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Revision 1139367 of "Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source (Division 2 of 3)" on enwikiversity<[[Bible, English, King James, According to the documentary hypothesis]] According to the [[w:documentary hypothesis|documentary hypothesis]], the [[w:Torah|Torah]] is composed from a number of originally independant sources joined by a [[w:redaction|redactor]]. One of these supposed sources is named the [[w:JE|"JE source"]], due to it being considered a redacted together combination of the [[w:Jahwist|Jahwist (J) source]] and the [[w:Elohist|Elohist (E) source]]. There follows the reconstructed text of the JE Source, using the [[w:King James Version|King James Translation]] of the Torah. *The text usually ascribed to the Jahwist (J) is highlighted in <font color=#000088>navy blue</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>([[Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source, Jahwist source|view in isolation]])</font></small> *The text usually ascribed to the Elohist (E) is highlighted in <font color=#008888>teal blueish grey</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>([[Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source, Elohist source|view in isolation]])</font></small> ''Due simply to its size, it has been divided into 3 divisions of approximately similar size, for the purposes of easy downloading. These divisions do not knowingly reflect the content of the text, or the original divisions, in any way.'' ''Although the text is ordered as it appears in the bible, the partitions do not reflect, in any way, the original partitioning of the text, and simply exists for the ease of modern readership'' ==Parts 1 - 30== ''Due simply to the document's size, it has been divided into 3 divisions of approximately similar size, for the purposes of easy downloading. These divisions do not knowingly reflect the content of the text, or the original divisions, in any way.'' *[[Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source (Division 1 of 3)|First division of three - Parts 1 - 30]] ==Part 31 - Jacob's ladder== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> For I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.</font> ==Part 32 - The sheep and the stone== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> For out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> That Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.</font> ==Part 33 - The two wives of Jacob== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> That he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he told Laban all these things.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.</font> ==Part 34 - The children of Jacob== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> For she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she conceived again, and bare a son;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she conceived again, and bare a son;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she conceived again, and bare a son:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, </font><font color=#008888>Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: </font><font color=#008888>and Jacob went in unto her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#008888> And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she conceived, and bare a son;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#008888> And said, God hath taken away my reproach: and she called him Joseph;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, The LORD shall add to me another son.</font> ==Part 35 - The blemished flock== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> For I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> If thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> That they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> That Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#008888> And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#008888> And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#008888> And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#008888> If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#008888> And if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#008888> Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#008888> For I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#008888> I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.</font> ==Part 36 - The stones of Galeed== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> That I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> Saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> Yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he searched, but found not the images.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> Whereas thou hast searched all my things, what hast thou found of all thy household things?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#008888> Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#008888> This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#008888> That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#008888> Of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#008888> Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#008888> Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#008888> And thou hast changed my wages ten times.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#008888> Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#008888> God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban answered and said unto Jacob,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#008888> These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#008888> And what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#008888> If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>53</font color></small><font color=#008888> No man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>54</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>55</font color></small><font color=#008888> This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>56</font color></small><font color=#008888> And that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>57</font color></small><font color=#008888> The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>58</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>59</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>60</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>61</font color></small><font color=#008888> And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: <small><font color=#0000FF>62</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Laban departed, and returned unto his place. ==Part 37 - Jacob's gifts to Esau== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> For with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> For I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> And said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> Saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> Saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.</font> ==Part 38 - Jacob wrestles with God== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> Because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.</font> ==Part 39 - Jacob's reconciliation with Esau== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> For therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he urged him, and he took it. And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, and pitched his tent before the city.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> At the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.</font> ==Part 40 - The rape of Dinah== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> Because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he was more honourable than all the house of his father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> If every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> That two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?</font> ==Part 41 - The consecration of Bethel== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> Who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.</font> ==Part 42 - The birth of Benjamin== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.</font> ==Part 43 - Reuben and Bilhah== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small> ==Part 44 - The list of Edomite kings== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the name of his city was Avith.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small> ==Part 45 - Joseph enslaved== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age</font><font color=#000088>: and he made him a coat of many colours.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> What is this dream that thou hast dreamed?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said to him, Here am I.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> And we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> That he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> That they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#008888> And as they sat down to eat bread: </font><font color=#000088>they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> A company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his brethren were content.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#008888> There passed by some Midianite merchantmen; and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> And sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not there; and I, whither shall I go?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#000088> And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.</font> ==Part 46 - Judah and Tamar== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> That he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> For he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> For she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> (For he knew not that she was his daughter in law.)</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, There was no harlot in this place.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> Saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> Because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.</font> ==Part 47 - Potiphar's wife== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> An Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> That the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> Neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there was none of the men of the house there within.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> He came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home. And she spake unto him according to these words, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> Saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> And whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> Because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.</font> ==Part 48 - The servant and the baker == <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass after these things, that the chief servant of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the servants, and against the chief of the bakers.