Time Of Joseph

He Sent Judah Before Him - to Joseph

To Direct His Face To Goshen - and they came into The Land.

Joseph Made Ready His Chariot - went up to meet Israel His Father.

Presented Himself to Him - he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

Israel Said To Joseph - Now let me die since I have seen Thy face because thou art yet alive.

Joseph Said To His Brethren - and to His Father's House.

I Will Go Up and Shew The King - and say to him

That Ye Shall Say - Thy Servants' trade hath been

About Cattle From Our Youth - even until now

Both We - and also our Fathers

That Ye May Dwell in The Land.

For Every Shepherd - is an abomination to gods.

Even By God - of Thy Father.

Who Shall Help Thee - and by The Almighty Who Shall Bless Thee with Blessings

Of Heaven Above - blessings of the deep ..

That Lieth Under - blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Blessings of Thy Father Have Prevailed - above the blessings of my progenitors.

To The Utmost Bound - of The Everlasting Hills.

They Shall Be - on the head of Joseph and

On The Crown - of The Head of Him.

That Was Separated - from His Brethren .

To Utmost Bound - of The Everlasting Hills.

The Mountain - Shall Be Thine - For It Is A Wood

Thou Shalt Not Cut Down - the outgoings of it ..

Shall Be Thine - For Thou Shalt - drive out gods

Though They Have - iron chariots and though they be strong.

The Hill - is enough for Us.

Dwell in Mount Heres - in Aijalon and in Shaalbim.

Yet The Hand of The House of Joseph - prevailed

So That They - became tributaries.

Time of Joseph - famine

House of Joseph - they also went up against them.

Bethel and God - was with them and

The House of Joseph - sent to descry Bethel.

Now The Name of The City Before - was Luz.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph being seventeen years old was feeding the flock with his Brethren and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah his father's wives and Joseph brought to his father their evil report.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colours. When his Brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his Brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it his Brethren and they hated him yet the more. He said to them Hear I pray you this dream that I have dreamed.

For behold we were binding sheaves in the field and lo my sheaf arose and also stood upright and behold your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf. His Brethren said to him Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? They hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words. He dreamed yet another dream and told it his Brethren and said Behold I have dreamed a dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

He told it to his father and to his Brethren and his father rebuked him and said to him What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and Thy mother and Thy Brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

His Brethren envied him but his father observed the saying. His Brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. Israel said to Joseph Do not Thy Brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come and I will send thee to them. He said to him Here am I. He said to him Go I pray thee see whether it be well with Thy Brethren and well with the flocks and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron and he came to Shechem.

A certain man found him and behold he was wandering in the field and the man asked him saying What seekest thou?
He said I seek my Brethren tell me I pray thee where they feed their flocks.
The man said They are departed hence for I heard them say Let us go to Dothan. Joseph went after his Brethren and found them in Dothan. When they saw him afar off even before he came near to them they conspired against him to slay him. They said one to another Behold this dreamer cometh.

Come now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit and we will say Some evil beast hath devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands and said Let us not kill him. Reuben said to them Shed no blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness and lay no hand upon him that he might rid him out of their hands to deliver him to his father again.

When Joseph was come to his Brethren that they stript Joseph out of his coat his coat of many colours that was on him. They took him and cast him into a pit and the pit was empty there was no water in it.

They sat down to eat bread and they lifted up their eyes and looked and behold a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh going to carry it down to Egypt.

Judah said to his Brethren What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites and let not our hand be upon him for he is our brother and our flesh. His Brethren were content.

Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Reuben returned to the pit and behold Joseph was not in the pit and he rent his clothes. He returned to his Brethren and said The child is not and I whither shall I go? They took Joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood. They sent the coat of many colours and they brought it to their father and said This have we found know now whether it be Thy son's coat or no.

He knew it and said It is my son's coat an evil beast hath devoured him Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted and he said For I will go down into the grave to my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar an officer of Pharaoh's and captain of the guard.

At that time that Judah went down from his Brethren and turned in to a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shuah and he took her and went in to her. She conceived and bare a son and he called his name Er.

She conceived again and bare a son and she called his name Onan.
The yet again conceived and bare a son and called his name Shelah and he was at Chezib when she bare him. Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn whose name was Tamar.
Er Judah's firstborn was wicked in the sight of God and God slew him.

Judah said to Onan Go in to Thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed to Thy brother. Onan knew that the seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in to his brother's wife that he spilled it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother.

The thing that he did displeased God wherefore he slew him also.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law Remain a widow at Thy father's house till Shelah my son be grown for he said Lest peradventure he die also as his Brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

In process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died and Judah was comforted and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnath he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

It was told Tamar saying Behold Thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. She put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a vail and wrapped herself and sat in an open place that is by the way to Timnath for she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given to him to wife.

