Genesis, 07 - Chapters 44-50, American Standard Version

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Chapters forty four through fifty of Genesis American Standard version.
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by Sam Stinson, Chapter forty four. And he commanded the

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steward of his house, saying, fill the men's sacks with
food as much as they can carry. And put every
man's money in his sack's mouth. And put my cup,
the silver cup, and the sax's mouth of the youngest,
and his grain money. And he did according to the
word that Joseph had spoken. As soon as the morning

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was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
And when they were gone out of the city, and
were not yet far off, Joseph said, unto his steward, up,
follow after the men. And when thou dost overtake them,
say unto them, where therefore have ye rewarded evil? Of good?

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Is not this that in which my Lord drinketh, And
whereby he indeed divineth ye have done evil in so doing?
And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these words,
and they said unto him. Wherefore speaketh my Lord such
words as these. Far be it from thy servants that
they should do such a thing. Behold the money which

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we found in our sacks mouths we brought again unto
thee out of the land of Canaan. How then should
we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold,
with whomsoever of thy servants it be found, Let him die,
and we also will be my Lord's bond men. And
he said, now also let it be according unto your words,

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he with whom it is found shall be by bond man,
and ye shall be blameless. Then they hasted and took
down every man his sack to the ground, and opened
every man his sack, and he searched and began at
the eldest, and left off at the youngest. And the
cup was found in Benjamin's sack. Then they ranked their

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clothes and laid every man his ass and return to
the city. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house,
and he was yet there, and they fell before him
on the ground, and Joseph said, unto them, what deed
is this that ye have done? Know ye not that
such a man as I can indeed divine. And Judah said,

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what shall we say unto my lord? What shall we speak?
Or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out
the iniquity of thy servants. Behold, we are my Lord's
bond men, both we and he also in whose hand
the cup is found. And he said, far be it
from me that I should do so. The man in
whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my

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bond man. But as for you, get you up in
peace unto your father. 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. My lord asked his servant, saying, have

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ye a father or a brother? 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. And thou saidst
unto thy servants, bring him down unto me, that I
may set mine eyes upon him. And we said, unto

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my Lord, the lad cannot leave his father. For if
he should leave his father, his father would die. And
thou saidst unto thy servants, except your youngest brother came
down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
And it came to pass when we came up unto
thy servant my father, we told him the words of
my lord. And our father said, go again by us

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a little food. And we said, we cannot go down
if our youngest brother be with us. And we will
go down, for we may not see the man's face
except our youngest brother be with us. And thy servant
my father said unto us, ye know that my wife
bear me two sons, and the one went out from me.
And I said, surely he is torn in pieces, and

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I have not seen him since. And if ye take
this one also from me and harm befall him, ye
will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to shee ol.
Now Therefore, when I come to thy servant my father,
and the lad is not with us, seeing that his
life is bound up in the lad's life, it will
come to pass when he seeth that the lad is

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not with us, that he will die, and thy servants
will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our
father with sorrow to sheel, for thy servant became surety
for the Lad unto my father, saying, if I bring
him not unto THEE, then shall I bear the blame
to my father forever. Now therefore, let thy servant, I

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pray THEE abide instead of the Lad, a bondman to
my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren.
For how shall I go up to my father if
the Lad be not with me? Lest I see the
evil that shall come on my father end of Chapter
forty four, Chapter forty five. Then Joseph could not refrain

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himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried,
cause every man to go out from me, and there
stood no man with him. While Joseph made himself known
unto his brethren, and he wept aloud, and the Egyptians
heard in the house of Pharaoh heard, and Joseph said,
unto his brethren, I am Joseph. Doth my father yet live?

