Genesis:46:1-49:28
geneva@Genesis:46:1 @ And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and (note:)By this he signified both that he worshipped the true God, and that he kept in his heart the possession of that land from which need drove him at that time.(:note) offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
geneva@Genesis:46:2 @ And God spake vnto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Iaakob, Iaakob. Who answered, I am here.
geneva@Genesis:46:3 @ Then hee sayde, I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to goe downe into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.
geneva@Genesis:46:4 @ I will (note:)Conducting you by my power.(:note) go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely In your posterity. bring thee up [again]: and Joseph shall Shall shut your eyes when you die: which belongs to him that was most dear or chief of the kindred. put his hand upon thine eyes.
geneva@Genesis:46:5 @ Then Iaakob rose vp from Beer-sheba: and the sonnes of Israel caried Iaakob their father, & their children, & their wiues in the charets, which Pharaoh had sent to cary him.
geneva@Genesis:46:6 @ And they tooke their cattell & their goods, which they had gotten in the lande of Canaan, and came into Egypt, both Iaakob and all his seede with him,
geneva@Genesis:46:7 @ His sonnes and his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters and his sonnes daughters, and al his seede brought he with him into Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:46:8 @ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, euen Iaakob and his sonnes: Reuben, Iaakobs first borne.
geneva@Genesis:46:9 @ And the sonnes of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
geneva@Genesis:46:10 @ And the sonnes of Simeon: Iemuel, & Iamin, and Ohad, and Iachin, and Zohar; & Shaul the sonne of a Canaanitish woman.
geneva@Genesis:46:11 @ Also the sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
geneva@Genesis:46:12 @ Also the sonnes of Iudah: Er, & Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: (but Er and Onan died in ye land of Canaan) And the sonnes of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
geneva@Genesis:46:13 @ Also the sonnes of Issachar: Tola, and Phuuah, and Iob, and Shimron.
geneva@Genesis:46:14 @ Also the sonnes of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Iahleel.
geneva@Genesis:46:15 @ These bee the sonnes of Leah, which shee bare vnto Iaakob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the soules of his sonnes & his daughters were thirtie and three.
geneva@Genesis:46:16 @ Also the sonnes of Gad: Ziphion, & Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
geneva@Genesis:46:17 @ Also the sonnes of Asher: Iimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
geneva@Genesis:46:18 @ These are the children of Zilpah, whome Laban gaue to Leah his daughter: and these shee bare vnto Iaakob, euen sixtene soules.
geneva@Genesis:46:19 @ The sonnes of Rahel Iaakobs wife were Ioseph and Beniamin.
geneva@Genesis:46:20 @ And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt were borne Manasseh, and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On bare vnto him.
geneva@Genesis:46:21 @ Also the sonnes of Beniamin: Belah, & Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
geneva@Genesis:46:22 @ These are the sonnes of Rahel, which were borne vnto Iaakob, fourteene soules in all.
geneva@Genesis:46:23 @ Also the sonnes of Dan: Hushim.
geneva@Genesis:46:24 @ Also the sonnes of Naphtali: Iahzeel, & Guni, and Iezer, and Shillem.
geneva@Genesis:46:25 @ These are the sonnes of Bilhah, which Laban gaue vnto Rahel his daughter, and shee bare these to Iaakob, in all, seuen soules.
geneva@Genesis:46:26 @ Al the soules, that came with Iaakob into Egypt, which came out of his loynes (beside Iaakobs sonnes wiues) were in the whole, three score and sixe soules.
geneva@Genesis:46:27 @ Also the sonnes of Ioseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two soules: so that al the soules of the house of Iaakob, which came into Egypt, are seuentie.
geneva@Genesis:46:28 @ The he sent Iudah before him vnto Ioseph, to direct his way vnto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
geneva@Genesis:46:29 @ Then Ioseph made ready his charet and went vp to Goshen to meete Israel his father, and presented himselfe vnto him and fel on his necke, and wept vpon his necke a good while.
geneva@Genesis:46:30 @ And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, Now let me die, since I haue seene thy face, and that thou art yet aliue.
