^34:1Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country. ^34:2And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her. ^34:3Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her. ^34:4And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife. ^34:5Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came. ^34:6Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob. ^34:7Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done. ^34:8But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife? ^34:9And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. ^34:10Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there. ^34:11And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you. ^34:12However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife. ^34:13But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister. ^34:14And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us: ^34:15But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision; ^34:16Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people. ^34:17But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go. ^34:18And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem. ^34:19And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house. ^34:20Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town, ^34:21It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters. ^34:22But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done. ^34:23Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us. ^34:24Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision. ^34:25But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death. ^34:26And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away. ^34:27And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister; ^34:28They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields, ^34:29And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste. ^34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people. ^34:31But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

^35:1And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau. ^35:2Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing: ^35:3And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went. ^35:4Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem. ^35:5So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob. ^35:6And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people. ^35:7And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother. ^35:8And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth. ^35:9Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said, ^35:10Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel. ^35:11And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring; ^35:12And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land. ^35:13Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him. ^35:14And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil. ^35:15And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el. ^35:16So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time. ^35:17And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son. ^35:18And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin. ^35:19So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem). ^35:20And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day. ^35:21And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock. ^35:22Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it. ^35:23Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; ^35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; ^35:25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali; ^35:26The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram. ^35:27And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living. ^35:28And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old. ^35:29Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

^36:1Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom. ^36:2Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, ^36:3And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. ^36:4Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel; ^36:5Oholibamah was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, whose birth took place in the land of Canaan. ^36:6Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob. ^36:7For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle. ^36:8So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom). ^36:9And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir: ^36:10These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath. ^36:11The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. ^36:12And Eliphaz, the son of Esau, had connection with a woman named Timna, who gave birth to Amalek: all these were the children of Esau's wife Adah. ^36:13And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: they were the children of Esau's wife Basemath. ^36:14And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon: she was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. ^36:15These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, ^36:16Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah. ^36:17And these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah: these were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom, the children of Esau's wife Basemath. ^36:18And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah: these were the chiefs who came from Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah. ^36:19These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs. ^36:20These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, ^36:21Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom. ^36:22The children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; Lotan's sister was Timna. ^36:23And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. ^36:24And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father Zibeon. ^36:25And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah his daughter. ^36:26These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. ^36:27These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. ^36:28These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ^36:29These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, ^36:30Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Such were the Horite chiefs in their order in the land of Seir. ^36:31And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel. ^36:32Bela, son of Beor, was king in Edom, and the name of his chief town was Dinhabah. ^36:33At his death, Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place. ^36:34And at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the Temanites, became king in his place. ^36:35And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith. ^36:36And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king. ^36:37And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his place. ^36:38And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor, became king. ^36:39And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his place; his chief town was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel; she was the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. ^36:40These are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of their families and their places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, ^36:41Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, ^36:42Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, ^36:43Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

^37:1Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan. ^37:2These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them. ^37:3Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him. ^37:4And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him. ^37:5Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever. ^37:6And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream. ^37:7We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine. ^37:8And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever. ^37:9Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me. ^37:10And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you? ^37:11And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind. ^37:12Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem. ^37:13And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I. ^37:14And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. ^37:15And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for? ^37:16And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock. ^37:17And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan. ^37:18But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death; ^37:19Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer. ^37:20Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams. ^37:21But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life. ^37:22Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again. ^37:23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on; ^37:24And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it. ^37:25Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels. ^37:26And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood? ^37:27Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him. ^37:28And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt. ^37:29Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief, ^37:30He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do? ^37:31Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death, ^37:32And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not? ^37:33And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end. ^37:34Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day. ^37:35And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him. ^37:36And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.

