Genesis 44-49
1599 Geneva Bible
44 15 Joseph accuseth his brother of theft. 33 Judah offereth himself to be servant for Benjamin.
1 Afterward he commanded his steward, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
2 And [a]put my cup, I mean, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the commandment that Joseph gave him.
3 And in the [b]morning the men were sent away, they, and their asses.
4 And when they went out of the city not far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men: and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
5 Is not that the cup wherein my lord drinketh? [c]and in the which he doth divine and prophesy? ye have done evil in so doing.
6 ¶ And when he overtook them, he said these words unto them.
7 And they answered him, Wherefore saith my lord such words? God forbid that thy servants should do such a thing.
8 Behold, the money which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
10 And he said, Now then let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found, shall be my servant, and ye shall be [d]blameless.
11 Then at once every man took down his sack to the ground, and everyone opened his sack.
12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 Then they [e]rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and went again into the city.
14 ¶ So Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house (for he was yet there) and they fell before him on the ground.
15 Then Joseph said unto them, What act is this, which ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I, can divine and prophesy?
16 Then said Judah, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? and how can we justify ourselves? [f]God hath found out the wickedness of thy servants: behold, we are servants to my lord, both we, and he, with whom the cup is found.
17 But he answered, God forbid, that I should do so, but the man, with whom the cup is found, he shall be my servant, and go ye in peace unto your father.
18 ¶ Then Judah drew near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant now speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thy wrath be kindled against thy servant: for thou art even [g]as Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, (A)Have ye a father, or a brother?
20 And we answered my lord, We have a father that is old, and a young [h]child, which he begat in his age: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
21 Now thou saidest unto thy servants, Bring him unto me, that I may [i]set mine eye upon him.
22 And we answered my lord, The child cannot depart his father: for if he leave his father, his father would die.
23 Then saidest thou unto thy servants, (B)Except your younger brother come down with you, look in my face no more.
24 So when we came unto thy servant our father, and showed him what my lord had said,
25 And our father said unto us, Go again, buy us a little food.
26 Then we answered, We cannot go down, but if our youngest brother [j]go with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.
27 Then thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my [k]wife bare me two sons.
28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Of a surety he is torn in (C)pieces, and I saw him not since.
29 Now ye take this also away from me: if death take him, then [l]ye shall bring my gray head in sorrow to the grave.
30 Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the child be not with us (seeing that his [m]life dependeth on the child’s life.)
31 Then when he shall see that the child is not come, he will die: so shall thy servants bring down the gray head of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
32 Doubtless thy servant became surety for the child to my father, and, (D)If I bring him not unto thee again, then I will bear the blame unto my father forever.
33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let me thy servant abide for the child, as a servant to my lord, and let the child go up with his brethren.
34 For [n]how can I go up to my father: if the child be not with me, unless I would see the evil that shall come on my father.
45 1 Joseph maketh himself known to his brethren. 8 He showeth that all was done by God’s providence. 18 Pharaoh commandeth him to send for his father. 24 Joseph exhorteth his brethren to concord.
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all that stood by him, but he cried, [o]Have forth every man from me. And there tarried not one with him, while Joseph uttered himself unto his brethren.
2 And he wept, and cried, so that the Egyptians heard: the house of Pharaoh heard also.
3 Then Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph: doth my father yet live? But his brethren could not answer him, for they were astonished at his presence.
4 Again, Joseph said to his brethren, Come near, I pray you, to me. And they came near. And he said, (E)I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not [p]sad, neither grieved with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: (F)For God did send me before you for your preservation.
6 For now two years of famine have been through the land, and five years are behind, wherein neither shall be earing nor harvest.
7 Wherefore God sent me before you to preserve your posterity in this land, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
8 Now then you sent not me hither, but [q]God, who hath made me a father unto Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9 Haste you and go up to my father, and tell him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down to me, tarry not.
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and shalt be near me, thou and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy sheep, and thy beasts, and all that thou hast.
11 Also I will nourish thee there (for yet remain five years of famine) lest thou perish through poverty, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.
12 And behold, your eyes do see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [r]my mouth speaketh to you.
13 Therefore tell my father of all mine honor in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and make haste, and bring my father hither.
14 Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and afterward his brethren talked with him.
16 ¶ And the [s]tidings came to Pharaoh’s house, so that they said, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, This do ye, laid your beasts and depart, go to the land of Canaan,
18 And take your father, and your household, and come to me, and I will give you the [t]best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat of the [u]fat of the land.
