Then said Pharaoh unto his servants, "Where shall we find such a man as this is, that hath the spirit of God in him?"

and set him upon the best chariot that he had, save one. And they cried before him "Abrech!" And that Pharaoh had made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

and gathered up all the food of the seven plenteous years which were in the land of Egypt and put it into the cities. And he put the food of the fields that grew round about every city, even in the same.

And when the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt were ended,

When now all the land of Egypt began to hunger, then cried the people to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto all Egypt, "Go unto Joseph, and what he saith to you, that do."

And when the dearth was throughout all the land, Joseph opened all that was in the cities, and sold unto the Egyptians. And hunger waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

And all countries came to Egypt, to Joseph, for to buy corn: because that the hunger was so sore in all lands.

When Jacob saw that there was corn to be sold in Egypt, he said unto his sons, "Why are ye negligent?

Behold, I have heard that there is corn to be sold in Egypt. Get you thither and buy us corn from thence, that we may live and not die."

And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among other that came, for there was dearth also in the land of Canaan.

Joseph said unto them, "That is it that I said unto you, that ye are surely spies.

and bring your youngest brother unto me: that your words may be believed, and that ye die not." And they did so.

Then they said one to another, "We have verily sinned against our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon us."

Reuben answered them, saying, "Said I not unto you that ye should not sin against the lad? But ye would not hear; And now verily see, his blood is required."

They were not aware that Joseph understood them, for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

And he said unto his brethren, "My money is restored me again, and is even in my sack's mouth." Then their hearts failed them, and were astonished and said one to another, "How cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?"

And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened them, saying,

and bring your youngest brother unto me; And thereby shall I know that ye are no spies, but mean truly: So will I deliver you your brother again, and ye shall occupy in the land.'"

And when they had eaten up that corn which they brought out of the land of Egypt, their father said unto them, "Go again and buy us a little food."

Then said Judah unto him, "The man did testify unto us saying, 'Look that ye see not my face except your brother be with you.'

But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go: for the man said unto us, 'Look that ye see not my face, except your brother be with you.'"

And Israel said, "Wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me, as to tell the man that ye had yet another brother?"

And they said, "The man asked us of our kindred saying, 'Is your father yet alive? Have ye not another brother?' And we told him according to these words. How could we know that he would bid us bring our brother down with us?"

Then said Judah unto Israel his father, "Send the lad with me, and we will rise and go, that we may live and not die: both we, thou and also our children.

And take as much money more with you. And the money that was brought again in your sacks, take it again with you in your hands, peradventure it was some oversight.

When they were brought to Joseph's house, they were afraid, and said, "Because of the money that came in our sacks' mouths at the first time, are we brought, to pick a quarrel with us and to lay something to our charge: to bring us in bondage and our asses also."

Therefore came they to the man that was the ruler over Joseph's house, and communed with him at the door,

And he said, "Be of good cheer, fear not: Your God and the God of your fathers hath put you that treasure in your sacks, for I had your money." And he brought Simeon out to them,

And they made ready their present against Joseph came at noon, for they heard say that they should dine there.

And he welcomed them courteously saying, "Is your father, that old man which ye told me of, in good health? And is he yet alive?"

And they prepared for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians which ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Is that not the cup of which my lord drinketh, and doth he not prophesy therein? Ye have evil done that ye have done.'"

And they answered him, "Wherefore saith my lord such words? God forbid that thy servants should do so.

And Joseph said unto them, "What deed is this which ye have done? Wist ye not that such a man as I can prophesy?"

And he answered, "God forbid that I should do so, the man with whom the cup is found, he shall be my servant: but go ye in peace unto your father."

And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'

Then said my lord unto his servants, 'Bring him unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.'

And we answered my lord, that the lad could not go from his father, 'For if he should leave his father, he were but a dead man.'

Then saidest thou unto thy servants, 'Except your youngest brother come with you, look that ye see my face no more.'

we said that we could not go. 'Nevertheless, if our youngest brother go with us then will we go, for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.'

Then said thy servant our father unto us, 'Ye know that my wife bare me two sons.

And the one went out from me and it is said of a surety that he is torn in pieces of wild beasts, and I saw him not since.

Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, if the lad be not with me - seeing that his life hangeth by the lad's life -

then as soon as he seeth that the lad is not come, he will die. So shall we thy servants bring the gray head of thy servant our father with sorrow unto the grave.

For how can I go unto my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that shall come on my father?"

And Joseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood about him, but commanded that they should go all out from him, and that there should be no man with him, while he uttered himself unto his brethren.

And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it.

And now be not grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes, that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save life.

Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So now it was not ye that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me father unto Pharaoh and lord over all his house, and ruler in all the land of Egypt.

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen and be by me: both thou and thy children, and thy children's children: and thy sheep, and beasts and all that thou hast.

There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet five years of dearth, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.'

Behold, your eyes do see, and the eyes also of my brother Benjamin, that I speak to you by mouth.

Therefore, tell my father of all my honour which I have in Egypt and of all that ye have seen, and make haste and bring in father hither."

Moreover, he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that, his brethren talked with him.

And when the tidings was come unto Pharaoh's house that Joseph's brethren were come, it pleased Pharaoh well and all his servants.

So sent he his brethren away, and they departed. And he said unto them, "See that ye fall not out by the way."

And Israel said, "I have enough, if Joseph my son be yet alive: I will go and see him, yer that I die."

Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came unto Beersheba and offered offerings unto the God of his father Isaac.

And he said, "I am that mighty God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt. For I will make of thee there a great people.

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt which came out of his loins - beside his son's wives - were all together sixty and six souls.

And 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.

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph that the way might be showed him unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

And Israel said unto Joseph, "Now I am content to die, insomuch I have seen thee, that thou art yet alive."

And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house, "I will go and show Pharaoh, and tell him that my brethren and my father's house which were in the land of Canaan are come unto me,

and how they are shepherds," - for they were men of cattle - "and they have brought their sheep and their oxen and all that they have with them.

say, 'Thy servants have been occupied about cattle, from our childhood unto this time: both we and our fathers,' that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination unto the Egyptians are all that feed sheep."

and Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brethren, their sheep and their beasts and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan and are in the land of Goshen."

There was no bread in all the land, for the dearth was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan, were famished by the reason of the dearth.

And Joseph brought together all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and he laid up the money in Pharaoh's house.

And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. And he gave them bread for horses and sheep, and oxen and asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year.

When that year was ended, they came unto him the next year and said unto him, "We will not hide it from my lord, how that we have neither money nor cattle for my lord: there is no more left for my lord, but even our bodies and our lands.

Wherefore lettest thou us die before thine eyes, and the land to go to nought? Buy us and our lands for bread: and let both us and our lands be bond to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land go not to waste."

only the land of the Priests bought he not. For there was an ordinance made by Pharaoh for the priests, that they should eat that which was appointed unto them, which Pharaoh had given them; wherefore they sold not their lands.

And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day: that men must give Pharaoh the fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which was not bond unto Pharaoh.

Moreover, Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so that the whole age of Jacob was a hundred and forty seven years.

When the time drew nigh that Israel must die, he sent for his son Joseph and said unto him, "If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and deal mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt:

after these deeds, tidings were brought unto Joseph, that his father was sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

And the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth."

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. And he lift up his father's hand, to have removed it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head,

And Jacob called for his sons and said, "Come together, that I may tell you what shall happen you in the last days.

and saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant, and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

Dan shall be a serpent in the way, and an adder in the path, and bite the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

"That flourishing child, Joseph; that flourishing child, and goodly unto the eye! The daughters come forth to bear rule;

Thy father's God shall help thee, and the almighty shall bless thee with blessings from heaven above, and with blessings of the water that lieth under, and with blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

The blessings of thy father were strong: even as the blessings of my elders, after the desire of the highest in the world. And these blessings shall fall on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is that which their father spake unto them when he blessed them, every man with a several blessing.

And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.

which field and the cave that is therein, was bought of the children of Heth."

When Jacob had commanded all that he would unto his sons, he plucked up his feet upon the bed and died, and was put unto his people.

And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,

And when the days of weeping were ended, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favour in your eyes, speak unto Pharaoh and tell him, how that

my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again."

And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh that were the elders of his house, and all the elders of Egypt,

And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company.

And Joseph returned to Egypt again, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, as soon as he had buried him.

When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, "Joseph might fortune to hate us and reward us again all the evil which we did unto him."

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence."