Joseph discloseth himself. GENESIS, XLVI. His brothers tell their father. there shall neither be earing g nor B. C. 1705. | g of Pharaoh, and gave them proviharvest. 7 And God sent me before you, 4 to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great h deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but i God: and he hath made me a fatherk to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. g Ex.34.21. to put for you a rem nant. h 1Chr. 11.14. Ps. 18.50. i Jno. 19.11. k ch.41.43. Ju. 17.10. Job 29.16. 9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith 1 ch.46.29. 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, I 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. 12 And, behold, your eyes see, m and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. 47.1-6. Ex.8.22. 9.26. m ch.42.23. Lu.24.39. n Acts 7.14. 0 ch.33.4. 46.29. 5 was good in the eyes of Pha rash. p ch.27.28. 47.6. Nu. 18.29. De.32.14. 6 let not your eye spare, &c. 7 mouth. 13 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 n my father hither. 14 And he fell upon his brotherr ch.43.34. q Num.3.16. sion 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 fiver changes of raiment. 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses 8 laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. 24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And 9 Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed s them not. 27 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:t 28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. CHAPTER XLVI. 1 Jacob is comforted by God at Beersheba: 5 he goeth into Egypt: 28 Joseph meeteth him. Benjamin's neck, o and wept; and carrying. AND Israel took his journey with Benjamin wept upon his neck. 9 his. 15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and Job 9.16. after that, his brethren talked with him. 29.24. Ps. 120.1. Lu.24.11, t Ps.85.6. 41. that he had, and came to a Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God b of his father Isaac. 2 And God spake unto Israel c in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob!d And he said, Here am I. 16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and 3 And he said, I am God, the God it 5 pleased Pharaoh well, and his (CHAP. 46.) of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there e make of thee a great nation. 4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring fthee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand g upon thine eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent h 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, i 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. Genealogies of Israel. GENESIS, XLVII. Jacob settleth in Egypt. 8 And these are the names of | B. C. 1705. | of his 14 loins, besides Jacob's sons' the children of Israel k which came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons: k Ex.1.1. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 6.14. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Ha-1 or, Nemue?. noch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 2 or, Jaril. 3 or, Zerah. or, Ger shom. 10 And the sons of Simeon: 1 Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and 2 Jachin, and 3 Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitish ch.38.3.7, A cts 7.14. q ch.31.21. 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. p 28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face q unto Goshen; and they came into the land of r Goshen. chariot, and went up to meet Is29 And Joseph made ready his rael his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him: and he fell on his neck, s and wept on his neck a good while. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, t 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 15 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, u What is your occupation? 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, p Deut. 10.22. trade hath been about cattle v from whom Laban gavem to Leal his daughter: and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. ch.47.1. s ch.45.14. t Luke 2.29, 30. 20 And unto Joseph, in the land of Egypt, were born n Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the 15 they are daughter of Poti-pherah 9 priest of On, bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin men of cattle. were Belah, and Becher, and Ash-u ch.47.3. bel, Gera, and Naaman, 10 Ehi, and v ch.30.35. Rosh, 11 Muppim, and 12 Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 23 And the sons of Dan; 13 Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 37.12. w ch.43.32. Ex.8.26. (CHAP. 47.) a ch.46.31. b ch.46.28. c Acts 7. 13. d Jonah 1.8. 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gaveo unto Rachele Am.7.14. his daughter; and she bare these f ch. 15.13. unto Jacob: all the souls were Deut.26.5. Ps. 105.23. Is.52.4. seven. 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out 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 w unto the Egyptians. CHAPTER XLVII. 1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, and his father, before Pharaoh: 11 he giveth them habitation and maintenance. THEN Joseph came and told a 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 b land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, c and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? d And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, e both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojournƒ in the land are we come for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Ca Progress of the famine. GENESIS, XLVII. naan: now therefore, we pray thee, B. C. 1705. 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 overg my cattle. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed h Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou! h 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrim-k age are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and i 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. Old age of Jacob. from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is not aught 1Chr.27.29. left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands: Pr.22.29. 1Sam. 15.30. 1Pet.2.17. many are i ch.25.7,8. ver.6. Ex. 1.11. according ones; or, 1 ch.41.30,31. 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, ask Pharaoh had com-3 led. manded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, 2 according to their families. 13 T And there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt, m Job 2.4. Lam. 1.11. 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us m and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Fharaoh; 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 4 priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assumed 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: 10, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. 21 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 and all the land of Canaan, fainted or, princes. sight of my lord, and we will be by reason of the famine. n Ezra 7.24. 