horses, and for the flocks, and CHRIST for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he † fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. 1702. ↑ Heb. led them. 1701. u Ezra 7. 24. ch. 41. 45. 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 aught 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 u Only the land of the priests Or, princes, bought he not; for the priests 2 Sam. 8. 18. had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. x ch. 33. 15. 23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: 10, 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 households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's serv ants. Joseph visiteth his sick father. land of Egypt, in the country of Before Goshen; and, they had possessions therein, and a a grew, and multiplied exceedingly. CHRIST 1701. a ch. 46. 3. 1689. † Heb. the days of the years of his life. See ver. 9. 14. 1 Kings 2. 1. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time bdrew nigh so Deut. 31. that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and ddeal kindly and truly with me; e bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: ch. 24. 2. d ch. 24. 49. So ch. 50. 25. f2 Sam. 19.37. Sch. 49. 29. & 50, 5, 13. 30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the heh. 48. 2. bed's head. CHAPTER 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. things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. ND it came to pass after these 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 1 Kings 1. 47. Heb. 11. 21. 1689. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at a Luz in the land of Canaan, ch. 28. 13, 19. 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 everlast-b ing possession. c 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 & 35. 6, 9, &c. ch. 17. 8. c. 41. 50. & 46. 20. the name of their brethren in CHRIST their inheritance. 1689. 19. 7 And as for me, when I came deh. 35.9, 16, 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 faSo ch. 33. 5. ther, e They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. f ch. 27. 4. 8 ch. 27. 1. 10 Now the eyes of Israel were +Heb. heavy,tdim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 1s. 6. 10. & 59. 1. hch. 27. 27. ich. 45. 26. k ver. 19. 1 Heb. 11. 21. 24. 40. n ch. 28. 15. & 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God 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. 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 wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. k 15 And he blessed Joseph, meli. 17. 1. & and said, God, mbefore whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The Angela which redeemed 31. 11, 13, 24ine from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. Ps. 34. 22. & 121. 7. Amos 9. 12. Acts 15. 17. † Heb. as fishes do increase: See Num. 26. 34, 37. P ver. 14. 17 And when Joseph saw that his father Plaid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it Or, was evil displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. in his eyes, ch. 23. 8. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this Jacob blesseth his sons. is the firstborn; put thy right Before hand upon his head. CHRIST 1689. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know ver. 14. it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother Num. 1. 33, shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a t multitude of nations. 35. & 2. 19, 21. Deut. 33. 17. Rev. 7. 6, 8. †Heb. fulness. 11, 12. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel So Ruth 4. bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be tel. 46. 4. & 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. Jacob blesseth his sons. Before GENESIS. enemies; thy father's children CHRIST shall bow down before thee. 1689. $ ch. 27. 29. 1 Chr. 5.2. t Hos. 5. 14. Rev. 5. 5. u Num. 23. 24. & 24. 9. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not deZech. 10. 11. part from Judah, nor ya lawgiver z from between his feet, a until Shiloh come; band unto him Deut. 28. 57. shall the gathering of the people be. * Num. 24. 17. Jer. 30. 21. Y Ps. 60. 7. & 108. 8. or, Num. 21. 18. a Is. 11. 1. & 62. 11. b Is. 2. 2. & 2 Kings 18. 32. d Prov. 23. 29. Deut. 33. 18, 19. Josh. 19. 10, C 11 Binding his foal 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: 12 His deyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Židon. 14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was f1 Sam. 10. 9. pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Deut. 33.22. Judg. 18. 1, 2. h Judg. 18. 27. ↑ Heb. an ar rusnake. i Ps. 25. 5. & 119, 166, 174. Is. 25.9. k Deut. 33, 20. 1 Chr. 5. 18. I Deut. 33. 24. 16¶Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17h Dan shall be a serpent by the way, tan adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. 19kGad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. 20 Out of Asher his bread Jush. 19. 24. shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. m Deut. 33. 23. † Heb. daughters. ncl. 37. 4, 24, 28. & 39. 20. & 42. 21. Ps. 118. 13. Job 29. 20. Ps. 37. 15. P Ps. 132.2, 5. 9 ch. 45. 11. & 47. 12. & 50. 