40:1 And it came to pass after these things,
that the butler of the
king of Egypt and his baker had offended
their lord the king of Egypt.
40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of
his officers, against the
chief of the butlers, and against the chief
of the bakers.
40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of
the captain of the guard,
into the prison, the place where Joseph was
bound.
40:4 And the captain of the guard charged
Joseph with them, and he
served them: and they continued a season in
ward.
40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them,
each man his dream in one
night, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the
butler and the baker of the king of Egypt,
which were bound in the
prison.
40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the
morning, and looked upon
them, and, behold, they were sad.
40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that
were with him in the ward of
his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye
so sadly to day? 40:8 And
they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream,
and there is no
interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto
them, Do not interpretations
belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to
Joseph, and said to him,
In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
40:10 And in the vine were
three branches: and it was as though it
budded, and her blossoms shot
forth; and the clusters thereof brought
forth ripe grapes:
40:11 And
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the
grapes, and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand.
40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the
interpretation of it: The
three branches are three days:
40:13 Yet
within three days shall
Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee
unto thy place: and thou
shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand,
after the former manner
when thou wast his butler.
40:14 But think on me when it shall be well
with thee, and shew
kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make
mention of me unto Pharaoh,
and bring me out of this house:
40:15 For
indeed I was stolen away out
of the land of the Hebrews: and here also
have I done nothing that
they should put me into the dungeon.
40:16 When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was good, he
said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream,
and, behold, I had three
white baskets on my head: 40:17 And in the
uppermost basket there was
of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and
the birds did eat them out
of the basket upon my head.
40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This is
the interpretation
thereof: The three baskets are three days:
40:19 Yet within three days
shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off
thee, and shall hang thee on a
tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from
off thee.
40:20 And it came to pass the third day,
which was Pharaoh's birthday,
that he made a feast unto all his servants:
and he lifted up the head
of the chief butler and of the chief baker
among his servants.
40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto
his butlership again; and
he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: 40:22
But he hanged the chief
baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember
Joseph, but forgat him.
41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two
full years, that Pharaoh
dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the
river seven well favoured
kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a
meadow.
41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them out of the
river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and
stood by the other kine upon
the brink of the river.
41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed
kine did eat up the seven
well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh
awoke.
41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second
time: and, behold, seven ears
of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and
good.
41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and
blasted with the east wind
sprung up after them.
41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the
seven rank and full ears.
And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a
dream.
41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that
his spirit was troubled;
and he sent and called for all the magicians
of Egypt, and all the
wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his
dream; but there was none
that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto
Pharaoh, saying, I do remember
my faults this day: 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth
with his servants, and put
me in ward in the captain of the guard's
house, both me and the chief
baker: 41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one
night, I and he; we dreamed
each man according to the interpretation of
his dream.
41:12 And there was there with us a young
man, an Hebrew, servant to
the captain of the guard; and we told him,
and he interpreted to us
our dreams; to each man according to his
dream he did interpret.
41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted
to us, so it was; me he
restored unto mine office, and him he
hanged.
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph,
and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved
himself, and changed his
raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have
dreamed a dream, and there
is none that can interpret it: and I have
heard say of thee, that thou
canst understand a dream to interpret it.
41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying,
It is not in me: God shall
give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my
dream, behold, I stood upon
the bank of the river: 41:18 And, behold,
there came up out of the
river seven kine, fatfleshed and well
favoured; and they fed in a
meadow: 41:19 And, behold, seven other kine
came up after them, poor
and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such
as I never saw in all the
land of Egypt for badness: 41:20 And the
lean and the ill favoured
kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
41:21 And when they had
eaten them up, it could not be known that
they had eaten them; but
they were still ill favoured, as at the
beginning. So I awoke.
41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold,
seven ears came up in one
stalk, full and good: 41:23 And, behold,
seven ears, withered, thin,
and blasted with the east wind, sprung up
after them: 41:24 And the
thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and
I told this unto the
magicians; but there was none that could
declare it to me.
41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The
dream of Pharaoh is one: God
hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
41:26 The seven good kine are seven years;
and the seven good ears are
seven years: the dream is one.
41:27 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.
41:28 This is the thing which I have spoken
unto Pharaoh: What God is
about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of
great plenty throughout all
the land of Egypt: 41:30 And there shall
arise after them seven years
of famine; and all the plenty shall be
forgotten in the land of Egypt;
and the famine shall consume the land; 41:31
And the plenty shall not
be known in the land by reason of that
famine following; for it shall
be very grievous.
