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brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

He blesses his own sons.

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy fa11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had ther's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went not thought to see thy face: and lo, God up to my couch.

hath shewed me also thy seed.

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; in

12 And Joseph brought them out from struments of cruelty are in their habitabetween his knees, and he bowed himself tions. with his face to the earth.

60 my soul, come not thou into their 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, be not thou united! for in their anger they and Manasseh in his left hand toward Is- slew a man, and in their self-will they rael's right hand, and brought them near digged down a wall.

unto him.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was 14 And Israel stretched out his right fierce: and their wrath, for it was cruel : hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter who was the younger, and his left hand them in Israel.

upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethwittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. ren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, neck of thine enemies; thy father's chilGod, before whom my fathers Abraham dren shall bow down before thee. and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the all my life long unto this day, 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?

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 10 The sceptre shall not depart from fathers Abraham and Isaac: and let them Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his grow into a multitude in the midst of the feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him earth. shall the gathering of the people be.

17 And when Joseph saw that his fa- 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and ther laid his right hand upon the head of his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held washed his garments in wine, and his up his father's hand, to remove it from clothes in the blood of grapes: Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first-born put thy right hand upon his head.

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.

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.

CHAP XLIX.

AND Jacob called unto his sons, and

12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

14 ¶ Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:

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.

16 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 horseheels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 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. said, Gather yourselves together, that 21 ¶ Naphtali is a hind let loose: he I may tell you that which shall befall you giveth goodly words. in the last days.

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, fruitful bough by a well, whose branches ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel run over the wall: your father.

23 The archers have sorely grieved

3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my him, and shot at him, and hated him: might, and the beginning of my strength, 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the excellency of dignity, and the excel- the arms of his hands were made strong by lency of power: the hands of the mighty God of Jacob:

The mourning for Jacob. GENESIS. Joseph comforts his brethren. (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of father: and with him went up all the serIsrael :) vants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, 25 Even by the God of thy father, who and all the elders of the land of Egypt, shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his shall bless thee with blessings of heaven brethren, and his father's house: only above, blessings of the deep that lieth un- their little ones, and their flocks, and their der, blessings of the breasts and of the herds, they left in the land of Goshen. womb : 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen ; and it was a very great company.

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.

27 ¶ Benjamin shall raven as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

10 And they came to the threshing-floor 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.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning 28 T All these are the twelve tribes of in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a Israel and this is it that their father spake grievous mourning to the Egyptians : unto them, and blessed them: every one wherefore the name of it was called Abelaccording to his blessing he blessed them. inizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 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,

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them :

13 Forhis sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the 30 In the cave that is in the field of field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the with the field for a possession of a buryingland of Canaan, which Abraham bought place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, possession of a burying-place. he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

31 (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.)

52 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth.

33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

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.

16 And they sent a messenger unto Jo seph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, ForCHAP. L. give, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy A and were upon him, and kissed him.' thee evil'; and now, we pray thee, for ND Joseph fell upon his father's face, brethren, and their sin; for they did unto 2 And Joseph commanded his servants give the trespass of the servants of the God the physicians to embalm his father: and of thy father. And Joseph wept when the physicians embalmed Israel. they spake unto him.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; 18 And his brethren also went and fell for so are fulfilled the days of those which down before his face and they said, Beare embalmed: and the Egyptians mourn-hold, we be thy servants.

ed for him threescore and ten days.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear

4 And when the days of his mourning not for am I in the place of God? were past, Joseph spake unto the house of 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against Pharaoh saying, If now I have found grace me; but God meant it unto good, to bring in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the to pass, as it is this day, to save much peoears of Pharaoh, saying,

ple alive.

5 My father made me swear saying, 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will Lo, I die in my grave which I have dig- nourish you, and your little ones. And ged for me in the land of Canaan, there he comforted them, and spake kindly unto shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let them. me go up, I pray thee, and bury my fa- 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, ther, and I will come again. and his father's house: and Joseph lived

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury a hundred and ten years. thy father, according as he made thee swear.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's chil

7 T And Joseph went up to bury his dren of the third generation: the children

The death of Joseph."

CHAP. I, II. Moses born-is laid in the flags.

also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were 25 And Joseph took an oath of the chilbrought up upon Joseph's knees. dren of Israel, saying, God will surely vi24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, sit you, and ye shall carry up my bones I die; and God will surely visit you, and from hence.

bring you out of this land, unto the land 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and and ten years old: and they embalmed to Jacob. him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

I The Second Book of Moses, called EXODUS.

NOW

CHAP. I. 18 And the king of Egypt called for TOW these are the names of the chil- the midwives, and said unto them, Why dren of Israel, which came into have ye done this thing, and have saved Egypt; every man and his household the men-children alive? came with Jacob.

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

21 And it came to pass, because the 7 And the children of Israel were midwives feared God, that he made them fruitful, and increased abundantly, and houses. 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.

9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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.

ND there went a man of the house of
Levi, and took to wife a daughter of

A
Levi.

10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to 2 And the woman conceived and bare pass, that, when there falleth out any war, a son and when she saw him that he was they join also unto our enemies, and fight a goodly child, she hid him three months. against us, and soget them up out of the land. 11 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.

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 13 And the Egyptians made the chil-maidens walked along by the river's side: dren 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 one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah ;)

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?

16 And he said,When ye do the office 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and Go. And the maid went and called the see them upon the stools; if it be a son, child's mother.

then ye shall kill him; but if it be a 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto 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.

her, Take this child away and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it.

10 And the child grew, and she brought

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