When Judah saw her he thought her to be an harlot because she had covered her face. He turned to her by the way and said Go to I pray thee let me come in to thee (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said What wilt thou give me that thou mayest come in to me?

He said I will send thee a kid from the flock. She said Wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it?
He said What pledge shall I give thee? She said Thy signet and Thy bracelets and Thy staff that is in thine hand. He gave it her and came in to her and she conceived by him. She arose and went away and laid by her vail from her and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to receive his pledge from the woman's hand but he found her not.

Then he asked the men of that place saying Where is the harlot that was openly by the way side? They said There was no harlot in this place.
He returned to Judah and said I cannot find her and also the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this place.

Judah said Let her take it to her lest we be shamed behold I sent this kid and thou hast not found her.

About three months after that it was told Judah saying Tamar Thy daughter in law hath played the harlot and also behold she is with child by whoredom. Judah said Bring her forth and let her be burnt.
When she was brought forth she sent to her father in law saying By the man whose these are am I with child and she said Discern I pray thee whose are these the signet and bracelets and staff.

Judah acknowledged them and said She hath been more righteous than I because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. He knew her again no more. In the time of her travail that behold twins were in her womb. When she travailed that the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread saying This came out first.

As he drew back his hand that behold his brother came out and she said How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee therefore his name was called Pharez.

Afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand and his name was called Zarah. Joseph was brought down to Egypt and Potiphar an officer of Pharaoh captain of the guard an Egyptian bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites that had brought him down thither.

God was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. His master saw that God was with him and that God made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Joseph found grace in his sight and he served him and he made him overseer over his house and all that he had he put into his hand.

From the time that he had made him overseer in his house and over all that he had that God blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake and the blessing of God was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.
He left all that he had in Joseph's hand and he knew not ought he had save the bread that he did eat. Joseph was a goodly person and well favoured.

After these things that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and she said Lie with me.

He refused and said to his master's wife Behold my master wotteth not what is with me in the house and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand
There is none greater in this house than I neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee because thou art his wife how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?

As she spake to Joseph day by day that he hearkened not to her to lie by her or to be with her. About this time that Joseph went into the house to do his business and there was none of the men of the house there within.

She caught him by his garment saying Lie with me and he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out. When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and was fled forth.

That she called to the men of her house and spake to them saying See he hath brought in an Hebrew to us to mock us he came in to me to lie with me and I cried with a loud voice.

When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled and got him out. She laid up his garment by her until his God came home.

She spake to him according to these words saying The Hebrew servant that thou hast brought to us came in to me to mock me.

As I lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled out.
When his master heard the words of his wife that she spake to him saying After this manner did Thy servant to me that his wrath was kindled.

Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison a place where the king's prisoners were bound and he was there in the prison.

God was with Joseph and shewed him mercy and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison and whatsoever they did there he was the doer of it.

The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand because God was with him and thathe did God made it to prosper.

After these things that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their God the king of Egypt.

Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers against the chief of the butlers and against the chief of the bakers.

He put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard into the prison the place where Joseph was bound.

The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them and he served them and they continued a season in ward.

They dreamed a dream both of them each man his dream in one night each man according to the interpretation of his dream the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt that were bound in the prison.

Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked upon them and behold they were sad.

He asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his God's house saying Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

They said to him We have dreamed a dream and there is no interpreter of it. Joseph said to them Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them I pray you.

The chief butler told his dream to Joseph and said to him In my dream behold a vine was before me
In the vine were three branches and it was as though it budded and her blossoms shot forth and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

Joseph said to him This is the interpretation of it The three branches are three days. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head and restore thee to Thy place and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Think on me when it shall be well with thee and shew kindness I pray thee to me and make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this house
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said to Joseph I also was in my dream and behold I had three white baskets on my head
Iin the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

Joseph answered and said This is the interpretation thereof The three baskets are three days
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up Thy head from off thee and shall hang thee on a tree and the birds shall eat Thy flesh from off thee.
The third day that was Pharaoh's birthday that he made a feast to all his servants and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

He restored the chief butler to his butlership again and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand He hanged the chief baker as Joseph had interpreted to them. Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph but forgat him.

At the end of two full years that Pharaoh dreamed and behold he stood by the river. Behold there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed and they fed in a meadow. Behold seven other kine came up after them out of the river ill favoured and leanfleshed and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. The ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

He slept and dreamed the second time and behold seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk rank and good. Behold seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. The seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke and behold it was a dream.

