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SO THE WHOLE AGE OF JACOB WAS AN HUNDRED FORTY AND SEVEN YEARS.
AND THE TIME DREW NIGH THAT ISRAEL MUST DIE AND HE CALLED HIS SON JOSEPH,
AND SAID UNTO HIM,
IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT,
PUT, I PRAY THEE, THY HAND UNDER MY THIGH,
AND DEAL KINDLY AND TRULY WITH ME;
BURY ME NOT, I PRAY THEE, IN EGYPT
BUT I WILL LIE WITH MY FATHERS, AND 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 HE SAID,
SWEAR UNTO ME.
AND HE SWARE UNTO HIM.
AND ISRAEL BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED'S HEAD.
AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS THAT ONE TOLD JOSEPH,
BEHOLD, THY FATHER IS SICK: AND HE TOOK WITH HIM HIS TWO SONS,
MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM.
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 LUZ IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND BLESSED ME.
AND HE 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.
AND THY TWO SONS, EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH,
WHICH WERE BORN UNTO THEE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT BEFORE I CAME TO THEE IN EGYPT, ARE MINE;
AS REUBEN AND SIMEON THEY SHALL BE MINE.
T AFTER THEM,
SHALL BE THINE, AND SHALL BE CALLED AFTER THE NAME OF THE
WAY,
WHEN YET THERE WAS BUT A LITTLE WAY TO COME UNTO EPHRATH:
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 IN THIS PLACE.
AND HE SAID,
BRING THEM I PRAY THEE, UNTO ME, AND I WILL BLESS THEM.
NOW THE EYES OF ISRAEL WERE DIM FOR AGE, SO THAT HE COULD NOT SEE.
ACED THEM.
AND ISRAEL SAID UNTO JOSEPH, I HAD NOT THOUGHT TO SEE THY FACE:
AND LO, GOD HATH SHEWED ME ALSO THY SEED.
AND JOSEPH BROUGHT THEM OUT FROM BETWEEN HIS KNEES,
AND HE BOWED HIMSELF WITH HIS FACE TO THE EARTH.
AND JOSEPH BROUGHT THEM OUT FROM BETWEEN HIS KNEES,
AND HE BOWED HIMSELF WITH HIS FACE TO THE EARTH.
AND JOSEPH TOOK THEM BOTH, EPHRAIM IN HIS RIGHT HAND TOWARD ISRAEL'S LEFT HAND,
AND MANASSEH IN HIS LEFT HAND TOWARD ISRAEL'S RIGHT HAND,
HIM.
AND ISRAEL STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND,
AND LAID IT UPON EPHRAIM'S HEAD, WHO WAS THE YOUNGER,
AND HIS LEFT HAND UPON MANASSEH'S HEAD, GUIDING HIS HANDS WITTINGLY;
FOR MANASSEH WAS THE FIRSTBORN.
AND HE BLESSED JOSEPH, AND SAID,
GOD, BEFORE WHOM MY FATHERS ABRAHAM AND ISAAC DID WALK,
LIFE
THE ANGEL WHICH REDEEMED ME FROM ALL EVIL, BLESS THE LADS;
AND LET MY NAME BE NAMED ON THEM, AND THE NAME OF MY FATHERS ABRAHAM AND ISAAC;
AND LET THEM GROW INTO A MULTITUDE IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH.
AND WHEN JOSEPH SAW THAT HIS FATHER LAID HIS RIGHT HAND UPON THE HEAD OF EPHRAIM,
IT DISPLEASED HIM:
AND HE HELD UP HIS FATHER'S HAND, TO REMOVE IT FROM EPHRAIM'S HEAD UNTO MANSSEH'S HEAD.
AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO HIS FATHER,
NOT SO MY FATHER:
FOR THIS IS THE FIRSTBORN; THY RIGHT HAND IS 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:
BUT TRULY 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 SHALL ISRAEL BLESS, SAYING,
GOD MAKE THEE AS EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH:
AND HE SET EPHRAIM BEFORE MANASSEH.
