Joseph maketh himself known.

He sendeth for his father.

Before

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the lad's life;

31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

32 For thy servant became surety for 4 ch. 43. 9. the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

r Exod. 32.

32.

+ Heb. find

my father.

Exod. 18. 8.

Job 31. 29.

33 Now therefore, I pray thee, 'let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall + come

Ps. 116.3. & on my father.

119. 143.

+ Heb. gave forth his

voice in weeping. Numb. 14. 1.

a Acts 7. 13.

Or, terrified. Job 4. 5. & 23. 15. Matt. 14. 14.26. 26.

Mark 6. 50.

CHAP. XLV.

1 Joseph maketh himself known to his brethren. 5 He comforteth them in God's providence. 9 He sendeth for his father. 16 Pharaoh confirmeth it. 21 Joseph furnisheth them for their journey, and exhorteth them to concord. 25 Jacob is revived with the news,

T

HEN 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. 3 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 b ch. 37.28. your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me ther let there hither: for God did send me before you

9 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

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 h Acts 7.14. my father hither.

14 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.

16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it + pleased Pha-Heb. was raoh well, and his servants.

23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses fladen with the good + Heb.carthings 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 + Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed 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 :

Job 29-24

Ps. 126. 1. Luke 24. 11, 41.

Heb.kis. Jacob goeth into Egypt.

Before CHRIST

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Joseph mceteth Jacob.

seph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

rah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

Before CHRIST 1706.

18 'These are the sons of Zilpah, y ch. 30.10. * whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, z ch. 29. 24. and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; a ch. 44.27. Joseph, and Benjamin.

20 And unto Joseph in the land of b ch. 41.50. Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah || priest of On bare unto him.

were

21 And the sons of Benjamin Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and || Huppim, and Ard.

e

22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

Or, prince.

c 1 Chron. 7. 6. & 8. 1.

amb 26.

d Numb.

e Numb. 26.

39 Shupham 12. Shuppiin. Hupham. Numb. 26. 39

1 Chron. 7.

f1 Chron. 7.

Or, Shuham, Nunb.

23 And the sons of Dan; || Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jah-12 zeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 h These are the sons of Bilhalı, 26.49. which Laban gave unto Rachel his daugh-13 ter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all hch. 30. 5,7. the souls were seven.

26 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;

g 1 Chron.7.

i ch. 29. 29.

k Exod. 1.5.

Heb. thigh.

ch. 35. 11.

22. Sce Acts

27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which 7-14 came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; mch. 31.21. and they came "into the land of Goshen. n ch. 47. L.

29 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.

o So ch. 45.

14.

p So Luke 2

30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now 9,30 let me die, 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 9 ch. 47. 1. 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;

are men of

32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; + Heb. they and they have brought their flocks, and cattle. their herds, and all that they have.

r

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

r ch.47.2, 3.

34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our ver. 32. youth even until now, both we, and also &34.5 our fathers: that ye may dwell in the 37.12. land of Goshen; for every shepherd is "an abomination unto the Egyptians.

1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 7 and his father, before Pharaoh. 11 He giveth

them habitation and maintenance. 13 He getteth all the Egyptians' money, 16 their cattle, 18 their lands to Pharaoh. 22 The priests' land was not bought. 23 He letteth the land to them for a fifth part. 28 Jacob's

age. 29 He sweareth Joseph to bury him

with his fathers.

THEN Joseph

came and told Pha

a ch. 46. 31. raoh, 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.

b ch. 45. 10.

& 46. 28.

e Acts 7. 13.

Deut. 26. 5.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, d ch. 46. 33. d What is your occupation? And they e ch. 46.34. said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, fch. 15. 13. 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 là ch. 46. 34. thy servants hdwell in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

g ch. 43. 1. Acts 7. 11.

i ch. 20. 15.

k ver. 4.

+ Heb.

How many are the days of the yea of thy life P

years

13. Ps. 39. 12.

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, 1 The 1 Heb. 1.9 days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil in Job 14.1. have the days of the years of my life ch.27. been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

& 35.

o ver. 7.

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 p Exod. 1. land, in the land of Rameses, as Pha11. 12. 37.

q ver. 6.

little child is nourished.

↑ Heb. decording to the little

ones. ch. 50.

21.

ch. 41. 30. Acts 7. 11.

raoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's houshold, 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

ch. 41.56. money that was found in the land of

15 And when money failed in the land 170 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 t ver. 1 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 Heb. 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:

19 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 Ezra bought he not; for the priests had a por-or,pri tion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat ch. 41.45 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 housholds, and for food for your little ones.

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CHAP. XLVIII.

1 Joseph with his sons visiteth his sick father. 2 Jacob strengtheneth himself to bless them. 3 He repeateth the promise. 5 He taketh Ephraim and Manasseh as his own. 7 He telleth Joseph of his mother's grave. 9 He blesseth Ephraim and Manasseh. 17 He preferreth the younger before the elder. 21 He prophesieth their return to Canaan.

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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.