geneva@Genesis:46:31 @ Then Ioseph said to his brethren, & to his fathers house, I wil go vp and shew Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me,
geneva@Genesis:46:32 @ And the men [are] (note:)He was not ashamed of his father and kindred, though they were of base condition.(:note) shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
geneva@Genesis:46:33 @ And if Pharaoh call you, and aske you, What is your trade?
geneva@Genesis:46:34 @ That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, [and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an (note:)God permits the world to hate his own, so they will forsake the filth of the world, and cling to him.(:note) abomination unto the Egyptians.
geneva@Genesis:47:1 @ Then came Ioseph and tolde Pharaoh, and sayde, My father, and my brethren, and their sheepe, and their cattell, and all that they haue, are come out of the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
geneva@Genesis:47:2 @ And he took some of his brethren, [even] (note:)That the king might be assured that they had come, and to see what type of people they were.(:note) five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
geneva@Genesis:47:3 @ Then Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy seruants are shepheards, both we and our fathers.
geneva@Genesis:47:4 @ They sayde moreouer vnto Pharaoh, For to soiourne in ye lande are we come: for thy seruants haue no pasture for their sheepe, so sore is ye famine in the lande of Canaan. Nowe therefore, we pray thee, let thy seruants dwel in the land of Goshen.
geneva@Genesis:47:5 @ Then spake Pharaoh to Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.
geneva@Genesis:47:6 @ The (note:)Joseph's great modesty appears in that he would attempt nothing without the king's commandment.(:note) 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.
geneva@Genesis:47:7 @ Ioseph also brought Iaakob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; Iaakob saluted Pharaoh.
geneva@Genesis:47:8 @ Then Pharaoh sayde vnto Iaakob, Howe olde art thou?
geneva@Genesis:47:9 @ And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth & thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.
geneva@Genesis:47:10 @ And Iaakob tooke leaue of Pharaoh, & departed from the presence of Pharaoh.
geneva@Genesis:47:11 @ 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 (note:)Which was a city in the country of Goshen, (Exo_1:11).(:note) Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
geneva@Genesis:47:12 @ And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, (note:)Some read that he fed them as little babies, because they could not provide for themselves against that famine.(:note) according to [their] families.
geneva@Genesis:47:13 @ Now there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan were famished by reason of the famine.
geneva@Genesis:47:14 @ 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 (note:)In which he both declares his faithfulness to the king, and his freedom from covetousness.(:note) Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
geneva@Genesis:47:15 @ So when money fayled in the lande of Egypt, and in the lande of Canaan, then all the Egyptians came vnto Ioseph, and sayde, Giue vs bread: for why should we dye before thee? for our money is spent.
geneva@Genesis:47:16 @ Then saide Ioseph, Bring your cattell, and I will giue you for your cattell, if your money be spent.
geneva@Genesis:47:17 @ So they brought their cattell vnto Ioseph, and Ioseph gaue them bread for the horses, & for the flockes of sheepe, and for the heards of cattel, and for the asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattell that yeere.
geneva@Genesis:47:18 @ But when the yeere was ended, they came vnto him the next yeere, and sayd vnto him, We will not hide from my lord, that since our money is spent, and my lord hath the heards of the cattel, there is nothing left in the sight of my lorde, but our bodies and our ground.
geneva@Genesis:47:19 @ Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our (note:)For unless the ground is tilled and sown, it perishes and is as if it was dead.(:note) 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.
geneva@Genesis:47:20 @ So Ioseph bought all the lande of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians solde euery man his ground because the famine was sore vpon the: so the land became Pharaohs.
geneva@Genesis:47:21 @ And as for the people, he (note:)By this changing they signified that they had nothing of their own, but received everything from the king's generosity.(:note) removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.
geneva@Genesis:47:22 @ Onely the lande of the Priestes bought he not: for the Priestes had an ordinarie of Pharaoh, and they did eate their ordinarie, which Pharaoh gaue them: wherefore they solde not their grounde.
geneva@Genesis:47:23 @ Then Ioseph sayd vnto the people, Behold, I haue bought you this daye, and your lande for Pharaoh: lo, here is seede for you: sowe therefore the grounde.
geneva@Genesis:47:24 @ And of the encrease ye shall giue the fifth part vnto Pharaoh, and foure partes shalbe yours for the seede of the fielde, and for your meate, and for them of your housholdes, and for your children to eate.
