die; and God will surely visit you, and me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to bring you out of this land unto the land pass, as it is this day, to save much people which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and alive. to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the chil 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he com-dren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit forted them, and spake kindly unto them. you, and ye shall carry up my bones from 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and hence. his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 26 ¶ So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of ¶ The Second Book of Moses, called EXODUS. CHAP. I. No 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 And the children of Israel 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 said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives; (of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah ;) 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the menchildren alive? 19 And the midwives said unto Pharach, 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 pass, because the mid wives feared God, that he made them houses 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. CHAP. II. AND there went a man of the house of Levi 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side: and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto he Take this child away, and nurse it for me. burned with fire, and the bush was not conand I will give thee thy wages. And the sumed. woman took the child, and nursed it. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside 10 And the child grew, and she brought and see this great sight, why the bush is not him unto Pharaoh's daughter and he became burnt. her son. And she called his name Moses and 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned she said, Because I drew him out of the water aside to see, God called unto him out of the 11 ¶ And it came to pass in those days, midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. when Moses was grown, that he went out And he said, Here am I. unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father,the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob And Moses hid his face: for he was afraid to look upon God. 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen 12 And he looked this way and that way. and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day. behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together and he said to him that did the wrong, the affliction of my people which are in EWherefore smitest thou thy fellow? gypt, and have heard their cry by reason of 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows: and a judge over us? Intendest thou to kill S And i am come down to deliver them out me, as thou killedst the Egyptian And Moses of the hand of the gyptians, and to bring feared, and said, Surely this thing is known them up out of that land unto a good land 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing. he and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and sought to slay Moses. But vioses fled from boney, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Peof Midian: and he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day? 19 And they said. An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And he said 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 Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. rizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the gyptians oppress them. O Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. T¶ And Moses said unto God, Who am 1, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee that have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and 22 And she bare him a son, and he called shall say unto them, The God of your fathers his name Gershom; for he said, I have been hath sent me unto you, and they shall say a stranger in a strange land. to me, What is his name: what shall I say 23 1 And it came to pass in process of unto them? time, that the king of Egypt died and the 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM children of Israel sighed by reason of the THAT I AM and he said, Thus shalt thou bondage, and they cried; and their cry came say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath up unto God, by reason of the bondage sent me unto you. 24 And God heard their groaning, and 15 ¶ And God said moreover unto Moses, God remembered his covenant with Abra-Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Is ham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. rael, The LORD God of your fathers, the 25 And God looked upon the children of God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the Israel, and God had respect unto them. God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memo CHAP. III. NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his rial unto all generations. father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel tohe led the flock to the back side of the de-gether, and say unto them, The LORD God sert, and came to the mountain of God, even of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of 1 to Horeb. saac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, say 2 And the Angel of the LORD appeared un-ing, I have surely visited you, and seen that to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a which is done to you in Egypt: bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush 17 And I have said, I will bring you up |