their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they arein
the land of Goshen.
2 And he took some of his brethren, evenfive men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What isyour occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy
servants areshepherds, both we, andalso our fathers.
4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants
have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine issore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we
pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
6 The land of Egypt isbefore thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to
dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest anymen of activity among
them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed
Pharaoh.
8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old artthou?
9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage arean hundred and thirty
years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the
days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
11 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 commanded.
12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread,
according to theirfamilies.
13 And there wasno bread in all the land; for the famine wasvery sore, so that the land of
Egypt and allthe land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14 And 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.
15 And when money failed in the land 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 the money
faileth.
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchangefor
horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them
with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will
not hide itfrom my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle;
there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for
bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give usseed, that we may live,
and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his
field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from oneend of the borders of Egypt even
to the otherend thereof.
22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned themof
Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for
Pharaoh: lo, here isseed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth partunto 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.
25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we
will be Pharaoh's servants.
26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, thatPharaoh should have the
fifth part; except the land of the priests only, whichbecame not Pharaoh's.
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions
therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an
hundred forty and seven years.
29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him,
If now I have found grace 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:
30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their
buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's
head.
1 And it came to pass after these things, that onetold Joseph, Behold, thy father issick: and he
took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 And onetold Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel
strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and
blessed me,
4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee
a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee foran everlasting
possession.
5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt
before I came unto thee into Egypt, aremine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, andshall be called after the
name of their brethren in their inheritance.
7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way,
when yet there wasbut a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of
Ephrath; the same isBethlehem.
8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who arethese?
9 And Joseph said unto his father, They aremy sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And
he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so thathe could not see. And he brought them near
unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me
also thy seed.
12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to
the earth.
13 And 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 themnear unto him.
14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid itupon Ephraim's head, who wasthe
younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was
the firstborn.
15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk,
the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

16 The Angel which 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; and let them grow into a multitude in the
midst of the earth.
17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid 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.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this isthe firstborn; put thy right
hand upon his head.
19 And 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: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed
shall become a multitude of nations.
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as
Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto
the land of your fathers.
22 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.
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that
which shall befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou artmy firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of
dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then
defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi arebrethren; instruments of cruelty are intheir habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou
united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
7 Cursed betheir anger, for it wasfierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them
in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, thou art hewhom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall bein the neck of thine
enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah isa lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched
as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh
come; and unto him shallthe gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his
garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall bered with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall befor an haven of ships; and his
border shall beunto Zidon.
14 Issachar isa strong ass couching down between two burdens:
15 And he saw that rest wasgood, and the land that it waspleasant; and bowed his shoulder to
bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that
his rider shall fall backward.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his bread shall befat, and he shall yield royal dainties.