41:32 And for that the dream was doubled
unto Pharaoh twice; it is
because the thing is established by God, and
God will shortly bring it
to pass.
41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a
man discreet and wise, and
set him over the land of Egypt.
41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him
appoint officers over the land,
and take up the fifth part of the land of
Egypt in the seven plenteous
years.
41:35 And let them gather all the food of
those good years that come,
and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh,
and let them keep food in
the cities.
41:36 And that food shall be for store to
the land against the seven
years of famine, which shall be in the land
of Egypt; that the land
perish not through the famine.
41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes
of all his servants.
41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants,
Can we find such a one as
this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
41:39 And Pharaoh said
unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed
thee all this, there is none
so discreet and wise as thou art: 41:40 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.
41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I
have set thee over all the
land of Egypt.
41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his
hand, and put it upon
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures
of fine linen, and put a
gold chain about his neck; 41:43 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.
41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am
Pharaoh, and without thee
shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all
the land of Egypt.
41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name
Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave
him to wife Asenath the daughter of
Potipherah priest of On. And
Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when
he stood before Pharaoh
king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the
presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Egypt.
41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the
earth brought forth by
handfuls.
41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the
seven years, which were
in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food
in the cities: the food of
the field, which was round about every city,
laid he up in the same.
41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand
of the sea, very much,
until he left numbering; for it was without
number.
41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons
before the years of famine
came, which Asenath the daughter of
Potipherah priest of On bare unto
him.
41:51 And Joseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh: For God,
said he, hath made me forget all my toil,
and all my father's house.
41:52 And the name of the second called he
Ephraim: For God hath
caused me to be fruitful in the land of my
affliction.
41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness,
that was in the land of
Egypt, were ended.
41:54 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 there was bread.
41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to
Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all
the Egyptians, Go unto
Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
41:56 And the famine was over all the face
of the earth: and Joseph
opened all the storehouses, and sold unto
the Egyptians; and the
famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to
Joseph for to buy corn;
because that the famine was so sore in all
lands.
42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn
in Egypt, Jacob said unto
his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
42:2 And he said, Behold,
I have heard that there is corn in Egypt:
get you down thither, and
buy for us from thence; that we may live,
and not die.
42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to
buy corn in Egypt.
42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob
sent not with his brethren;
for he said, Lest peradventure mischief
befall him.
42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn
among those that came:
for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
42:6 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 him with their
faces to the earth.
42:7 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.
42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they
knew not him.
42:9 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.
42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord,
but to buy food are thy
servants come.
42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are true
men, thy servants are no
spies.
42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see
the nakedness of the land
ye are come.
42:13 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.
42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it
that I spake unto you,
saying, Ye are spies: 42:15 Hereby ye shall
be proved: By the life of
Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except
your youngest brother come
hither.
42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch
your brother, and ye shall be
kept in prison, that your words may be
proved, whether there be any
truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh
surely ye are spies.
42:17 And he put them all together into ward
three days.
42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third
day, This do, and live; for
I fear God: 42:19 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: 42:20 But bring your youngest
brother unto me; so shall your
words be verified, and ye shall not die. And
they did so.
42:21 And they said one to another, We are
verily guilty concerning
our brother, in that we saw the anguish of
his soul, when he besought
us, and we would not hear; therefore is this
distress come upon us.
42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying,
Spake I not unto you, saying,
Do not sin against the child; and ye would
not hear? therefore,
behold, also his blood is required.
42:23 And they knew not that Joseph
understood them; for he spake unto
them by an interpreter.
42:24 And he turned himself about from them,
and wept; and returned to
them again, and communed with them, and took
from them Simeon, and
bound him before their eyes.
42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their
sacks with corn, and to
restore every man's money into his sack, and
to give them provision
for the way: and thus did he unto them.
42:26 And they laded their asses with the
corn, and departed thence.
42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to
give his ass provender in
the inn, he espied his money; for, behold,
it was in his sack's mouth.
42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My
money is restored; and, lo, it
is even in my sack: and their heart failed
them, and they were afraid,
saying one to another, What is this that God
hath done unto us? 42:29
And they came unto Jacob their father unto
the land of Canaan, and
told him all that befell unto them; saying,
42:30 The man, who is the
lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and
took us for spies of the
country.