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And his brethren could not answer him, for they were
troubled at his presence. And Joseph said, unto his brethren,
come near to me, I pray you. And they came near,
and he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye
sold into Egypt. And now be not grieved nor angry
with yourselves that ye sold me hither. For God did

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send me before you to preserve life. For these two
years hath the famine been in the land, and there
are yet five years in which there shall be neither
plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to
preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save
you alive by a great deliverance. So now it was
not you that sent me hither, but God, and He

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hath made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of
all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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,
and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, And
thou shalt be near unto me. Thou and thy children,

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and thy children's children, and thy flocks and thy herds,
and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish
thee for there are yet five years of famine. Lest
thou come to poverty. Thou in thy household and all
that thou hast. And behold your eyes, see in the
eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth

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that speaketh unto you. 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. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's
neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck, and
he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And

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after that his brethren talked with him. And the report
thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come.
And it pleased Pharaoh well and his servants. And Pharaoh said,
unto Joseph, say unto thy brethren, this do ye laid
your beasts, and go get you unto the land of Canaan,

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and take your father and your households, and come unto me,
and I will give you the good of the land
of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Now thou art commanded this, do ye take you wagons
out of the land of Egypt, for your little ones
and for your wives, and bring your father in come.
Also regard not your stuff for the good of all.

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The land of Egypt is yours. And the sons of
Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons according to
the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
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. And to his father he sent,

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after this manner ten asses laden with the good things
of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with grain and bread,
and provision for his father by the way. So he
sent his brethren away, and they departed, and he said
unto them, see that ye fall not out by the way.
And they went up out of Egypt and came into

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the land of Canaan to Jacob, their father, and they
told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is
ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted,
for he believed them not. And they told him all
the words of Joseph which he had said unto them.
And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent
to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived,

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and Israel said, it is enough Joseph, my son is
yet alive. I will go and see him before I die.
End of Chapter forty five, Chapter forty six. And Israel
took his journey with all that he had, and came
to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his

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father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions
of the night, and said Jacob, Jacob, and he said,
here am I, And he said, I am God, the God,
God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt,
for I will there make of THEE a great nation.
I will go down with THEE into Egypt. And I

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will also surely bring THEE up again. And Joseph shall
put his hand upon thine eyes. And Jacob rose up
from Beersheba. And the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father,
and their little ones, and their wives in the wagons
which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took
their cattle and their goods which they had gotten in

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the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt. Jacob and
all his seed with him, his sons, and his sons,
sons with him, his daughters, and his son's daughters and
all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. And
these are the names of the children of Israel who
came into Egypt. Jacob and his sons Reuben, Jacob's first born,

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and the sons of Reuben Hainok and Palu and Hezron
and Karmi, and the sons of Simeon, Jemuel and Jamin
and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shahul, the son
of a Canaanidish woman, and the sons of Levi, Gershon,
Kohath and Marari, and the sons of Judah er and

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Onan and Sheilah and Perez and Zorah. But er and
Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons
of Perez were Hesrin and Hamul, and the sons of
Isakar Tolah and Puva and Job and Shimron, and the
sons of zebuln Seed and Ellen and jah Lahel. These

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are the sons of Leah, whom she baron to Jacob
in Padanaram with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of
his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. And
the sons of gad Ziphion and Hagi Shuni and esben
Ari and Arodi and Areli, and the sons of asher

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Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Breea and Seri their sister,
and the sons of Berea, Heber and malchis El. These
are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah
his daughter, and these she Barre un to Jacob even
sixteen souls. The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife Joseph and Benjamin,

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and unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manassah and Ephraim, whom Asanath the daughter of potifera priest
of an Barn to him, and the sons of Benjamin
Belah and Beaker and ashbel Gerah and neaman Ahi and
roche Mupim and Houpim and Ard. These are the sons

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of Rachel who were born to Jacob. All the souls
were fourteen, and the sons of Dan Hushim and the
sons of Naphtalai, jaza El and Guni and Jeser and Shalm.
These are the sons of bil Alha, whom Laban gave
unto Rachel his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob.
All the souls were seven. All the souls that came