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they dreamt a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> The servant and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they said unto him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the chief servant told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his servant.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> He said unto Joseph, I also dreamed, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he lifted up the head of the chief servant and of the chief baker among his servants.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he restored the chief servant unto his servantship again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> Yet the chief servant did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.</font> ==Part 49 - Pharaoh's dreams== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And we dreamt a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> And we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> Such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> So I awoke. And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#008888> This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#008888> Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#008888> And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the famine shall consume the land;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#008888> And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#008888> It is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#008888> Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#008888> And take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#008888> And let them gather all the food of those good years that come,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#008888> And lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#008888> And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#008888> That the land perish not through the famine.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>53</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>54</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>55</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>56</font color></small><font color=#008888> And arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>57</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>58</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>59</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>60</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. <small><font color=#0000FF>61</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. <small><font color=#0000FF>62</font color></small><font color=#008888> And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>63</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>64</font color></small><font color=#008888> The food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>65</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>66</font color></small><font color=#008888> And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>67</font color></small><font color=#008888> Which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>68</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>69</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>70</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>71</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>72</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>73</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>74</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>75</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the famine was over all the face of the earth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>76</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>77</font color></small><font color=#008888> And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.</font> ==Part 50 - Joseph and his brothers == <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> That your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he put them all together into ward three days.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> Therefore, behold, also his blood is required.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he turned himself about from them, and wept;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> And returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#008888> And to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> And their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#000088> The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> Leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#000088> And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#000088> So will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#008888> Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>53</font color></small><font color=#008888> Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>54</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>55</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>56</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the famine was sore in the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>57</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>58</font color></small><font color=#000088> Their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>59</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, <small><font color=#0000FF>60</font color></small><font color=#000088> Saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>61</font color></small><font color=#000088> If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: <small><font color=#0000FF>62</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>63</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>64</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>65</font color></small><font color=#000088> And we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>66</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>67</font color></small><font color=#000088> That we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>68</font color></small><font color=#000088> I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>69</font color></small><font color=#000088> If I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>70</font color></small><font color=#000088> For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>71</font color></small><font color=#000088> And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; <small><font color=#0000FF>72</font color></small><font color=#000088> Take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>73</font color></small><font color=#000088> A little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: <small><font color=#0000FF>74</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>75</font color></small><font color=#000088> Peradventure it was an oversight: Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>76</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>77</font color></small><font color=#008888> If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>78</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>79</font color></small><font color=#000088> And rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>80</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>81</font color></small><font color=#000088> For these men shall dine with me at noon.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>82</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>83</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>84</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>85</font color></small><font color=#008888> That he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>86</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they came near to the of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>87</font color></small><font color=#008888> And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>88</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, <small><font color=#0000FF>89</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>90</font color></small><font color=#008888> And we have brought it again in our hand.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>91</font color></small><font color=#008888> And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>92</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>93</font color></small><font color=#008888> I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>94</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>95</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>96</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>97</font color></small><font color=#000088> And bowed themselves to him to the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>98</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>99</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>100</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>101</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>102</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>103</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>104</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>105</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>106</font color></small><font color=#000088> Because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>107</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>108</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the men marvelled one at another.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>109</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>110</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they drank, and were merry with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>111</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>112</font color></small><font color=#000088> And put every man's money in his sack's mouth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>113</font color></small><font color=#000088> And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>114</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>115</font color></small><font color=#000088> As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>116</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>117</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>118</font color></small><font color=#000088> Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>119</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>120</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>121</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>122</font color></small><font color=#000088> How then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>123</font color></small><font color=#000088> With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>124</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>125</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>126</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>127</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>128</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>129</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>130</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>131</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>132</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>133</font color></small><font color=#000088> And