17 And when Joseph saw that his fa- fishes do inther laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he lifted his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. 3 Heb. fullness. 1 Heb. do not thou excel. 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 c. 35. 22. shall become a 3 multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Ma-2 nasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. 1 Chr. 5. 1. or, my couch is gone. 3 or, their swords are weapons of violence. 22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my or, hough. sword and with my bow. CHAP. XLIX. 1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them: 3 Their blessings in particular: 29 He chargeth them about his burial: 33 He dieth. AND Jacob called to helves, that said, Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob: and hearken to Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignity, and the excellence of power: 4 Unstable as water, 1 thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it; 2 he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren: 3 instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they 4 digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. ed oxen. 5 Heb. an arroidsnake. 6 Heb. daughters. 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy bc. 47. 30. brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thy enemies: thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou hast gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion: who shall rouse him up? 10 The scepter shall not depart from c. 23. 16. Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh shall come: and to him shall be the gathering of the people. 11 Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be to 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 to tribute. 16 ¶ Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, 5 an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, 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. 21 ¶ Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 22 ¶ Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose & branches run over the wall: 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 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: 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 beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to 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. 28 T All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it which their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite. 31 (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah,) 32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his people. CHAP. L. wherefore the name of it was called 2 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did to him according as he commanded them: 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 burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 ¶ And Joseph returned to Egypt, 1 The mourning for Jacob. 4 Joseph getteth 1 Heb. wept. he and his brethren, and all that went up leave of Pharaoh to go to bury him. 7 The funeral 15 Joseph comforteth his brethren, acho craved his pardon: 22 His age: 23 He seeth the third generation of his sons: 24 He prophesieth to his brethren of their return: 25 He taketh an oath of them for his bones: 26 He dieth, and is put in a coffin. A face, and wept upon him, and kissed ND Joseph fell upon his father's him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for c. 47. 29. him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Égyptians i mourned for him seventy days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found 2 grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 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, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 7¶ And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, That is, the mourn ing of the Egyp tians. with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him. 16 And they 3 sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did to thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face: and they said, Behold, we are thy servants. 19 And Joseph said to them, & Fear not: for am I in the place of God? Acts, 7. 16. against me; but God meant it for good, 20 But as for you, ye thought evil to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. c. 23. 16. 3 Heb. d c. 45. 5. 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 Go-Heb. to their heart. shen. 9 And there went with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 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. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke 4 kindly to them. 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were 5 brought up upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said to his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, Numb. 32. and bring you out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 39. Heb. borne. f Heb. 11. 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: 19. Exod. 13. 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. 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. TEXODUS. CHAP. I. 1 The children of Israel, after Joseph's death, do multiply: 8 The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply. 15 The godliness of the midwives in saving the male-children alive. 22 Pharaoh command. eth the male-children to be cast into the river. NOW W a these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt; every man and his household 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 descended from Jacob, were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, every son that is born ye 6 And Joseph died, and all his breth- Acts 7. 17. shall cast into the river, and every daughren, and all that generation. 7¶ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceeding migh-1 ty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them: lest they multiply, and it shall come to pass, that when there falleth out any war, they will join with our enemies, and fight against us, and depart from the land. 11 Therefore they set over them taskmasters, to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom, and Raamses. Heb. And as they af. flicted them, so they multiplied, &c. 12 1 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the chil- c. 6. 20. dren of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor. 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 in which they made them serve, was with rigor. 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives (of which the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:) 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it shall be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it shall be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male-children alive. Num.26.59. & Acts 7. 20. Heb. 11. 23. ter ye shall save alive. CHAP. II. 2 Moses is born, 3 and in an ark cast into the flags. 5 He is found and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter: 11 He slayeth an Egyptian: 13 He reproveth a Hebrew: 15 He fleeth into Midian: 21 He marrieth Zipporah. 22 Gershom is born. 23 God respecteth the cry of the Israelites. AND there went a man of the house of Levi, and married a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could no 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 know what would be done to him. 5¶ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river's side: and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go, and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to 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 him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name 1 Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. Before 1571. 1 That is, dian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the 11 And it came to pass in those days, drawn out. bush was not consumed. when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that 2 way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Why smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he said, Who made thee 2 a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyp tain? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. Heb.a man a prince. 3 or, prince. c. 18. 3. 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this a Gen. 15. 14. thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Mo- & 46. 4. ses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Approach not hither: put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face: for he was afraid to look upon God. 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters; for I know their sorrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, 16 Now the 3 priest of Midian had 4 Heb. knew. and to bring them out of that land, to a seven daughters and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon to day? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. 22 And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. 23 ¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their cry ascended to God, by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his a covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God 4 had respect to them. CHAP. III. 1 Moses keepeth Jethro's flock: 2 God appear. eth to him in a burning bush: 9 He sendeth him to deliver Israel. 14 The name of God: 15 His message to Isruel. good land, and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee to Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of IsActs 7. 30. rael out of Egypt. Acts 7. 33. 11 ¶ And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token to thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, Josh. 5. 15. and shall say to them, The God of your fathers hath sent me to you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say to them? Matt. 22.32. JOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro Acts 7.32. Nhis father-in-law, the priest of Mi 14 And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM: And he said, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me to you. 15 And God said, moreover, to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial to all generations. 16 Go and assemble the elders of Isra el, and say to them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. Before 1491. hand. 17 And I have said, I will bring you out of the affliction of Egypt to the land 1 or, but by of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and strong the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and ye shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go (we beseech thee) three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, 1 no, not by a mighty hand. 8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken to thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river 1 shall become blood upon the dry land. 10 And Moses said to the LORD, O my Lord, I am not 2 eloquent, neither 3 heretofore, nor since thou hast spoke to c. 11. 2. & thy servant: but I am slow of speech, 12. 35. and of a slow tongue. 20 And I will stretch out my hand, and 2 or, ask. smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof; and after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it 11 And the LORD said to him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD. 12 Now therefore go, and I will be a with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. 13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou 4 wilt send. 14¶ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is shall come to pass, that when ye go, ye 3 or, Egypt. not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I shall not go empty : 22 d But every woman shall 2 borrow of her neighbor, and of her that dwelleth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your know that he can speak well. And also behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. 15 And thou shalt speak to him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be daughters: and ye shall spoil 3 the Egyp-1 Heb. shall with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and tians. CHAP. IV. 1 Moses' rod is turned into a serpent. 6 His hand is leprous. 10 He is unwilling to be sent. 14 Aaron is appointed to assist him. 18 Moses departeth from Jethro. 21 God's message to Pharaoh. 24 Zipporah circumciseth her son. 27 Aaron is sent to meet Mo ses. 31 The people believe them. ND Moses answered and said, But nor hearken to my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared to thee. be, and 2 Heb. a 3 Heb. since 2 And the LORD said to him, What is day. that in thy hand? And he said, A rod. 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. will teach you what ye shall do. 16 And he shall speak for thee to the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God. 17 And thou shalt take this rod in thy hand, with which thou shalt perform signs. 18 T And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 19 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the And he cast it on the ground, and it be- Matt. 10.19. men are dead who sought thy life. came a serpent: and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: Mark 13. 11. 20 And Moses took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, 5 That they may believe that the LORD or, should see that thou perform all those wonders God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee. 6 T And the LORD said furthermore to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. 7 And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. est. b c. 7. 1. before Pharaoh which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. 22 And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my first-born. 23 And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou shalt refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy first-born. 24 T And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. |