Jacob hardly persuaded to

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jack, to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, be hold, it was in his sack's mouth.

28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored: and, lo, it is exen in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?

99 And they came unto Jacob their father, unto the land of Canaan,and told him all that befel unto them, saying, 30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies :

send Benjamin into Egypt 4 7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we toid him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say,Bring your brother down? 8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

9 I will be surety for him: of my hand shalt thou require him: If I bring bim not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for

ever:

32 We be twelve brethren, sons of 10 For except we had lingered, our father: one is not, and the young-surely now we had returned this seest is this day with our father in the cond time. land of Canaan.

11 And their father Israel said unto 33 And the man, the lord of the them, If it must be so now, do this: country, said unto us, Hereby shall I take of the best fruits in the land in know that ye are true men; leave one your vessels, and carry down the man of your brethren here with me, and a present, a little balm, and a little take food for the famine of your house-honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and holds, and be gone almonds;

34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

35 And it came to pass, as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him anto my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befal him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: 5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your band; peradventure it was an over-sight:

13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:

14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the inan, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my chil dren, I am bereaved.

15¶ And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of bis house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.

18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,

20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: 21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's mo ney was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it again in our band.

22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cau not tell who put our n.opey in our sacks.

Foseph entertalneth his brethren. CHAP. XLIV. The cup in Benjamin's sacks

And

23 And he said, Peace be to you, drinketh, and whereby indeed he di fear not your God, and the God of vineth? Ye have done evil in so doing. your father, hath given you treasure in 6 And he overtook them, and be your sacks: I had your money. spake unto them these same words. he brought Simeon out unto them. 24 And the man brought the inen into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.

7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing.

Behold, the money which we 25 And they made ready the present found in our sacks' mouths we brought against Joseph came at noon: for they again unto thee out of the land of CaLeard that they should eat bread there.naap: how then should we steal out of 26 And when Joseph came home, thy lord's house silver or gold? they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. 27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well? the old man of whom ye spake, is he yet alive?

29 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive and they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.

9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

12 And he searched, and began at the 29 Ana he lifted up his eyes, and eldesc, and left at the youngest and saw his brother Benjamin, his mo-the cup was found in Benjamin's sack, ther's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

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

14 And Judah and his brethren came 30 And Joseph made haste; for his to Joseph's house; for he was yet bowels did yearn upon his brother: and there; and they fell before him on the he sought where to weep; and he en-ground. tered into his chamber, and wept there. 31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

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

32 And they set on for him by him- 16 And Judah said, What shall we se, and for them by themselves, and say unto my lord? what shall we for the Egyptians which did eat with speak or how shall we clear outLim by themselves: because the Egyp-selves? God hath found out the initans might not eat bread with the quity of thy servants: behold, we are Hebrews for that is an abomination my lord's servants, both we, and he unto the Egyptians. also with whom the cup is found.

33 And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth and the men marvelled one at enother.

34 And he took and sent messes unto thein from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drunk, and were Derry with him.

CHAP. XLIV.

ND commanded the steward of

17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the inan 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 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh, 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.

19 My lord asked his servants, say

A his house, made till ste uren'sing, Have vea father, or a brother?

sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth:

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 loveti

2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, And his corn money. And he did ac-him. cording to the word that Joseph had spoken.

And their asses.

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

3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for af he should leave his father, his father would die.

4 And when they were gone out of he city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

It not this if in which my iord

23 And thou saidst unto thy ser van's, Except your youngest brother come down with you, you shall see my

face no more.

24 And it came to pass, when we

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Joseph maketh himself known. came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my ford. 25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

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

27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare

me two sons:

28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befal him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the

grave.

30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be 1.ot with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

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

32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If 1 bring him not unto thee, then i shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? Jest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

CHAP. XLV. THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every inan to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph: doth my father yet live? and bis brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

4 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.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send ine before you to preserve life.

6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

He sendeth for his father. of all his house, and a ruler through, out 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 Goshen, 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 :

7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deli

verance.

8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord

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, besold, your eyes 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; and ye sha!! haste, and bring down my father huber.

14 And he tell upon his brother Benjamm'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.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, Tuis do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan:

18 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.

19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; Take you waggons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

20 Also regard nor 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 waggons, according to the commandinent of Pharach, and gave them provision for the way

22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Beejamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of rainient.

23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asser 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,

26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had aid unto them: and when he saw the waggens

9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carm.i. 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, 10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and unto his father's house, I will go and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Ca-him, My brethren, and my father's Daanitish woman. house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

II And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 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 Pha-1 rez were Hezron and Hamul.

13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

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

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 daugh ter: and these she bare unto Jacob, coin sixteen souls.

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

20 And unto Joseph, in the land of EPS were born Manasseh and

Joseph maketh himself known. GENESIS.

came up unto thy servant my father,, of all his house, and a ruler through, we told him the words of my lord.

THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every anan to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph: doth my father yet live? and bis brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

4 And Joseph said unto bis 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.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye soid me bither; for God did send ine before you to preserve life.

6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deli

8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord