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