42:31 And we said unto him, We are true men;
we are no spies: 42:32 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.
42:33 And the man, the lord of the country,
said unto us, Hereby shall
I know that ye are true men; leave one of
your brethren here with me,
and take food for the famine of your
households, and be gone: 42:34
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.
42:35 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.
42:36 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.
42:37 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.
42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down
with you; for his brother
is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief
befall him by the way in
the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to
the grave.
43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
43:2 And it came to pass, when they had
eaten up the corn which they
had brought out of Egypt, their father said
unto them, Go again, buy
us a little food.
43:3 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.
43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us,
we will go down and buy
thee food: 43:5 But if thou wilt not send
him, we will not go down:
for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see
my face, except your
brother be with you.
43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so
ill with me, as to tell
the man whether ye had yet a brother? 43:7
And they said, The man
asked us straitly of our state, and of our
kindred, saying, Is your
father yet alive? have ye another brother?
and we told him according
to the tenor of these words: could we
certainly know that he would
say, Bring your brother down? 43:8 And Judah
said unto Israel his
father, Send the lad with me, and we will
arise and go; that we may
live, and not die, both we, and thou, and
also our little ones.
43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand
shalt thou require him: if I
bring him not unto thee, and set him before
thee, then let me bear the
blame for ever: 43:10 For except we had
lingered, surely now we had
returned this second time.
43:11 And their father Israel said unto
them, If it must be so now, do
this; take of the best fruits in the land in
your vessels, and carry
down the man a present, a little balm, and a
little honey, spices, and
myrrh, nuts, and almonds: 43:12 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: 43:13 Take
also your brother, and arise, go again unto
the man: 43:14 And God
Almighty give you mercy before the man, that
he may send away your
other brother, and Benjamin. If I be
bereaved of my children, I am
bereaved.
43:15 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.
43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with
them, he said to the ruler of
his house, Bring these men home, and slay,
and make ready; for these
men shall dine with me at noon.
43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and
the man brought the men into
Joseph's house.
43:18 And the men were afraid, because they
were brought into Joseph's
house; and they said, Because of the money
that was returned in our
sacks at the first time are we brought in;
that he may seek occasion
against us, and fall upon us, and take us
for bondmen, and our asses.
43:19 And they came near to the steward of
Joseph's house, and they
communed with him at the door of the house,
43:20 And said, O sir, we
came indeed down at the first time to buy
food: 43:21 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 money in full
weight: and we have brought it again in our
hand.
43:22 And other money have we brought down
in our hands to buy food:
we cannot tell who put our money in our
sacks.
43:23 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.
43:24 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.
43:25 And they made ready the present
against Joseph came at noon: for
they heard that they should eat bread there.
43:26 And when Joseph came home, they
brought him the present which
was in their hand into the house, and bowed
themselves to him to the
earth.
43:27 And he asked them of their welfare,
and said, Is your father
well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he
yet alive? 43:28 And they
answered, Thy servant our father is in good
health, he is yet alive.
And they bowed down their heads, and made
obeisance.
43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his
brother Benjamin, his
mother's son, and said, Is this your younger
brother, of whom ye spake
unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto
thee, my son.
43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels
did yearn upon his
brother: and he sought where to weep; and he
entered into his chamber,
and wept there.
43:31 And he washed his face, and went out,
and refrained himself, and
said, Set on bread.
43:32 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 Egyptians might not eat bread with the
Hebrews; for that is an
abomination unto the Egyptians.
43:33 And they sat before him, the firstborn
according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to
his youth: and the men
marvelled one at another.
43:34 And he took and sent messes unto them
from before him: but
Benjamin's mess was five times so much as
any of their's. And they
drank, and were merry with him.
44:1 And he commanded the steward of his
house, saying, Fill the men's
sacks with food, as much as they can carry,
and put every man's money
in his sack's mouth.
44:2 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 had spoken.
44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the
men were sent away, they
and their asses.
44:4 And when they were gone out of the
city, and not yet far off,
Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow
after the men; and when thou
dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore
have ye rewarded evil for
good? 44:5 Is not this it in which my lord
drinketh, and whereby
indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so
doing.
44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto
them these same words.
44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith
my lord these words? God
forbid that thy servants should do according
to this thing: 44:8
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? 44:9
With whomsoever of thy
servants it be found, both let him die, and
we also will be my lord's
bondmen.