as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>134</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>135</font color></small><font color=#000088> And let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>136</font color></small><font color=#000088> My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>137</font color></small><font color=#000088> And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>138</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>139</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>140</font color></small><font color=#000088> And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>141</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>142</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>143</font color></small><font color=#000088> And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>144</font color></small><font color=#000088> And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>145</font color></small><font color=#000088> For we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>146</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>147</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>148</font color></small><font color=#000088> And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>149</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>150</font color></small><font color=#000088> It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>151</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>152</font color></small><font color=#000088> For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>153</font color></small><font color=#000088> Saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>154</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>155</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>156</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>157</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>158</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>159</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>160</font color></small><font color=#008888> And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>161</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>162</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>163</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>164</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>165</font color></small><font color=#000088> And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>166</font color></small><font color=#000088> So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>167</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>168</font color></small><font color=#000088> Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>169</font color></small><font color=#000088> God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>170</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>171</font color></small><font color=#000088> Thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>172</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>173</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>174</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>175</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>176</font color></small><font color=#000088> Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>177</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>178</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>179</font color></small><font color=#000088> And take your father and your households, and come unto me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>180</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>181</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now thou art commanded, this do ye;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>182</font color></small><font color=#000088> Take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>183</font color></small><font color=#000088> Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>184</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>185</font color></small><font color=#000088> And gave them provision for the way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>186</font color></small><font color=#000088> But to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>187</font color></small><font color=#000088> And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>188</font color></small><font color=#000088> And ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>189</font color></small><font color=#000088> So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>190</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>191</font color></small><font color=#000088> And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>192</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>193</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>194</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>195</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.</font> ==Part 51 - Israel's migration to Egypt== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob rose up from Beersheba:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> That ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> Are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> For the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> In the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> So that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#000088> When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#000088> Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#000088> Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#000088> And give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>53</font color></small><font color=#000088> For the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>54</font color></small><font color=#000088> And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>55</font color></small><font color=#000088> Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>56</font color></small><font color=#000088> And did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>57</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>58</font color></small><font color=#000088> Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>59</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>60</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>61</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>62</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>63</font color></small><font color=#000088> Except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>64</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>65</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>66</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>67</font color></small><font color=#000088> And deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>68</font color></small><font color=#000088> But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>69</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I will do as thou hast said.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>70</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.</font> ==Part 52 - Ephraim's pre-eminence== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> The God which fed me all my life long unto this day,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> But truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> ==Part 53 - The blessing of Jacob== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> For in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> Thy father's children shall bow down before thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> Who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.</font> ==Part 54 - The burial of Jacob== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> Saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. And Joseph went up to bury his father:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he made a mourning for his father seven days.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> They said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> ==Part 55 - The death of the generation of Joseph== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> They said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put into a coffin in Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.</font> ==Part 56 - The baby in the reeds == <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> Come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> 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.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> If it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> For they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the women took the child, and nursed it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.</font> ==Part 57 - The exile of Moses == <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died:</font> ==Part 58 - The burning bush== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Here I am.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham and the God of Jacob.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> Unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God said unto Moses, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Jacob, hath sent me unto you:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Jacob, appeared unto me,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> Saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.)</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#008888> And ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#008888> And now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#000088> And ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.</font> ==Part 59 - The signs of Moses== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> For they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> Neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> That thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> And I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> And thou shalt be to him instead of God.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#008888> And said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#008888> See that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#008888> And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#008888> And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#008888> And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#008888> And that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.</font> ==Part 60 - Bricks without straw== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And so they said unto the king of Egypt, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> Lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> Ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> After it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#008888> Because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#008888> For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.</font> ==Parts 61 - 87 (the end)== ''Due simply to the document's size, it has been divided into 3 divisions of approximately similar size, for the purposes of easy downloading. 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