19 And I command thee, Thus do ye, take you chariots out of the land of Egypt for your children, and for your wives, and bring your father and come.
20 Also [v]regard not your stuff: for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.
21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them chariots according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he gave them vittles also for the journey.
22 He gave them all, none except, change of raiment: but unto Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five suits of raiment.
23 And unto his father [w]likewise he sent ten he asses laden with the best things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with wheat, and bread and meat for his father by the way.
24 So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, [x]Fall not out by the way.
25 Then they went up from Egypt, and came unto the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father,
26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he also is governor over all the land of Egypt, and Jacob’s heart [y]failed: for he believed them not.
27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: but when he saw the chariots, which Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
28 And Israel said, I have enough: Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him yet I die.
46 2 God assureth Jacob of his journey into Egypt. 27 The number of his family when he went into Egypt. 29 Joseph meeteth his father. 34 He teacheth his brethren what to answer to Pharaoh.
1 Then Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and [z]offered sacrifice unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Jacob, Jacob. Who answered, I am here.
3 Then he said, I am God, the God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.
4 I will [aa]go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also [ab]bring thee up again, and Joseph shall [ac]put his hand upon thine eyes.
5 Then Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their children, and their wives in the chariots, which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, both (G)Jacob and all his seed with him.
7 His sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
8 ¶ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, even Jacob and his sons: (H)Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10 ¶ And the sons of (I)Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
11 ¶ Also the sons of (J)Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 ¶ Also the sons of (K)Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah: (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.) And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 ¶ Also the sons of (L)Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14 ¶ Also the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the [ad]souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
16 Also the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17 ¶ Also the sons of (M)Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: and Heber, Malchiel.
18 These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife were Joseph, and Benjamin.
20 ¶ And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh, and Ephraim, which (N)Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah prince of On bare unto him.
21 ¶ Also the sons of (O)Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, and Gera, Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born unto Jacob, fourteen souls in all.
23 ¶ Also the sons of Dan: Hushim.
24 ¶ Also the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob, in all seven souls.
26 All the (P)souls, that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his [ae]loins (besides Jacob’s sons’ wives) were in the whole, threescore and six souls.
27 Also the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: so that all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, are seventy.
28 ¶ Then he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to [af]direct his way unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 Then Joseph [ag]made ready his chariot, and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father, and presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck and wept upon his neck a [ah]good while.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die since I have seen thy face, and that thou art yet alive.
31 Then Joseph said to his brethren, and to his father’s house, I will go up and show Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me.
32 And the men are [ai]sheepherders, and because they are sheepherders, they have brought their sheep and their cattle, and all that they have.
33 And if Pharaoh call you, and ask you, What is your trade?
34 That ye shall say, Thy servants are men occupied about cattle, from our childhood even unto this time, both we and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen: for every sheep keeper is an [aj]abomination unto the Egyptians.
47 7 Jacob cometh before Pharaoh, and telleth him his age. 11 The land of Goshen is given him. 22 The idolatrous priests have living of the King. 28 Jacob’s age when he dieth.
1 Then came Joseph and told Pharaoh, and said, My father, and my brethren, and their sheep, and their cattle, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2 And Joseph took part of his brethren, even [ak]five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
3 When Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and 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 sheep, so sore is the famine in the land of Canaan, Now therefore, we pray thee: let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 Then spake Pharaoh to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee.
6 The [al]land of Egypt is before thee: in the best place of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell: let them dwell in the land of Goshen: and if thou knowest that there be men of activity among them, make them rulers over my cattle.
7 Joseph also brought Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob [am]saluted Pharaoh.
8 Then Pharaoh said unto Jacob, [an]How old art thou?
9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The whole time of my (Q)pilgrimage is an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of my life been, and I have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimages.
10 And Jacob [ao]took leave of Pharaoh, and departed from the presence of Pharaoh.
11 ¶ And Joseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gave them possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, even in the land of [ap]Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 ¶ And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household with bread [aq]even to the young children.
13 ¶ Now there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan were [ar]famished by reason of the famine.
14 And Joseph gathered all the money, that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought, and [as]Joseph laid up the money in Pharaoh’s house.
15 So when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, then all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said, Give us bread: for why should we die before thee? for our money is spent.
16 Then said Joseph, Bring your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle, if your money be spent.
17 So they brought their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for the horses, and for the flocks of sheep, and for the herds of cattle, and for the asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year.
18 But when the year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, that since our money is spent, and my lord hath the herds of the cattle, there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our ground.
