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The First Book of Moses, called Genesis
The First Book of Moses, called Genesis
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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.
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 father, and set him before Pharaoh: and 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.
17
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.
18
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.
20
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.
21
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.
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 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine,
and
shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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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?
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 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.
12
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
13
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.
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, 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,
16
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.
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: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
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, 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.
2
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:
4
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.
6
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.
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, 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?
10
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.
11
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.
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 unto tribute.
16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17
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.
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 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.
29
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.
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Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
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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.
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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.
The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus
1
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.
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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy 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.
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
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And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve,
was
with rigour.
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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.
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But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
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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 alive?
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women
are
not as the Egyptian women; for they
are
lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
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Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
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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.
2
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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew
water,
and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
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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?
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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.
20
And he said unto 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 bare
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 came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto
them.
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