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Bible Reading for January 15

Genesis 47
[1] Then Joseph came 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. [2] And he
took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
[3] And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they
said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also 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 is
sore 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 is before 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 any men 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 art thou? [9] And Jacob said unto
Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an 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 their families. [13] And there
was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the
land of Egypt and all the 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 exchange for 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 it from 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 us seed, 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 one end of the
borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. [22] Only the land of the
priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of
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 is seed for you,
and ye shall sow the land.
[24] And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the
fifth part 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.
[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, that Pharaoh should have the
fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became 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.

Genesis 48
[1] And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold,
thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and
Ephraim. [2] And one told 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 for an 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, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they
shall be mine.
[6] And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and
shall 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 was but a little way to come unto
Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is
Bethlehem. [8] And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
[9] And Joseph said unto his father, They are my 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 that he 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
them near unto him.
[14] 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 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 is the 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.

Genesis 49
[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 art my 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 are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their 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 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. [8] Judah,
thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck
of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. [9]
Judah is a 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 shall the 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 be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. [13]
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven
of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. [14] Issachar is a strong ass
couching down between two burdens: [15] And he saw that rest was good, and
the land that it was pleasant; 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
be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. [21] Naphtali is a hind let
loose: he giveth goodly words. [22] Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a
fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
[23] The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
[24] But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made
strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
[25] Even 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 lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: [26]
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my
progenitors unto 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
separate from his brethren.
[27] Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the
prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. [28] All these are the twelve
tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and
blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
[29] And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my
people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron
the Hittite,
[30] In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre,
in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the
Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. [31] There they buried Abraham
and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there
I buried Leah. [32] The purchase of the field and of the cave that is
therein was from the children of Heth.
[33] And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up
his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his
people.

Genesis 50
[1] And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
[2] And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father:
and the physicians embalmed Israel. [3] And forty days were fulfilled for
him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the
Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
[4] And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the
house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I
pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, [5] My 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 again. [6] And Pharaoh said, Go up, and
bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
[7] And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the
servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the
land of Egypt,
[8] And 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.
[9] And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a
very great company.
[10] And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan,
and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made
a mourning for his father seven days. [11] And 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 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
[12] And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: [13] For 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 buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. [14] And 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. [15] And 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 which we
did unto him.
[16] And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command
before he died, saying,
[17] So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of
thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray
thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And
Joseph wept when they spake unto him. [18] And his brethren also went and
fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
[19] And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
[20] But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto
good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. [21]
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. [22] And Joseph dwelt in Egypt,
he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
[23] And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the
children also of Machir the son Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's
knees. [24] And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely
visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
[25] And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. [26] So Joseph
died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was
put in a coffin in Egypt.
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