geneva@Genesis:47:25 @ Then they answered, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs finde grace in the sight of my Lorde, and we will be Pharaohs seruants.
geneva@Genesis:47:26 @ And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; (note:)Pharaoh, in providing for idolatrous priests, will be a condemnation to all those who neglect the true ministers of God's word.(:note) except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's.
geneva@Genesis:47:27 @ And Israel dwelt in the lande of Egypt, in the countrey of Goshen: and they had their possessions therein, and grewe and multiplied exceedingly.
geneva@Genesis:47:28 @ Moreouer, Iaakob liued in the lande of Egypt seuenteene yeeres, so that the whole age of Iaakob was an hundreth fourtie and seuen yeere.
geneva@Genesis:47:29 @ Now when the time drewe neere that Israel must dye, he called his sonne Ioseph, and sayde vnto him, If I haue nowe founde grace in thy sight, put thine hand nowe vnder my thigh, and deale mercifully & truely with me: burie me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:47:30 @ But I will (note:)By this he demonstrated that he died in the faith of his fathers, teaching his children to hope for the promised land.(:note) 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.
geneva@Genesis:47:31 @ And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel (note:)He rejoiced that Joseph had promised him, and setting himself up on his pillows, praised God; (1Ch_29:10).(:note) bowed himself upon the bed's head.
geneva@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 (note:)Joseph valued his children being received into Jacob's family, which was the Church of God, more than enjoying all the treasures of Egypt.(:note) two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
geneva@Genesis:48:2 @ Also one told Iaakob, and said, Behold, thy sonne Ioseph is come to thee, and Israel tooke his strength vnto him and sate vpon the bed.
geneva@Genesis:48:3 @ Then Iaakob sayde vnto Ioseph, God almightie appeared vnto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me.
geneva@Genesis:48:4 @ 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 (note:)Which is true in the carnal Israel until the coming of Christ, and in the spiritual forever.(:note) everlasting possession.
geneva@Genesis:48:5 @ And now thy two sonnes, Manasseh & Ephraim, which are borne vnto thee in the lande of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
geneva@Genesis:48:6 @ But the linage, which thou hast begotten after them, shalbe thine: they shall be called after the names of their brethren in their inheritance.
geneva@Genesis:48:7 @ Nowe when I came from Padan, Rahel died vpon mine hande in the lande of Canaan, by the way when there was but halfe a dayes iourney of grounde to come to Ephrath: and I buryed her there in the way to Ephrath: the same is Beth-lehem.
geneva@Genesis:48:8 @ Then Israel beheld Iosephs sonnes & sayd, Whose are these?
geneva@Genesis:48:9 @ And Joseph said unto his father, They [are] my sons, whom (note:)The faithful acknowledge all benefits come from God's free mercy.(:note) God hath given me in this [place]. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
geneva@Genesis:48:10 @ (For the eyes of Israel were dimme for age, so that hee coulde not well see) Then he caused them to come to him, & he kissed them and embraced them.
geneva@Genesis:48:11 @ And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, I had not thought to haue seene thy face: yet lo, God hath shewed me also thy seede.
geneva@Genesis:48:12 @ And Ioseph tooke them away from his knees, & did reuerence downe to the ground.
geneva@Genesis:48:13 @ Then tooke Ioseph them both, Ephraim in his right hand towarde Israels left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israels right hand, so he brought them vnto him.
geneva@Genesis:48:14 @ And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it] upon (note:)God's judgments are often contrary to man's and he prefers what man despises.(:note) Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the firstborn.
geneva@Genesis:48:15 @ Also he blessed Ioseph and sayde, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Izhak did walke, the God, which hath fed me al my life long vnto this day, blesse thee.
geneva@Genesis:48:16 @ The (note:)This angel must be understood to be Christ, as in (Gen_31:13, Gen_32:1).(:note) Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my Let them be taken as my children. 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.
geneva@Genesis:48:17 @ And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it (note:)Joseph fails by binding God's grace to the order of nature.(:note) displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
geneva@Genesis:48:18 @ And Ioseph sayde vnto his father, Not so, my father, for this is the eldest: put thy right hand vpon his head.
geneva@Genesis:48:19 @ But his father refused, & sayd, I know well, my sonne, I know well: he shalbe also a people, and he shalbe great likewise: but his yonger brother shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall be full of nations.
