043:030 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother;
and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room,
and wept there.
043:031 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself,
and said, "Serve the meal."
043:032 They served him by himself, and them by themselves,
and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves,
because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews,
for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
043:033 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,
and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled
one with another.
043:034 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's
portion was five times as much as any of theirs.
They drank, and were merry with him.
044:001 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's
sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every
man's money in his sack's mouth.
044:002 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest,
with his grain money." He did according to the word that
Joseph had spoken.
044:003 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away,
they and their donkeys.
044:004 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off,
Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men.
When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded
evil for good?
044:005 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which
he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
044:006 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
044:007 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these?
Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
044:008 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought
again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we
steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
044:009 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die,
and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
044:010 He said, "Now also let it be according to your words:
he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you
will be blameless."
044:011 Then they hurried, and every man took his sack down to the ground,
and every man opened his sack.
044:012 He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest.
The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
044:013 Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey,
and returned to the city.
044:014 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was
still there. They fell on the ground before him.
044:015 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done?
Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
044:016 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak?
Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity
of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants,
both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
044:017 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man
in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant;
but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
044:018 Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord,
please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears,
and don't let your anger burn against your servant;
for you are even as Pharaoh.
044:019 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father,
or a brother?'
044:020 We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child
of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,
and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'
044:021 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may
set my eyes on him.'
044:022 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father:
for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
044:023 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes
down with you, you will see my face no more.'
044:024 It happened when we came up to your servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord.
044:025 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
044:026 We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us,
then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face,
unless our youngest brother is with us.'
044:027 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife
bore me two sons:
044:028 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn
in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
044:029 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him,
you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
044:030 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father,
and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up
in the boy's life;
044:031 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more,
that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray
hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
044:032 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father,
saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear
the blame to my father forever.'
044:033 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