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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="p">23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. 25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?</div><div class="p"> 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.</div><div class="p"> 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.</div>
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