28And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to t show the way before him unto Goshen; and they came into the ^ land of Goshen. 29And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. s°And Israel^said unto Joseph: ' Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive.' 31And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house: 'I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say 58 GENESIS unto him: My brethren, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; ^and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. ^And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say: What is your oc- cupation? ^hat ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.'
ATI Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said: 'My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen/ 2And from among his brethren he took five men, and pre- sented them unto Pharaoh. 3And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: 'What is your occupation?' And they said unto Pharaoh: 'Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.' 4And they said unto Pha- raoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.' 6And Pharaoh spoke unjfco Joseph, saying: 'Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee; B6the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.' 7And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How many are the days of the years of thy life?' 9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: "The days of the years of my sojourn- ings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their soj ournings.' "And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence^ of Pharaoh. "And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had com- manded. ^And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, ac- cording to the want of their little ones.
^And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. 14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15And when the money was ^all spent in the knd of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.' 16And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you [bread] for your cattle, if money fail.' 17And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. And Joseph gave them bread in ex- change for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year. 18And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, 59 GENESIS and said unto him: 'We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. "Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.' 20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pha- raoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's. 21And as for the people, he removed them city by city, from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof. ^Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land. ^Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. ^And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones/ ^And they said: "Thou hast^ saved our lives. Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bond- men.' ^And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's. 27And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got them posses- sions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years. 29And the time drew near that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. 30But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burymg-place.' And he said: 'I will do as thou hast said.' 31And he said: 'Swear unto me.' And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed down upon the bed's head. AQ And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.' And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat. upon the bed. 3And Jacob said unto Joseph: ' God Almighty appeared un- to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4and said unto me: Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. 6And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came un- to thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine. 6And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their in- heritance. 7And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died unto me in the land of Canaan in the way, 60 GENESIS when there was still some way to come unto Ephrath; and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath — the same is Beth-lehem/ 8And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said: 'Who are these?' 9And Joseph said unto his father: 'They are my sons, whom God hath given me here/ And he said: 'Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them/ 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. uAnd Israel said unto Joseph: ' I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also/ ^And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he fell down on his face to the earth. 13And 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 unto him. "And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger; and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Ma- nasseh was the first-born. 15And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day, 16the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.' 17And when Joseph saw that his father was laying his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head/ 19And his father refused, and said: 'I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations/ ^ 20And he blessed them that day, saying: 'By thee shall Israel bless, saying: God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh/ And he *Heb. achechem, shoulder. 61 set Ephraim before Manasseh. Israel said unto Joseph: 'Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and bring you back unto the land of your fathers. ^Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow/ And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: 'Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you hi the end of days. 2Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father. 3Reuben, thou art my first-born, My might, and the first-fruits of my strength; The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. ^Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it— he went up to my couch.
5Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence their kinship. 6Let my soul not come into their council; Unto their assembly let my glory not be united; GENESIS For in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they houghed oxen. 7Cursed 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.
8Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise; Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.
9Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, As long as men come to Shiloh; And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.
"Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He washeth his garments in wine, And his vesture in the blood of grapes; MHis eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.
13Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea, And he shall be a shore for ships, And his flank shall be upon Zidon.
L4Issachar is a large-boned ass, Couching down between the sheep- folds.
L5For he saw a resting-place that it was good, • Heb. gedud.
And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under task- work.
16Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.
17Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So* that his rider falleth backward.
18I wait for Thy salvation, 0 Lord.
19Gad, »a troop bshall troop upon him; But he shall troop upon their heel.
20As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.
21Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.
22 Joseph is a fruitful vine, A fruitful vine by a fountain: Its branches run over the wall. 23The archers have dealt bitterly with him, And shot at him, and hated him; ^But his bow abode firm, And the arms of his hands were made supple, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, From thence, from the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel, 2fiEven by the 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 coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
26The blessings of thy father Are mighty beyond the blessings of my progenitors b From the Heb. root gadad. 62 GENESIS Unto the utmost bound of the ever- lasting hills; They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of the prince among his brethren.
27Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; In the morning he devoureth the prey, And at even he divideth the spoil.'
28A11 these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke unto them and blessed them; I every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29And he charged them, and said unto them: 'I am to house of Pharaoh^ saying: 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying: 5My father made me swear, saying: Lo, I die; in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come back/ 6And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.' 7And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pha- raoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8and all the house of Joseph, and his be gathered unto my people; bury me I brethren, and his father's house; only with my fathers in the cave that is in Jl " 1"J1 ~ J Al-"- ^--1~ ~~J the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30in the cave that is in the field of Mach- polah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying- place. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32The field and the cave that is therein, which was pur- chased from the children of Heth.' when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.
And Joseph fell upon "his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physi- cians embalmed Israel. 3And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
4And when the days of weeping for 'him were past, Joseph spoke unto the their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company. 10Ancl they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. uAnd when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said: 'This is a grievous amourning to the Egyptians.' Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. 13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of Mamre.
14And 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. 15And when a Heb- sbel.
63 GENESIS Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.' 16And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying: 17So shall ye say unto Joseph: For- give, I pray thee now, the transgres- sion of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father/ And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. 18And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Be- hold, we are thy bondmen.' 19And Joseph said unto them: 'Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to p'ass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. ^Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.' And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
^And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. ^And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. ^And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.' 25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.' 26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
EXODUS 1 Now these are the names of the hard service, in mortar and in brick, sons of Israel, who came into, and in all manner of service in the Egypt with Jacob; every man came field; in all their service, wherein they with his household: 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and. Judah; 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5And all the souls made them serve with rigour.
15And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the that came out of the loins of Jacob ] name of the other Puah; 16and he were seventy souls; and Joseph was j said: 'When ye do the office of a mid- in Egypt already. 6And Joseph died, ] wife to the Hebrew women, ye shall and all his brethren, and all that gen-! look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, eration. 7And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abund- antly, and multiplied, and waxed ex- ceeding ir " filled with ity; and the land was aem.
8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9And he said unto his people: l Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; l°come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.' uThere- fore they did set over them task- masters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Haamses. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel. 18And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 14And they made their lives bitter with but saved the men-children 18And the king of Egypt called then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live/ 17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, alive. _ for the midwives, and said unto them: 'Why have ye done this thing, ^ and have saved the men-children alive?' 19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the mid- wife come unto them/ 20And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. ^And it came to pass, be- cause the midwives feared God, that He made them houses. ^And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: 'Every son that is born ye shall east into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive/ O And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daugh- ter of Levi. 2And the woman con- ceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, 65 EXODUS she hid him three months. 3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in 4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 6And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had cpmpa'ssion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children/ 7Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter. 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?7 8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: ' Go/ And the maiden went and called the child's mother. 9And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I -will give thee thy wages ' And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Closes, and said: 'Because I bdrew him out of the water ' nAnd it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong * 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?' 14And he a Heb. Mosheh.
a Heb. Mosheh.
said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known' 15Now when Pha- raoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well. 16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17And the shep- herds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?' 19And they said: 'An Egyp- tian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.' 20And he said unto his daugh- ters: 'And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.' ^And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter ^And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said- 'I have been ca stranger in a strange land.'
MAnd it came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them O Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock Heb. ger.
b Heb. mashah, to draw out. 66 EXODUS to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb. 2And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not con- sumed. 3And Moses said: *I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt/ 4And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said: 'Moses, Moses/ And he said: ' Here am I ' 6And He said: ' Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground/ 6Moreover He said: ' I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob/ And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 7And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains; 8and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppres- sion wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. "Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt/ nAnd Moses said unto God: 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the chil- ' dren of Israel out of Egypt?' ^And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain/ "And Moses said unto God: 'Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them: The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say tome: What is His name? what shall I say unto them?' 14And God said unto Moses: 'I AM THAT I AM'; and He said: "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AIVI bath sent me unto you/ 15And God said more- over unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name for ever, and this is My memorial unto all generations* 16Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying: I have surely remembered you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. 17And I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and