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with Jacob into Egypt that came out of his loins,
besides Jacob's sons wives, all the souls were threescore and six,
and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him
in Egypt were two souls. All the souls of the
house of Jacob that came into Egypt were threescore and ten.
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph to show

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the way before him unto Goshin. And they came into
the land of Goshen, and Joseph made ready his chariot
and went up to meet Israel, his father to Goshen.
And he presented himself unto him, and fell on his
neck and wept on his neck a good while. And
Israel said, unto Joseph, now let me die, since I

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have seen thy face that thou art yet alive. And
Joseph said, unto his brethren and unto his father's house,
I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say
unto him, my brethren and my father's house, who were
in the land of Canaan, are come unto me. And
the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle,

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and they have brought their flocks and their herds and
all that they have. And it shall come to pass
when Pharaoh it shall call you and shall say what
is your occupation? That ye shall say, thy servants have
been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now,
both we and our fathers, that ye may dwell in
the land of Goshen. For every shepherd is an abomination

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unto the Egyptians. End of chapter forty six, Chapter forty seven.
Then Joseph went in 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. And from among his brethren he took five

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men and presented them unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said, unto
his brethren, what is your occupation? And they said, unto Pharaoh,
thy servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers. And
they said, unto Pharaoh, to sojourn in the land are
we come? For there is no pasture for thy servants flocks,
for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan. Now,

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therefore we pray THEE let thy servants dwell in the
land of Goshin. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, thy
father and thy brethren are come unto thee. The land
of Egypt is before thee and the best of the land.
Make thy father and thy brethren to dwell in the
land of Goshen. Let them dwell, And if thou knowest

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any able men among them, then make them rulers over
my cattle. And Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and
set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blest Pharaoh. And Pharaoh
said unto Jacob, how many are the days of the
years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the
days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred

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and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days
of the years of my life, And they have not
attained unto the days of the years of the life
of my fathers and the days of their pilgrimage. And
Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave
them a possession in the land of Egypt and the

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best of the land in the land of Rameses, as
Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father and his
brethren and all his father's household with bread according to
their families. And there was no bread in all the land,
for the famine was very sore, so that the land
of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason

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of the famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money
that was found in the land of Egypt and in
the land of Canaan for the grain which they bought.
And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. And when
the money was all spent 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

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we die in thy presence? For our money faileth. And
Joseph said, give your cattle, and I will give you
for your cattle if money fail. And they brought their
cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange
for the horses and for the flocks, and for the
herds and for the asses, and he fed them with

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bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
And when that year was ended, they came unto him
the second year and said unto him, we will not
hide from my lord. How that our money is all spent,
and the herds of cattle are my lords. There is
not left in the sight of my Lord but our
bodies and our lands. Wherefore should we die before thine eyes,

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both we and our land, by 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, and that the land be not desolate.
So Joseph bought all the land of year for Pharaoh.
For the Egyptian sold every man his field because the

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famine was sore upon them, and the land became Pharaoh's.
And as for the people, he removed them to the
cities from one end of the border of Egypt, even
to the other end. Thereof only the land of the
priests bought he not, for the priest had a portion
from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them.
Wherefore they sold not their land. Then Joseph said unto

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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, and it shall come
to pass at the end gatherings, that ye shall give
a fifth 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

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little ones. And they said, thou hast saved our lives.
Let us find favor in the sight of my lord,
and we will be Pharaoh's servants. And Joseph made it
a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day,
that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of
the priests alone became not Pharaoh's. In Israel dwelt in

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the land of Egypt and the land of Goshen, and
they gat them possessions therein and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.
So the days of Jacob, the years of his life
were a hundred forty and seven years. And the time
drew near that Israel must die. And he called his
son Joseph and said, unto him, if now I have

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found favor in thy sight. Put I pray THEE thy
hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me.
Bury me. Not I pray THEE in Egypt. But when
I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out
of Egypt and bury me in their burying place. And
he said, I will do as thou hast said. And

