Genesis 44-47

Genesis 44

¹And he commandeth him who is over his house, saying, ‘Fill the bags of the men with food, as they are able to bear, and put the money of each in the mouth of his bag;

²and my cup, the silver cup, thou dost put in the mouth of the bag of the young one, and his corn-money;' and he doth according to the word of Joseph which he hath spoken.

³The morning is bright, and the men have been sent away, they and their asses --

⁴they have gone out of the city -- they have not gone far off -- and Joseph hath said to him who is over his house, ‘Rise, pursue after the men; and thou hast overtaken them, and thou hast said unto them, Why have ye recompensed evil for good?

⁵Is not this that with which my lord drinketh? and he observeth diligently with it; ye have done evil in that which ye have done.'

⁶And he overtaketh them, and speaketh unto them these words,

⁷and they say unto him, ‘Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word;

⁸lo, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back unto thee from the land of Canaan, and how do we steal from the house of thy lord silver or gold?

⁹with whomsoever of thy servants it is found, he hath died, and we also are to my lord for servants.'

¹⁰And he saith, ‘Now, also, according to your words, so it is; he with whom it is found becometh my servant, and ye are acquitted;'

¹¹and they hasten and take down each his bag to the earth, and each openeth his bag;

¹²and he searcheth -- at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed -- and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin;

¹³and they rend their garments, and each ladeth his ass, and they turn back to the city.

¹⁴And Judah -- his brethren also -- cometh in unto the house of Joseph, and he is yet there, and they fall before him to the earth;

¹⁵and Joseph saith to them, ‘What is this deed that ye have done? have ye not known that a man like me doth diligently observe?'

¹⁶And Judah saith, ‘What do we say to my lord? what do we speak? and what -- do we justify ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; lo, we are servants to my lord, both we, and he in whose hand the cup hath been found;'

¹⁷and he saith, ‘Far be it from me to do this; the man in whose hand the cup hath been found, he becometh my servant; and ye, go ye up in peace unto your father.'

¹⁸And Judah cometh nigh unto him, and saith, ‘O, my lord, let thy servant speak, I pray thee, a word in the ears of my lord, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant -- for thou art as Pharaoh.

¹⁹My lord hath asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother?

²⁰and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him.

²¹‘And thou sayest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, and I set mine eye upon him;

²²and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

²³and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.

²⁴‘And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;

²⁵and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food,

²⁶and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for we are not able to see the man's face, and our young brother not with us.

²⁷‘And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye -- ye have known that two did my wife bare to me,

²⁸and the one goeth out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn -- torn! and I have not seen him since;

²⁹when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

³⁰‘And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

³¹then it hath come to pass when he seeth that the youth is not, that he hath died, and thy servants have brought down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to sheol;

³²for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee -- then I have sinned against my father all the days.

³³‘And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,

³⁴for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

Genesis 45

¹And Joseph hath not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calleth, ‘Put out every man from me;' and no man hath stood with him when Joseph maketh himself known unto his brethren,

²and he giveth forth his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh heareth.

³And Joseph saith unto his brethren, ‘I am Joseph, is my father yet alive?' and his brethren have not been able to answer him, for they have been troubled at his presence.

⁴And Joseph saith unto his brethren, ‘Come nigh unto me, I pray you,' and they come nigh; and he saith, ‘I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt;

⁵and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

⁶‘Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;

⁷and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;

⁸and now, ye -- ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁹‘Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not,

¹⁰and thou hast dwelt in the land of Goshen, and been near unto me, thou and thy sons, and thy son's sons, and thy flock, and thy herd, and all that thou hast,

¹¹and I have nourished thee there -- for yet are five years of famine -- lest thou become poor, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.

¹²‘And lo, your eyes are seeing, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth which is speaking unto you;

¹³and ye have declared to my father all my honour in Egypt, and all that ye have seen, and ye have hasted, and have brought down my father hither.'

