Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of the prince among his brethren. 27 Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; In the morning he devoureth the prey, And at even he divideth the spoil.' 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke 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 from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32The field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.' 33 And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people. 50 And 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. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days. 4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying: "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 back.' And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear." "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, 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. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. "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 the 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 burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of 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. 15And when a Heb. ebel. Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.' 16And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying: 17So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. 18And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.' 19And Joseph said unto them: 'Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.' And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them. 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.' 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.' 26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. שמות EXODUS 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household: "Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. "Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; 1ocome, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.' "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 14And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour. 15And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; 16and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.' "But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them: 'Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?' 19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.' 20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses. 22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: 'Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.' 2 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a she could not longer hide him, she judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, took for him an ark of bulrushes, and as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And daubed it with slime and with pitch; Moses feared, and said: 'Surely_the and she put the child therein, and thing is known.' 15Now when Phalaid it in the flags by the river's brink. raoh heard this thing, he sought to "And his sister stood afar off, to know slay Moses. But Moses fled from the what would be done to him. And face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land the daughter of Pharaoh came down of Midian; and he sat down by a well. to bathe in the river; and her maidens 16Now the priest of Midian had seven walked along by the river-side; and daughters; and they came and drew she saw the ark among the flags, and water, and filled the troughs to water sent her handmaid to fetch it. "And she their father's flock. 17And the shepopened it, and saw it, even the child; herds came and drove them away; but and behold a boy that wept. And she Moses stood up and helped them, and had compassion on him, and said: watered their flock. 18And when they "This is one of the Hebrews' children.' came to Reuel their father, he said: "Then said his sister to Pharaoh's 'How is it that ye are come so soon daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee to-day?' 19And they said: 'An Egypa nurse of the Hebrew women, that tian delivered us out of the hand she may nurse the child for thee?' of the shepherds, and moreover he And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: drew water for us, and watered the 'Go.' And the maiden went and called flock.' 20And he said unto his daughthe child's mother. And Pharaoh's ters: 'And where is he? why is it that daughter said unto her: "Take this ye have left the man? call him, that child away, and nurse it for me, and he may eat bread.' 21And Moses was I will give thee thy wages. And the content to dwell with the man; and he woman took the child, and nursed it. gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. 10 And the child grew, and she brought | 22And she bore a son, and he called him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he his name Gershom; for he said: 'I became her son. And she called his have been a stranger in a strange name Moses, and said: 'Because I land.' bdrew him out of the water.' 11And it came to pass in those days, 23 And it came to pass in the course when Moses was grown up, that he of those many days that the king of went out unto his brethren, and looked Egypt died; and the children of Israel on their burdens; and he saw an sighed by reason of the bondage, and Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of they cried, and their cry came up his brethren. 12 And he looked this unto God by reason of the bondage. way and that way, and when he saw 24And God heard their groaning, and that there was no man, he smote the God remembered His covenant with Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 13 And he went out the second day, 25And God saw the children of Israel, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews and God took cognizance of them. were striving together; and he said 3 Now Moses was keeping the flock to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore of Jethro his father-in-law, the smitest thou thy fellow?' 14And he priest of Midian; and he led the flock a Heb. Mosheh. b Heb. mashah, to draw out. • Heb. ger. to the farthest end of the wilderness, said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and came to the mountain of God, unto and this shall be the token unto thee, Horeb. And the angel of the LORD that I have sent thee: when thou appeared unto him in a flame of fire hast brought forth the people out of out of the midst of a bush; and he Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this looked, and, behold, the bush burned mountain.' 13And Moses said unto with fire, and the bush was not con- God: 'Behold, when I come unto the sumed. And Moses said: 'I will children of Israel, and shall say unto turn aside now, and see this great them: The God of your fathers hath sight, why the bush is not burnt.' sent me unto you; and they shall say 4And when the LORD saw that he to me: What is His name? what shall turned aside to see, God called unto I say unto them?' 14And God said him out of the midst of the bush, and unto Moses: 'I AM THAT I AM'; and said: 'Moses, Moses.' And he said: He said: "Thus shalt thou say unto 'Here am I.' And He said: 'Draw not the children of Israel: I AM hath sent nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off me unto you.' 15And God said morethy feet, for the place whereon thou over unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou standest is holy ground.' 'Moreover say unto the children of Israel: The He said: 'I am the God of thy father, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God the God of Abraham, the God of of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; Moses hid his face; for he was afraid this is My name for ever, and this is to look upon God. And the LORD My memorial unto all generations. said: 'I have surely seen the affliction 16Go, and gather the elders of Israel of My people that are in Egypt, and together, and say unto them: The have heard their cry by reason of LORD, the God of your fathers, the their taskmasters; for I know their God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of pains; and I am come down to deliver Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying: them out of the hand of the Egyptians, I have surely remembered you, and and to bring them up out of that land seen that which is done to you in unto a good land and a large, unto a Egypt. 17And I have said: I will land flowing with milk and honey; bring you up out of the affliction of unto the place of the Canaanite, and Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the and the Hittite, and the Amorite, Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and Jebusite. And now, behold, the cry the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with of the children of Israel is come unto milk and honey. 18 And they shall Me; moreover I have seen the oppres- hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt sion wherewith the Egyptians oppress come, thou and the elders of Israel, them. 10Come now therefore, and unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that say unto him: The LORD, the God thou mayest bring forth My people of the Hebrews, hath met with us. the children of Israel out of Egypt.' And now let us go, we pray thee, three "And Moses said unto God: "Who days' journey into the wilderness, that am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. and that I should bring forth the chil- 19And I know that the king of Egypt dren of Israel out of Egypt?' 12And He will not give you leave to go, except |