21. Ps. 80. 1. Is. 28. 16. t ch. 28. 13, 21. & 35. 3. & 43. 23. u ch. 17. 1. & 35. 11. 21 m Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his • bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (a from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel;) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and Jacob's death. Before 1689. by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heav- CHRIST en above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors y unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 27 Benjamin shall a raven 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. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I cam to be gathered unto my people: dbury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, He is buried in Canaan. Before 1689. GENESIS. CHRIST 1689. Joseph comforteth his brethren. 3 And forty days were fulfilled all that went up with him to Before CHRIST for him; for so are fulfilled the bury his father, after he had days of those which are embalm- buried his father. ed: and the Egyptians +mournd Num. 20. 29. ed for him threescore and ten days. † Heb. wept. Deut. 34. 8. e Esth. 4. 2. fch. 47. 29. 1s. 22. 16. Matt. 27. 60. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the cars of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave 82 Chr. 16. 14. 8 Which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and there they h2 Sam. 1. 17. hmourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. Acts 8. 2. i1 Sam. 31. 13. Job 2. 13. That is, The mourn ing of the Egyptians. 1 ch. 49. 99, 1 ch. 23.16. 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians : wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham I bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 T And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will Job 15. 21, peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 22. Heb. charged.. 13. 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 Prov. 28. evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And ch. 49. 25. Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 18 And his brethren also went and Pfell down before his face; Pch. 37. 7, 10. and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: "for am I in the place ch. 45. 5. of God? S r Deut. 32. 35. 2 Kings 5. 7. Job 34. 29. Rom. 12. 19. Heb. 10. 30. 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, Ps. 56.5. as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: "I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. Is. 10. 7. tch. 45. 5, 7. Acts 3. 13, 14, 15. "ch. 47. 12. Matt. 5. 44. tHeb. to their hearts, cl. 34. 3. 1635. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third genera-Job 42. 16. tion: y the children also of Ma- Num. 32. 39. chir the son of Manasseh z were 2 ch. 30. 3. brought up upon Joseph's † Heb. borne. knees. 46. 4. & 48. 21. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; and a God will ch. 15. 14. & surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land bwhich he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. C 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. Ex. 3. 16, 17. beh. 15. 18. & 26.3. & 35.12. & 46.4. Ex. 13. 19. Josh. 24. 32. 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put aver. 2. in a coffin in Egypt. 1635. THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED EXODUS. Before CHRIST 1706. a Gen. 46. 8. ch. 6. 14. † Heb. thigh. CHAPTER I. 1 The children of Israel, after Joseph's OW a these are the names of mortar, and in brick, and in all our. 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, Now na, which of which the name of the one came into Egypt; every man and 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benja- 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the tloins of Jacob were b Gen. 46. 25, seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 27. ver. 20. d Gen. 46. 3. Acts 7. 18. fPs. 105. 24. Ps. 10. 2. & 83.3, 4. h Job 5. 13. Ps. 105. 25. Prov. 16, 25. & 21, 30. Acts 7. 19. i Gen. 15. 13. 1 Gen. 47. 11. flicted them, so they mul tiplied, &c. 6 And Joseph died, and all his 9 And he said unto his people, 10% Come on, let us h deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters ito afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 + But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. m ch. 2. 23. & children of Israel to serve with 13 And the Egyptians made the 6.9. Num. 20. 15. rigour: Acts 7. 19, 34. n Ps. 81. 6. 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian 19, 20. women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. r Ecc. 8. 12. 1s. 3. 10. Heb. 6. 10. 20 Therefore God dealt well Prov. 11. 18. with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. S 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that See 1 Sam. he made them houses. 2. 35. 2 Sam. 7. 11, 13, 27, 29. 1 Kings 2. 24. & 11. 38. Ps. 127. 1. about 1573. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter yet Acts 7. 19. shall save alive. 1 CHAPTER II. Moses is born, 3 and in an ark cast into the the house of Levi, and took ND there went aa man of ach. 6. 20. Num. 26. 59. 1 Chr. 23. 14. 1571. |