19 Why shall we perish in thy sight, both we and our [at]land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bound to Pharaoh: therefore give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land go not to waste.
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians sold every man his ground, because the famine was sore upon them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 And he [au]removed the people unto the cities, [av]from one side of Egypt even to the other.
22 Only the land of the Priests bought he not: for the Priests had an ordinary of Pharaoh, and they did eat their ordinary, which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their ground.
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: sow therefore the ground.
24 And of the increase ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be yours for seed of the field, and for your meat, and for them of your households, and for your children to eat.
25 Then they answered, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
26 Then Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, [aw]except the land of the Priests only, which was not Pharaoh’s.
27 ¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen: and they had their possessions therein, and grew and multiplied exceedingly.
28 Moreover, Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
29 Now when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If I have now found grace in thy sight, (R)put thine hand now under my thigh, and deal mercifully and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.
30 But when I shall [ax]sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial. And he answered, I will do as thou hast said.
31 Then he said, swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel [ay]worshipped towards the bed’s head.
48 1 Joseph with his two sons visiteth his sick father. 3 Jacob rehearseth God’s promise. 5 He receiveth Joseph’s sons as his. 19 He preferreth the younger.
1 Again after this, one said to Joseph, Lo, thy father is sick: then he took with him his [az]two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 Also one told Jacob, and said, Behold thy son Joseph is come to thee, and Israel took his strength unto him and sat upon the bed.
3 Then Jacob said unto Joseph, God [ba]almighty appeared unto me at (S)Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and will multiply thee, and will make a great number of people of thee, and will give this land unto thy seed after thee for an [bb]everlasting possession.
5 ¶ And now thy (T)two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, which are born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
6 But thy lineage, which thou hast begotten after them, shall be thine: they shall be called after the names of their brethren in their inheritance.
7 Now when I came from Padan, Rachel (U)died upon mine hand in the land of Canaan, by the way when there was but half a day’s journey of ground to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath: the same is Bethlehem.
8 Then Israel beheld Joseph’s sons and said, Whose are these?
9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, which [bc]God hath given me here. Then he said, I pray thee, bring them to me, that I may bless them:
10 ( For the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not well see) Then he caused them to come to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to have seen thy face: yet lo, God hath showed me also thy seed.
12 And Joseph took them away from his knees, and did reverence [bd]down to the ground.
13 Then took Joseph them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, so he brought them unto him.
14 But Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on [be]Ephraim’s head which was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head (directing his hands of purpose) for Manasseh was the elder.
15 ¶ (V)Also he blesseth Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which hath fed me all my life long, unto this day, bless thee.
16 The [bf]Angel, which hath delivered me from all evil, bless the children, and let my [bg]name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, that they may grow as fish into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
17 But when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it [bh]displeased him: and he stayed his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the eldest: put thy right hand upon his head.
19 But his father refused, and said, I know well, my son, I know well: he shall be also a people, and he shall be great likewise: but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be full of nations.
20 So he blessed them that day, and said, In thee Israel shall bless, and say, God make thee as [bi]Ephraim and as Manasseh, and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 Then Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of [bj]your fathers.
22 Moreover, I have given unto thee one portion above thy brethren, which [bk]I got out of the hand of the Amorite by my (W)sword and by my bow.
49 1 Jacob blesseth all his sons by name. 10 He telleth them that Christ shall come out of Judah. 29 He will be buried with his fathers. 33 He dieth.
1 Then Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall come to you in the [bl]last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 ¶ Reuben mine eldest son, thou art my [bm]might, and the beginning of my strength, [bn]the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Thou wast light as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because (X)thou wentest up to thy father’s bed: [bo]then diddest thou defile my bed, thy dignity is gone.
5 ¶ Simeon and Levi, brethren in evil, [bp]the instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
6 Into their secret let not my soul come: my [bq]glory be not thou joined with their assembly: for in their wrath they slew a [br]man, and in their self-will they dug down a wall.
7 Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and their rage, for it was cruel: I will [bs]divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 ¶ Thou Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father’s son shall [bt]bow down before unto thee.
9 Judah as a Lion’s whelp shalt thou come up from the spoil, my son. He shall lie down and couch a Lion, and as a Lioness: [bu]Who shall stir him up?
10 The [bv]Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until [bw]Shiloh come, and the people shall be gathered unto him.
11 He shall bind his Ass foal unto the [bx]vine, and his ass’s colt unto the best vine. He shall wash his garment in wine, and his cloak in the blood of grapes.
