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an hundred and thirty years; | Jofeph, and faid, Give us few and evil have the days of bread: for why fhould we the years of my life been, die in thy prefence? for the and have not attained unto money faileth. the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

16 And Jofeph faid, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money

10 And Jacob bleffed Pha-fail. raoh, and went out from before Pharaoh,

11 ¶ And Jofeph placed his father, and his brethren, and gave them a poffeffion in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramefes, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Jofeph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's houfhold, with bread, according to their families.

13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very fore; fo that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reafon of the famine.

14 And Jofeph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought and Jofeph 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

17 And they brought their cattle unto Jofeph; and Jofeph gave them bread in exchange for horfes, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the affes: and he fed them with bread, 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 fpent my lord alfo hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the fight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

19 Wherefore fhall 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 feed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not. defolate.

20 And Jofeph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians fold every man his field, because

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the famine prevailed over ] only, which became not Phathem: fo the land became raoh's. 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 Only the land of the priefts bought he not: for the priests had a portion af figned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they fold not their lands. 23 Then Jofeph faid unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day, and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is feed for you, and ye fhall fow the land.

24 And it fhall come to pafs in the increafe, that ye fhall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts fhall be your own, for feed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your houfholds, and for food for your little

ones.

25 And they said, Thou haft faved our lives: let us find grace in the fight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's fervants.

26 And Jofeph made it a

law over the land of Egypt

unto this day, that Pharaoh

27 And Ifrael dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Gofhen; and they had poffeffions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt feventeen years: fo the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

29 And the time drew nigh that Ifrael muft die: and he called his fon Jofeph, and faid unto him, If now I have found grace in thy fight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.

30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou fhalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place: and he faid, I will do as thou hast said.

31 And he said, Swear unto me: and he fware unto him. And Ifrael bowed himfelf upon the bed's head.

CHAP. XLVIII.

ND it came to pafs

after thefe things, that

fhould have the fifth part; one told Jofeph, Behold, thy except the land of the priests father is fick and he took

with him his two fons, Ma- | way of Ephrath, the fame is naffeh and Ephraim. Beth-lehem.

2 And one told Jacob, and faid, Behold thy fon Jofeph cometh unto thee: and Ifrael ftrengthened himself, and fat upon the bed.

8 And Ifrael beheld Jofeph's fons, and faid, Who are these?

9 And Jofeph faid unto his father, They are my fons, whom God hath given me

3 ¶ And Jacob faid unto Jofeph, God Almighty ap-in this place: and he said,

peared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and bleffed me,

4 And faid 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 feed after thee, for an everlasting posfeffion.

5 And now thy two fons, Ephraim and Manaffeh,

which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon they fhall be mine.

6 And thy iffue which thou begetteft after them, fhall be thine, and fhall 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

Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

IO Now the eyes of Ifrael were dim for age, fo that he could not fee: and he brought them near unto him; and he kiffed them, and embraced them.

II And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, I had not thought to fee thy face and lo, God hath fhewed me also thy feed.

12 And Jofeph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

13 And Jofeph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Ifrael's left hand, and Manaffeh in his left hand toward Ifrael's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

14 And Ifrael ftretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manaffeh's head: guiding his hands wittingly: for Manaffeh was the firstborn.

15 And he bleffed Jofeph, and faid, God before whom my fathers Abraham and Ifaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

before Manaffeh.

21 ¶ And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, Behold, I die: but God fhall 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 fword and with

my

bow.

CHAP. XLIX.

16 The angel which redeemed me from all evil, blefs the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Ifaac: and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Jofeph faw ND Jacob called unto that his father laid his right his fons, and said, Gahand upon, the head of E-ther yourselves together, that phraim, it difpleafed him; and I may tell you that which he held up his father's hand, fhall befal you in the last to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manaffeh's head.

18 And Jofeph faid unto his father, Not fo, my father for this is the firftborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

19 And his father refused, and faid, I know it, my fon, I know it: he alfo fhall become a people, and he also fhall be great: but truly his younger brother fhall be greater than he, and his feed fhall become a multitude of nations.

20 And he bleffed them that day, faying, In thee fhall Ifrael blefs, faying, God make thee as Ephraim, and as Manaffeh and he fet Ephraim

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days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye fons of Jacob; and hearken unto Ifrael your father.

3 Reuben, thou art my firft-born, my might and the beginning of my ftrength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power,

4 Unstable as water, thou fhalt not excel, because thou wenteft up to thy father's bed; then defiledft thou it : he went up to my couch.

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren: inftruments of cruelty are in their habitations:

6 O my foul, come not thou into their fecret; unto

their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united; for in their anger they flew a man, and in their felf-will they digged down a wall.

and his border shall be unto Zidon.

14 Iffachar is a strong afs, couching down between two burdens:

7 Curfed be their anger, 15 And he faw that rest for it was fierce; and their was good, and the land that wrath, for it was cruel: Iit was pleasant; and bowed will divide them in Jacob, his fhoulder to bear, and beand scatter them in Ifrael. came a fervant unto tribute. 16 Dan fhall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Ifrael.

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren fhall praife; thy hand fhall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's children fhall bow down before thee.

9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my fon, thou art gone up; he ftooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion: who fhall rouse him up?

10 The fceptre fhall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

II Binding his foal unto the vine, and his afs's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood

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17 Dan fhall be a ferpent by the way, an adder in the path; that biteth the horseheels, fo that his rider shall fall backward.

18 I have waited for thy falvation, O Lord.

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

20 Out of Afher his bread fhall be fat, and he fhall yield royal dainties.

21 Naphtali is a hind let loofe: he giveth goodly words. 22 Jofeph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whofe branches run over the wall.

23 The archers have forely grieved him, and fhot at him, and hated him.

24 But his bow abode in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made ftrong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: from thence is the

fhepherd,

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