THE BOOK OF
GENESIS
CHAPTERS 39-50
1 ¶ And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought
him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
2 And the LORD
was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his
master the Egyptian.
3 And his master
saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that
he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Joseph
found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his
house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
5 And it came to
pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all
that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had
in the house, and in the field.
6 And he left all
that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread
which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
7 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that his
master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie
with me.
8 But he refused,
and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me
in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
9 There is none
greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but
thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness,
and sin against God?
10 And it came to
pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie
by her, or to be with her.
11 And it came to
pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and
there was none of the men of the house there within.
12
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his
garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
13 ¶ And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left
his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
14 That she
called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto
me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
15 And it came to
pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his
garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
16 And she laid
up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
17
And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew
servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:
18 And it came to
pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and
fled out.
19 ¶ And it came to pass, when his master heard the words
of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this
manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
20 And Joseph's
master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's
prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
21 But the LORD
was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the
sight of the keeper of the prison.
22 And the keeper
of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the
prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
23 The keeper of
the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD
was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
1 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that the
butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of
Egypt.
2 And Pharaoh was
wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers,
and against the chief of the bakers.
3 And he put them
in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place
where Joseph was bound.
4 And the captain
of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a
season in ward.
5 ¶ And they dreamed a dream both of
them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation
of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound
in the prison.
6 And Joseph came
in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
7
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his
lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
8 And they said
unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And
Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I
pray you.
9
And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my
dream, behold, a vine was before me;
10 And in the
vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot
forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
11 And Pharaoh's
cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
12 And Joseph
said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three
days:
13 Yet within
three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place:
and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
14 But think on
me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me,
and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
15 For indeed I
was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done
nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
16
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto
Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my
head:
17 And in the
uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the
birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
18 And Joseph
answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
19 Yet within
three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on
a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
20 ¶ And it came to pass the third day, which was
Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted
up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker
among his servants.
21 And he
restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand:
22 But he hanged
the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet did not
the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
1 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of two full years,
that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
2 And, behold, there
came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed
in a meadow.
3
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill
favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the
river.
4 And the ill
favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine.
So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he slept
and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
6 And, behold,
seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
7 And the seven
thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and,
behold, it was a dream.
8 And it came to
pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men
thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could
interpret them unto Pharaoh.
9 ¶ Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I
do remember my faults this day:
10 Pharaoh was
wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
11 And we dreamed
a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the
interpretation of his dream.
12 And there was
there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and
we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according
to his dream he did interpret.
13 And it came to
pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and
him he hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh
sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he
shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh
said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret
it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to
interpret it.
16 And Joseph
answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 ¶ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I
stood upon the bank of the river:
18 And, behold,
there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and
they fed in a meadow:
19
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill
favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
badness:
20 And the lean
and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
21 And when they
had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they
were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk,
full and good:
23 And, behold,
seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after
them:
24 And the thin
ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians;
but there was none that could declare it to me.
25 And Joseph
said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he
is about to do.
26 The seven good
kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is
one.
27
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are
seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven
years of famine.
28 This is the
thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto
Pharaoh.
29
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land
of Egypt:
30 And there
shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be
forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
31 And the plenty
shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall
be very grievous.
32
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the
thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
33 ¶ Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet
and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do
this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
35 And let them
gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the
hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
36 And that food
shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall
be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
37
And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all
his servants.
38 And Pharaoh
said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the
Spirit of God is?
39 And Pharaoh
said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so
discreet and wise as thou art:
40
Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my
people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 And Pharaoh
said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh
took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him
in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
43
And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they
cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of
Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said
unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or
foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh
called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath
the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land
of Egypt.
46 ¶ And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before
Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he
gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt,
and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round
about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 And Joseph
gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
50 And unto
Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the
daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Joseph
called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me
forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
52
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to
be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And the seven
years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
54 And the seven
years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was
in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh
for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he
saith to you, do.
56 And the famine
was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and
sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
57 And all
countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine
was so sore in all lands.
1 ¶ Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt,
Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
2 And he said,
Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy
for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3 And Joseph's
ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin,
Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And the sons of
Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land
of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was
the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the
land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7 ¶ And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but
made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto
them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 And Joseph knew
his brethren, but they knew not him.
9
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto
them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10 And they said
unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
11 We are all one
man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
12 And he said
unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
13
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in
the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and
one is not.
14 And Joseph
said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
15 Hereby ye
shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except
your youngest brother come hither.
16
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in
prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or
else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17 And he put
them all together into ward three days.
18 And Joseph
said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19
If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of
your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your
youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not
die. And they did so.
21 ¶ And they said one to another, We are verily guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress
come upon us.
22 And Reuben
answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the
child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
23
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by
an interpreter.
24 And he turned
himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed
with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
25
Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore
every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and
thus did he unto them.
26 And they laded
their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of
them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied
his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
28 And he said
unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and
their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is
this that God hath done unto us?
29 ¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land
of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
30 The man, who
is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the
country.
31 And we said
unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
32 We be twelve
brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 And the man,
the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true
men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of
your households, and be gone:
34 And bring your
youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies,
but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall
traffick in the land.