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he said, swear unto me, and he swear unto him.
And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. End of
chapter forty seven, Chapter forty eight. And it came to
pass after these things that one said to Joseph, behold,
thy father is sick. And he took with him his

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two sons, Manassa and Ephraim. And one told Jacob and said, behold,
thy son, Joseph cometh unto THEE. And Israel strengthened himself
and sat upon the bed. And Jacob said, unto Joseph,
God Almighty appeared unto me at Lese in the land
of Canaan, and blessed me, and said unto me, behold,

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I will make THEE fruitful and multiply THEE. And I
will make of THEE a company of peoples, and will
give this land to thy seed after THEE for an
everlasting possession. And now thy two sons, who were born
unto THEE in the land of Egypt before I came
unto THEE into Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manassa, even

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as Reuben and Simeon shall be mine. And thy issue
that thou begettest after them shall be thine. They shall
be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
And as for me, when I came from Paddin, Rachel
died by me in the land of Canaan, in the
way when there was still some distance to come unto Ephrath,

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and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath,
the same as Bethlehem. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons and said,
who are these? And Joseph said, unto his father, they
are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And
he said, bring them, I pray THEE unto me, and
I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were

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dim for age, so that he could not see, and
he brought them near unto him, and he kissed them
and embraced them. And Israel said, unto Joseph, I had
not thought to see thy face. And lo, God, hath
let me see thy seed also. And Joseph brought them
out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with

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his face to the earth. And Joseph took them both,
Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and
Manassa in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and
brought them near unto him. And Israel stretched out his
right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was
the younger, and his left hand upon Manassa's head, guiding

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his hands wittingly, for Manassa was the first born. And
he blessed Joseph, and said, the God before whom my
father's Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath
fed me all my life long unto this day, the
Angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, blessed the lads,
and let my name be named on them, and the

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name of my father's Abraham and Isaac, and let them
grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right
hand upon the head of Ephram, it displeased him, and
he held up his father's hand to remove it from
Ephram's head unto Manassa's head, and Joseph said, unto his father,
not so, my father, for this is the first born.

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Put thy right hand upon his head. 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, howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he,
and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. And
he blessed them that day, saying, in THEE will Israel

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bless saying God make THEE as Ephram and as Manassa.
And he set Ephraim before Manassa, and Israel said unto Joseph, behold,
I die, But God will be with you and bring
you again unto the land of your father's. Moreover, I
have given to THEE one portion above thy brethren, which

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I took out of the hand and of the Amorite
with my sword and with my bow. End of Chapter
forty eight. Chapter forty nine. And Jacob called unto his
sons and said, gather yourselves together, that I may tell
you that which shall befall you in the latter days.
Assemble yourselves in here, ye, sons of Jacob, and hearken

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unto Israel your father, Reuben, Thou art my first born,
my might and the beginning of my strength, the pre
eminence of dignity, and the pre eminence of power boiling
over as water. Thou shalt not have the pre eminence.
Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed. Then defilest
thou it he went up to my couch. Simeon and

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Levi are brethren. Weapons of violence are their swords. O,
my soul, come not thou into their council. Unto their assembly.
My glory be not thou united. For in their anger
they slew a man, and in their self will they
hawked an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce,
and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide

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them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. Judah, thee
shall thy brethren praise. Thy hand shall be on the
neck of thine enemies. Thy father sons shall bow down
before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp from the prey.
My son, Thou art gone up, he stooped down, he
couched as a lion, and as a lioness who shall

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rouse him up. The scepter shall not depart from Judah
nor the ruler's staff from between his feet until Shiloh come,
and unto him shall the obedience of the people's be,
binding his foal unto the vine, and his asses colt
unto the choice vine. He hath washed his garments in wine,

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and his vesture in the blood of grapes. His eyes
shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Zebuln shall dwell at the haven of the sea, and
he shall be for a haven of ships, and his
border shall be upon Seidon. Isikar is a strong ass
couching down between the sheep folds. And he saw a

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resting place that it was good, and the land that
it was pleasant, And he bowed his shoulder to bear
and became a servant under task work. Dan shall judge
his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan
shall be a serpent in the way, an adder in
the path that bideth the horse's heels, so that his
rider falleth backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O

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Jehovah Gad. A troop shall press upon him, but he
shall press upon their heel out of asher. His bread
shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Naftali
is a hind let loose. He giveth goodly words. Joseph
is a fruitful bow, a fruitful bow by a fountain.

