his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; (32) and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. (33) And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? (34) that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

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raoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? (9) And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my 2 pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. (10) And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. (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. (12) And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

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(13) And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. (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. (15) And when the money was all spent 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 our money faileth. (16) And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. (17) And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he

47 Then Joseph went in 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. (2) And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. (3) And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers. (4) And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' 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. (5) And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: (6) the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any 1able men among them, fed them with bread in exchange for all then make them rulers over my cattle. their cattle for that year. (18) And when (7) And Joseph brought in Jacob his that year was ended, they came unto him father, and set him before Pharaoh: and the second year, and said unto him, We Jacob blessed Pharaoh. (8) And Pha-will not hide from my lord, how that our

1 Or, men of activity. 2 Or, sojournings. of the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds.

3 Or, according to the number of their little ones.
Heb. led them as a shepherd.

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Heb. cattle

money is all spent; and the herds of cat- Jacob, the years of his life, were an huntle are my lord's; there is nought left in dred forty and seven years. (29) And the the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and time drew near that Israel must die: and he our lands: (19) wherefore should we die called his son Joseph, and said unto him, before thine eyes, both we and our land? If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, buy us and our land for bread, and we I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and and our land will be servants unto Pha- deal kindly and truly with me; bury me raoh and give us seed, that we may live, not, I pray thee, in Egypt: (30) but when and not die, and that the land be not I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry desolate. (20) So Joseph bought all the me out of Egypt, and bury me in their land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyp- buryingplace. And he said, I will do as tians sold every man his field, because the thou hast said. (31) And he said, Swear famine was sore upon them: and the land unto me: and he sware unto him. And became Pharaoh's. (21) And as for the Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. people, he removed them to the cities 48 And it came to pass after these from one end of the border of Egypt even things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, to the other end thereof. (22) Only the thy father is sick and he took with him land of the priests bought he not: for his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, (2) And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and gave them; wherefore they sold not their Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon land. (23) Then Joseph said unto the the bed. (3) And Jacob said unto Jopeople, Behold, I have bought you this seph, God Almighty appeared unto me at day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. me, (4) and said unto me, Behold, I will (24) And it shall come to pass at the in- make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and gatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto I will make of thee a company of peoples; Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your and will give this land to thy seed after own, for seed of the field, and for your thee for an everlasting possession. food, and for them of your households, And now thy two sons, which were born and for food for your little ones. (25) unto thee in the land of Egypt before I And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; let us find grace in the sight of my lord, Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and we will be Pharaoh's servants. (26) and Simeon, shall be mine. (6) And thy And Joseph made it a statute concerning issue, which thou begettest after them, the land of Egypt unto this day, that shall be thine; they shall be called after Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the the name of their brethren in their inheritland of the priests alone became not Pha-ance. (7) And as for me, when I came raoh's. (27) And Israel dwelt in the from Paddan, Rachel died 5 by me in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; land of Canaan in the way, when there and they gat them possessions therein, was still some way to come unto Ephrath : and were fruitful, and multiplied exceed- and I buried her there in the way to ingly. Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem). (8) (28) And Jacob lived in the land of And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Who are these? (9) And Joseph said

According to Samar., Sept. and Vulg., he made bondmen of them, from &c. Het El Shaddai. Or, hast begotten. Or, to my sorrow.

(5)

2 Or, according to their cities.

(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,

(2) Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;

And hearken unto Israel your father.

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(3) Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength;

The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.

unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. (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. (11) And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also. which I took out of the hand of the Amor(12) And Joseph brought them out from ite with my sword and with my bow. between his knees; and he bowed himself 49 And Jacob called unto his sons, and with his face to the earth. (13) And Jo-said: Gather yourselves together, that I seph took them both, Ephraim in his right may tell you that which shall befall you hand toward Israel's left hand, and Man- in the latter days. asseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. (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, 1guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was thefirst born. (15) And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day, (16) the angel which hath 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. (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. (18) And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; 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 howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become 2 a multitude of nations.

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(4) Unstable as water, thou shalt not have the excellency;

Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed:

Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

(5) Simeon and Levi are brethren ; Weapons of violence are their swords. (6) O my soul, come not thou into their 9 council;

Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united;

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For in their anger they slew a man,
And in their selfwill they houghed "1 an

ox.

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(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.

(8) Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise :

4 Or, mountain slope. Heb. shechem, shoulder. 8 Or, compacts. Or, secret. 10 Or, men.

Or, Till he come to Shiloh, having the obedience of the peoples. Or, as read by the Sept., Until that which is his shall come &c. Another ancient rendering is, Till he come whose it is &c. 3 Heb. beach. Or, by. & Or, rest. Or, horned snake. 7 Heb. gedud, a marauding band. 8 Heb. gad, to press. 9 According to some ancient versions, Asher, his bread &c. 10 Heb. the son of a fruitful tree. 11 Heb. daughters. "Or, active. 13 Or, From thence, from the shepherd. Or, as otherwise read, By the name of the shepherd. According to some ancient authorities, the blessings of the uncient mountains, the desire (or, desirable things) of the everlasting hills. 15 Or, that is prince among.

one according to his blessing he blessed the house of Joseph, and his brethren, them. (29) And he charged them, and and his father's house: only their little said unto them, I am to be gathered unto ones, and their flocks, and their herds, my people: bury me with my fathers in they left in the land of Goshen. (9) the cave that is in the field of Ephron the And there went up with him both chariots Hittite, (30) in the cave that is in the and horsemen and it was a very great field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, company. (10) And they came to the in the land of Canaan, which Abraham threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond bought with the field from Ephron the Hit- Jordan, and there they lamented with a tite for a possession of a buryingplace: very great and sore lamentation: and he (31) there they buried Abraham and made a mourning for his father seven Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac days. (11) And when the inhabitants of and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried the land, the Canaanites, saw the mournLeah (32) the field and the cave that is ing in the floor of Atad, they said, This therein, which was purchased from the is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians : children of Heth. (33) And when Jacob wherefore the name of it was called Abelmade an end of charging his sons, he mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. (12) gathered up his feet into the bed, and And his sons did unto him according as yielded up the ghost, and was gathered he commanded them: (13) for his sons unto his people. 50 And Joseph fell carried him into the land of Canaan, and upon his father's face, and wept upon buried him in the cave of the field of him, and kissed him. (2) And Joseph Machpelah, which Abraham bought with commanded his servants the physicians to the field, for a possession of a buryingembalm his father: and the physicians place, of Ephron the Hittite, before embalmed Israel. (3) And forty days Mamre. were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.

(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. (15) And when Jo(4) And when the days of weeping for seph's brethren saw that their father was him were past, Joseph spake unto the dead, they said, It may be that Joseph house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have will hate us, and will fully requite us all found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray the evil which we did unto him. (16) you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, (5) And they sent a message unto Joseph, My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I saying, Thy father did command before die in my grave which I 1have digged he died, saying, (17) So shall ye say unto for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the thou bury me. Now therefore let me go transgression of thy brethren, and their up, 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 up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, (8) and all

1 Or, bought.

sin, for that they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. (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

2 Heb. ebel.