Joseph entertaineth his brethren. Before GENESIS. steward of Joseph's house, and CHRIST they communed with him at the door of the house, 1707. i ch. 42. 3, 10. † Heb. coming down we 20 And said, O sir, it we came indeed down at the first time to came down. buy food: k cli. 42. 27, 35. † Heb. your money came to me. 1 ch. 18. 4. & 24. 32. mcl. 37. 7, 10. cl. 37. 14. 21 And kit came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand. 22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks. 23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. 24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and I gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender. 25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. 26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and m bowed themselves to him to the earth. 27 And he asked them of their + Heb. peace, welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man nof whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good ch. 37.7, 10. health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance. † Heb. Is there peace to your father. nch. 42. 11, 13. P ch. 35. 17, 18. 4 ch. 42. 13. 1 Kings 3. 26. cli. 42. 24. t ver. 25. 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, Phis mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. 30 And Joseph made haste; for rhis bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and swept there. 31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. 1707. ucli. 46. 34. Ex. 8. 26. IIis policy to stay them. selves, and for the Egyptians, Before which did eat with him, by CHRIST themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is "an abomination unto the Egyptians. 33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. 34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times cl. 45. 22. so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. 4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost_overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? 5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have 1 Or, mak done evil in so doing. 6¶ And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words. 7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: a eth trial? 8 Behold, the money, which ch. 43. 21. we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, bboth let beh. 31. 32. 32 And they set on for him by him die, and we also will be my himself, and for them by them-lord's bondmen. ch.37.29,34. Num. 14. 6. 11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 13 Then they rent their clothes, 2 Sam. 1. 11. and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. d ch. 37. 7. 1Or, make e ver. 9. f Prov. 17. 15. 14¶ And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there and they fell before him on the ground. supplication to Joseph. brother come down with you, ye Before shall see my face no more. 24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. CHRIST 1707. 25 And 'our father said, Go again, Ich. 43. 2. and buy us a little food. 26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that m my mch. 46. 19. wife bare me two sons: 28 And the one went out from 15 And Joseph said unto them, 29 And if ye take this also from cl. 42, 36, 38. 17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father. 18 T Then Judah came near unto him, and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a Beh. 19. 30, 32. Word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. Ex. 32. 22. h cli. 37. 3. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and ha child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 And thou saidst unto thy servich. 42. 15, 20. ants, i Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 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 the lad unto my father, saying, 4 If I bring him not unto thee, ch. 43. 9. then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of Ex. 32. 32. 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 t come on my father. CHAPTER XLV. 1 Joseph maketh himself known to his breth- THEN Joseph could not re frain 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. Heb. find my father, Ex. 18. 8. Job 31. 29. Ps. 116. 3. & 119. 143. Joseph comforteth his brethren, Before CHRIST 1707. † Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping, Num. 14. 1. a Acts 7. 13. Or, terri fied, Job 4. 5. & b ch. 37. 28. C Is. 40. 2. 2 Cor. 2. 7. † Heb. nei GENESIS. Before and sendeth for his father. 2 And he wept aloud: and the brethren, and wept upon them: + Egyptians and the house of Pha- and after that his brethren talked CHRIST raoh heard. with him. 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 your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, † nor angry with yourselves, that ther let there ye sold me hither: d for God did send me before you to preserve life. be anger in your eyes. 1706. d cl. 50, 20. Ps. 105, 16, 17. See 2 Sam. 16. 10, 11. Acts 4. 27, 23. 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 caring nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you Heb. to put to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. for you a remnant. ech. 41. 43. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me ea father to Pharaoh, Judg. 17. 10. and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Job 29. 16. fch. 47. 1. E cli. 42. 23. h Acts 7. 14. 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 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, and the eyes of 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 16 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; 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 the land. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 1706. Heb. teas good in the eyes of Pharaoh, ch. 41. 37. i ch. 27. 28. Num. 18. 12, 29. Heb. let not your eye spare, &c. † Heb. mouth. Num. 3. 16. 21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the t commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision 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 five changes k ch. 43. 34. of raiment. 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses carrying. laden with the good things of t Heb. 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 Job 29, 24. Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. Ps. 126. 1. Luke 24. 11, 41. 27 And they told him all the Heb. his. 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. 28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. Jacob goeth with his Before CHRIST 1706. ach. 21. 31, 33. & 28. 10. bch. 26. 24, 25. & 28. 13. & 31. 42. ch. 15. 1. Jub 33. 14, 15. d ch. 28. 13. ch. 12. 2. Deut. 26. 5. fch. 28. 15, & 48. 21. GENESIS. CHAPTER XLVI. swer to Pharaoh. 14 CHRIST 1706. family into Egypt. And the sons of Zebulun; | Before 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 Israel took his journey and his daughters were thirty and with all that he had, and came to a Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices bunto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spake unto Israel cin 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 Egypt; for I will there emake of thee a great na tion. 4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely ch. 15. 16. & bring thee up again: and hJoseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 50. 13, 24, 25. Ex. 3. 8. h ch. 50. 1. i Acts 7. 15. k ch. 45. 19, 21. 1 Deut. 26. 5. m Ex. 1. 1. & 6. 14. n Num. 26. 5. 1 Chr. 5. 1. • Ex. 6. 15. 1 Chr. 4. 24. JOr, Nemuel. Or, Jarib. Or, Zerah, 1 Chr. 4. 24. P1 Chr. 6. 1, 91 Chr. 2. 3. $ ch. 38. 29. 1 Chr. 2. 5. t1 Chr. 7. 1. 18 y These are the sons of Zil-ch. 30. 10. pah, z whom Laban gave to Leah ch. 29. 24. his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel a Jacob's acli. 44. 27. wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 And unto Joseph in the bch. 41. 50. land of Egypt were born Ma5 And Jacob rose up from nasseh and Ephraim, which AscBeer-sheba: and the sons of Is-nath the daughter of Poti-pherael carried Jacob their father, rah priest of On bare unto him. and their little ones, and their 21 And the sons of Benjamin wives, in the wagons which were Belah, and Becher, and AshPharaoh had sent to carry him. bel, Gera, and Naaman, dEhi, 6 And they took their cattle, and Rosh, e Muppim, and and their goods, which they had pim, and Ard. 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. 8 And mthese are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: "Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 10 And the sons of Simeon; 11 And the sons of PLevi; 13 And the sons of Issachar; Or, Puah Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. and Jashub. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, P So Luke 2. P Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. 29, 30, 9ch. 47. 1. 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 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, ch. 47. 2, 3. and shall say, "What is your occupation? † Heb. they are men of cattle. $ ver. 32. 34. 5. & 37. 12. 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' strade hath been about tel. 30, 35, & cattle from 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 unto the Egyptians. uch. 43. 32. Ex. 8. 26. 1706. ach. 46. 31. CHAPTER XLVII. 1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 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. HEN Joseph a came and told TPharaoh, and said, My fa ther and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, beh. 45. 10. & they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and Acts 7. 13. presented them unto Pharaoh. 46.28. d cli. 46. 33. cli. 46. 34. fch. 15. 13. Deut. 26. 5. 8 ch. 43. 1. Acts 7. 11. h ch. 46. 34. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said morcover unto Pharaoh, fFor 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 hdwell in the land of Goshen. and presenteth him to Pharaoh. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Jo- Before seph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: CHRIST 1706. 13¶ And there was no bread int 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 sch. 41. 56. the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: 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 t ver. 19. 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 1702. |