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell by the seaside, and he shall be an haven for ships: and his border shall be unto Sidon.
14 ¶ Issachar shall be [by][bz]a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:
15 And he shall see that rest is good, and that the land is pleasant, and he shall bow his shoulder to bear, and shall be subject unto tribute.
16 ¶ Dan [ca]shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a [cb]serpent by the way, an adder by the path, biting the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
18 [cc]O Lord, I have waited for thy salvation.
19 ¶ Gad, a host of men shall overcome him, but he shall overcome at the last.
20 ¶ Concerning Asher, his [cd]bread shall be fat, and he shall give pleasures for a king.
21 ¶ Naphtali shall be a hind let go, giving [ce]goodly words.
22 ¶ Joseph shall be [cf]a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by the well side: the [cg]small boughs shall turn upon the wall:
23 [ch]And the archers grieved him, and shot against him, and hated him.
24 But his bow abode strong, and the hands of his arms were strengthened, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, of whom was the feeder appointed by the [ci]stone of Israel,
25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the almighty, who shall bless thee with heavenly blessings from above, with blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
26 The blessings of thy father shall be [cj]stronger than the blessings of mine elders: unto the end of the hills of the world they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him that was [ck]separated from his brethren.
27 ¶ Benjamin shall raven 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 thus their father spake unto them, and blessed them: every one of them blessed he with a several blessing.
29 And he charged them and said unto them, I am ready to be gathered unto my people: (Y)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, besides Mamre in the land of Canaan: which cave Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
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 the cave that is therein, was bought of the children of Heth.
33 Thus Jacob made an end of giving charge to his sons, and [cl]plucked his feet into the bed, and gave up the ghost, and was gathered to his people.
Footnotes
- Genesis 44:2 We may not by this example use any unlawful practices, seeing God hath commanded us to walk in simplicity.
- Genesis 44:3 Hebrew, the morning shone.
- Genesis 44:5 Because the people thought he could divine, he attributeth to himself that knowledge: or else he feigneth that he consulted with soothsayers for it: Which simulation is worthy to be reproved.
- Genesis 44:10 Hebrew, innocent.
- Genesis 44:13 To signify how greatly the thing displeased them, and how sorry they were for it.
- Genesis 44:16 If we see no evident cause of our affliction, let us look to the secret counsel of God, who punisheth us justly for our sins.
- Genesis 44:18 Equal in authority or, next unto the king.
- Genesis 44:20 Hebrew, child of his old age.
- Genesis 44:21 Or, that I may see him.
- Genesis 44:26 Hebrew, be with us.
- Genesis 44:27 Rachel bare to Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 44:29 Ye shall cause me to die for sorrow.
- Genesis 44:30 Hebrew, his soul is bound to his soul.
- Genesis 44:34 Meaning, he had rather remain their prisoner, than to return and see his father in heaviness.
- Genesis 45:1 Not that he was ashamed of his kindred, but that he would cover his brethren’s fault.
- Genesis 45:5 This example teacheth that we must by all means comfort them, which are truly humbled and wounded for their sins.
- Genesis 45:8 Albeit God detest sin, yet he turneth man’s wickedness to serve to his glory.
- Genesis 45:12 That is, that I speak in your own language, and have none interpreter.
- Genesis 45:16 Hebrew, voice.
- Genesis 45:18 The most plentiful ground.
- Genesis 45:18 The chiefest fruits and commodities.
- Genesis 45:20 Hebrew, let not your eyes spare your vessel.
- Genesis 45:23 Or, he sent as much, to wit, silver as verse 22, and ten asses.
- Genesis 45:24 Seeing he had remitted the fault done toward him, he would not that they should accuse one another.
- Genesis 45:26 As one between hope and fear.
- Genesis 46:1 Whereby he both signifieth, that he worshipped the true God, and also that he kept in his heart the possession of that land from whence present necessity drove him.
- Genesis 46:4 Conducting thee by my power.
- Genesis 46:4 In thy posterity.
- Genesis 46:4 Shall shut thine eyes when thou diest: which appertained to him that was most dearest, or chief of the kindred.
- Genesis 46:15 Or, persons.
- Genesis 46:26 Hebrew, thighs.
- Genesis 46:28 Or, to prepare him a place.
- Genesis 46:29 Hebrew, bound his chariot.
- Genesis 46:29 Hebrew, yet, or still.
- Genesis 46:32 He was not ashamed of his father and kindred, though they were of base condition.
- Genesis 46:34 God suffereth the world to hate his, that they may forsake the filth of the world, and cleave to him.
