no more.

24 And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

30 Now, therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

32 For thy servant became suretyr for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

Joseph sendeth for his father.

B. C. 1705. | 6 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.

a chap. 47.18. Ex. 34. 21.

to put for

you a remnant.

cchap. 37.3.

41 Ch.11.14.

Ps. 18. 50.

44. 4.

ech.42.15,20.

John 19.11.

7 And God sent me before you, ẞ to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a greatd deliverance.

8 So now it was not you that sent me. hither, but God: and he hath made me a fathers to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all

chap.41.43.
Ju. 17. 10. Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

Job 29. 16.

chap.46.29.

47.1..6.

Ex. 8. 22.

9.26.

i chap. 43. 2.

Lu. 11. 7.

chap.42.23.

10 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:

11 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.

Lu. 24. 39. mchap.30.23. 12 And, behold, your eyes see, and 35.18. the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it 46.19. is my mouth that speaketh unto you. chap.37.33. 13 And ye shall tell my father of all 42.36. my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither.

Ac. 7. 14. chap. 33.4.

46.29.

91 Sa. 18. 1.

25. 29.

ywas good

in the eyes

of Pha

raoh.

CHAPTER XLV.

* Εχ. 18. 8. Job 31. 29.

Ps. 116.3.

119.143.

glet not

your eye

spare, &c. η mouth. #Nu. 3. 16.

y chap.43.34.

his voice in

Nu. 14. 1.

weeping.

K carrying.

a Job 4. 5.

23. 15.

chap.37.28.

Mat. 14.26.

c2 Co. 2.7.

14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that, his brethren talked with him.

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

Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

18 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.

19 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.

20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.

21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph them wagons, accord

ing to the commandment of Pharaoh,

and gave them provision for the way.

22 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.

23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses Kladen with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden ther by the way. with corn and bread and meat for his fa

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

uneither let

there be

anger in

your eyes.

25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto

26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart

Israel goeth into Egypt.

fainted, for he believed them not.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were

CHAPTER XLVI.

AND Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came tod Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

in the

2 And God spake unto Israel visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

3 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.

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee upm again: and Joseph shall put his hand" upon thine eyes.

5 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.

6 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.

7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

8 And these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and η Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitish woman. 11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 Andthesons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gaved to Leah his daughter: and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

20 And unto Joseph, in the land of Egypt, were borne Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On, bare unto him.

21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

29.24.

Ps. 126. 1.

Lu. 24.11,41.

Bor, Shuham, Nu. 26. 42.

b Ps. 85. 6. cchap.29.29. y thigh.

d chap.21.33. 28.10.

ech.31.42,53. schap. 15. 1.

Job 33. 15.

91 Sa. 3.4,10.

De. 10. 22.

Ac. 7. 14.

i chap. 12. 2. De. 26. 5.

chap.31.21. Ichap. 47. 1.

mchap. 15.16.

50. 13, 25.

Ex. 3. 8.

chap. 50. 1.

Ac. 7. 15. • chap. 45.14.

p Lu. 2.29,30.

ch. 45.19,27.

S they are men of

cattle.

Nu. 20. 15.
De. 26. 5.
Jos. 24. 4.

Ps. 105. 23.
Is. 52. 4.

8 Ex. 1. 1.

6. 14.

t chap. 47.3.

u chap. 30.35.

37.12.

23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter; and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six.

27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

28 And he sent Judah before him unto

Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 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.

30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and 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 their trade hath been to feed 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' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination" unto the Egyptians.

CHAPTER XLVII.

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.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even 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 also our fathers.

4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For 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.

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 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.

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his Joseph's dealing in the famine.

Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old & art thou?

9 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.

10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before 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.

13 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.

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 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 in thy presence? for the money faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

В. С. 1705.

al Sa. 15. 30. 1 Ch. 29. 20.

1 Pe. 2. 17.

many are

the days of

the years of

thy life?

& Ezr. 7. 24.

cch. 25. 7, 8.

35. 28.

yor, princes.

d Ex. 1. 7, 12.

De. 10. 22.

Ne. 9. 23.

8 days of the years of his life.

everse 6.

Ex. 1. 11.

f De. 31. 14. 1 Ki. 2. 1. Job 7. 1. 14. 14.

according

to the little ones; or, as a little

child is nourished.

h ch.41.30,31.

ich.50.5..13.

He. 11. 22.

k 1 Ki. 1. 47.

He. 11. 21.

1 ch.28.13..19

η led.

35.6, &c.

Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons.

your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

29 And the times drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

30 But I will lie with my fathers; and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

AND it came to pass, after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee : and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee form an everlasting possession.

5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben

mchap. 17.8. and Simeon, they shall be mine.

De. 32. 8.

Am. 9. 14,

15.

6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, andr shall be called after the name of their brethren

that the land be not desolate.

20 And Joseph bought all the land of

• Job 2. 4.

La. 1. 11.

4 ch.35.16..19

oor, princes.

r chap. 33.5.

chap. 27.4.

He. 11. 21.

Kheavy.

7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.

8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?

9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I. pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10 Now the eyes of Israel were

dim

your land, for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 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

45.26.

и Ер. 3. 20.

Ex. 20. 12.

Le. 19. 32.

11 And Israel said unto Joseph, It had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.

12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

CHAPTER I.

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which 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 came out of the loins of Jacob were seventyd souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

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

7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and 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:

10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get 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.

13 And the Egyptians made the children 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 the 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 be a son, then ye shall kill him but if it 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 men children alive.

18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children

B. C. 1706.

a chap. 6. 20.

Ge. 46. 8. c Ac. 7. 20.

He. 11. 23.

ẞ thigh.

d De. 10. 22.

e Ge. 50. 26. f Ge. 46.3.

De. 26. 5.

Ps. 105. 24. g Ec. 2. 19.

Ac. 7. 18.

h Ps. 106. 46. i Ps. 83. 3, 4.

Pr. 1. 11.

21.30.

Ac. 23. 12.

1 Co. 3. 19.

Ja. 3. 15.

k chap. 3.7. Ge. 15. 13. De. 26. 6.

Ps. 81. 6.

I Ge. 47. 11.

m Ps. 27. 10.

y and as they

afflicted them, 80 they multiplied.

8 that is,

drawn out.

n chap. 2. 23.

6.9. Nu. 20. 15.

Ru. 1. 20.

Ac.7.19,34. • Ps. 81. 6. Na. 3. 14.

chap. 1. 11. Ac. 7.23, 24.

He.11.24..26

Le. 25. 43.

Is. 58. 6.
Je. 50. 33.

r Ne. 5. 15.

Pr. 16. 6.

Da. 3. 18.

6. 13.

Ас. 5. 29.

a man, a prince. Jos. 2. 4.

2 Sa. 17. 19.

nor, prince.

t Ge. 24. 11.

29. 10.

1 Sa. 9. 11.

wives 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 midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

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.

Ec. 8. 12.

Is. 3. 10.

He. 6. 10.

called also

Jethro, or, Jether,

Nu. 10. 29. 1 Sa. 2.35.

2 Sa. 7. 11.

1 Ki. 2. 24.

Ps. 127. 1.

CHAPTER II.

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 him three months.

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 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 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.

10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

12 And he looked this way and that 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, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

14 And he said, Who made thee a prince Sand 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 he sat down by a well.

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came andt 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 watered the flock.