¹⁴And he falleth on the neck of Benjamin his brother, and weepeth, and Benjamin hath wept on his neck;

¹⁵and he kisseth all his brethren, and weepeth over them; and afterwards have his brethren spoken with him.

¹⁶And the sound hath been heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, ‘Come have the brethren of Joseph;' and it is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants,

¹⁷and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, ‘Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, enter ye the land of Canaan,

¹⁸and take your father, and your households, and come unto me, and I give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and eat ye the fat of the land.

¹⁹‘Yea, thou -- thou hast been commanded: this do ye, take for yourselves out of the land of Egypt, waggons for your infants, and for your wives, and ye have brought your father, and come;

²⁰and your eye hath no pity on your vessels, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.'

²¹And the sons of Israel do so, and Joseph giveth waggons to them by the command of Pharaoh, and he giveth to them provision for the way;

²²to all of them hath he given -- to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments;

²³and to his father he hath sent thus: ten asses bearing of the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses bearing corn and bread, even food for his father for the way.

²⁴And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, ‘Be not angry in the way.'

²⁵And they go up out of Egypt, and come in to the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father,

²⁶and they declare to him, saying, ‘Joseph is yet alive,' and that he is ruler over all the land of Egypt; and his heart ceaseth, for he hath not given credence to them.

²⁷And they speak unto him all the words of Joseph, which he hath spoken unto them, and he seeth the waggons which Joseph hath sent to bear him away, and live doth the spirit of Jacob their father;

²⁸and Israel saith, ‘Enough! Joseph my son is yet alive; I go and see him before I die.'

Genesis 46

¹And Israel journeyeth, and all that he hath, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, and sacrificeth sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac;

²and God speaketh to Israel in visions of the night, and saith, ‘Jacob, Jacob;' and he saith, ‘Here am I.'

³And He saith, ‘I am God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there;

⁴I -- I go down with thee to Egypt, and I -- I also certainly bring thee up, and Joseph doth put his hand on thine eyes.'

⁵And Jacob riseth from Beer-Sheba, and the sons of Israel bear away Jacob their father, And their infants, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh hath sent to bear him,

⁶and they take their cattle, and their goods which they have acquired in the land of Canaan, and come into Egypt -- Jacob, and all his seed with him,

⁷his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, yea, all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.

⁸And these are the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob's first-born, Reuben.

⁹And sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

¹⁰And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul son of the Canaanitess.

¹¹And sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹²And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul.

¹³And sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

¹⁴And sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

¹⁵These are sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters are thirty and three.

¹⁶And sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

¹⁷And sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

¹⁸These are sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she beareth these to Jacob -- sixteen persons.

¹⁹Sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁰And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) are Manasseh and Ephraim.

²¹And sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

²²These are sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the persons are fourteen.

²³And sons of Dan: Hushim.

²⁴And sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

²⁵These are sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she beareth these to Jacob -- all the persons are seven.

²⁶All the persons who are coming to Jacob to Egypt, coming out of his thigh, apart from the wives of Jacob's sons, all the persons are sixty and six.

²⁷And the sons of Joseph who have been born to him in Egypt are two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who are coming into Egypt are seventy.

²⁸And Judah he hath sent before him unto Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen, and they come into the land of Goshen;

²⁹and Joseph harnesseth his chariot, and goeth up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and appeareth unto him, and falleth on his neck, and weepeth on his neck again;

³⁰and Israel saith unto Joseph, ‘Let me die this time, after my seeing thy face, for thou art yet alive.'

³¹And Joseph saith unto his brethren, and unto the house of his father, ‘I go up, and declare to Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and the house of my father who are in the land of Canaan have come in unto me;

³²and the men are feeders of a flock, for they have been men of cattle; and their flock, and their herd, and all that they have, they have brought.'

³³‘And it hath come to pass when Pharaoh calleth for you, and hath said, What are your works?