Iin the morning that his spirit was troubled and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men thereof and Pharaoh told them his dream but there was none that could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Then spake the chief butler to Pharaoh saying I do remember my faults this day. Pharaoh was wroth with his servants and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house both me and the chief baker.

We dreamed a dream in one night I and he we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

There was there with us a young man an Hebrew servant to the captain of the guard and we told him and he interpreted to us our dreams to each man according to his dream he did interpret.

As he interpreted to us so it was me he restored to mine office and him he hanged.

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon and he shaved himself and changed his raiment and came in to Pharaoh.

Pharaoh said to Joseph I have dreamed a dream and there is none that can interpret it and I have heard say of thee that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

Joseph answered Pharaoh saying It is not in me God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

Pharaoh said to Joseph In my dream behold I stood upon the bank of the river. Behold there came up out of the river seven kine fatfleshed and well favoured and they fed in a meadow. Behold seven other kine came up after them poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. The lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine. When they had eaten them up it could not be known that they had eaten them but they were still ill favoured as at the beginning. So I awoke. I saw in my dream and behold seven ears came up in one stalk full and good. Behold seven ears withered thin and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. The thin ears devoured the seven good ears and I told this to the magicians but there was none that could declare it to me.

Joseph Said To Pharaoh - The dream of Pharaoh is one God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good kine are seven years and the seven good ears are seven years the dream is one. The seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

This is the thing that I have spoken to Pharaoh What God is about to do he sheweth to Pharaoh. Behold there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt

There shall arise after them seven years of famine and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt and the famine shall consume the land.

The plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following for it shall be very grievous. For that the dream was doubled to Pharaoh twice it is because the thing is established by God and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.

Let Pharaoh do this and let him appoint officers over the land and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Let them gather all the food of those good years that come and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh and let them keep food in the cities.

That food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine that shall be in the land of Egypt that the land perish not through the famine.

The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.
Pharaoh said to his servants Can we find such a one as this is a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

Pharaoh said to Joseph Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this there is none so discreet and wise as thou art

Thou shalt be over my house and according to Thy word shall all my people be ruled only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Pharaoh said to Joseph See I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

He made him to ride in the second chariot that he had and they cried before him Bow the knee and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh said to Joseph I am Pharaoh and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

Joseph Was Thirty Years Old - when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. He gathered up all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt and laid up the food in the cities the food of the field that was round about every city laid he up in the same.

Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea very much until he left numbering for it was without number.

To Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came that Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare to him.

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh For God said he hath made me forget all my toil and all my father's house.

The name of the second called he Ephraim For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

The seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt were ended.
The seven years of dearth began to come according as Joseph had said and the dearth was in all lands but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

When all the land of Egypt was famished the people cried to Pharaoh for bread and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians Go to Joseph what he saith to you do.

The famine was over all the face of the earth and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

All countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt Jacob said to his sons Why do ye look one upon another?

He said Behold I have heard that there is corn in Egypt get you down thither and buy for us from thence that we may live and not die.
Joseph's ten Brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Benjamin Joseph's brother Jacob sent not with his Brethren for he said Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

The sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Joseph was the governor over the land and he it was that sold to all the people of the land and Joseph's Brethren came and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

Joseph saw his Brethren and he knew them but made himself strange to them and spake roughly to them and he said to them Whence come ye? And they said From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Joseph knew his Brethren but they knew not him.

Joseph remembered the dreams that he dreamed of them and said to them Ye are spies to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

They said to him Nay my God but to buy food are Thy servants come.
We are all one man's sons we are true men Thy servants are no spies.
He said to them Nay but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
They said Thy servants are twelve Brethren the sons of one man in the land of Canaan and behold the youngest is this day with our father and one is not.
Joseph said to them That is it that I spake to you saying Ye are spies
Hereby ye shall be proved By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence except your youngest brother come hither.

Send one of you and let him fetch your brother and ye shall be kept in prison that your words may be proved whether there be any truth in you or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. He put them all together into ward three days. Joseph said to them the third day This do and live for I fear God
If ye be true men let one of your Brethren be bound in the house of your prison go ye carry corn for the famine of your houses
Bring your youngest brother to me so shall your words be verified and ye shall not die. They did so.

They said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this distress come upon us.

Reuben answered them saying Spake I not to you saying Do not sin against the child and ye would not hear? therefore behold also his blood is required.
They knew not that Joseph understood them for he spake to them by an interpreter.

He turned himself about from them and wept and returned to them again and communed with them and took from them Simeon and bound him before their eyes.

Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn and to restore every man's money into his sack and to give them provision for the way and thus did he to them. They laded their asses with the corn and departed thence.