^38:1Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah. ^38:2And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife. ^38:3And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er. ^38:4And again she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Onan. ^38:5Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place. ^38:6And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar. ^38:7Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death. ^38:8Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother. ^38:9But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother. ^38:10And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother. ^38:11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house. ^38:12And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him. ^38:13And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting, ^38:14She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife. ^38:15When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered. ^38:16And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price? ^38:17And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it? ^38:18And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him. ^38:19Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing. ^38:20Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there. ^38:21And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there. ^38:22So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there. ^38:23And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman. ^38:24Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned. ^38:25And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick? ^38:26Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her. ^38:27And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body. ^38:28And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first. ^38:29But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez. ^38:30And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

^39:1Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. ^39:2And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian. ^39:3And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well. ^39:4And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had. ^39:5And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field. ^39:6And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face. ^39:7And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover. ^39:8But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control; ^39:9So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God? ^39:10And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her. ^39:11Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside. ^39:12And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away. ^39:13And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat, ^39:14She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry; ^39:15And hearing it he went running out without his coat. ^39:16And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back. ^39:17Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me; ^39:18And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat. ^39:19And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry. ^39:20And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house. ^39:21But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend. ^39:22And the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done there. ^39:23And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.

^40:1Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders; ^40:2And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker; ^40:3And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up. ^40:4And the captain put them in Joseph's care, and he did what was needed for them; and they were kept in prison for some time. ^40:5And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense. ^40:6And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad. ^40:7And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you looking so sad? ^40:8Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream? ^40:9Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me; ^40:10And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting. ^40:11And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and crushing them into Pharaoh's cup, gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. ^40:12Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days; ^40:13After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant. ^40:14But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison: ^40:15For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison. ^40:16Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head; ^40:17And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head. ^40:18Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days; ^40:19After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds. ^40:20Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others. ^40:21And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. ^40:22But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said. ^40:23But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him.

^41:1Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile; ^41:2And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass. ^41:3And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows. ^41:4And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep. ^41:5But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem. ^41:6And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind. ^41:7And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream. ^41:8And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it. ^41:9Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me now; ^41:10Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and had put me in prison in the house of the captain of the army, together with the chief bread-maker; ^41:11And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense. ^41:12And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them. ^41:13And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging. ^41:14Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh. ^41:15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you. ^41:16Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh. ^41:17Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile: ^41:18And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass; ^41:19Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt; ^41:20And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first; ^41:21And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep. ^41:22And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem: ^41:23And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them: ^41:24And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it. ^41:25Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do. ^41:26The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense. ^41:27The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food. ^41:28As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do. ^41:29Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt; ^41:30And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years; ^41:31And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter. ^41:32And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about. ^41:33And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt. ^41:34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years. ^41:35And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it. ^41:36And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food. ^41:37And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants. ^41:38Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? ^41:39And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you: ^41:40You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you. ^41:41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt. ^41:42Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck; ^41:43And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. ^41:44Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt. ^41:45And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt. ^41:46Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. ^41:47Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses. ^41:48And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town. ^41:49So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured. ^41:50And before the time of need, Joseph had two sons, to whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, gave birth. ^41:51And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house. ^41:52And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow. ^41:53And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end. ^41:54Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread. ^41:55And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it. ^41:56And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt. ^41:57And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

^42:1Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another? ^42:2And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours. ^42:3So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt. ^42:4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him. ^42:5And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan. ^42:6Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth. ^42:7And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food. ^42:8Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was. ^42:9Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is. ^42:10And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food. ^42:11We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose. ^42:12And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is. ^42:13Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead. ^42:14And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose; ^42:15But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here. ^42:16Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret. ^42:17So he put them in prison for three days. ^42:18And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man: ^42:19If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families; ^42:20And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do. ^42:21And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us. ^42:22And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood. ^42:23They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language. ^42:24And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes. ^42:25Then Joseph gave orders for their bags to be made full of grain, and for every man's money to be put back into his bag, and for food to be given them for the journey: which was done. ^42:26Then they put the bags of grain on their asses and went away. ^42:27Now at their night's resting-place one of them, opening his bag to give his ass some food, saw his money in the mouth of the bag. ^42:28And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us? ^42:29So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying, ^42:30The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose. ^42:31And we said to him, We are true men, we have no evil designs; ^42:32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan. ^42:33And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families; ^42:34And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade in the land. ^42:35And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear. ^42:36And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me. ^42:37And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you. ^42:38And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