44:10 And he said, Now also let it be
according unto your words: he
with whom it is found shall be my servant;
and ye shall be blameless.
44:11 Then they speedily took down every man
his sack to the ground,
and opened every man his sack.
44:12 And he searched, and began at the
eldest, and left at the
youngest: and the cup was found in
Benjamin's sack.
44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and
laded every man his ass, and
returned to the city.
44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to
Joseph's house; for he was
yet there: and they fell before him on the
ground.
44:15 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? 44:16 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.
44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should
do so: but the man in
whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my
servant; and as for you,
get you up in peace unto your father.
44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and
said, Oh my lord, let thy
servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my
lord's ears, and let not
thine anger burn against thy servant: for
thou art even as Pharaoh.
44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying,
Have ye a father, or a
brother? 44:20 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.
44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Bring him down unto me, that
I may set mine eyes upon him.
44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad
cannot leave his father: for
if he should leave his father, his father
would die.
44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Except your youngest brother
come down with you, ye shall see my face no
more.
44:24 And it came to pass when we came up
unto thy servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord.
44:25 And our father said, Go again, and buy
us a little food.
44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our
youngest brother be with
us, then will we go down: for we may not see
the man's face, except
our youngest brother be with us.
44:27 And thy servant my father said unto
us, Ye know that my wife
bare me two sons: 44:28 And the one went out
from me, and I said,
Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him
not since: 44:29 And if ye
take this also from me, and mischief befall
him, ye shall bring down
my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy
servant my father, and the lad
be not with us; seeing that his life is
bound up in the lad's life;
44:31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth
that the lad is not with
us, that he will die: and thy servants shall
bring down the gray hairs
of thy servant our father with sorrow to the
grave.
44:32 For thy servant became surety for the
lad unto my father,
saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I
shall bear the blame to
my father for ever.
44:33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy
servant abide instead of the
lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go
up with his brethren.
44:34 For how shall I go up to my father,
and the lad be not with me?
lest peradventure I see the evil that shall
come on my father.
45:1 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.
45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians
and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am
Joseph; doth my father
yet live? And his brethren could not answer
him; for they were
troubled at his presence.
45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come
near to me, I pray you.
And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph
your brother, whom ye
sold into Egypt.
45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry
with yourselves, that ye
sold me hither: for God did send me before
you to preserve life.
45:6 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.
45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the
earth, and to save your lives by a great
deliverance.
45:8 So now it was not you that sent me
hither, but God: and he hath
made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt.
45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and
say unto him, Thus saith
thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all
Egypt: come down unto me,
tarry not: 45:10 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 hast: 45:11
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there
are five years of famine;
lest thou, and thy household, and all that
thou hast, come to poverty.
45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the
eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
45:13 And ye shall tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt, and of all
that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and
bring down my father hither.
45:14 And he fell upon his brother
Benjamin's neck, and wept; and
Benjamin wept upon his neck.
45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren,
and wept upon them: and
after that his brethren talked with him.
45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in
Pharaoh's house, saying,
Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased
Pharaoh well, and his
servants.
45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto
thy brethren, This do ye;
lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the
land of Canaan; 45:18 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.
45:19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye;
take you wagons out of the
land of Egypt for your little ones, and for
your wives, and bring your
father, and come.
45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the
good of all the land of
Egypt is your's.
45:21 And the children of Israel did so: and
Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and
gave them provision for
the way.
45:22 To all of them he gave each man
changes of raiment; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of
silver, and five changes of
raiment.
45:23 And to his father he sent after this
manner; ten asses laden
with the good things of Egypt, and ten she
asses laden with corn and
bread and meat for his father by the way.
45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they
departed: and he said
unto them, See that ye fall not out by the
way.
45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and
came into the land of Canaan
unto Jacob their father, 45:26 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.
45:27 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: 45:28 And Israel said,
It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I
will go and see him before
I die.
46:1 And Israel took his journey with all
that he had, and came to
Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the
God of his father Isaac.
46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the
visions of the night, and said,
Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
46:3 And he said, 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: 46:4 I will
go down with thee into Egypt; and I will
also surely bring thee up
again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon
thine eyes.
46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and
the sons of Israel carried
Jacob their father, and their little ones,
and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
46:6 And they took their cattle, and their
goods, which they had
gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into
Egypt, Jacob, and all his
seed with him: 46:7 His sons, and his sons'
sons with him, his
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all
his seed brought he with
him into Egypt.
