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.

<>Jacob, <>sons, <>Gather yourselves together, <>in the last days

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

<>hear, <>hearken unto … your father, <>Israel

3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

<>vv. 3-4, <>Reuben, <>firstborn, <>might

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.

<>vv. 3-4, <>Unstable, <>couch

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

<>Simeon, <>Levi, <>instruments, <>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.

<>come not thou into their secret, <>come not thou into their secret … for in their anger they slew a man, <>honour, <>in their anger they slew a man, <>selfwill

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.

<>Cursed be their anger, <>their anger … was … fierce; and their wrath … 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.

<>Judah, <>children

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?

<>Judah is a lion's whelp

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.

<>The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, <>Shiloh, <>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:

<>the vine … the choice vine, <>washed … his clothes in the blood, <>garments, <>the blood of grapes

12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

<>His eyes shall be red with wine

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.

<>Zebulun, <>border

14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

<>Issachar, <>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.

<>the land … was pleasant, <>a servant, <>tribute

16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

<>Dan, <>shall judge his people

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.

<>v. 17, <>by the way

18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

<>v. 18, <>salvation

19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

<>Gad, <>he shall overcome at the last

20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

<>Asher, <>bread, <>fat, <>royal dainties

21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

<>Naphtali, <>he giveth goodly words

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

<>vv. 22-24, <>Joseph, <>a fruitful bough … whose branches run over the wall

23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

<>vv. 22-24, <>vv. 23-25, <>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:)

<>vv. 22-24, <>vv. 23-25, <>the mighty God, <>the shepherd, <>the stone of Israel, <>stone

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:

<>vv. 23-25, <>the God of thy father, <>blessings of heaven above

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.

<>The blessings … have prevailed … unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills, <>the everlasting hills

27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

<>Benjamin, <>shall ravin as a wolf, <>shall ravin … shall devour the prey, <>ravin

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.

<>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,

<>he charged them, <>I am to be gathered unto my people, <>bury me

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.

<>Abraham, <>for a possession

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

<>his wife … his wife, <>wife … wife, <>Isaac

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

<>purchase

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.

<>made an end of commanding, <>made an end, <>yielded up the ghost

1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

<>Joseph, <>kissed him

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

<>his servants, <>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.

<>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,

<>the days of his mourning were past, <>house, <>If now I have found grace in your eyes, <>found grace, <>grace, <>in the ears

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.

<>swear, <>I die, <>my grave which I have digged for me, <>grave, <>bury me … bury my father, <>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,

<>vv. 7-9

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.

<>vv. 7-9, <>their little ones

9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

<>vv. 7-9

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.

<>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.

<>inhabitants, <>the floor

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

<>did unto him according as he commanded

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.

<>Abraham, <>for a possession

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.

<>was dead, <>will peradventure hate us, <>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,

<>sent a messenger

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.

<>Forgive … forgive, <>Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren … forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father, <>the servants of the God of thy father, <>the God of thy father

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

<>we be thy servants

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

<>Fear not, <>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.

<>thought evil, <>God meant it unto good, <>God meant it … to save much people

21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

<>I will nourish you, and your little ones., <>little ones, <>comforted them

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

<>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 of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

<>v. 23, <>children … children, <>Manasseh

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.

<>the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, <>Isaac, <>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.

<>Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old, <>died

1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

<>children, <>Israel, <>Jacob

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

<>Reuben, <>Simeon, <>Levi, <>Judah

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

<>Issachar, <>Zebulun, <>Benjamin

4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

<>Dan, <>Naphtali, <>Gad, <>Asher

5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

<>Joseph

6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

<>v. 6

7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

<>the children of Israel were fruitful … and multiplied, <>waxed exceeding mighty

8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

<>lest they … get them up out of the land

11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

<>afflict, <>burdens, <>cities

12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

<>the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew

13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

<>v. 13

14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

<>bondage

15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

<>office, <>women, <>son … daughter

17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

<>the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, <>children

18 And 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?

19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

<>are lively, <>ere

20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

<>God … made them houses.

22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

<>charged, <>Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, <>is born