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, n 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: 5or, princes. except the land of the 5 priests only, 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 3 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 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 o exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the 6 whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time p 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, q 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 r I will lie with my fathers; and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their bury Jacob's dying desire. GENESIS, XLVIII, XLIX. He blesseth Joseph's sons. ing-place. And he said, I will do B. C. 1689. | Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israels bowed himself upon the bed's head. CHAPTER XLVIII. 1 Joseph visits his sick father. 3 Jacob repeats the promise, 21 and prophesieth their return. A ND 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. s 1Ki.1.47. Heb.11.21. (CHAP. 48.) a ch.28.1319. 35.6,&c. b ch.17.8. Deut.32.8. Am.9.14, 15. c ch.41.50 52. e ch.35,16-19. fch.33.5. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh un-d Jos. 14.4. to thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared a unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and 5 ch.27.4. blessed me, Heb.11.21. heavy. 35. Lev.19.32. 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a mul-h ch.37.33, titude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee, for b an 45.26. everlasting possession. i Ep.3.20. 5And now thy two sons, Ephraim & Ex.20.12. and Manasseh, which c were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, I ver. 19. they shall be mine. 6 And thy issue, which thou be-m ch.17.1. gettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be d called after the name of their brethren in their inherit ance. 24.40. n Ps.103.4,5. 0 ch.31.11. Is.63.9. p Ps.34.22. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachele died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come 2 as fishes do unto Ephrath: and I buried her increase. 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 haths given ƒ me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless g them. q Num.26.34, 37. r Nu. 1.33,35. Deut.33.17. ch.25.23. 3 fulness. t Ru.4.11,12. 10 (Now the eyes of Israel were 1 dim for age, so that he could not u ch.50.24. see.) And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and Jos.17.14. them. embrace israel said unto Joseph, Ih had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God i 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. Jos.23. 14. (CHAP. 49.) a De.33.1,&c. b Num.24.14. Deut.4.30. c Is.2.2. Jer.23.20. 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. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom m my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which n fed me all my life long, unto this day, 16 The Angel o which redeemed p 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 2 grow into a multitude q in the midst of the earth. 17 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, 1 know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but r truly his younger s brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a 3 multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee t shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraini and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but u 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 v thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. CHAPTER XLIX. 1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them: 3 their blessings in particular. 29 His charge concerning his burial. 33 His death. 13 And Joseph took them both, d Deut.21. 17. my might, and the beginning d of Ephraim in his right hand toward my strength, the excellency of dig Jacob blesseth his nity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, 1 thou shalt not excel because e thou wentest up to thy father's bed: then defiledst thou it: 2 he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon f and Levi are brethren; 3 instruments of cruelty g are in their habitations. 6 O, h my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mune honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they 4 digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide i thein in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 Judah, thou k art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's children shall bown down / before thee. GENESIS, L. B. C. 1688. do not thou. e ch.35.22. Deut.5.21. 2 or, my couch is gone. fch.29.33,34. 3 or, their swords are weapons of violence. sons, and dies. 23 The z archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow a abode in strength, and the arms b of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, c the stone d of Israel :) 25 Even by the God of thy father, e who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessg ch. 34.25-ings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb: 29. h Ps.26.9. Pr. 1.15,16. 4 or, houghed oxen. i Jos.21.3. k ch.29.35. Ps.76.1. 11 Chr.5.2. Rev.3.9. m Nu.23.24. Rev.5.5. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as an Nu.24.17. lion,m and as an old lion; who shall o Ps.60.7. rouse him up? Is.33.22. p De.28.57. q Is. 11.1-5. Eze.21.27. 10 The sceptre n shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver o from p between his feet, until Shiloh qr Jno.11.52. come; and unto himr shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colts unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, t and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His u eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13 T Zebulunu shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. 12.32. s Mat.21.2. 16. t Is.63.1-3. u Cant.5.10v Jos, 19.10. w Ju.13.2,&c. s arrowsnake. x Ps.40.1. Is.25.9,26.8. y 1Chr.5.18. daughters. 14 Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burz dens: 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 w 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 y shall overcome at the last. 204 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. ch.37.4.&c. 39.20. a Job 29.20. Ps.37.14,15. b Ps. 18.32,34. c ch.45. 10,11. 50.21. d Is.28. 16. e Deut.33.27. f Ep.1.3. Hab.3.6. Is.66.5. i Ju.20.21.25. k Eze.39.8 10. 7 Ro. 12.6,&c. m ch.47.30. 2Sa.19.37. n ch.23.3,&c. 26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of thy progenitors, unto ƒ the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: g they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate h from his brethren. 27 Benjamin shall ravin i 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 m in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite; 30 In the cave n 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 o ghost, and was gathered unto his people. CHAPTER L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 7 The funeral. 24 Joseph prophesieth to his brethren their return: 26 he dieth. ND Joseph fell upon his fa 16. A ther's face, and wept upon him, "Job p ver.29. (CHAP. 50.) a ver.26. 2Ch.16.14. Mat. 26.12. |