fhepherd, the ftone of Ifrael: 25 Even by the God of thy father, who fhall help thee, and by the Almighty, who fhall blefs thee with bleffings of heaven above, bleffings of the deep that lieth under, bleffings of the breafts and of the womb:

26 The bleffings of thy father, have prevailed above the bleffings of my progenitors, unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they fhall be on the head of Jofeph, and on the crown of the head of him that was feparate from his brethren.

27 Benjamin fhall ravin

feffion of a burying-place.

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Ifaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth.

33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his fons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

CHAP. L.

ND Jofeph fell upon his

as a wolf; in the morning A father's face, and wept

he fhall devour. the prey, and at night he fhall divide the fpoil.

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Ifrael: and this is it that their father fpake unto them, and bleffed them; every one according to his bleffing he bleffed them.

upon him, and kiffed him.

2 And Jofeph commanded his fervants the phyficians to embalm his father; and the phyficians embalmed Ifrael.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him (for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him threefcore and ten days.

4 And when the days of his mourning were paft, Jo

29 And he charged them, and faid 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.feph spake unto the house of 30 In the cave that is in Pharaoh, faying, If now I the field of Machpelah, which have found grace in your is before Mamre, in the land eyes, fpeak, I pray you, in of Canaan, which Abraham the ears of Pharaoh, faying, bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a pof

5 My father made me fwear, faying, Lo, I die: in

my

Now therefore

my grave which I have dig- is beyond Jordan.
ged for me in the land of
Canaan, there fhalt thou
bury me.
let me go up, I pray thee,
and bury my father, and I
will come again.

12 And his fons did unto him according as he commanded them.

6 And Pharaoh faid, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee fwear.

7 And Jofeph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the fervants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

8 And all the house of Jofeph, and his brethren, and his father's houfe: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Gofhen.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and horfemen and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the threshing-floor ofAtad,which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very fore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father feven days.

II And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, faw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they faid, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which

13 For his fons carried him into the land of Canaan,

and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a poffeffion of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Jofeph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 And when Jofeph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they faid, Jofeph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

16 And they fent a meffenger unto Jofeph, faying, Thy father did command before he died, faying,

17 So fhall ye fay unto Jofeph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trefpafs of thy brethren, and their fin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trefpafs of the servants of the God of thy father. And Jofeph wept when they spake unto him.

18 And his brethren alfo went and fell down before his face: and they faid, Be

hold,

From the Book of EXODUS.

24 And the Lord faid me, and keep my commandunto him, Away, get theements.

name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

down, and thou fhalt come 7 Thou shalt not take the up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through, to come up unto the Lord, left he break forth upon them.

25 So Mofes went down unto the people, and fpake unto them.

CHAP. XX.

ND God fpake all

AN thefe words, faying,

2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have 120

8 Remember the fabbathday, to keep it holy.

9 Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10 But the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy. God: in it thou fhalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy man-fervant, nor thy maidfervant, nor thy cattle, nor thy ftranger that is within thy gates.

II For in fix days the
Lord

Lord made heaven and earth, the fea and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day; wherefore the Lord the thunderings, and lightbleffed the fabbath-day, and hallowed it.

From the Book of NUMBER S.