- Genesis 47:2 That the king might be assured they were come, and see what manner of people they were.
- Genesis 47:6 Joseph’s great modesty appeareth in that he would enterprise nothing without the king’s commandment.
- Genesis 47:7 Hebrew, blessed.
- Genesis 47:8 Hebrew, how many days are the years of thy life?
- Genesis 47:10 Hebrew, blessed.
- Genesis 47:11 Which was a city in the country of Goshen, Exod. 1:11.
- Genesis 47:12 Some read, that he fed them as little babes, because they could not provide for themselves against that famine.
- Genesis 47:13 Hebrew, brought to an extremity, or at their wit’s end.
- Genesis 47:14 Wherein he both declareth his fidelity toward the King, and his mind free from covetousness.
- Genesis 47:19 For except the ground be tilled and sown, it perisheth, and is as it were dead.
- Genesis 47:21 By this changing they signified that they had nothing of their own, but received all of the king’s liberality.
- Genesis 47:21 Hebrew, end of the border.
- Genesis 47:26 Pharaoh in providing for Idolatrous priests, shall be a condemnation to all them which neglect the true ministers of God’s word.
- Genesis 47:30 Hereby he protested that he died in the faith of his fathers, teaching his children to hope for the promised land.
- Genesis 47:31 He rejoiced that Joseph had promised him, and setting himself up upon his pillow, praised God. Read 1 Chron. 29:10.
- Genesis 48:1 Joseph more esteemeth that his children should be received into Jacob’s family, which was the Church of God, than to enjoy all the treasures of Egypt.
- Genesis 48:3 Or, all sufficient.
- Genesis 48:4 Which is true in the carnal Israel unto the coming of Christ, and in the spiritual forever.
- Genesis 48:9 The faithful acknowledge all benefits come of God’s free mercies.
- Genesis 48:12 Hebrew, his face to the ground.
- Genesis 48:14 God’s judgments is oft times contrary to man’s, and he preferreth that, which man despiseth.
- Genesis 48:16 This Angel must be understood of Christ, as Gen. 31:13 and 32:1.
- Genesis 48:16 Let them be taken as my children.
- Genesis 48:17 Joseph faileth in binding God’s grace to the order of nature.
- Genesis 48:20 In whom God’s graces should manifestly appear.
- Genesis 48:21 Which they had by faith in the promise.
- Genesis 48:22 By my children whom God spared for my sake.
- Genesis 49:1 When God shall bring you out of Egypt, and because that he speaketh of the Messiah, he nameth it the last days.
- Genesis 49:3 Begotten in my youth.
- Genesis 49:3 If thou hadst not lost thy birthright by thine offense.
- Genesis 49:4 Or, it ceased to be my bed.
- Genesis 49:5 Or, their swords were instruments of violence.
- Genesis 49:6 Or, tongue: meaning that he neither consented to them in word nor thought.
- Genesis 49:6 The Shechemites, Gen. 34:26.
- Genesis 49:7 For Levi had no part, and Simeon was under Judah, Josh. 19:1, till God gave them the place of the Amalekites, 1 Chron. 4:43.
- Genesis 49:8 As was verified in David and Christ.
- Genesis 49:9 His enemies shall so fear him.
- Genesis 49:10 Or, Kingdom.
- Genesis 49:10 Which is Christ the Messiah, the giver of prosperity who shall call the Gentiles to salvation.
- Genesis 49:11 A country most abundant with vines and pastures is promised him.
- Genesis 49:14 Hebrew, an ass of great bones.
- Genesis 49:14 His force shall be great, but he shall want courage to resist his enemies.
- Genesis 49:16 Shall have the honor of a tribe.
- Genesis 49:17 That is, full of subtlety.
- Genesis 49:18 Seeing the miseries that his posterity should fall into, he bursteth out in prayer to God to remedy it.
- Genesis 49:20 He shall abound in corn and pleasant fruits.
- Genesis 49:21 Overcoming more by fair words than by force.
- Genesis 49:22 Hebrew, a son of increase.
- Genesis 49:22 Hebrew, daughters.
- Genesis 49:23 As his brethren when they were his enemies, Potiphar and others.
- Genesis 49:24 That is God.
- Genesis 49:26 Inasmuch as he was more near to the accomplishment of the promise, and it had been more often confirmed.
- Genesis 49:26 Either in dignity, or when he was sold from his brethren.
- Genesis 49:33 Whereby is signified how quietly he died.
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