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Joseph's policy to stay his brethren. GENESIS.-CHAP. XLV. He maketh himself known to them.

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6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.

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f c. 43.22.

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Nu. 14.6. 2 Sa. 1.11.

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7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: 8 Behold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee | out of the land of Canaan: how then shouldkor, we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bond-men.

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31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

32 For thy servant became surety for the m Nu. 32 23 lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

Pr. 28.17.

Lu. 12.2

n Pr. 17.15.

o c.18.30, 32.

p c.37.3.

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12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was 43.2 found in Benjamin's sack.

13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

14 ¶ And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, (for he was yet there :) and they fell before him on the ground.

15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

8 Lu. 11.7.

t c.30.23. 35.18. 46.19.

u c.37.33. 42.36.

v 1 Sa. 18.1. 1 Sa. 25.

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16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the wc.43.9. iniquity of thy servants: behold we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.

17 And he said, God forbid that I should" do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

18 T Then Judah came near unto him, and said, O, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

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

20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

24 And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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n c. 41.43. Ju. 17.10. Job 29.16.

47.1..6. Ex. 8.22. 9.26.

26 And we said, We cannot go down: if c.46.29. our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

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8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but m God: and he hath made me a n father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not:

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Go

shen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

11 And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine ;) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast come to poverty.

12 And behold, your eyes P see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ·

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14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his

servants.

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17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto w No.3.16. thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18 And take your father, and your house- a Job 9.16. holds, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

29.24. Ps. 126.1. Lu. 24.11, 41.

b PB.85.6.

A. M. 2298.

19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for B. C. 1706. your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

20 Also regard not your stuff: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the 'commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

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Joseph meeteth Jacob. and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him;

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

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

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

10 And the sons of Simeon ; * Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and m 1 Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. And the sons of Levi; " Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul. 13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and P Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

14 T And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

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

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

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born" Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

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28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my sor is yet alive: I will go and see him before or, Arod.ban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she I die.

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3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy fa-y ther fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan,

bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

27 And the sons of Joseph which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and ham. Nu. they came into the land of Goshen.

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Distress of the Egyptians.

GENESIS.-CHAP. XLVII. Joseph visiteth his sick father.

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1 Joseph presenteth five of his brethren, 7 and his father before Pharaoh: 11 he giveth them habitation and maintenance: 13 he getteth all the Egyptians' money, 16 their cattle, 18 their lands for Pharaoh. 28 Jacob's age.

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HEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What

is your d occupation? And they said unto

Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to f sojourn in the land are we come: for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

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7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

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15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy pre sence? for the money faileth.

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he " fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

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19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt diligence, for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them so the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

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h1 Pe.2.17. many are

the days of the years of thy life?

jc.25.7,8. 35.28.

k ver.6. Ex.1.11.

1 according to the little

ones; or, as a little child is nourish

ed.

m c.41.30, 31.

n led.

o Job 24. La.1.11.

princes.

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attain-Pri ed unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with 1 bread, according to their families.

13 And there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt, and all the land of Canaan, fainted by reason of the famine.

14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

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22 Only the land of the P priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their lands.

23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little

ones.

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's. 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years.]

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31 And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself

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Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

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GENESIS.-CHAP. XLVIII., XLIX. The blessing of Jacob' sons. people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a "multitude of nations.

1 Joseph with his sons visiteth his sick father. 3 Jacob repeateth the promise: 9 he blesseth Ephraim and Manasseh: 21 he prophesieth their return to Canaan.

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ND it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick : and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh

and Ephraim.

2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God AImighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

5 And now, thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

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b c.17.8. De. 32.8. Am. 9.14, 15.

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d Jos. 14.4.

e c.35.16.. 19.

f c.33.5.

g c.27.4.

He.11.21.

h heavy.

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) Ep.3.20.

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

3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my as fishes might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after c.31.11. the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.

8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?

9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will & bless them.

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

13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

11 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.

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7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce : and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will " divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow • down before thee.

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

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12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of 24.17 the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

r Ps. 60.7. La.33.22.

t is.11.1..5.

16 The Angel P which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac: and let them grows De.23.57. into a multitude in the midst of the earth. Eze 21.27 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laidu Jn 12.32 his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

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14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens :

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his Shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto

tribute.

16 ¶ Danshall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD!

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22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruit-b29.0 ful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

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34.

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11; 50.21. 1.28.16. De.33.27. k Ep.1.3. Hab 3.6.

23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow abode in strength, and thei arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, bless-o Eze.39. ings of the breasts and of the womb:

na Is.66.5.

n Jur.20.21, 25.

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p Ro. 12.6, &e.

2 Sa. 19.

37.

26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors un-q c.47.30. to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was m separate from his brethren.

27 Benjamin shall" raven as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

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28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them: every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.

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

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

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The death of Joseph.

7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

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

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

10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a « mourning for his father seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians; wherefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto him according as he i commanded them:

13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham i bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his Nu 20.29 father.

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k c. 27.41. Le. 26.36.

Pr. 28.1.

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face: and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the "place of God?

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20 But as for you, ye thought evil against Job 15.21. me; but God P meant it unto good, to bring to pass; as it is this day, to save much people alive.

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21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish Lu 17.3,4 you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

Ep. 4.32 C13.13.

Ja. 5. 16.

n De. 32.35. 2 Ki.5.7. Job 34.29. Ro. 12.19. He. 10.30.

o Ps.56.5.

pc.45.5,7.

4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your 9 Mat.5.44. eyes, speak, I pray you, in the cars of Pha-r to their raoh, saying,

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5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

me.

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

hearts.

A. M. 2369.

B.C. 1635.

8 Job 42.16. t Nu.32.39. u borne. v Ex.3.16.

w Ex. 13.19. Jos. 24.32. Ac. 7.16. He 11.22

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

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23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die, and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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