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 <div class="label">48</div><div class="p"> 1And 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. 2And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4and 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. 5And 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. 6And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 7And 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 Beth-lehem.</div><div class="p"> 8And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? 9And 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. 10Now 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. 11And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. 12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13And 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. 14And 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. 15And 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, 16the 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.</div><div class="p"> 17And 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. 18And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. 19And 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. 20And 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. 21And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 22Moreover 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.</div>
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 <div class="label">49</div><div class="s2">Jacob's Blessing</div><div class="p"> 1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.</div><div class="q1"> 2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;</div><div class="q1">And hearken unto Israel your father.</div><div class="q1"> 3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength,</div><div class="q1">The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:</div><div class="q1"> 4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel;</div><div class="q1">Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed;</div><div class="q1">Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.</div><div class="q1"> 5Simeon and Levi are brethren;</div><div class="q1">Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.</div><div class="q1"> 6O my soul, come not thou into their secret;</div><div class="q1">Unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united:</div><div class="q1">For in their anger they slew a man,</div><div class="q1">And in their selfwill they digged down a wall.</div><div class="q1"> 7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;</div><div class="q1">And their wrath, for it was cruel:</div><div class="q1">I will divide them in Jacob,</div><div class="q1">And scatter them in Israel.</div><div class="q1"> 8Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:</div><div class="q1">Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;</div><div class="q1">Thy father's children shall bow down before thee.</div><div class="q1"> 9Judah is a lion's whelp:</div><div class="q1">From the prey, my son, thou art gone up:</div><div class="q1">He stooped down, he couched as a lion,</div><div class="q1">And as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?</div><div class="q1"> 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,</div><div class="q1">Nor a lawgiver from between his feet,</div><div class="q1">Until Shiloh come;</div><div class="q1">And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.</div><div class="q1"> 11Binding his foal unto the vine,</div><div class="q1">And his ass's colt unto the choice vine;</div><div class="q1">He washed his garments in wine,</div><div class="q1">And his clothes in the blood of grapes:</div><div class="q1"> 12His eyes shall be red with wine,</div><div class="q1">And his teeth white with milk.</div><div class="q1"> 13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea;</div><div class="q1">And he shall be for an haven of ships;</div><div class="q1">And his border shall be unto Zidon.</div><div class="q1"> 14Issachar is a strong ass</div><div class="q1">Couching down between two burdens:</div><div class="q1"> 15And he saw that rest was good,</div><div class="q1">And the land that it was pleasant;</div><div class="q1">And bowed his shoulder to bear,</div><div class="q1">And became a servant unto tribute.</div><div class="q1"> 16Dan shall judge his people,</div><div class="q1">As one of the tribes of Israel.</div><div class="q1"> 17Dan shall be a serpent by the way,</div><div class="q1">An adder in the path,</div><div class="q1">That biteth the horse heels,</div><div class="q1">So that his rider shall fall backward.</div><div class="q1"> 18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.</div><div class="q1"> 19Gad, a troop shall overcome him:</div><div class="q1">But he shall overcome at the last.</div><div class="q1"> 20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat,</div><div class="q1">And he shall yield royal dainties.</div><div class="q1"> 21Naphtali is a hind let loose:</div><div class="q1">He giveth goodly words.</div><div class="q1"> 22Joseph is a fruitful bough,</div><div class="q1"> Even a fruitful bough by a well;</div><div class="q1"> Whose branches run over the wall:</div><div class="q1"> 23The archers have sorely grieved him,</div><div class="q1">And shot at him, and hated him:</div><div class="q1"> 24But his bow abode in strength,</div><div class="q1">And the arms of his hands were made strong</div><div class="q1">By the hands of the mighty God of Jacob;</div><div class="q1">(From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)</div><div class="q1"> 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee;</div><div class="q1">And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee</div><div class="q1">With blessings of heaven above,</div><div class="q1">Blessings of the deep that lieth under,</div><div class="q1">Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:</div><div class="q1"> 26The blessings of thy father</div><div class="q1">Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors</div><div class="q1">Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:</div><div class="q1">They shall be on the head of Joseph,</div><div class="q1">And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.</div><div class="q1"> 27Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf:</div><div class="q1">In the morning he shall devour the prey,</div><div class="q1">And at night he shall divide the spoil.</div><div class="s2">Death of Jacob</div><div class="p"> 28All 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. 29And 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, 30in 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. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. 33And 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.</div>
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 <div class="label">50</div><div class="p"> 1And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3And 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.</div><div class="p"> 4And 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, 5My 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. 6And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.</div><div class="p"> 7And 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, 8and 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. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 10And 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. 11And 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. 12And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 13for 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. 14And 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.</div><div class="s2">Death of Joseph</div><div class="p"> 15And 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. 16And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 17So 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. 18And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. 19And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 20But 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. 21Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.</div><div class="p"> 22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 23And 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. 24And 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. 25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.</div>
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 <div class="label">31</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.</div><div class="q1"> 1In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust;</div><div class="q2">Let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.</div><div class="q1"> 2Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily:</div><div class="q2">Be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3For thou art my rock and my fortress;</div><div class="q2">Therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.</div><div class="q1"> 4Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:</div><div class="q2">For thou art my strength.</div><div class="q1"> 5Into thine hand I commit my spirit:</div><div class="q2">Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6I have hated them that regard lying vanities:</div><div class="q2">But I trust in the LORD.</div><div class="q1"> 7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:</div><div class="q2">For thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;</div><div class="q1"> 8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:</div><div class="q2">Thou hast set my feet in a large room.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble:</div><div class="q2">Mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.</div><div class="q1"> 10For my life is spent with grief,</div><div class="q2">And my years with sighing:</div><div class="q1">My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,</div><div class="q1">And my bones are consumed.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours,</div><div class="q2">And a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.</div><div class="q1"> 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:</div><div class="q2">I am like a broken vessel.</div><div class="q1"> 13For I have heard the slander of many:</div><div class="q2">Fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 14But I trusted in thee, O LORD:</div><div class="q2">I said, Thou art my God.</div><div class="q1"> 15My times are in thy hand:</div><div class="q2">Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.</div><div class="q1"> 16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:</div><div class="q2">Save me for thy mercies' sake.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee:</div><div class="q2">Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.</div><div class="q1"> 18Let the lying lips be put to silence;</div><div class="q2">Which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;</div><div class="q2"> Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!</div><div class="q1"> 20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man:</div><div class="q2">Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 21Blessed be the LORD:</div><div class="q2">For he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.</div><div class="q1"> 22For I said in my haste,</div><div class="q2">I am cut off from before thine eyes:</div><div class="q1">Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of</div><div class="q2">My supplications when I cried unto thee.</div><div class="q1"> 23O love the LORD, all ye his saints:</div><div class="q2"> For the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.</div><div class="q1"> 24Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,</div><div class="q2">All ye that hope in the LORD.</div><div class="b"></div>
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