BUT GOD SHALL BE WITH YOU,
AND BRING YOU AGAIN UNTO THE LAND OF YOUR FATHERS.
MOREOVER I HAVE GIVEN TO THEE ONE PORTION ABOVE THY BRETHREN,
REUBEN, THOU ART MY FIRSTBORN, MY MIGHT, AND THE BEGINNING OF MY STRENGTH,
THE EXCELLENCY OF DIGNITY, AND THE EXCELLENCY OF POWER:
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.
SIMEON AND LEVI ARE BRETHREN; INSTRUMENTS OF CRUELTY ARE IN THEIR HABITATIONS.
O MY SOUL, COME NOT THOU INTO THEIR SECRET;
T THOU UNITED:
FOR IN THEIR ANGER THEY SLEW A MAN,
AND IN THEIR SELFWILL THEY DIGGED DOWN A WALL.
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.
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.
JUDAH IS A LION'S WHELP; FROM THE PREY, MY SON, THOU ART GONE UP:
HE STOOPED DOWN, HE COUCHED AS A LION, AND AS AN OLD LION; WHO SHALL ROUSE HIM UP?
THE SCEPTRE SHALL NOT DEPART FROM JUDAH,
NOR A LAWGIVER FROM BETWEEN HIS FEET, UNTIL SHILOH COME;
AND UNTO HIM SHALL THE GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE BE.
BINDING HIS FOAL UNTO THE VINE, AND HIS ***'S COLT UNTO THE CHOICE VINE;;
HE WASHED HIS GARMENTS WINE, AND HIS CLOTHES IN THE BLOOD OF GRAPES
HIS EYES SHALL BE RED WITH WINE, AND HIS TEETH WHITE WITH MILK.
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.
ISSACHAR IS A STRONG *** COUCHING DOWN BETWEEN TWO BURDENS;
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.
DAN SHALL DGE HIS PEOPLE, AS ONE OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
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.
I HAVE WAITED FOR THY SALVATION O LORD.
GAD, A TROOP SHALL OVERCOME HIM BUT HE SHALL OVERCOME AT THE LAST.
OUT OF ASHER HIS BREAD SHALL BE FAT, AND HE SHALL YIELD ROYAL DAINTIES.
NAPHTALI IS A HIND LET LOOSE; HE GIVETH GOODLY WORDS.
JOSEPH IS A FRUITFUL BOUGHT, EVEN A FRUITFUL BOUGH BY A WELL;
WHOSE BRANCHES RUN OVER THE WALL:
THE ARCHERS HAVE SORELY GRIEVED ATED
BUT HIS BOW ABODE IN STRENGTH, AND THE ARMS OF HIS HANDS WERE MADE STRONG BY THE HANDS OF THE MIGHTY GOD OF JACOB;
FROM THENCE IS THE SHEPHERD, THE STONE OF ISRAEL:
EVEN BY THE GOD OF THY FATHER, WHO SHALL HELP THEE;
AND BY THE ALMIGHTY, WHO SHALL BLESS THEE WITH BLESSINGS OF HEAVEN ABOVE,
BLESSINGS OF THE DEEP THAT LIETH UNDER, BLESSINGS OF THE BREAST AND OF THE WOMB:
THE BLESSINGS OF THY FATHER HAVE PREVAILED ABOVTHE BLESSINGS OF MY PROGENITORS UNTO THE UTMOST BOUND OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS:
THEY SHALL BE ON THE HEAD OF JOSEPH, AND ON THE CROWN OF THE HEAD OF HIM THAT WAS SEPARATE FROM HIS BRETHREN.
BENJAMIN SHALL RAVEN AS A WOLF; IN THE MORNING HE SHALL DEVOUR THE PREY, AND AT NIGHT HE SHALL DIVIDE THE SPOIL.
AND THIS IS IT THAT THEIR FATHER SPAKE UNTO THEM, AND BLESSED THEM;
ALL THESE ARE THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL;
AND THIS IS IT THAT THEIR FATHER SPAKE UNTO THEM, AND BLESSED THEM;
ING HE BLESSED THEM.
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I AM TO BE GATHERED UNTO MY PEOPLE: BURY ME WITH MY GATHERS IN THE CAVE THAT IS IN THE FIELD OF EPHRON THE HITTITE,
IN THE CAVE THAT IS IN THE FIELD OF MACHPELAH, WHICH IS BEFORE MAMRE, IN THE LAND OF CANAAN,
WHICH ABRAHAM BOUGHT WITH THE FIELD OF EPHRON THE HITTITE FOR A POSSESSION OF A BURYINGPLACE.
THERE THEY BURIED ABRAHAM AND SARAH HIS WIFE;
THERE THEY BURIED ISAAC AND REBEKAH HIS WIFE; AND THERE I BURIED LEAH.
THE PURCHASE OF THE FIELD AND OF THE CAVE THAT IS THEREIN WAS FROM THE CHILDREN OF HETH.
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.
AND JOSEPH FELL UPON HIS FATHER'S FACE, AND WEPT UPON HIM, AND KISSED HIM.
AND JOSEPH COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS THE PHYSICIANS TO EMBALM HIS FATHER:;
AND THE PHYSICIANS EMBALMED ISRAEL.
AND FORTY DAYS WERE FULFILLED FOR HIM
FOR SO ARE FULFILLED THE DAYS OF THOSE WHICH ARE EMBALMED:
AND THE EGYPTIANS MOURNED FOR HIM THREESCORE AND TEN DAYS.
AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HIS MOURNING WERE PAST, JOSEPH SPAKE UNTO THE HOUSE OF PHARAOH, SAYING,
IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN YOUR EYES, SPEAK, I PRAY YOU, IN THE EARS OF PHARAOH, SAYG,
AND WITH HIM WENT UP ALL THE SERVANTS OF PHARAOH,
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, ACCORDING AS HE MAKE THEE SWEAR.
AND JOSEPH WENT UP TO BURY HIS RATHER:
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 UP WITH HIM BOTH CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN; AND IT WAS A VERY GREAT COMPANY.
AND THEY CAME TO THE THRESHING FLOOR OF ATAD, WHICH IS BEYOND JORDAN,
THIS IS A GRIEVOUS MOURNING TO THE EGYPTIANS
WHEREFORE THE NAME OF IT WAS CALLED ABEL-MIZRAIM, WHICH IS BEYOND JORDAN.
FOR HIS SONS CARRIED HIM INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN,
AND BURIED HIM IN THE CAVE OF THE FIELD OF MACHPELAH,
WHICH ABRAHAM BOUGHT WITH THE FIELD FOR A POSSESSION OF A BURYINGPLACE OF EPHRON THE HITTITE, BEFORE MAMRE.
AND WHEN JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD,
THEY SAID,
JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US,
AND WILL CERTAINLY REQUITE US ALL THE EVIL WHICH WE DID UNTO HIM.
AND THEY SENT A MESSENGER UNTO JOSEPH, SAYING,
THY FATHER DID COMMAND BEFORE HE DIED SAYING,
SO SHALL YE SAY UNTO JOSEPH,
FORGIVE, I PRAY THEE NOW, THE TRESPASS OF THY BRETHREN, AND
FOR THEY DID UNTO THEE EVIL
AND NOW WE PRAY THEE, FORGIVE THE TRESPASS OF THE SERVANTS OF THE GOD OF THY FATHER.
AND JOSEPH WEPT WHEN THEY SPAKE UNTO HIM.
AND HIS BRETHREN ALSO WENT AND FELL DOWN BEFORE HIS FACE;
AND THEY SAID, BEHOLD, WE BE THY SERVANTS.
AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT FOR AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?
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
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 SAW EPHRAIM'S CHILDREN OF THE THIRD GENERATION:
AND JOSEPH SAID UNTO HIS BRETHREN, I DIE:
AND GOD WILL SURELY VISIT YOU, AND BRING YOU OUT OF THIS LAND
O B.
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.
SO JOSEPH DIED, BEING AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD: