Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers. 044:034 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?— lest I see the evil that will come on my father." 045:001 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 045:002 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 045:003 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence. 045:004 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 045:005 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 045:006 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 045:007 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 045:008 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 045:009 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait. 045:010 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 045:011 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."' 045:012 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. 045:013 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here." 045:014 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. 045:015 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him. 045:016 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 045:017 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. 045:018 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.' 045:019 Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 045:020 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours." 045:021 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 045:022 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. 045:023 To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. 045:024 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way." 045:025 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. 045:026 They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them. 045:027 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. 045:028 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die." 046:001 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. 046:002 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am." 046:003 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. 046:004 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes." 046:005 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 046:006 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his seed with him, 046:007 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt. 046:008 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 046:009 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 046:010 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 046:011 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 046:012 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 046:013 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. 046:014 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 046:015 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. 046:016 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 046:017 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 046:018 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. 046:019 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 046:020 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. 046:021 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 046:022 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 046:023 The son of Dan: Hushim. 046:024 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 046:025 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. 046:026 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six. 046:027 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy. 046:028 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 046:029 Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 046:030 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive." 046:031 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 046:032 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.' 046:033 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?' 046:034 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." 047:001 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen." 047:002 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. 047:003 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers." 047:004 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." 047:005 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. 047:006 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock." 047:007 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 047:008 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?" 047:009 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." 047:010 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 047:011 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, 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. 047:012 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 047:013 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 047:014 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. 047:015 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails." 047:016 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone." 047:017 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. 047:018 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. 047:019 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate." 047:020 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's. 047:021 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. 047:022 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land. 047:023 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 047:024 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones." 047:025 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants." 047:026 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's. 047:027 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 047:028 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. 047:029 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt, 047:030 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said." 047:031 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head. 048:001 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 048:002 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 048:003 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 048:004 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.' 048:005 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. 048:006 Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 048:007 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)." 048:008 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?" 048:009 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them." 048:010 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 048:011 Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also." 048:012 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 048:013 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, and brought them near to him. 048:014 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 048:015 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, 048:016 the angel who has 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. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." 048:017 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 048:018 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head." 048:019 His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations." 048:020 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh. 048:021 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. 048:022 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." 049:001 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. 049:002 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father. 049:003 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. 049:004 Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch. 049:005 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. 049:006 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung oxen. 049:007 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. 049:008 "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you. 049:009 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? 049:010 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be. 049:011 Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 049:012 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk. 049:013 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. 049:014 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. 049:015 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor. 049:016 "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 049:017 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward. 049:018 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh. 049:019 "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel. 049:020 "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties. 049:021 "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. 049:022 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall. 049:023 The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him: 049:024 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), 049:025 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 049:026 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. 049:027 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil." 049:028 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing. 049:029 He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 049:030 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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. 049:031 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: 049:032 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth." 049:033 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people. 050:001 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him. 050:002 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 050:003 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days. 050:004 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 050:005 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'" 050:006 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear." 050:007 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, 050:008 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 050:009 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. 050:010 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. 050:011 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 050:012 His sons did to him just as he commanded them, 050:013 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 burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 050:014 Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 050:015 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him." 050:016 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying, 050:017 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 050:018 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." 050:019 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 050:020 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. 050:021 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. 050:022 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years. 050:023 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees. 050:024 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." 050:025 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." 050:026 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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