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Joseph interpreteth Pharaoh's dreams. GENESIS

He is advanced. it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain understand a dream to interpret it. about his neck;

43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pha18 And behold, there came up out of the river raoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his seven kine, fat-fleshed, and well-favoured; and hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. they fed in a meadow: 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaph19 And behold, seven other kine came up after nath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath them, poor, and very ill-favoured, and lean-flesh- the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On: and ed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he 20 And the lean and the ill-favoured kine did stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt: and Joseph eat up the first seven fat kine: went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and 21 And when they had eaten them up, it could went throughout all the land of Egypt. not be known that they had eaten them; but 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth

for badness:

they were still ill-favoured, as at the beginning. brought forth by handfuls. So I awoke.

48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven 22 And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid ears came up in one stalk, full and good: up the food in the cities: the food of the field 23 And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and which was round about every city, laid he up blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: in the same.

24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good 49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it there was none that could declare it unto me. was without number.

25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed the years of famine came: which Asenath the Pharaoh what he is about to do. daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto

26 The seven good kine are seven years; and him. the seven good ears are seven years: the dream

is one.

27 And the seven thin and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh what God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.

29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh; for God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

53 1 And the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. 54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt

30 And there shall arise after them seven years there was bread. of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten 55 And when all the land of Egypt was famish in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall con-ed, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and sume the land: Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto

31 And the plenty shall not be known in the Joseph; what he saith to you, do. land by reason of that famine following: for it 56 And the famine was over all the face of the shall be very grievous. earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, 32 And for that the dream was doubled unto and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is estab-waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

lished by God,and God will shortly bring it to pass. 57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man dis- for to buy corn; because that the famine was so creet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. sore in all lands.

34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint of ficers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

CHAP. XLII.
Jacob sends his sons to buy corn.

in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why

35 And let them gather all the food of those goodNow when Jacob saw that there was corn years that come, and lay up corn under the hand do ye look one upon another? of Pharaoh; and let them keep food in the cities. 2 And he said, Behold I have heard that there 36 And that food shall be for store to the land is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy against the seven years of famine, which shall for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not 3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy through the famine. corn in Egypt.

37 1 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God is ?

39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet find wise as thou art:

40 Thou shalt be over my house, and accordIng unto thy word shall all my people be ruled only in the throne will I be greater than thou. 41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Sco, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest perad. venture mischief befall him.

5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before himwith their faces to the earth. 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

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Joseph's brethren imprisoned.

CHAP. XLIII. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them,and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men; thy servants are no spies.

12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spics:

Jacob refuseth to send Benjamin. 34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. 35 1 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away all these things are against me. 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

38 And he said, My son shall not go down with 15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your if mischief befall him by the way in the which youngest brother come hither. ye go, then shan ye bring down my gray hairs 16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your bro-with sorrow to the grave. ther, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any

CHAP. XLII.

Jacob sendeth Benjamin.

truth in you: or else, by the life of Pharaoh, AND the famine was sore in the land.

surely ye are spies.

And it came to pass, when they had eaten

17 And he put them all together into ward three up the corn which they had brought out of days.

18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren
be bound in the house of your prison: go ye,
carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto me;
so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not
die. And they did so.

Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

5 But if thou wilt not send him we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not 21 T And they said one to another, We are see my face, except your brother be with you. verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we 6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet us, and we would not hear; therefore is this a brother? distress come upon us.

7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your fa1 not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the ther yet alive? have ye another brother? and we child; and ye would not hear? therefore behold told him according to the tenor of these words: also his blood is required. Could we certainly know that he would say,

23 And they knew not that Joseph understood Bring your brother down?

them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. 8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send 24 And he turned himself about from them, and the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that wept; and returned to them again, and com- we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, muned with them, and took from them Simeon, and also our little ones. and bound him before their eyes.

9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt 25 T Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, with corn, and to restore every man's money and set him before thee, then let me bear the into his sack, and to give them provision for the blame for ever: way: and thus did he unto them.

26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it 27 And as one of them opened his sack to give must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits his ass provender in the inn, he espied his mo- in the land in your vessels, and carry down the ney for behold, it was in his sack's mouth. man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, 28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: restored; and lo, it is even in iny sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?

99 1 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them, saying,

12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:

13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:

14 And God Almighty give you mercy before 30 The man who is the lord of the land, spake the man, that he may send away your other roughly to us, and took us forspies of the country. brother, and Benjamin: If I be bereaved of my 31 And we said unto him, We are true men; children, I am bereaved. we are no spies:

32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father: one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

15 T And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

33 And the man, the lord of the country, said 16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men men: leave one of your brethren here with me, home, and slay, and make ready: for these men and take food for the famine of your households, shall dine with me at noon. 17 And the man did as Joseph bade: and the

and be gone:

Joseph maketh a feast.

GENESIS.

Judah's humble supplication man brought the men into Joseph's house. 5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and 18 And the men were afraid, because they were whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Be-in so doing.

cause of the money that was returned in our 6 ¶ And he overtook them, and he spake unto sacks at the first time, are we brought in; that them these same words.

he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon 7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. lord these words? God forbid that thy servants 19 And they came near to the steward of Jo- should do according to this thing: seph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,

20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our bond-men. money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender. 25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

26 And when Joseph came home, they brought hin the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth 27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

8 Behold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's 10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shal be my servant; and ye shall be blameless. 11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. 14 T And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, (for he was yet there :) and they fell before him on the ground.