46:8 And these are the names of the children
of Israel, which came
into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob's firstborn.
46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and
Phallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi.
46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and
Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,
and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanitish woman.
46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari.
46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan,
and Shelah, and Pharez, and
Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. And the sons of
Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and
Phuvah, and Job, and
Shimron.
46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and
Elon, and Jahleel.
46:15 These be the sons of Leah, which she
bare unto Jacob in
Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the
souls of his sons and his
daughters were thirty and three.
46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and
Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri,
and Arodi, and Areli.
46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and
Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah,
and Serah their sister: and the sons of
Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah his
daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob,
even sixteen souls.
46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife;
Joseph, and Benjamin.
46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt
were born Manasseh and
Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of
Potipherah priest of On bare
unto him.
46:21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah,
and Becher, and Ashbel,
Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and
Huppim, and Ard.
46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, which
were born to Jacob: all the
souls were fourteen.
46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and
Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem.
46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which
Laban gave unto Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all
the souls were seven.
46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob
into Egypt, which came out of
his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all
the souls were threescore
and six; 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which
were born him in Egypt,
were two souls: all the souls of the house
of Jacob, which came into
Egypt, were threescore and ten.
46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto
Joseph, to direct his face
unto Goshen; and they came into the land of
Goshen.
46:29 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.
46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let
me die, since I have seen
thy face, because thou art yet alive.
46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and
unto his father's house,
I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto
him, My brethren, and my
father's house, which were in the land of
Canaan, are come unto me;
46:32 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.
46:33 And it shall come to pass, when
Pharaoh shall call you, and
shall say, What is your occupation? 46:34
That ye shall say, Thy
servants' trade hath been about cattle from
our youth even until now,
both we, and also our fathers: that ye may
dwell in the land of
Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination
unto the Egyptians.
47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and
said, My father and my
brethren, and their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have,
are come out of the land of Canaan; and,
behold, they are in the land
of Goshen.
47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even
five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
47:3 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.
47:4 They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to
sojourn in the land are we
come; for thy servants have no pasture for
their flocks; for the
famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now
therefore, we pray thee, let
thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father and thy
brethren are come unto thee: 47:6 The land
of Egypt is 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
knowest any men of activity
among them, then make them rulers over my
cattle.
47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father,
and set him before
Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
art thou? 47:9 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.
47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went
out from before Pharaoh.
47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his
brethren, and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best
of the land, in the land
of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and
his brethren, and all his
father's household, with bread, according to
their families.
47:13 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.
47:14 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.
47:15 And when money failed in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph,
and said, Give us bread:
for why should we die in thy presence? for
the money faileth.
47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and
I will give you for your
cattle, if money fail.
47:17 And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph: and Joseph gave them
bread in exchange for horses, and for the
flocks, and for the cattle
of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed
them with bread for all
their cattle for that year.
47:18 When that year was ended, they came
unto him the second year,
and said unto him, We will not hide it from
my lord, how that our
money is spent; my lord also hath our herds
of cattle; there is not
ought left in the sight of my lord, but our
bodies, and our lands:
47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine
eyes, both we and our land?
buy us and our land for bread, and we and
our land will be servants
unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may
live, and not die, that
the land be not desolate.
47:20 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.
47:21 And as for the people, he removed them
to cities from one end of
the borders of Egypt even to the other end
thereof.
47:22 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.
47:23 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.
47:24 And it shall come to pass in the
increase, that ye shall give
the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts
shall be your own, for
seed of the field, and for your food, and
for them of your households,
and for food for your little ones.
47:25 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.
47:26 And Joseph 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.
47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt,
in the country of Goshen;
and they had possessions therein, and grew,
and multiplied
exceedingly.
47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt
seventeen years: so the
whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and
seven years.
47:29 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; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
47:30 But I will lie with
my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of
Egypt, and bury me in their
buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou
hast said.
47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he
sware unto him. And Israel
bowed himself upon the bed's head.
48:1 And it came to pass after these things,
that one told Joseph,
Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with
him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.
48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold,
thy son Joseph cometh unto
thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and
sat upon the bed.
48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz
in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4
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.
48:5 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.
48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest
after them, shall be thine,
and shall be called after the name of their
brethren in their
inheritance.
48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan,
Rachel died by me in the
land of Canaan in the way, when yet there
was but a little way to come
unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the
way of Ephrath; the same
is Bethlehem.
