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pret it and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do he sheweth un

c 16 And Joseph answered Pha- to Pharaoh. raoh, saying, It is not in me: Godr 29 Behold, there come seven shall give Pharaoh an answer of years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

peace.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Jo-r 30 And there shall arise after seph. In my dream, behold, I stood them seven years of famine; and upon the bank of the river: all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land:

18 And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed, and well-favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of 19 And behold, seven other that famine following: for it shall kine came up after them, poor, be very grievous.

and very ill-favoured, and lean-t 32 And for that the dream was fleshed, such as I never saw in all doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is the land of Egypt for badness:

20 And the lean and the ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

21 And 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.

22 And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

23 And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted the east wind, sprung up them :

with after

24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it unto

me.

25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

r 26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is

one.

27 And the seven thin and illfavoured 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.

because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

g 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

34 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.

35 And 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.

36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. f 37 ¶ And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God is?

39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art.

40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall

all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. g 41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

f42 And 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;

43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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

45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On: and Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

b46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt: and Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

all my toil, and all my father's house.

c 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

53 ¶ And the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. a 54 And 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. f 55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyp tians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

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CHAP. XLII.

OW when Jacob saw that

a 47 And in the seven plenteous & there was corn in Egypt. years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

f 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field which was round about every city, laid he up in the

same.

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

f 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came: which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

e 51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh; For God, said he, hath made me forget

Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

2 And 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.

3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

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

a 6 And 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 house of your prison: go ye, carbowed down themselves before ry co for the famine of your him with their faces to the earth. houses:

7 And Joseph saw his brethren, 20 But bring your youngest and he knew them, but made him- brother unto me; so shall your self strange unto them, and spake words be verified, and ye shall not roughly unto them; and he said die. And they did so. unto them, Whence come ye? 21 T And they said one to anoAnd they said, From the land of ther, We are verily guilty conCanaan to buy food. cerning 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.

8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye

are come.

10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men: thy servants are no spies.

21 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

13 And 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.

14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

u 15 Hereby ye shall be proved
By the life of Pharaoh ye shall
not go forth hence, except your
youngest brother come hither.
u 16 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.

17 And he put them altogether into ward three days.

c 18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, say ing, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore behold also his blood is required.

23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

24 And 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.

25 T 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 unto them.

26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

27 And 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.

28 And he said unto 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 unto us?

f 29 ¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of 19 If ye be true men, let one of Canaan, and told him all that beyour brethren be bound in the fell unto them, saying,

30 The man who is the lord of their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

32 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,

33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto 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:

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

4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

5 But if thou wilt not send him we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

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

34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I 7 And they said, The man askknow that ye are no spies, but that ed us straitly of our state, and of ye are true men: so will I deliver our kindred, saying, Is your fayou your brother, and ye shall ther yet alive? have ye another traffic in the land. brother? and we told him accordf35 And it came to pass as ing to the tenor of these words: they emptied their sacks, that be- Could we certainly know that he hold, every man's bundle of money would say, Bring your brother was in his sack; and when both down?

and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

they and their father saw the bun-e 8 And Judah said unto Israel dles of money, they were afraid. his father, Send the lad with me, 36 And Jacob their father said unto 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.

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9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him : if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

k 11 And their father Israel said unto 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:

12 And 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:

money. And he brought Simeon
out unto them.

CHAP. XLII. 13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: ⚫ 14 And 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.

24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses pro

vender.

25 And they made ready the f 15 And the men took that present, and they took double present against Joseph came at money in their hand, and Ben- noon: for they heard that they jamin; and rose up, and went should eat bread there. down to Egypt, and stood before ƒ 26 T And when Joseph came home, they brought him the preJoseph. 16 And when Joseph saw Ben-sent which was in their hand into jamin with them, he said to the the house, and bowed themselves ruler of his house, Bring these men to him to the earth. home, and slay, and make ready:s 27 And he asked them of their for these men shall dine with me at welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

noon.

17 And the man did as Joseph bade: and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.

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

f 18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was c 29 And he lifted up his eyes, returned in our sacks at the first and saw his brother Benjamin, his time, are we brought in; that he mother's son, and said, Is this may seek occasion against us, and your younger brother, of whom fall upon us, and take us for bond-ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my men, and our asses. son.

19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and s 30 And Joseph made haste; for they communed with him at the his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; door of the house, and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

31 And he washed his face, and 21 And it came to pass, when went out, and refrained himself, we came to the inn, that we open- and said, Set on bread. ed our sacks, and behold, every f 32 And they set on for him by man's money was in the mouth of himself, and for them by themhis sack, our money in full weight: selves, and for the Egyptians and we have brought it again in our hand.

22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

e 23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your

which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

o 33 And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.

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