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Joseph maketh himself known.

Before CHRIST

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us; seeing that his life is bound up in | children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, 1707. the lad's life; and all that thou hast :

p 1 Sam. 18.

1.

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 q 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.

Exod. 32. 32.

+ Heb. find my father. Exod. 18. 8. Job 31. 29. Ps. 116. 3. & 119. 143.

+ Heb. gave forth his

voice in

weeping. Numb. 14. 1.

1 Or, terrified. Job 4. 5 & 23.15.

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 on my father.

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. THEN before all them that stood by THEN Joseph could not refrain him

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, a Acts 7. 13. 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, Mar 14.26. 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 + Heb. nei- angry with yourselves, that ye sold me ther let there hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

50.

e Isai. 40. 2. 2 Cor. 2. 7.

be anger in your eyes.

1706.

dch. 50. 20.

6 For these two years hath the famine Ps. 105, 16, been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

17. See

2 Sam. 16. 10, 11. Acts 4. 24.

+ Heb. to put for you a rennant.

7 Ånd God sent me before you † to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me ch. 41. 43. a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his Job 29. 16. house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Judg. 17. 10.

fch. 47. 1.

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

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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.

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23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden 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:

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Jacob goeth into Egypt.

Before CHRIST 1700

176

a ch. 21. 31,

CHAP. XLVI.

28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

CHAP. XLVI.

1 Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-sheba.
5 Thence he with his company goeth into
Egypt. 8 The number of his family that
went into Egypt. 28 Joseph meeteth Ja-
cob. 31 He instructeth his brethren how to
answer to Pharaoh.

AND Israel took his journey with all

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Joseph meeleth Jacob. and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Se- Before rah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

CHRIST 1706.

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, y ch. 30. 10. whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, 2 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.

¡Or, prince.

that he had, and came to Beer-Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, b24, sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the which Asenath the daughter of PotiGod of his father Isaac. pherah || priest of On bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin were 1Chron. Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and || Huppim, and Ard.

ch. 15. 1. Job 33 14.15

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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 E122 gypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

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ch. 15. 16. 5 Exod. 3

50. 13, 24.

bcb. 50. 1. i Acts 7. 15

4 'I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and "Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

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5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-which sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and kch 4519, their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land Deut. 255 of Canaan, and came into Egypt, 1Jacob, and all his seed with him:

Josh. 24-4

Px 105 23 Imi 52 +

m Exod. 1.1. *2 14

7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, hisdaughters,and his sons' daughters,andall his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

8¶ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Numb Jacob and his sons: "Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

5. 1 Chron. 52.

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g 1 Chron. 7.

13.

i ch. 29. 29.

26 All the souls that came with Ja- k Exod. 1. 5. cob into Egypt, which came out of his + loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the Heb. thigh. 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.

ch. 35. 11.

Deut. 10. 714

22. See Acts

n ch. 31.21.

28¶ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, "to direct his face unto Goshen;" and they came "into the land of Goshen. n ch. 47. 1. 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.

30 And Israel said unto Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

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52 And the men are shepherds, for 13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola,+their trade hath been to feed cattle; Heb. they Chroa7 and || Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered,

! Or, Punk,

and Jashub 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 Numb. 26. and his daughters were thirty and three. 16 And the sons of Gad; "Ziphion, Or, Or and Haggi, Shuni, and || Ezbon, Eri, and | Oz, Arad. || Arodi, and Areli.

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17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah,

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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?

cattle.

r cb. 47. 2, 3

34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' strade hath been about cattle from our s ver. 32.

t ch. 30. 35.

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.

u ch. 43.32. Exod. 8. 26.

Joseph presenteth his brethren

Before CHRIST 1706.

1706.

CHAP. XLVII.

GENESIS.

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.

THE HEN Joseph came and told Phaa 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 b ch. 45. 10. are in the land of Goshen.

& 46. 28.

© Acts 7. 13.

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 ech. 46. 34. said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

fch. 15. 13. Deut. 26.5 ch. 43. 1.

Acts 7. 11.

à ch. 46. 34.

i eh. 20. 15.

k ver. 4.

