A. When Joseph's Steward overtook them, and charged them with stealing his Master's cup, they said, With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my Lord's Bondmen.-v. 9.

Q. When they were brought again before Joseph, does their conscience again accuse them?

A. Judah said, God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; meaning their cruel treatment of their Brother Joseph.-v. 16.

Q. How did Judah prevail upon Joseph not to detain Benjamin?

A. He represented to him, in the most affecting manner, his aged Father's distress at parting with Benjamin; saying that, if he did not return, they would bring down the grey heirs of their Father with sorrow to the grave.-v. 31.

Q. What more did Joseph promise?

A. He offered to remain a Bond man instead of the lad. v. 33.

CHAPTER XLV.

Q. How did Joseph receive this proposal? A. He could refrain himself no longer, but wept aloud, and made himself known to his brethren. -v. 1.

Q. Is this circumstance described in the New Testament?

A. St. Stephen says, At the second time Joseph was made known to his Brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known to Pharaoh.-Acts vii. 13. Q. How were his Brethren affected by this discovery?

A. They were troubled at his presence.v. 3. Q. Did Joseph endeavour to reconcile them to themselves?

A. He bade them not be grieved, nor angry with themselves, that they had sold him hither; saying, that God had sent him before them to preserve life.-v. 5.

Q. What does he direct his Brethren to do?

A. He bade them hasten to his Father, and tell him to come down to him, and dwell in the land of Goshen with all his family, and his flocks; and that he would nourish them there.-v. 9, 11.

Q. How is this related in the New Testament?

A. Then sent Joseph, and called his Father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, three score and fifteen souls: so Jacob went down into Egypt, and died; he and our Fathers.-Acts vii. 9, 11.

Q. What proof did he give of his cordial forgiveness?

A. After embracing Benjamin first, he kissed all his Brethren, and wept upon them.-v. 14, 15. Q. Notwithstanding, did he at all bring to their minds their past misdeeds?

A. To all of them he gave changes of raiment; but to Benjamin, who had not partaken of their sin, he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment; and said to them, See that ye fall not out by the way.-v. 22, 24.

Q. When they told their Father that Joseph was yet alive, and Governor over all the land of Egypt, how was Israel affected?

A. His heart fainted, for he believed them not. -V. 26.

Q. How was he convinced of the truth of what they related?

A. When he saw the waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him, his spirit revived; and he said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and see him before I die.-v. 28.

CHAPTER XLVI.

Q. What promise did God make to Jacob, as he travelled into Egypt?

A. He told him that He would make a great nation of him; that He would go down with him into Egypt, and would surely bring him up again. -v. 3, 4.

Q. How many in number were they when they came into Egypt?

A. All the souls of the house of Jacob, with Joseph's two sons born in Egypt, were three-score and ten. v. 70.

CHAPTER XLVII.

Q. Where did Israel dwell, and what was the occupation of his Sons?

A. They dwelt as Shepherds in the land of Goshen.-v. 1.

Q. Were they prosperous under the reign of this Pharaoh and of Joseph ?

A. They grew and multiplied exceedingly.-v.27. Q. How long did Jacob live in the land of Egypt? A. Seventeen years.-v. 28.

Q. How old was he?

Ă. One Hundred and Forty-seven years.

Q. What promise did he require of Joseph before he died?

A. He made him swear that he would not bury him in Egypt, but that he would carry him out, and bury him in the burying place of his Fathers, in the cave of Macpelah, in Mamre of Canaan.chap. xlix. 30.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Q. What privilege did Israel confer upon the two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh?

A. He adopted them as his own Sons, saying, "they shall be mine;" giving the first blessing to Ephraim, who was the younger. v. 5. 19.

CHAPTER XLIX.

Q. Which is the most remarkable of the blessings which Jacob gave to his Sons before his death?

A. When he blessed Judah, he said, The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a Law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.*-v. 10. Q. Who was Shiloh?

A. The Messiah.

Q. How did Joseph fulfil his Father's command? A. He caused his Father's body to be embalmed, and obtained permission from Pharaoh to go with the body into the land of Canaan, where they buried him in the cave of the field of Macpelah. 13.

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Q. Do you find this recorded any where in the New Testament?

A. Jacob went down into Egypt, and died; he and our Fathers; and were carried over into Sechem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought.-Acts vii. 16.

The Jews continued to be governed by their own Laws till our Saviour's appearance on earth; nor was their civil Government entirely destroyed till the destruction of Jerusa lem, foretold by our Lord as one of his Appearances.

Q. Did the remembrance of the sin which they had committed alarm Joseph's Brethren after their Father's death?

A. When they saw that their Father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will requite us all the evil which we did unto him. -v. 15.

Q. How did Joseph receive their prayer for his forgiveness?

A. He wept; and when they said, Behold, we be thy servants, he bade them, "Fear not;" for though ye thought evil against me, God meant it unto good, to save much people alive.-v. 17, 18, 19, 20. Q. How did he prove the sincerity of his forgiveness?

A. He promised to nourish them and their little ones; and he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.-v. 21.

Q. To what age did Joseph attain?

A. Joseph lived an hundred and ten years; and saw Ephraim's children of the third generation.v. 22, 23.

Q. Did Joseph exact any promise like that which his Father required of his Brethren?

A. Joseph took an oath of the Children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Q. Is this confirmed in the New Testament? A. St. Paul mentions that, By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the Children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.-Heb. xi. 22.