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of the deep that hieth under, blessings I pray you, in the ears of Phamol of the breasts, and of the womb: 26 The blessings of thy father have 5 My father made me swear, saying, prevailed above the blessings of my Lo, I die: in my grave which I have progenitors unto the utmost bound of digged for me in the land of Canaan, the everlasting hills; they shall be on there shalt thou bury me. Now there. the head of Joseph, and on the crown fore let me go up, I pray thee, and of the head of him that was separate bury my father, and I will come again. from his brethren. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as Ire made thee swear.

27 T Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the 800i!.

7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the 28 ↑ All these are the twelve tribes servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his of Israel; and this is it that their fa-house, and all the elders of the land of ther spake unto them, and blessed Egypt. them; every one according to his 8 And all the house of Joseph, and blessing he blessed theni.

29 And be 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,

his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their berds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and borseiden; and it was a

30 ln the care that is in the field of very great company. Machpelah, which is before Mamre, 10 And they came to the threshing. in the land of Canaan, which Abra-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jornam bought with the field of Ephron dan; and there they mourned with a The Hittite for a possession of a bury-[great and very sore lamentation; and ing-place. he made a mourning for his father seven days.

31 (There they buried Abrabam and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there 1 buried Leah.)

32 The purchase of the field, and of the care that is therem, was from the children of Heth.

3 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.

CHAP. L.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourn ing in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians; wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan,

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

13 For has gens carried bim into the ¡land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelab, which Abraham bought with the Geld, for a

AND Joseph fell upon his father's possession of a burying place, of Eph

face, and wept upon him, and rou the Hittite, before Mamre. kissed him. 14T And Joseph returned into Egypt, 2 Aud Joseph commanded his scr-he, and his brethren, and all that went vants the physicians to embalm his fa- up with him to bury his father, after be ther: and the physicians embalmed|liad buried his father.

Israel.

15 And when Joseph's brethren

3 And forty days were fulfilled for|saw that their father was dead, they him; for so are fulfilled the days of said, Joseph will peradventure bate those which are embalmed; and the us, and will certainly requite us all Egyptians mourned for him threescore the evil which we did onto him. and ten days. 16 And they sent a messenger "

4 And when the days of his mourn-Joseph, saying, Thy ing were past, Joseph spake unto the mand before he died house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I 17 So shall ye se have found grace in your eyes, speak,|give, I pray thee

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and death. thy brethren, and their sin; for they fand his father's house: and Joseph did unto thee evil: and now, we pray [lived a hundred and ten years. thee, forgive the trespass of the ser- 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's chilvants of the God of thy father. And dren of the third generation: the chil Joseph wept when they spake untojdrea also of Machir, the son of Ma nasseb, were brought up upon Jo (seph's knees.

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18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; bid God meant it unto good, to bring it to pass,as it is this day, to save much people alive.

21 Now therefore fear ye not; I will / nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

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. 25 Aud Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from heuce.

26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old : and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, Egypt.

↑ The Second Book of Moses, called EXODUS.

NOW

CHAP. I.

And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

these are the names of the children of Israel, which came 13 And the Egyptians made the chil into Egypt: every man and his house-¡dren of Israel to serve with rigour. hold came with Jacob. 14 And they made their lives bitter 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, with hard bondage, in mortar, and 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, in brick, and in all manner of service 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher, in the held: all their service, wherein 5 And all the soula that came out of they made them serve, was with rithe loins of Jacob were seventy souls:[gour. for Joseph was in Egypt already, 15 T And the king of Egypt spake 6. And Joseph died, and all his breth to the Hebrew midwives, (of which ren, and all that generation. the name of the one was Shiphrab, 7 And the children of Israel were jand the name of the other Puah ;) fruitful, and increased abundantly, 16 And he said, When ye do the office and multiplied, and waxed exceeding of a midwife to the Hebrew women, mighty; and the land was filled with and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him ; but if it be a

them.

8 ¶ Now there arose up a new king daughter, than she shall live. over Egypt, which knew not Josepli. 17 But the midwives feared God, 9 And he said unto his people, Be-and did not as the king of Egypt com hold, the people of the children of Is-manded them, but saved the men-chil rael are more and mightier than we.[dren alive.

10 Come on, let us deal wisely with 18 And the king of Egypt called for them, lest they multiply, and it come the midwives, and said unto them, to pass, that, when there filleth out Why have ye dour this thing, and any war, they join also unto our ene-[have saved the men-children alive? mies, and fight against us, and so get 19 And the midwives said unto Phathem up out of the land. roh, Because the Hebrew women are Therefore they did set over them not as the Egyptian women; for they to afflict them with their are lively, and are delivered ere the by built for Pharaoh|midwives come in unto them.

om and Raamses. 20 Therefore God dealt well with y afflicted them, the midwives: and the people multied and grew.plied, and waxed very mighty.

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CHAP. II, III.

He marrieth Zipporah.

13 And when he went out the second

21 And it came to pass, because the no man, he slew the Egyptian, and midwives feared God, that he made hid him in the sand. them houses. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his peo-day, behold, two men of the Hebrews ple, saying, Every son that is born, ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. CHAP. 11.

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

2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid lim three months.

strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore emites: thou thy fellow?