48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and
said, Who are these? 48:9
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.
48:10 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.
48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not
thought to see thy face:
and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
48:12 And Joseph brought them out from
between his knees, and he bowed
himself with his face to the earth.
48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in
his right hand toward
Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left
hand toward Israel's
right hand, and brought them near unto him.
48:14 And Israel stretched out his right
hand, and laid it upon
Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his
left hand upon Manasseh's
head, guiding his hands wittingly; for
Manasseh was the firstborn.
48:15 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, 48:16 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.
48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father
laid his right hand upon the
head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he
held up his father's hand,
to remove it from Ephraim's head unto
Manasseh's head.
48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not
so, my father: for this is
the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his
head.
48:19 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 truly
his younger brother shall be greater than
he, and his seed shall
become a multitude of nations.
48:20 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.
48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I
die: but God shall be
with you, and bring you again unto the land
of your fathers.
48:22 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.
49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and
said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which
shall befall you in the last
days.
49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear,
ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my
might, and the beginning of my
strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power: 49:4
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.
49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their
habitations.
49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their
secret; unto their assembly,
mine honour, be not thou united: for in
their anger they slew a man,
and in their selfwill they digged down a
wall.
49:7 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.
49:8 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.
49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey,
my son, thou art gone up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and
as an old lion; who shall
rouse him up? 49:10 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.
49:11 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: 49:12 His eyes shall be red
with wine, and his teeth
white with milk.
49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of
the sea; and he shall be for
an haven of ships; and his border shall be
unto Zidon.
49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down
between two burdens:
49:15 And he saw that rest was good, and the
land that it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear,
and became a servant unto
tribute.
49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of
the tribes of Israel.
49:17 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.
49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O
LORD.
49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but
he shall overcome at the
last.
49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat,
and he shall yield royal
dainties.
49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he
giveth goodly words.
49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a
fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall: 49:23 The
archers have sorely
grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
49:24 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:) 49:25 Even by the God of thy
father, who shall help thee; and
by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with
blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under,
blessings of the breasts, and
of the womb: 49:26 The blessings of thy
father have prevailed above
the blessings of my progenitors unto the
utmost bound of the
everlasting hills: they shall be on the head
of Joseph, and on the
crown of the head of him that was separate
from his brethren.
49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the
morning he shall devour
the prey, and at night he shall divide the
spoil.
49:28 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.
49:29 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, 49:30 In the
cave that is in the field of
Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the
land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite
for a possession of a
buryingplace.
49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah
his wife; there they buried
Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I
buried Leah.
49:32 The purchase of the field and of the
cave that is therein was
from the children of Heth.
49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of
commanding his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and
yielded up the ghost, and was
gathered unto his people.
50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face,
and wept upon him, and
kissed him.
50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him;
for so are fulfilled the
days of those which are embalmed: and the
Egyptians mourned for him
threescore and ten days.
50:4 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, 50:5 My father made
me swear, saying, Lo, I 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 come again.
50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy
father, according as he
made thee swear.
50:7 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, 50:8 And all the house
of Joseph, and his
brethren, and his father's house: only their
little ones, and their
flocks, and their herds, they left in the
land of Goshen.
50:9 And there went up with him both
chariots and horsemen: and it was
a very great company.
50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of
Atad, which is beyond
Jordan, and there they mourned with a great
and very sore lamentation:
and he made a mourning for his father seven
days.
50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land,
the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said,
This is a grievous mourning
to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it
was called Abelmizraim,
which is beyond Jordan.
50:12 And his sons did unto him according as
he commanded them: 50:13
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.
50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he,
and his brethren, and all
that went up with him to bury his father,
after he had buried his
father.
50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that
their father was dead, they
said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and
will certainly requite us
all the evil which we did unto him.
50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph,
saying, Thy father did
command before he died, saying,
50:17 So
shall ye say unto Joseph,
Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of
thy brethren, 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.
50:18 And his brethren also went and fell
down before his face; and
they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not:
for am I in the place of
God? 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil
against me; but God meant
it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is
this day, to save much people
alive.
50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will
nourish you, and your little
ones.
And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto
them.
50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his
father's house: and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of
the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh
were brought up upon
Joseph's knees.
50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I
die: and God will surely
visit you, and bring you out of this land
unto the land which he sware
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the
children of Israel, saying, God
will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up
my bones from hence.
50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and
ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in
Egypt.
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