2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

31 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 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 hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring ch.. them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

Before

Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons. 10 Now the eyes of Israel were + dim HT for age, so that he could not see. And he 1689. brought them near unto him; and the gch. 27.1. kissed them, and embraced them.

+Heb.heary. Isai. 6. 10. &

11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had 59.1. not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God h ch. 27. 27. 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 his right hand h toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought

them near unto him.

i ch. 45. 26.

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 k ver. 19. wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

& 24. 40.

15 And the blessed Joseph, and said, 1 Heb. 11. 21. God, before whom my fathers Abraham mch. 17. 1. and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

n

16 The Angel which redeemed me n ch. 28. 15. from all evil, bless the lads; and let name be named on them, and the of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; let them †grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Amos 9. 12. Acts 15.

17.

Heb. as fishes do increase: See

Numb. 26.

34 37

was evil in

17 And when Joseph saw that his father Plaid his right hand upon the head of p ver. 14. Ephraim, it || displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from ch. 28. 8. 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.

his eyes.

19 And his father refused, and said, I q ver. 14. know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother Numb. 1. shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a † multitude of nations.

33, 35- & 2. 19, 21. Deut. 33. 17. Rev. 7.6,8.

ness.

20 And he blessed them that day, say- + Heb. fuling, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God So Ruth. 4. make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: 11, 12. and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with tch. 46. 4. & you, and bring you again unto the land 50. 24of your fathers.

n Josh. 24. 32. 1 Chron.

2. John 4 & 34. 28.

22 Moreover "I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took 5 out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

x ch. 15. 16. Josh. 17. 14, &c.

a Deut. 33. 1. Amos 3.7b Deut. 4. 30.

Numb. 24. & 39.6. Jer.

14. Isai. 2.

23. 20. Dan. 2. 28, 29. Acts 2. 17.

Hebr. 1.2.

Jacob's blessing to his sons in particular

1689.

c Ps. 34. 11.

31 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, d ch. 29. 32. my might, and the beginning of my Deut. strength, the excellency of dignity, and

21.

† Heb. do

not thou excel.

the excellency of power:

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy fi Chron. 5. father's bed; then defiledst thou it: || he 8 ch. 35. 22. went up to my couch.

1.

1 Chron. 5.

1. Deut. 27.

20.1

Or, my

5 Simeon and Levi are 'brethren; || instruments of cruelty are in their ha

couch is gone. bitations.

h ch. 29. 33, 6 O my soul, 1 come not thou into their Prov. 18. 9. secret; munto their assembly,

34

Or, their

swords are

mine

honour, be not thou united: for in their weapons of anger they slew a man, and in their self

violence.

k ch. 34. 25.

1 Prov. 1. 15, 16.

will they || digged down a wall.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was m Ps. 26. 9. fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: Ephes. 5. 11. PI will divide them in Jacob, and scatter & 30. 12. & them in Israel.

n Ps. 16.

57.8.

• ol. 34. 26.

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy bre1 Or, hough thren shall praise: 'thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; 'thy father's

ed oren.

p Josh. 19. 1.

& 21.5, 6, 7. children shall bow down before thee.

1 Chron. 4. 24. 39.

9 Judah is ta lion's whelp: from the ch. 29. 35. prey, my son, thou art gone up: "he stoopr Ps. 18. 40. ed down, he couched as a lion, and as an

Deut. 33. 7.

$ch. 27. 29. 1 Chron. 5.2.

t Hos. 5. 4.

Rev. 5.5

u Numb. 23.

24. & 24.9.

17. Jer. 30.

Numb

21. Zech. 10.

11.

y Ps. 60. 7.

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; band unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his fole unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he Nu washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

Numb. 21. 18.

z Deut. 28. 57

12 His eyes shall be red with wine,

a Isai. 11. 1. and his teeth white with milk.

& 62. 11.

Ezek. 21. 97.

Dan. 9. 25.

Matt. 21. 9.

Luke 1. 32,

33.

131 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be

b Isai. 2. 2. & unto Zidon.

11. 10. & 42.

1, 4. & 49. 6,

7, 22, 23. &

14 Issachar is a strong ass couching

56-4.5 & 60. down between two burdens:

13

4.5

Hag. 2. 7.

Luke 2.30,

31, 32.

32.

2 Kings 18.

d Prov. 23.

29.

e-Deut.

16 Dan shall judge his people, as

18, 19. Josh. one of the tribes of Israel.

19. 10, 11.

f 1 Sam. 10.

9.

g Dent. 33.

1, 2.

h Judg. 18.

27.

↑ Heb. an

arrowsnake.

i Ps. 25. 6. &

Isai. 25. 9.

k Deut. 33.

20. 1 Chron.

26 The blessings of thy father have x Deut prevailed above the blessings of thy progenitors unto the utmost bound of the y Deut everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the D head of him that was separate from his brethren.

27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, band 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.

There they buried Abraham and ch Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac ch 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. i ver.

CHAP. L.

LORD.

19 Gad, a troop shall overcome 119, 166, 174 him: but he shall overcome at the last. 201Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 211 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

5.18.

1 Deut. 33.

24. Josh. 19.

24.

m Deut. 33.

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even