From: "Friends" 

CHAPTER 47
Genesis 47:1
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. Genesis
47:2
2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:3
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. Genesis 47:4
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.
Genesis 47:5
5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are
come unto thee:
Genesis 47:6
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.
Genesis 47:7
7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and
Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:8
8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? Genesis 47:9
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. Genesis 47:10
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. Genesis 47:11
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.
Genesis 47:12
12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's
household, with bread, according to their families. Genesis 47:13
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.
Genesis 47:14
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. Genesis 47:15
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. Genesis 47:16
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle,
if money fail.
Genesis 47:17
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.
Genesis 47:18
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: Genesis 47:19
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.
Genesis 47:20
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.
Genesis 47:21
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. Genesis 47:22
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. Genesis 47:23
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.
Genesis 47:24
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.
Genesis 47:25
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. Genesis 47:26
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.
Genesis 47:27
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and
they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. Genesis
47:28
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age
of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. Genesis 47:29
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: Genesis 47:30
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. Genesis 47:31
31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.
CHAPTER 48
Genesis 48:1
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.
Genesis 48:2
2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee:
and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. Genesis 48:3
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the
land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Genesis 48:4
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. Genesis 48:5
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.
Genesis 48:6
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. Genesis
48:7
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. Genesis 48:8
8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? Genesis 48:9
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.
Genesis 48:10
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.
Genesis 48:11
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo,
God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Genesis 48:12
12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself
with his face to the earth.
Genesis 48:13
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.
Genesis 48:14
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. Genesis 48:15
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,
Genesis 48:16
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. Genesis 48:17
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. Genesis 48:18
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the
firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. Genesis 48:19
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.
Genesis 48:20
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.
Genesis 48:21
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. Genesis 48:22
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. CHAPTER
49
Genesis 49:1
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. Genesis
49:2
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto
Israel your father.
Genesis 49:3
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my
strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Genesis
49:4
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. Genesis 49:5
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Genesis 49:6
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.
Genesis 49:7
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. Genesis
49:8
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. Genesis 49:9
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?
Genesis 49:10
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.
Genesis 49:11
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:
Genesis 49:12
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. Genesis 49:13
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. Genesis 49:14
14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: Genesis 49:15
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. Genesis
49:16
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Genesis 49:17
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. Genesis 49:18
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. Genesis 49:19
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Genesis 49:20
20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Genesis 49:21
21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Genesis 49:22
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose
branches run over the wall:
Genesis 49:23
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: Genesis 49:24
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:)
Genesis 49:25
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: Genesis
49:26
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.
Genesis 49:27
27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil. Genesis 49:28
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.
Genesis 49:29
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,
Genesis 49:30
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. Genesis 49:31
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac
and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. Genesis 49:32
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the
children of Heth.
Genesis 49:33
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.
CHAPTER 50
Genesis 50:1
1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed
him. Genesis 50:2
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father:
and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Genesis 50:3
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.
Genesis 50:4
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, Genesis 50:5
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. Genesis 50:6
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
Genesis 50:7
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,
Genesis 50:8
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.
Genesis 50:9
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very
great company.
Genesis 50:10
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. Genesis 50:11
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  Abelmizraim,  which is
beyond  Jordan. Genesis 50:12
12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: Genesis 50:13
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.
Genesis 50:14
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. Genesis
50:15
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.
Genesis 50:16
16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command
before he died, saying,
Genesis 50:17
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. Genesis 50:18
18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said,
Behold, we be thy servants.
Genesis 50:19
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? Genesis 50:20
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. Genesis
50:21
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And
he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. Genesis 50:22
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived
an hundred and ten years.
Genesis 50:23
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children
also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Genesis 50:24
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.
Genesis 50:25
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. Genesis 50:26
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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