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His branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely
grieved him, and shot at him and persecuted him. But
his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his
hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty
One of Jacob. From thence is the Shepherd the Stone
of Israel. Even by the God of thy Father, who

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shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless
thee with blessings of heaven, above blessings of the deep
that coucheth beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
The blessings of Thy Father have prevailed above the blessings
of my progenitors, unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.

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They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on
the crown of the head of him that was separate
from his brethren. Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth in
the morning. He shall devour the prey, and at even
he shall divide the spoil. All these are the twelve
tribes of Israel. And this is it that their father

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spake unto them and blessed them, every one according to
his blessing. He blessed them, and he charged them and
said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my peoples.
Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is
in the field of ephrin the Hittite, and the cave
that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before memory,
and the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the

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field from ephrin the Hittite for a possession of a
burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife.
There they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife. And there
I buried Leah the field and the cave that is
therein which was purchased from the children of Heath. And
when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he

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gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up
the ghost and was gathered unto his people. End of
chapter forty nine. Chapter fifty, and Joseph fell upon his
father's faith and wept upon him and kissed him. And
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father.

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And the physicians embalmed Israel, and forty days were fulfilled
for him. For so are fulfilled the days of embalming.
And the Egyptians wept for him three score and ten days.
And when the days of weeping for him were past,
Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, if now
I have found favor in your eyes, speak I pray

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you in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, my father made
me swear, saying, lo I die in my grave which
I have digged for me in the land of Canaan,
there shalt thou bury me. Now, therefore let me go up,
I pray thee and bury my father, and I will
come again. And Pharaoh said, go up and bury thy father,

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according as he made thee swear. 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, and all
the house of Joseph and his brethren, and his father's house,
only their little ones and their flocks and their herds.
They left in the land of Goshen, and there went

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up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was
a very great company. And they came to the threshing
floor of a tad, which is beyond the Jordan, and
there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation.
And he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw
the mourning in the floor of a tad, they said,

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this is a grievous morning to the Egyptians. Wherefore the
name of it was called Abel mis Ra'im, which is
beyond the Jordan. And his sons did unto him according
as he commanded them. For his sons carried him into
the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave
of the field of Macbela, which Abraham bought with the
field for a possession of a burying place of ephr

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and the Hittite before memory, 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,
and when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead.
They said, it may be that Joseph will hate us
and will fully requite us all the evil which we

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did unto him. And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying,
thy father did command before he died, saying, so shall
ye say unto Joseph, forgive I pray THEE now the
transgression of thy brethren and their sin, for that they
did unto thee evil. And now we pray THEE forgive
the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.

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And Joseph wept when they spake unto him, and his
brethren also went and fell down before his face, and
they said, behold, we are thy servants. And Joseph said
unto them, fear not, for am I in the place
of God. And as for you, ye meant evil against me,
But God God meant it for good to bring to pass,

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as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Now therefore fear ye not. I will nourish you and
your little ones. And he comforted them and spake kindly
unto them, and Joseph dwelt in Egypt he and his
father's house, and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years,
and Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation, the

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children also of Machir, the son of Manassah, were born
upon Joseph's knees. And Joseph said, unto his brethren, I die,
but God will surely visit you and bring you up
out of this land, unto the land which he swear
to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. And Joseph took
an oath of the children of Israel, saying God will

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surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones.
From hence. So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten
years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put
in a coffin in Egypt. End of Chapter fifty and
also the end of Genesis American Standard Version