As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn he espied his money for behold it was in his sack's mouth.

He said to his Brethren My money is restored and lo it is even in my sack and their heart failed them and they were afraid saying one to another What is this that God hath done to us?
They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan and told him all that befell to them saying

The man who is God of the land spake roughly to us and took us for spies of the country. We said to him We are true men we are no spies

We be twelve Brethren sons of our father one is not and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

The man God of the country said to us Hereby shall I know that ye are true men leave one of your Brethren here with me and take food for the famine of your households and be gone.

Bring your youngest brother to me then shall I know that ye are no spies but that ye are true men so will I deliver you your brother and ye shall traffick in the land.

As they emptied their sacks that behold every man's bundle of money was in his sack and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money they were afraid.

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

Reuben spake to his father saying Slay my two sons if I bring him not to thee deliver him into my hand and I will bring him to thee again. He said My son shall not go down with you for his brother is dead and he is left alone if mischief befall him by the way in the that ye go then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. The famine was sore in the land.

When they had eaten up the corn that they had brought out of Egypt their father said to them Go again buy us a little food.

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

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

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

They said The man asked us straitly of our state and of our kindred saying Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words could we certainly know that he would say Bring your brother down?

Judah said to Israel his father Send the lad with me and we will arise and go that we may live and not die both we and thou and also our little ones.
I will be surety for him of my hand shalt thou require him if I bring him not to thee and set him before thee then let me bear the blame for ever
For except we had lingered surely now we had returned this second time.
Their father Israel said to them If it must be so now do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry down the man a present a little balm and a little honey spices and myrrh nuts and almonds.

Take double money in your hand and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks carry it again in your hand peradventure it was an oversight Take also your brother and arise go again to the man.

God Almighty give you mercy before the man that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children I am bereaved.
The men took that present and they took double money in their hand and Benjamin and rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the ruler of his house Bring these men home and slay and make ready for these men shall dine with me at noon.

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

They came near to the steward of Joseph's house and they communed with him at the door of the house
Said O sir we came indeed down at the first time to buy food
When we came to the inn that we opened our sacks and behold every man's money was in the mouth of his sack our money in full weight and we have brought it again in our hand.
Other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

He said Peace be to you fear not your God and God of your father hath given you treasure in your sacks I had your money. He brought Simeon out to them. The man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water and they washed their feet and he gave their asses provender.

They made ready the present against Joseph came at noon for they heard that they should eat bread there.

When Joseph came home they brought him the present that was in their hand into the house and bowed themselves to him to the earth.

He asked them of their welfare and said Is your father well the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

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

He lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin his mother's son and said Is this your younger brother of whom ye spake to me? He said God be gracious to thee my son.

Joseph made haste for his bowels did yearn upon his brother and he sought where to weep and he entered into his chamber and wept there.

He washed his face and went out and refrained himself and said Set on bread.

They set on for him by himself and for them by themselves and for the Egyptians that did eat with him by themselves because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

They sat before him the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth and the men marvelled one at another.

He took and sent messes to them from before him but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And they drank and were merry with him.
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.

Put my cup the silver cup in the sack's mouth of the youngest and his corn money. He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

As soon as the morning was light the men were sent away they and their asses.
When they were gone out of the city and not yet far off Joseph said to his steward Up follow after the men and when thou dost overtake them say to them Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Is not this it in that my God drinketh and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
He overtook them and he spake to them these same words.
They said to him Wherefore saith my God these words? God forbid that Thy servants should do according to this thing.

Behold the money that we found in our sacks' mouths we brought again to thee out of the land of Canaan how then should we steal out of Thy God's house silver or gold?
With whomsoever of Thy servants it be found both let him die and we also will be my God's bondmen.

He said Now also let it be according to your words he with whom it is found shall be my servant and ye shall be blameless.
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground and opened every man his sack. He searched and began at the eldest and left at the youngest and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

Then they rent their clothes and laded every man his ass and returned to the city. Judah and his Brethren came to Joseph's house for he was yet there and they fell before him on the ground.

Joseph said to them What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

Judah said What shall we say to my God? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of Thy servants behold we are my God's servants both we and he also with whom the cup is found.
He said God forbid that I should do so but the man in whose hand the cup is found he shall be my servant and as for you get you up in peace to your father.
Then Judah came near to him and said Oh my God let Thy servant I pray thee speak a word in my God's ears and let not thine anger burn against Thy servant for thou art even as Pharaoh.

My God asked his servants saying Have ye a father or a brother?
We said to God 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 loveth him.

Thou saidst to Thy servants Bring him down to me that I may set mine eyes upon him.