^43:1Now the land was in bitter need of food. ^43:2And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food. ^43:3And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother. ^43:4If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food: ^43:5But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you. ^43:6And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother? ^43:7And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother? ^43:8Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction. ^43:9Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever. ^43:10Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now. ^43:11Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and nuts: ^43:12And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error; ^43:13And take your brother and go back to the man: ^43:14And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it. ^43:15So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph. ^43:16And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the middle of the day. ^43:17And the servant did as Joseph said, and took the men into Joseph's house. ^43:18Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use. ^43:19So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house, ^43:20And said, O my lord, we only came down the first time to get food; ^43:21And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back; ^43:22As well as more money, with which to get food: we have no idea who put our money in our bags. ^43:23Then the servant said, Peace be with you: have no fear: your God, even the God of your father, has put wealth in your bags for you: I had your money. Then he let Simeon come out to them. ^43:24And the servant took them into Joseph's house, and gave them water for washing their feet; and he gave their asses food. ^43:25And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there. ^43:26And when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which they had for him, and went down to the earth before him. ^43:27And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living? ^43:28And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him. ^43:29Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son. ^43:30Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping. ^43:31Then, after washing his face, he came out, and controlling his feelings said, Put food before us. ^43:32And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean. ^43:33And they were all given their seats before him in order of birth, from the oldest to the youngest: so that they were looking at one another in wonder. ^43:34And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.

^44:1Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag; ^44:2And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said. ^44:3And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away. ^44:4And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good? ^44:5Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil. ^44:6So he overtook them and said these words to them. ^44:7And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing: ^44:8See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house? ^44:9If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants. ^44:10And he said, Let it be as you say: he in whose bag it is seen will become my servant; and you will not be responsible. ^44:11Then every man quickly got his bag down and undid it. ^44:12And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag. ^44:13Then in bitter grief they put the bags on the asses again and went back to the town. ^44:14So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and they went down on their faces before him. ^44:15And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret? ^44:16And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen. ^44:17Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace. ^44:18Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us. ^44:19My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother? ^44:20And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father. ^44:21And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him. ^44:22And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death. ^44:23But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again. ^44:24And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words. ^44:25And our father said, Go again and get us a little food. ^44:26And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us. ^44:27And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons; ^44:28The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him, ^44:29If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld. ^44:30If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one, ^44:31When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld. ^44:32For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever. ^44:33So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers. ^44:34For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

^45:1Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was. ^45:2And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house. ^45:3And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him. ^45:4Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt. ^45:5Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives. ^45:6For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain. ^45:7God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation. ^45:8So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. ^45:9Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away: ^45:10The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have: ^45:11And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come. ^45:12Now truly, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which says these things to you. ^45:13Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father. ^45:14Then, weeping, he took Benjamin in his arms, and Benjamin himself was weeping on Joseph's neck. ^45:15Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to him. ^45:16And news of these things went through Pharaoh's house, and it was said that Joseph's brothers were come; and it seemed good to Pharaoh and his servants. ^45:17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan; ^45:18And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food. ^45:19And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back. ^45:20And take no thought for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours. ^45:21And the children of Israel did as he said; and Joseph gave them carts as had been ordered by Pharaoh, and food for their journey. ^45:22To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing. ^45:23And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey. ^45:24And he sent his brothers on their way, and said to them, See that you have no argument on the road. ^45:25So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob. ^45:26And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it. ^45:27And they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said to them; and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent for them, his spirit came back to him: ^45:28And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.

^46:1And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac. ^46:2And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. ^46:3And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there: ^46:4I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes. ^46:5Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them. ^46:6And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed: ^46:7His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt. ^46:8And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son; ^46:9And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi; ^46:10And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan; ^46:11And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; ^46:12And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ^46:13And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron; ^46:14And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel; ^46:15All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number. ^46:16And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli; ^46:17And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ^46:18These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her. ^46:19The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ^46:20And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. ^46:21And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. ^46:22All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons. ^46:23And the son of Dan was Hushim. ^46:24And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. ^46:25These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons. ^46:26All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons. ^46:27And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt. ^46:28Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen. ^46:29And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping. ^46:30And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death. ^46:31And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me; ^46:32And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have. ^46:33Now when Pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your business? ^46:34You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.