geneva@Genesis:48:20 @ And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as (note:)In whom God's graces should manifestly appear.(:note) Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
geneva@Genesis:48:21 @ And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of (note:)Which they had by faith in the promise.(:note) your fathers.
geneva@Genesis:48:22 @ Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which (note:)By my children whom God spared for my sake.(:note) I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
geneva@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 (note:)When God will bring you out of Egypt, and because he speaks of the Messiah, he calls it the last days.(:note) last days.
geneva@Genesis:49:2 @ Gather your selues together, and heare, ye sonnes of Iaakob, and hearken vnto Israel your father.
geneva@Genesis:49:3 @ Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my (note:)Begotten in my youth.(:note) might, and the beginning of my strength, If you have not left your birthright by your offence. the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
geneva@Genesis:49:4 @ Thou wast light as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bed: then diddest thou defile my bed, thy dignitie is gone.
geneva@Genesis:49:5 @ Simeon and Leui, brethren in euill, the instruments of crueltie are in their habitations.
geneva@Genesis:49:6 @ O my soul, come not thou into their (note:)Or, tongue: meaning that he neither consented to them in word or thought.(:note) secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a The Shechemites (Gen_34:26). man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
geneva@Genesis:49:7 @ Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will (note:)For Levi had no part, and Simeon was under Judah, (Jos_19:1) till God gave them the place of the Amalekites, (1Ch_4:43).(:note) divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
geneva@Genesis:49:8 @ Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall (note:)As was verified in David and Christ.(:note) bow down before thee.
geneva@Genesis:49:9 @ 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; (note:)His enemies will so fear him.(:note) who shall rouse him up?
geneva@Genesis:49:10 @ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until (note:)Which is Christ the Messiah, the giver of prosperity who will call the Gentiles to salvation.(:note) Shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be].
geneva@Genesis:49:11 @ Binding his foal unto the (note:)A country most abundant with vines and pastures is promised to him.(:note) vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
geneva@Genesis:49:12 @ His eyes shalbe red with wine, and his teeth white with milke.
geneva@Genesis:49:13 @ Zebulun shall dwell by the sea side, and he shalbe an hauen for shippes: and his border shalbe vnto Zidon.
geneva@Genesis:49:14 @ Issachar [is] (note:)His force will be great, but he will lack courage to resist his enemies.(:note) a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
geneva@Genesis:49:15 @ And he shall see that rest is good, and that the land is pleasant, and he shall bow his shoulder to beare, and shalbe subiect vnto tribute.
geneva@Genesis:49:16 @ Dan (note:)Shall have the honour of a tribe.(:note) shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
geneva@Genesis:49:17 @ Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, byting the horse heeles, so that his rider shall fall backward.
geneva@Genesis:49:18 @
geneva@Genesis:49:19 @ Gad, an hoste of men shal ouercome him, but he shal ouercome at the last.
geneva@Genesis:49:20 @ Out of Asher his (note:)He will abound in corn and pleasant fruits.(:note) bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
geneva@Genesis:49:21 @ Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth (note:)Overcoming more by fair words than by force.(:note) goodly words.
geneva@Genesis:49:22 @ Ioseph shalbe a fruitefull bough, euen a fruitful bough by the well side: the smal boughs shall runne vpon the wall.
geneva@Genesis:49:23 @
geneva@Genesis:49:24 @ 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 (note:)That is God.(:note) stone of Israel:)
geneva@Genesis:49:25 @ Euen by the God of thy father, who shall helpe thee, and by the almightie, who shall blesse thee with heauenly blessinges from aboue, with blessings of the deepe, that lyeth beneath, with blessings of the brestes, and of the wombe.
geneva@Genesis:49:26 @ The blessings of thy father have (note:)In as much as he was closer to the accomplishment of the promise and it had been more often confirmed.(:note) 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 Either in dignity, or when he was sold from his brethren. separate from his brethren.
geneva@Genesis:49:27 @ Beniamin shall rauine as a wolfe: in the morning he shall deuoure the pray, and at night he shal deuide the spoyle.
geneva@Genesis:49:28 @ All these are the twelue tribes of Israel, and thus their father spake vnto them, and blessed them: euery one of them blessed hee with a seuerall blessing.
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