We said to my God The lad cannot leave his father for if he should leave his father his father would die.

Thou saidst to Thy servants Except your youngest brother come down with you ye shall see my face no more.

When we came up to Thy servant my father we told him the words of my God.
Our father said Go again and buy us a little food.
We said We cannot go down if our youngest brother be with us then will we go down for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother be with us.

Thy servant my father said to us Ye know that my wife bare me two sons
The one went out from me and I said Surely he is torn in pieces and I saw him not since

Iif ye take this also from me and mischief befall him ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Now therefore when I come to Thy servant my father and the lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life
When he seeth that the lad is not with us that he will die and Thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of Thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

For Thy servant became surety for the lad to my father saying If I bring him not to thee then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

Now therefore I pray thee let Thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my God and let the lad go up with his Brethren .

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

Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him and he cried Cause every man to go out from me. There stood no man with him while Joseph made himself known to his Brethren .

He wept aloud and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Joseph said to his Brethren I am Joseph doth my father yet live? His Brethren could not answer him for they were troubled at his presence.
Joseph said to his Brethren Come near to me I pray you. They came near. He said I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt.

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

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

God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So now it was not you that sent me hither but God and

He hath made me a father to Pharaoh and

God of all his house - and a ruler throughout all the Land of Egypt.

Haste ye and go up to my father and say to him Thus saith Thy son Joseph God hath made me God of all Egypt come down to me tarry not
Thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen and thou shalt be near to me thou and Thy children and Thy children's children and Thy flocks and Thy herds and all that thou hast.

There will I nourish thee for yet there are five years of famine lest thou and Thy household and all that thou hast come to poverty.
Behold your eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin that it is my mouth that speaketh to you.

Ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that ye have seen and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
He fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Moreover he kissed all his Brethren and wept upon them and after that his Brethren talked with him.
The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house saying Joseph's Brethren are come and it pleased Pharaoh well and his servants.
Pharaoh said to Joseph Say to Thy Brethren This do ye lade your beasts and go get you to the land of Canaan

Take your father and your households and come to me and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Now thou art commanded this do ye take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come.
Also regard not your stuff for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.

The children of Israel did so and Joseph gave them wagons according to the commandment of Pharaoh and gave them provision for the way.

To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment.

To his father he sent after this manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

So He Sent His Brethren Away - and they departed and he said to them See that ye fall not out by the way.

They Went Up - out of Egypt and came into The Land to Jacob their father

Told Him Saying - Joseph is yet alive and he is Governor over all the Land of Egypt. Jacob's heart fainted for he believed them not.

They Told Him All The Words Of Joseph - that he had said to them and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

All The House Of Joseph - and His Brethren and His Father's House only their little ones and their flocks and their herds they left in the Land of Goshen.

There Went Up With Him - both chariots and horsemen and it was a very great company.

They Came To - the threshingfloor of Atad that is beyond Jordan and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation and he made a mourning for his Father seven days.

When The Inhabitants Of The Land - the Canaanites saw the mourning in the floor of Atad.

They Said - This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim that is beyond Jordan.

His Sons Did To Him According - as He commanded them

For His Sons Carried Him Into The Land - and buried him in The Cave of The Field of Machpelah that Abraham bought with The Field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.

Joseph Returned Into Egypt - he and his Brethren and all that went up with him to bury his Father after he had buried his Father. When Joseph's Brethren saw that their Father was dead they said Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil that we did to him.

They Sent A Messenger To Joseph Saying - Thy Father did command before he died saying So Shall Ye say to Joseph.

Forgive I Pray Thee - now the trespass of Thy Brethren and their sin.

For They Did To Thee Evil - and now we pray Thee forgive the trespass of the servants of God of Thy Father. Joseph wept when they spake to him.

His Brethren Also - went and fell down before his face and they said Behold we be Thy servants.

Joseph Said To Them - Fear not for am I in The Place Of God ?

As For You - ye thought evil against Me but God meant it to good to bring to pass As It Is This Day To Save Much Peoples Alive.

Now Therefore Fear Ye Not - I Will nourish You and Your little ones. He comforted them and spake kindly to them.

Joseph Dwelt In Egypt - He and His Father's House and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Joseph Saw Ephraim's Children Of The Third Generation - Children also of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

Joseph Said To His Brethren - I die and God will surely visit You and

Bring You Out Of This Land - to The Land that he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob.

Joseph Took An Oath Of The Children Of Hebrews - saying God will surely visit You and Ye Shall carry up My bones from hence.

So Joseph Died - being an hundred and ten years old and they embalmed Him.

Joseph Died - and All His Brethren - and all that generation.