^47:1Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen. ^47:2And he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh. ^47:3And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us. ^47:4And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen. ^47:5And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle. ^47:6And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place. ^47:7Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing. ^47:8And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you? ^47:9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers. ^47:10And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him. ^47:11And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders. ^47:12And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families. ^47:13Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food. ^47:14And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house. ^47:15And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money. ^47:16And Joseph said, Give me your cattle; I will give you grain in exchange for your cattle if your money is all gone. ^47:17So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle. ^47:18And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land; ^47:19Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste. ^47:20So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's. ^47:21And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other. ^47:22Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land. ^47:23Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields. ^47:24And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones. ^47:25And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. ^47:26Then Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth part; only the land of the priests did not become his. ^47:27And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth. ^47:28And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven. ^47:29And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt; ^47:30But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so. ^47:31And he said, Take an oath to me; and he took an oath to him: and Israel gave worship on the bed's head.

^48:1Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim. ^48:2And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed. ^48:3And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing, ^48:4And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever. ^48:5And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are. ^48:6And any other offspring which you have after them, will be yours, and will be named after their brothers in their heritage. ^48:7And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. ^48:8Then Israel, looking at Joseph's sons, said, Who are these? ^48:9And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing. ^48:10Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms. ^48:11And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children. ^48:12Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth. ^48:13Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him. ^48:14And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older. ^48:15And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day, ^48:16The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth. ^48:17Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh. ^48:18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head. ^48:19But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations. ^48:20So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh. ^48:21Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers. ^48:22And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.

^49:1And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times. ^49:2Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father. ^49:3Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power: ^49:4But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. ^49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. ^49:6Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded. ^49:7A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel. ^49:8To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you. ^49:9Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken? ^49:10The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule. ^49:11Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: ^49:12His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk. ^49:13The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon. ^49:14Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: ^49:15And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant. ^49:16Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. ^49:17May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall. ^49:18I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord. ^49:19Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight. ^49:20Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings. ^49:21Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones. ^49:22Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain; ^49:23He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: ^49:24But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: ^49:25Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body: ^49:26Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers. ^49:27Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken. ^49:28These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing. ^49:29And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ^49:30In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place. ^49:31There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest. ^49:32In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth. ^49:33And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

^50:1And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him. ^50:2And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so. ^50:3And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days. ^50:4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh: ^50:5My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again. ^50:6And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him. ^50:7So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt, ^50:8And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen. ^50:9And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. ^50:10And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days. ^50:11And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan. ^50:12So his sons did as he had given them orders to do: ^50:13For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre. ^50:14And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt. ^50:15Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him. ^50:16So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying, ^50:17You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping. ^50:18Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants. ^50:19And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God? ^50:20As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today. ^50:21So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words. ^50:22Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten. ^50:23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees. ^50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. ^50:25Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here. ^50:26So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

Exodus

^1:1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob. ^1:2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ^1:3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; ^1:4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ^1:5All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them. ^1:6Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation. ^1:7And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them. ^1:8Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph. ^1:9And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are: ^1:10Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land. ^1:11So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses. ^1:12But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians. ^1:13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: ^1:14And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions. ^1:15And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah), ^1:16When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living. ^1:17But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living. ^1:18And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living? ^1:19And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them. ^1:20And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong. ^1:21And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families. ^1:22And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

^2:1Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi. ^2:2And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months. ^2:3And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile. ^2:4And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him. ^2:5Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it. ^2:6And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. ^2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and get you one of the Hebrew women to give him the breast? ^2:8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and got the child's mother. ^2:9And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take the child away and give it milk for me, and I will give you payment. And the woman took the child and gave it milk at her breast. ^2:10And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water. ^2:11Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people. ^2:12And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand. ^2:13And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother? ^2:14And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light. ^2:15Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring. ^2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock. ^2:17And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them. ^2:18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today? ^2:19And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock. ^2:20And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal. ^2:21And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. ^2:22And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land. ^2:23Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God. ^2:24And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind. ^2:25And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he gave them the knowledge of himself.