³⁴that ye have said, Thy servants have been men of cattle from our youth, even until now, both we and our fathers, -- in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for the abomination of the Egyptians is every one feeding a flock.'

Genesis 47

¹And Joseph cometh, and declareth to Pharaoh, and saith, ‘My father, and my brethren, and their flock, and their herd, and all they have, have come from the land of Canaan, and lo, they are in the land of Goshen.'

²And out of his brethren he hath taken five men, and setteth them before Pharaoh;

³and Pharaoh saith unto his brethren, ‘What are your works?' and they say unto Pharaoh, ‘Thy servants are feeders of a flock, both we and our fathers;'

⁴and they say unto Pharaoh, ‘To sojourn in the land we have come, for there is no pasture for the flock which thy servants have, for grievous is the famine in the land of Canaan; and now, let thy servants, we pray thee, dwell in the land of Goshen.'

⁵And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph, saying, ‘Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee:

⁶the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land cause thy father and thy brethren to dwell -- they dwell in the land of Goshen, and if thou hast known, and there are among them men of ability, then thou hast set them heads over the cattle I have.'

⁷And Joseph bringeth in Jacob his father, and causeth him to stand before Pharaoh; and Jacob blesseth Pharaoh.

⁸And Pharaoh saith unto Jacob, ‘How many are the days of the years of thy life?'

⁹And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, ‘The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

¹⁰And Jacob blesseth Pharaoh, and goeth out from before Pharaoh.

¹¹And Joseph settleth his father and his brethren, and giveth to them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded;

¹²and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father with bread, according to the mouth of the infants.

¹³And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine is very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine;

¹⁴and Joseph gathereth all the silver that is found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn that they are buying, and Joseph bringeth the silver into the house of Pharaoh.

¹⁵And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, ‘Give to us bread -- why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?'

¹⁶and Joseph saith, ‘Give your cattle; and I give to you for your cattle, if the money hath ceased.'

¹⁷And they bring in their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph giveth to them bread, for the horses, and for the cattle of the flock, and for the cattle of the herd, and for the asses; and he tendeth them with bread, for all their cattle, during that year.

¹⁸And that year is finished, and they come in unto him on the second year, and say to him, ‘We do not hide from my lord, that since the money hath been finished, and possession of the cattle is unto my lord, there hath not been left before my lord save our bodies, and our ground;

¹⁹why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'

²⁰And Joseph buyeth all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians have sold each his field, for the famine hath been severe upon them, and the land becometh Pharaoh's;

²¹as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the one end of the border of Egypt even unto its other end.

²²Only the ground of the priests he hath not bought, for the priests have a portion from Pharaoh, and they have eaten their portion which Pharaoh hath given to them, therefore they have not sold their ground.

²³And Joseph saith unto the people, ‘Lo, I have bought you to-day and your ground for Pharaoh; lo, seed for you, and ye have sown the ground,

²⁴and it hath come to pass in the increases, that ye have given a fifth to Pharaoh, and four of the parts are for yourselves, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those who are in your houses, and for food for your infants.'

²⁵And they say, ‘Thou hast revived us; we find grace in the eyes of my lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh;'

²⁶and Joseph setteth it for a statute unto this day, concerning the ground of Egypt, that Pharaoh hath a fifth; only the ground of the priests alone hath not become Pharaoh's.

²⁷And Israel dwelleth in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they have possession in it, and are fruitful, and multiply exceedingly;

²⁸and Jacob liveth in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, are an hundred and forty and seven years.

²⁹And the days of Israel are near to die, and he calleth for his son, for Joseph, and saith to him, ‘If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and thou hast done with me kindness and truth; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt,

³⁰and I have lain with my fathers, and thou hast borne me out of Egypt, and buried me in their burying-place.' And he saith, ‘I -- I do according to thy word;'

³¹and he saith, ‘Swear to me;' and he sweareth to him, and Israel boweth himself on the head of the bed.