15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. 28 And they answered, Thy servant our father 17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: is in good health, he is yet alive: and they but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he bowed down their heads, and made obeisance. shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother in peace unto your father.

Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your 18 T Then Judah came near unto him, and said, younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger 30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did burn against thy servant: for thou art even as yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

Pharaoh.

19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

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

32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians which did eat with him, by themselves: because the 21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot 33 And they sat before him, the first-born ac-leave his father: for if he should leave his facording to his birth-right, and the youngest ac-ther, his father would die.

cording to his youth: and the men marvelled 23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye

one at another.

34 And he took and sent messes unto them shall see my face no more.

from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five 24 And it came to pass, when we came up unto times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, thy servant my father, we told him the words of and were merry with him. my lord. 25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

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CHAP. XLIV.

Joseph's policy to his brethren.

AND he commanded the steward of his house, 26 And we said, We cannot go down; if our

saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as youngest brother be with us, then will we go much as they can carry, and put every man's down; for we may not see the man's face, exmoney in his sack's mouth.

2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn-money: and he did according to the word that Joseph bad spoken.

cept our youngest brother be with us.
27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye
know that my wife bare me two sons:
28 And the one went out from me, and I said,
Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not

3 As soon as the morning was Hight, the men since: were sent away, they, and their asses.

29 And if ye take this also from me, and mis4 And when they were gone out of the city, and chief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Up, follow after the inen; and when thou dost 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have my father, and the lad be not with us; (seeing ye rewarded evil for good? that his life is bound up in the lad's life;)

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Joseph sendeth for his father.

CHAP. XLV, XI.VI.

Jacob is revived with th

31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the 20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy ser-all the land of Egypt is yours. vants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy ser- 21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph vant our father with sorrow to the grave. gave them wagons, according to the command32 For thy servant became surety for the lad un-ment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for to my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, the way.

then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. and let the lad go up with his brethren. 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread evil that shall come on my father. and meat for his father by the way. CHAP. XLV.

Joseph maketh himself known. THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me: and there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

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 ¶ And they went up out of Egypt, and canie 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. 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 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 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. 10 me, I pray you: and they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Jo seph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

CHAP. XLVI.

Jacob comforted at Beer-sheba.
AND Israel took his journey with all that he

had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered
sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of
the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob! and he said,
Here am I.

6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: 7 And God sent me before you, to preserve you fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives make of thee a great nation: by a great deliverance."

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph but God: and he hath made me a father to Pha-shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

raoh, and lord of all his_house, and a ruler 5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the throughout all the land of Egypt. sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and

not:

9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his children, and thy children's children, and thy daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: seed brought he with him into Egypt.

11 And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there 8 ¶ And these are the names of the children of are five years of famine ;) lest thou, and thy Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his household, and all that thou hast come to poverty. sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.

12 And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. speaketh unto you.

and Merari.

10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and 13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen: and ye Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. shall haste, and bring down my father hither. 11 T And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, 15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and wept upon thein: and after that his brethren Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons talked with him. of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul. 13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 T And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel

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. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

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 the fat of the land.

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 1 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take 17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your and Isui, and Beriak, and Serah their sister. And little ones, and for your wives, and bring your the sons of Berian; Heber, and Malchiel. father, and come. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban

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GENESIS.

Joseph's dealing in the famine. ah his daughter: and these she bare] 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art b, even sixteen souls. thou?

sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph, 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of jamin. the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and d unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were thirty years: few and evil have the days of the born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the years of my life been, and have not attained undaughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

him.

21 ¶ And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen. 23 T And the sons of Dan; Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

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

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

11 T 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 Rameses, 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 sore. so that the land of 26 All thesouls that came with Jacob into Egypt, Egypt, and all the land of Canaan, fainted by which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's reason of the famine. sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that 27 And the sons of Joseph which were born was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of of Canaan, for the corn which they bought and the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. were threescore and ten. 15 And when money failed in the land of 28 1 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egypto direct his face unto Goshen; and they came tians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread : into the land of Goshen. for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen; and presented himself unto him: and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and 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 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and un- with bread, for all their cattle, for that year. to his father's house, I will go up, and shew 18 When that year was ended, they came unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and him the second year, and said unto him, We my father's house, which were in the land of will not hide it from my lord, how that our moCanaan, are come unto me: ney is spent; my lord also hath our herds of 32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade cattle: there is not aught left in the sight of my hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought lord, but our bodies and our lands: their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, 33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall both we and our land? buy us and our land for call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? bread, and we and our land will be servants unt34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may been about cattle from our youth even until now, live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. both we, and also our fathers: that ye may 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shep-Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his herd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

CHAP. XLVII.

Jacob introduced to Pharaoh.

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 be hold, they are in the land of Goshen.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers

21 And as for the people, he removed them to to the other end thereof. 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. 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.

the borders of Egypt even

24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to so- that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, Journ in the land are we come: for thy servants and four parts shall be your own, for seed of have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine the field, and for your food, and for them of your is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, households, and for food for your little ones. we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: of Goshen. let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of 6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have of the land make thy father and brethren to the fifth part; except the land of the priests dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell; only, which became not Pharaoh's. and if thou knowest any men of activity among 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in them, then make them rulera over my cattle. the country of Goshen; and they had possessions 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seven

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