35 And it came to
pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was
in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they
were afraid.
36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my
children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all
these things are against me.
37 And Reuben
spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver
him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
38
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead,
and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go,
then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
1 ¶ And the famine was sore in the land.
2
And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little
food.
3 And Judah spake
unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not
see my face, except your brother be with you.
4 If thou wilt
send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
5
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said
unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
6 And Israel
said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet
a brother?
7 And they said,
The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we
told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he
would say, Bring your brother down?
8 And Judah said
unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we
may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
9
I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring
him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for
ever:
10 For except we
had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
11 ¶ And their father Israel said unto them, If it must
be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and
carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little
honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
12 And take
double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of
your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
13 Take also your
brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
14
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away
your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am
bereaved.
15 ¶ And the men took that present, and they took double
money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and
stood before Joseph.
16 And when
Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men
shall dine with me at noon.
17 And the man
did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
18 And the men
were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our
sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against
us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
19 And they came
near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door
of the house,
20
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
21 And it 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 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 bowed themselves to him to
the earth.
27
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the
old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
28 And they
answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they
bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
29 And he lifted
up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his 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 his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to
weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
31 And he washed
his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
32 And they set
on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which
did eat with him, by 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
so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
1 ¶ And he commanded the steward of his house, saying,
Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry,
and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
2 And put my cup,
the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he
did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
3 As soon as the
morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
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 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:
8 Behold, the
money, which 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, both let him die, and we
also will be my lord's bondmen.
10 And he said,
Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be
my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
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, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
14
And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there:
and they fell before him on the ground.
15 And Joseph
said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man
as I can certainly divine?
16 And Judah
said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of
thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom
the cup is found.
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 ¶ Then Judah came near unto him,
and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's
ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as
Pharaoh.
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 a 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 servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
22 And we said
unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
23 And thou
saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye
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.
25
And our father said, Go again, 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 my wife bare me two sons:
28
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces;
and I saw him not since:
29 And if ye take
this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs
with sorrow to the grave.
30 Now therefore
when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's 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, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for
ever.
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.
1 ¶ Then Joseph could not refrain 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.
2 And he wept
aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
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 ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
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 earing nor harvest.
7 And 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
a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the
land of Egypt.
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 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 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.
21 And the
children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the
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 of raiment.
23
And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the
good things 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:
28 And Israel
said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I
die.
1 ¶ And Israel took his journey with
all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of
his father Isaac.
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 Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
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.
5 ¶ And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of
Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in
the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took
their cattle, and their goods, which they had 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 these 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; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the
son of a Canaanitish woman.
11
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 And the sons
of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died
in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 And the sons
of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14
And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These be the
sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah:
all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
16 And the sons
of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17
And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and
Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
18 These are the
sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto
Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The sons of
Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
20
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
21 And the sons
of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and
Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the
sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
23 And the sons
of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons
of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the
sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these
unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
26
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his
loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the 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.
28 ¶ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct
his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of
Goshen.
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.
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, and shall say, What is your
occupation?
34 That ye shall
say, Thy servants' trade hath been about 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.
1 ¶ Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, 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 are in the land of
Goshen.
2
And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto
Pharaoh.
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
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 land, in the land of
Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 And Joseph
nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with
bread, according to their families.
13 ¶ And there was no bread in 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 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 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 horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and
for the asses: 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 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.
22
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a
portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat 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 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 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 land of the priests only, which
became not Pharaoh's.
27 ¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the
country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied
exceedingly.
28
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age
of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
29 And the time
drew nigh 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 deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
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 bed's
head.
1 ¶ 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.
3
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the
land of Canaan, 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 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 Bethlehem.
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 them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
10 Now the eyes of
Israel were dim 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 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.
15 And he blessed
Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the
God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
16
The Angel which redeemed me 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.
17 And when
Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it
displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
18 And Joseph said
unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right
hand upon his head.
19 And his father
refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people,
and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of
nations.
20 And he blessed
them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel 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 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.
1 ¶ And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the
last days.
2
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto
Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou
art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of
dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable as
water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
5 ¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty
are in their habitations.
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: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 ¶ Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:
thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow
down before thee.
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 depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh
come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
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 eyes 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 an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
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 pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
16 Dan shall
judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a
serpent by the way, an 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.
19
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his
bread shall be 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 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; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the
God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven 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 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 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,
30 In the cave
that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of
Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a
possession of a buryingplace.
31 There they
buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac 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 sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed,
and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
1 ¶ And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon
him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph
commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians
embalmed Israel.
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 threescore
and ten days.
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 ears of
Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made
me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave 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 mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he
made a mourning for his father seven days.
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 Abelmizraim, 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 bought with the field for a possession of a
buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 And Joseph
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 Joseph's brethren saw that their father was
dead, they said, Joseph will 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,
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 evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the
trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they
spake unto him.
18
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said,
Behold, we be thy servants.
19 And Joseph
said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
20 But as for
you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass,
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 an hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw
Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's
knees.
24 And Joseph
said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out
of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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.
26 So Joseph
died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put
in a coffin in Egypt.