tained unto the days of the were born unto thee in the land years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 27 ¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die but 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 thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. CHAP. XLIX. AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 8 ¶ Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.* 4 And said unto me, Be- 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: hold, I will make thee fruitful, from the prey, my son, thou and multiply thee, and I will art gone up: he stooped down, make of thee a multitude of he couched as a lion, and as an people; and will give this land old lion; who shall rouse him to thy seed after thee for an up? everlasting possession. 10 The sceptre shall not de5 ¶ And now thy two sons, part from Judah, nor a lawEphraim and Manasseh, which | giver from between his feet, * These verses are selected as that part of Jacob's dying prophecy which is most important for the Christian to be acquainted with. until Shiloh come; and unto 16 And they sent a meshim shall the gathering of the people be. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, senger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, 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 servants of the God of thy fa 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land ther. And Joseph wept when of Canaan, which Abraham they spake unto him. bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. 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. 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 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? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and little ones. And he comyour forted them, and spake kindly unto them. 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Ab- 22 And Joseph dwelt in raham bought with the field Egypt, he, and his father's for a possession of a burying-house: and Joseph lived an place of Ephron the Hittite, hundred and ten years. before Mamre. 24 And Joseph said unto 14 ¶ And Joseph returned his brethren, I die: and God into Egypt, he, and his bre- will surely visit you, and bring thren, and all that went up you out of this land unto the with him to bury his father, land which he sware to Abraafter he had buried his father. ham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 15 And when Joseph's 25 And Joseph took an oath brethren saw that their father of the children of Israel, saying, was dead, they said, Joseph God will surely visit you, and will peradventure hate us, and ye shall carry up my bones will certainly requite us all the from hence. evil which we did unto him. THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED CHAP. I. EXODUS.* 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they NOW these are the names multiply, and it come to pass, of the children of Israel, that, when there falleth out any which came into Egypt; every war, they join also unto our man and his household came enemies, and fight against us, with Jacob. and so get them up out of the 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, land. and Judah, 11 Therefore they did set 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and over them taskmasters to afflict Benjamin, them with their burdens. And 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, they built for Pharaoh treasure and Asher. cities, Pithom and Raamses. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that gene- 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve ration. 7¶ And the children of with rigour: Israel were fruitful, and in- 14 And they made their creased abundantly, and multi-lives bitter with hard bondage, plied, and waxed exceeding in morter, and in brick, and in mighty; and the land was all manner of service in the filled with them. field all their service, wherein 8 Now there arose up a new they made them serve, king_over Egypt, which knew with rigour. not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : was 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. *The word Exodus signifies "going out," and this book of Moses is so called, because it relates the "going out" of the Israelites from Egypt to the land of Canaan. AND CHAP. II. ND there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months, 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 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 nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child 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 I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and 5 ¶ And the daughter of she brought him unto PhaPharaoh came down to wash raoh's daughter, and he became herself at the river; and her her son. And she called his maidens walked along by the name Moses: and she said, river's side; and when she saw Because I drew him out of the the ark among the flags, she water. sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And he 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on * That is, a man of the family, or tribe, of Levi. The whole nation of the Israelites were, from the first, kept divided into those separate families (or tribes) which sprung from each of the twelve sons of Jacob, after whom they were named--as, for instance, those descended from Reuben were called "the tribe of Reuben, and so on, except those from Joseph, which were subdivided into two tribes, taking the names of his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, so that there would have been, in all, thirteen tribes; but when they came into the promised land of Canaan there were only twelve divisions of the land, because the tribe of Levi was differently disposed of, as will be seen hereafter. their burdens and he spied 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. 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 of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. that he 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 hither: 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. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a 10 Come now therefore, and flame of fire out of the midst of I will send thee unto Pharaoh, a bush and he looked, and, that thou mayest bring forth behold, the bush burned with my people the children of Isfire, and the bush was not con-rael out of Egypt. sumed. 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 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly |