15 And he bleffed Jofeph, before Manaffeh. and faid, God before whom my fathers Abraham and Ifaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The angel which redeemed me from all evil, blefs the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Ifaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 21 ¶ And Ifrael faid unto Jofeph, Behold, I die: but God fhall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover, I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my fword and with my bow. CHAP. XLIX. ND Jacob called unto A his fons, and faid, Ga 17 And when Joseph faw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of E-ther yourselves together, that phraim, it difpleafed him; and I may tell you that which he held up his father's hand, fhall befal you in the last to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manaffeh's head. days. 2 Gather yourselves toge18 And Jofeph faid unto ther, and hear, ye fons of his father, Not fo, my fa- Jacob; and hearken unto Ifther for this is the first-rael your father. born; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refufed, and faid, I know it, my fon, I know it: he alfo fhall become a people, and he also fhall be great: but truly his younger brother fhall be greater than he, and his feed fhall become a multitude of nations. 20 And he bleffed them that day, faying, In thee fhall Ifrael blefs, faying, God make thee as Ephraim, and as Mapaffeh: and he fet Ephraim 3 Reuben, thou art my firft-born, my might and the beginning of my ftrength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power, 4 Unftable as water, thou fhalt not excel, because thou wenteft up to thy father's bed; then defiledft thou it s he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren: inftruments of cruelty are in their habitations: 6 O my foul, come not thou into their fecret; unto their affembly, mine honour, be not thou united; for in their anger they flew a man, and in their felf-will they digged down a wall. and his border shall be unto Zidon. 14 Iffachar is a strong afs, couching down between two burdens: 7 Curfed be their anger, 15 And he faw that reft for it was fierce; and their was good, and the land that wrath, for it was cruel: Iit was pleasant; and bowed will divide them in Jacob, his fhoulder to bear, and beand scatter them in Ifrael. came a fervant unto tribute. 16 Dan fhall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Ifrael. 8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren fhall praife; thy hand fhall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's children fhall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my fon, thou art gone up; he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as old lion who ,an fhall roufe him up? 10 The fceptre fhall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him all the gathering of the people be. II Binding his foal unto the vine, and his afs's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes fhall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13 Zebulun fhall dwell at the haven of the fea; and he fhall be for an haven of fhips: 17 Dan fhall be a ferpent by the way, an adder in the path; that biteth the horseheels, fo that his rider fhall fall backward. 18 I have waited for thy falvation, O Lord. 19 Gad, a troop fhall overcome him: but he fhall overcome at the laft. 20 Out of Afher his bread ball be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 21 Naphtali is a hind let loofe: he giveth goodly words. 22 Jofeph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall. 23 The archers have forely grieved him, and fhot at him, and hated him. 24 But his bow abode in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made ftrong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: from thence is the fhepherd, Shepherd, the ftone of Ifrael: 25 Even by the God of thy father, who fhall help thee, and by the Almighty, who fhall blefs thee with bleffings of heaven above, bleffings of the deep that lieth under, bleffings of the breafts and of the womb: 26 The bleffings of thy father have prevailed above the bleffings of my progenitors, unto the utmost bound of the everlafting hills: they fhall be on the head of Jofeph, and on the crown of the head of him that was feparate from his brethren. 27 Benjamin fhall ravin feffion of a burying-place. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Ifaac 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 fons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghoft, and was gathered unto his people. CHAP. L. Jofeph fell upon his as a wolf; in the morning Afather's face, and wept he fhall devour the prey, and at night he fhall divide the Spoil.. 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Ifrael: and this is it that their father fpake unto them, and bleffed them; every one according to his bleffing he bleffed them. 29¶ And he charged them, and faid 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 pof upon him, and kiffed him. 2 And Jofeph commanded his fervants the phyficians to embalm his father; and the phyficians embalmed Ifrael. 3 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. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Jofeph fpake unto the house of Pharaoh, faying, If now have found grace in your eyes, fpeak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father made me fwear, faying, Lo, I die: in my my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there fhalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6 And Pharaoh faid, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee fwear. 7 ¶ And Jofeph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the fervants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And all the house of Jofeph, and his brethren, and his father's houfe: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Gofhen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horfemen and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threfhing-floor ofAtad,which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very fore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father feven days. II And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, faw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they faid, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his fons did unto him according as he commanded them. 13 For his fons 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 poffeffion of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And Jofeph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 15 And when Joseph's brethren faw that their father was dead, they faid, Jofeph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 16 And they fent a mes fenger unto Jofeph, faying, Thy father did command before he died, faying, 17 So fhall ye fay unto Jofeph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trefpafs of thy brethren, and their fin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trefpafs of the fervants of the God of thy father. And Jofeph wept when they spake unto him. 18 And his brethren alfo went and fell down before his face: and they said, Be hold, hold, we be thy fervants. 20 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 fave much people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and fpake kindly unto them. 22 And Jofeph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's houfe: and Jofeph lived an hundred and ten years. 23 And Jofeph faw Ephraim's children of the third ge 169 A neration: the children alfo of Machir, the fon of Manaf feh, were brought up upon Jofeph's knees. 24 ¶ And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, I die: and God will furely vifit you, and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he fware to Abraham, to Ifaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Jofeph took an oath of the children of Ifrael, faying, God will furely vifit you, and ye fhall carry up my bones from hence, 26 So Jofeph died, being an hundred and ten years old and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. From the Book of EXODUS. CHAP. XIX. ND it came to pafs on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders, and lightnings, and thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; fo that all the people that was in the camp trembled. a 17 And Mofes brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, becaufe the Lord defcended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof afcended as the fmoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet founded long, and waxed louder and louder, Mofes fpake, and God anfwered him by a voice. 20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Mofes up to M 8 the |