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Joseph interpreteth Pharaoh's dreams. GENESIS

He is advanced. it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain understand a dream to interpret it. about his neck;

16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 18 And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed, and well-favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaph19 And behold, seven other kine came up after nath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath them, poor, and very ill-favoured, and lean-flesh- the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On: and cil, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. for badness:

20 And the lean and the ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22 And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, ful. and good:

46 T And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt: and Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field 23 And behold, seven cars, withered, thin, and which was round about every city, laid he up blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: in the same.

24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good 49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the ears and I told this unto the magicians; but sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it there was none that could declare it unto me. was without nuinber.

25 T And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed the years of famine came: which Asenath the Pharaoh what he is about to do. daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto

26 The seven good kine are seven years; and him. the seven good ears are seven years: the dream 51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born is one. Manasseh; for God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

27 And the seven thin and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh what God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.

29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land:

31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following: for it shall be very grievous.

53 1 And the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. 54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, 32 And for that the dream was doubled unto and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is estab-waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

CHAP. XLII.

lished by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man dis- for to buy corn; because that the famine was so creet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. sore in all lands. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint of ficers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand do ye look one upon another?

Jacob sends his sons to buy corn. in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why TOW when Jacob saw that there was carn

of Pharaoh; and let them keep food in the cities. 2 And he said, Behold I have heard that there 36 And that food shall be for store to the land is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy against the seven years of famine, which shall for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not 3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy through the famine. corn in Egypt.

37 1 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God is?

39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:

40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled only in the throne will I be greater than thou. 41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Josepli's hand, and arrayed him

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before himwith their faces to the earth. 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Joseph's brethren imprisoned.

CHAP. XLIII. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren but they knew not him.

9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye arc spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but 10 buy food are thy servants come.

Jacob refuseth to send Benjamin 34 And bring your youngest brother unto me then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. 35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when both they and their fa

11 We are all one man's sons; we are true ther saw the bundles of money, they were afraid men; thy servants are no spies.

12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, sayi: g Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thea deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

38 And he said, My son shall not go down with 15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your if mischief befall him by the way in the which youngest brother come hither. ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs 16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your bro-with sorrow to the grave. ther, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any

CHAP. XLIII.
Jacob sendeth Benjamin.

truth in you: or else, by the life of Pharaoh, AND the famine was sore in the land.

surely ye are spies.

And it came to pass, when they had eaten

17 And he put them all together into ward three up the corn which they had brought out of days. Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, 18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, buy us a little food. This do, and live; for I fear God:

3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, see my face, except your brother be with you. carry corn for the famine of your houses: 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will 20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; go down and buy thee food: so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

5 But if thou wilt not send him we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you, 6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet

21 ¶ And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this a brother? distress come upon us.

7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your faI not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the ther yet alive? have ye another brother? and we child; and ye would not hear? therefore behold told him according to the tenor of these words: also his blood is required. Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. 24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and comRiuned with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

25 ¶ Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.

26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both wc, and thou, and also our little ones.

9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it 27 And as one of them opened his sack to give must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits his ass provender in the inn, he espied his mo- in the land in your vessels, and carry down the ney for behold, it was in his sack's mouth. man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, 28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: restored; and lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God bath done unto us?

29 ¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that Jefell unto them, saying,

30 The man who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father: one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:

13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:

14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin: If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

15 ¶ And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

33 And the man, the lord of the country, said 16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men men: leave one of your brethren here with me, home, and slay, and make ready: for these men and take food for the famine o your households, shall dine with me at noon. and be gone:

17 And the man did as Joseph bade: and the

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Joseph sendeth for his father.

Jacob is revived with the newes 20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

CHAP. XLV, XLVI. 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 ser- 21 And the children of Israel did so and Joseph vant our father with sorrow to the grave. gave them wagons, according to the command32 For thy servant became surety for the lad un-ment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for to my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, the way.

then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 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 on my father.

CHAP. XLV.

Joseph maketh himself known.

THEN 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.

23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses 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 fal not out by the way.

25 T 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, 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Jo- which he had said unto them: and when he saw seph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, could not answer him; for they were troubled at the spirit of Jacob their father revived: his presence. 28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die to me, I pray you: and they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

CHAP. XLVI.

Jacob comforted at Beer-sheba.

AND Israel took his journey with all that he

haa, and came to Beer-sheba, 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..

6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father 7 And God sent me before you, to preserve you fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives make of thee a great nation: by a great deliverance.

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph but God: and he hath made me a father to Pha-shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

raoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler 5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the throughout all the land of Egypt. sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagonswhich Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods not! 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 he with him into Egypt.

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 children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast :

11 And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there 8 ¶ And these are the names of the children of are five years of famine ;) lest thou, and thy Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his household, and all that thou hast come to poverty. sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.

Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

12 And behold, your eyes sec, and the eyes of 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

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 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 T And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. 11 ¶ And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 1 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Ouan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul. 13 ¶ And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

18 And take your father, and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of 16 T And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, the land. Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take 17. And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And little ones, and for your wives, and bring your the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. father, and come 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban

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