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The First Book of Moses, called Genesis
The First Book of Moses, called Genesis
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Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
2
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
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And Joseph said unto his brethren, I
am
Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
4
And 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.
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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
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.
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And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8
So now
it 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.
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Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
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:
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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.
12
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that
it is
my mouth that speaketh unto you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
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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.
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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.
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Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt
is
yours.
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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.
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 laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
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And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
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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.
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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:
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And Israel said,
It is
enough; Joseph my son
is
yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
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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.
2
And God spake unto Israel in the 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 up
again:
and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
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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.
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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:
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His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
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And these
are
the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
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And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
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And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
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And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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And the sons 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.
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And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
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And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
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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.
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And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
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And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
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These
are
the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob,
even
sixteen souls.
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The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
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And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
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And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
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These
are
the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls
were
fourteen.
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And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
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And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
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These
are
the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls
were
seven.
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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;
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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.
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And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
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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.
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And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou
art
yet alive.
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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;
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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.
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And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What
is
your occupation?
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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.
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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.
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And he took some of his brethren,
even
five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
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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.
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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.
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And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
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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.
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And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
art
thou?
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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.
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And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
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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.
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And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to
their
families.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
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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 ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
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Wherefore 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.
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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.
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And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
one
end of the borders of Egypt even to the
other
end thereof.
22
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.
23
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.
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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 households, and for food for your little ones.
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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.
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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.
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And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
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And the time 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.
48
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
for
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 and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6
And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine,
and
shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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 Bethlehem.
8
And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who
are
these?
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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.
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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.
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And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought
them
near unto him.
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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, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh
was
the firstborn.
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And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
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The Angel which 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.
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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.
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And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this
is
the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
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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 shall become a multitude of nations.
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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.
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And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
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Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
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And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
that
which shall befall you in the last days.
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Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3
Reuben, thou
art
my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; 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; instruments of cruelty
are in
their habitations.
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O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
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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.
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Judah, thou
art he
whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
shall be
in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
9
Judah
is
a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him
shall
the gathering of the people
be.
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Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto 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 an haven of ships; and his border
shall be
unto Zidon.
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Issachar
is
a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
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And he saw that rest
was
good, and the land that
it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
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Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, 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.
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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.
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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 under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto 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 ravin
as
a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28
All these
are
the twelve tribes of Israel: and this
is it
that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
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And he 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,
30
In the cave that
is
in the field of Machpelah, which
is
before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
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
therein
was
from the children of Heth.
33
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.
50
And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed 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 him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
4
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found 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 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 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 Goshen.
9
And there went up 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.
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: 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 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 buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
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 Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
16
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
17
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass 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 not: for
am
I in the place of God?
20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me;
but
God meant it unto good, to bring 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.
22
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
23
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third
generation:
the children also of Machir the son Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
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.
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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.
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So Joseph died,
being
an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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