+ Heb. How many

are the days

of the years of thy life?

Heb. 11.9,

13. Ps. 39. 12.

m Job 14.

n ch. 25. 7.

& 35. 28.

o ver. 7.

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4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, 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 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 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, 'The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and "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.

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 Pharaoh had commanded.

11. & 12. 37. 9 ver. 6.

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and his father before Pharaoh. Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

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1702.

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 t ver. 19. 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. led 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.

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22 Only the land of the priests u Ezra 7. bought he not; for the priests had a por- 101,princes, tion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat ch11.45. 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.

2 Sam. 8. 18

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my x ch. 33. 15lord, and we will be 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; 'except the y ver. 22. land of the priests only, which became lor,princes. not Pharaoh's.

Z

ver. 22.

27 ¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of 2 ver. 11. Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and "grew, a ch. 46. 3. and multiplied exceedingly.

Joseph visiteth his sick father.

CHRIST 1589.

CHAP. XLVIII. XLIX. the land of

Before 28 And Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and

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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 9 He grave. blesseth Ephraim and Manasseh. 17 He preferreth the younger before the elder. 21 | He prophesieth their return to Canaan. AND 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.

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31 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God 13. Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

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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 4 them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will

bless them.

Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons.

CHRIST 1689.

g ch. 27. 1. +Heb.heavy. Isai. 6. 10. &

10 Now the eyes of Israel were + dim Before for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had 50.1. 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 right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

ich. 45. 26.

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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 19, 21. Deut. shall become a † multitude of nations.

33, 35. & 2.

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. 4make 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 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.

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h ch. 29. 33, 34.

í Prov. 18. g. Or, their weapons of

swords are

violence.

k ch. 34. 25. I Prov. 1. 15, 16.

m Ps. 26. 9.

m

6 O my soul,' come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, "mine honour, be not thou united : for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was 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. 9.

57.8.

⚫ où. 34. 26.

Or, hough

ed oren.

p Josh. 19. 1.

8 ¶ Judah, thou art he whom thy bre thren shall praise: 'thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's &21.5, 6, 7. children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the 8 ch. 29. 35. prey, my son, thou art gone up: "he stoopPs. 18. 40. ed down, he couched as a lion, and as an sch. 27. 29. old lion; who shall rouse him up?

1 Chron. 424. 39.

Deut. 33. 7.

1 Chron. 5. 2.

t Hos. 5. 4. Rev. 5-5

u Numb. 23.

10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his 24. & 24. 9. feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him Numb. 24. shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his fole unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

17. Jer. 30. 21. Zech. 10. 11.

y Ps. 60. 7. Nu

Numb. 21. 18.

z Deut. 28.

57.

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12 His eyes shall be red with wine, a Isai. 11. 1. and his teeth white with milk.

& 62. 11. Ezek. 21. 27. Dan. 9. 25

13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the Matt. 21. 9. haven of the sea; and he shall be for an Luke 1.32, haven of ships; and his border shall be blai. 2.2.& unto Zidon.

33.

11. 10. & 42.

1, 4. & 49. 6, 7, 22, 23. &

56.45 & 60.

1, 3, 4, 5Hag. 2. 7. 31, 32.

14 ¶ Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and Luke 2.30, the land that it was pleasant; and bowed c2Kings 18. fhis shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

32.

d Prov. 23.

29.

e-Deut. 33.

16 ¶ Dan shall judge his people, as

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

19. 10, 11.

f 1 Sam. 10.

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17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, tan adder in the path, that biteth & Dent. 33 the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

22. Judg. 18.

1, 2.

h Judg. 18.

27.

+ Heb. an arrowsnake.

i Ps. 25. 6. &

18 'I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

19 Gad, a troop shall overcome 119. 166, 174. him: but he shall overcome at the last.

Isai. 25.9.

k Deut. 33.

20.

5- 18.

Chron.

I Dent. 3324. Josh. 19.

24.

m Deut. 33.

23.

20 T1Out of Asher his bread shall be

m

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

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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 Deut 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 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 in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

16.

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