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. Now therefore 'be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither for God did send me before you to preserve ' life. 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. And God sent me 'before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and 'to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it 6 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. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, "Thus saith 'thy son Joseph, GoDhath made me lord of all Egypt: come 'down unto me, tarry not: 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 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." And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh 6 unto you. 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.' And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

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And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come:' and it pleased "Pharaoh well, and his servants. And Pharaoh said unte

Joseph, 'Say unto thy brethren, "This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan ; ' 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. 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. Also regard 'not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is 'yours.'

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. 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. 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. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed and he said unto them, 'See that ye fall not out by the way.'

And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob. their father, 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. 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 and Israel said, 'It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.'

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. And GoD spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said—

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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: 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.'

And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: 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. 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: his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 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. And Israel said unto Joseph, 'Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou 'art yet alive.'

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.' And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and pre

sented them unto Pharaoh. 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.' They said moreover unto Pharaoh, 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.' spake unto Joseph, saying, "Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 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.'

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And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. : And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, 'How old art thou?' 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.' And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

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. 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. 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

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in thy presence? for the money faileth.' And Joseph said, 'Give your cattle; and I will give you for your 'cattle, if money fail.' 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.

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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 aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: where'fore 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.' 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. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 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. 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. 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 house'holds, and for food for your little ones.' And they said,