14 And he said, Who made thee

prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and

3 Aud when she could no longer hide
him, she took for him an ark of bul-he sat down by a well.
rushes, 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 maidens walked along by the river's side: and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

16 Now the priest of Midian had 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 ye are come so soon to-day?

19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and he watered the flock.

20 And he said unto his daughters,

6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept. And she bad compassion on him, and said, This is one of the He-And where is he? why is it that ye brews' children. have left the man? call bim, that he may eat bread.

7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew woman, 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 unto 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.

21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter

22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershon; 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 came up unto God, by reason of the bondage.

10 And the child grew, and she Drought him unto Pharaon's daughter and he became her son. And she call. 24 And God heard their groaning ed his naine Moses; and she said, Be-and God remembered his covenant cause I drew him out of the water. with Abraham, with Isaac, and with 11 T And it came to pass, in those Jacob.

days, when Moses was grown, that he 25 And God looked upon the chilwent out unto his brethren, and look-dren of Israel, and God had respect ed on their burdens: and he spied an unto them. Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of Ing brethren.

CHAP. III.

Notis father in-law, the
JOW Moses kept the flock of

12 And he looked this way, and that way, and when be saw that there was! priest of Midian: and be led the flock

Moses sent to

EXODUS.

deliver Israel. to the back side of the desert, and] 13 And Moses said unto God,Behold, came to the mountain of God, even to when 1 come unto the children of la Horeb. rael, and shall say unto them, The

2 And the angel of the LonD appear-[ God of your fathers hath sent me unto ed unto him in a flame of fire, out of you; and they shall say to me, What the midst of a bush; and he looked, is his name? what shall I say unto and behold, the bush burned with them? fire, and the bush was not consumed.

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3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM and be said, Thus ebalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 1 AM hath sent me unto you. 15 T And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the

4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto children of Israel, The Lono God of him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses! and he said, Here am I.

5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon 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 Jácob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

7 T And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows:

your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my me morial unto all generations

16 Go, and gather the elders of Is rael together, and say unto thein, The Lord God of your fathers,the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,ap peared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;

17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land, 18 And they shall hearken to thy unto a good land and a large, unto a voice: and thou shalt come, thou and land flowing with milk and honey; the elders of Israel, unto the king of unto the place of the Canaanites, and Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and The LORD God of the Hebrews hath the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the met with us; and now let us go, we Jebusites. beseech thee, three days' journey into 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the wilderness, that we may sacrifice the children of Israel is come unto] to the LORD our God. me and I have also seen the oppres- 19¶ And 1 am sure that the king of sion wherewith the Egyptians op- Egypt will not let you go, no, not by pressed them.

a mighty hand.

10 Come now therefore, and I will] 20 And I will stretch out my hand, send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou and smite Egypt with all my wonmayest bring forth my people, the ders which I will do in the midst children of Israel, out of Egypt. thereof; and after that he will let you 11 ¶ And Moses said unto God,Who|go.

am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, 21 And I will give this people favour and that I should bring forth the chil-in the sight of the Egyptians: and it dren of Israel out of Egypt? shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty :

12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that so journeth in her bouse, jewels of sil ver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon your sous,

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CHAP. IV.

into Egypt. and upon your daughters; and ye with thy mouth, and teach thee what shall spoil the Egyptians. thou shalt say,

CHAP. IV.

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13 And he said, O my Lord, send, pray thee, by the hand of him whom A But, behold, they will not believe and the anger of the LORD was

ND Moses and said, thou wilt send.

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me, nor hearken unto my voice: for kindled against Moses, and he said, Is they will say, The LORD hath not ap-not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I peared unto thee. know that he can epeak weli. And 2 And the LORD said unto him, What also, behold, he cometh forth to meet is that in thy hand? And he said, Athee; and when he seeth thee, he will rod. be glad in his beart.

3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpeut; and Moses fled from before it.

And the LORD said unto 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: 5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto tbee.

15 And thou shalt speak unto bin, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto 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, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

6 T And the Lond said furthermore 18 T And Moses went, and returned unto him, Put now thy hand into thy to Jethro his father-in-law, and said bosom. And he put his hand into his unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and bosom; and when he took it out, be- return unto my brethren which are hold, his hand was leprous as snow. in Egypt, and see whether they be 7 And he said, Put thy hand into thy yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, bosom again. And he put his hand Go in peace. into his bosom again, and plucked it out of bis bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.

19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought tby

8. And it shall come to pass, if they life. will not believe thee, neither hearken] 20 And Moses took his wife and his to the voice of the first sign, that they sons, and set them upon an ass,and he will believe the voice of the latter returned to the land of Egypt. And sign. Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto 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, shall become blood upou the dry land.

21 T And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders 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 unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my first-born.

10 ¶ And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, 1 am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast 23 And I say unto thee, Let my son spoken unto thy servant; but 1 am go, that he may serve me; and if thou slow of speech, and of a slow tongue, refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay 11 And the Lond said unto him, Who thy son, even thy first-born. hath made man's mouth? or who] 24 T And it came to pass by the way, maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the in the inn, that the LORD met him, seeing, or the blind? have not I the and sought to kill him. Lond?

12 Now therefore go, and I will be

25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her

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