Jacob forth into Egypt. CHAP. XLVI. XLVII. Joseph meeteth him, which Joseph had sent to carry him, Ephraim, which Asenath, the daugh the spirit of Jacob their father revived: ter of Poti-pherah priest of On, bare 28 And Israel said, It is enough: unto him. Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. CHAP. XLVI. AND Israel took his journey with ail that he had, and came to Beersheba, 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 will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba and the suns of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wites, in the waggons 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 be with bim into Egypt. 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carni. 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Happim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 23 And the son of Dan; Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; San zeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of Bilbab, 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 Ja cob 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 ts meet Ismael 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, 10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and unto his father's house, I will go and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Ca-bim, My brethren, and my father's uaanitish woman. house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; 11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of Judah, Er, and 13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, 15 These be the sons of Leah, which 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 gave to Leah his daugh ter: and these she bare unto Jacob, cven sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph and Benjamin. 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. CHAP. XLVII. THEN Joseph came and told Fharaoh, 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. 20 And unto Joseph, in the land of They said moreover unto Pharaob, ExYPS were bor Manasseh and For to sojourn in the land are we The mourning for Jacob. GENESIS. Jacob's funeral. the horse heels, so that his rider shall, those which are embalmed ;) and the fall backward. Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days, 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD! 19 Gad, a troop shall overcome bim: bat 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 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 21 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 T 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 any 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. CHAP. L. AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon hun, 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 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 threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and be made a mourning for his father seven days. Il 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 cominanded 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 burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Maire. 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 evi which we did unto him. 16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did com. mand before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, For give, 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 ser vants 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? Joseph's death. EXODUS. Moses is born. 20 But as for you, ye thought evil Manasseh, were brought up upon Joagainst me; but God meant it unto seph's knees. good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, 1 die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of thus land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 21 Now, therefore, fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, children of Israel, saying, God will he and his father's house : and surely visit you, and ye shall carry up Joseph lived an hundred and ten my bones from hence years. 26 So Joseph died, being an hun 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's childred and ten years old: and they em dren of the third generation: the balmed him, and he was put in a coffin children also of Machir the son of in Egypt. THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED EXODUS. CHAP. I. are Tow these NOW 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 seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his thren, and all that generation. 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 nien-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 alive? 19 And the midwives said unto Phabre-raoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very nighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives teared God, that he made 8 Now there arose up a new king! over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Be-them houses. hold, 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! task masters, to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted thein the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 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. CHAP. 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 no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child there13 And the Egyptians made the chil-in; and she laid it in the flags by the dren of Israel to serve with rigour: river's brink. 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 igour. 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives; (of which the name of 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, 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 baba 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 Rutse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the chiid 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 1 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 espied 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. 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 and 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 you are come so soon to-day? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepberds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 29 And he said unto his daughters, And where ts he? why is it that yel 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 caine 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, The burning busk and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the chil dren of Israel, and God had respect unto them. CHAP. III. NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a hush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD saw that be turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hithers put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also sean the oppres sion wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will. send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaob, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 19 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee: and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee; Whe: thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name what shall I say un to them Moses' signs 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM, the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto THAT I AM and he said, Thus shalt thee. thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into 15 And God said moreover unto thy bosom. And he put his hand into Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the his bosom; and when he took it out, children of Israel, The LORD God of behold, his hand was leprous as snow. your fathers, the God of Abraham, 7 And he said, Put thine hand into ihe God of Isaac, and the God of Jathy bosom again. And he put his hand cob, hath sent me unto you: this is into his bosom again, and plucked it my name for ever, and this is my me-out of his bosom; and, behold, it was inorial unto all generations. turned again as his other flesh. 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt : 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and hopey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt; and yc shall say unto him,! The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty; S And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither nearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water, which thou takest out of the river, shall become blood upon the dry land. 10 And Moses said unto the LORD, Olay Lord 1 am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 11 And the LORD said unto nim, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seemg, or the blind? have not I the LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. 13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the band of him whom thou wilt send. 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses; and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad f his heart. 22 But every woinan shall borrow of bet neighbour, and of her that sojourn- 15 And thou shalt speak unto him, eth in her house, jewels of silver, and and put words in his mouth: and I jewels of gold, and raiment: and we will be with thy mouth, and with his shall put them upon your sons, and up-mouth, and will teach you what ye on your daughters; and ye shall spoil shall do. the Egyptians. AN CHAP. IV. 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead et God. ND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they 17 And thou shalt take this rod in will say, The LORD hath not appeared thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do unto thee. signs. 2 And the LORD said unto him, 18 And Moses went, and returned What is that in thine hand? And he to Jethro his father-in-law, and said said, A rod. unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 3 And be said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his band: 5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and 49 19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand C |