Genesis 43 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ But the famine prevailed in the land. ² And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again; buy us a little food. ³ And Judas spoke to him, saying, The man, the lord of the country, positively testified to us, saying, You⌃ shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you. ⁴ If, then, you send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy you food; ⁵ but if you send not our brother with us, we will not go: for the man spoke to us, saying, You⌃ shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you. ⁶ And Israel said, Why did you⌃ harm me, inasmuch as you⌃ told the man that you⌃ had a brother? ⁷ And they said, The man closely questioned us about our family also, saying, Does your father yet live, and have you⌃ a brother? and we answered him according to this question: did we know that he would say to us, Bring your brother? ⁸ And Judas said to his father Israel, Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you, and our store. ⁹ And I engage for him; at my hand do you require him; if I bring him not to you, and place him before you, I shall be guilty toward you for ever. ¹⁰ For if we had not tarried, we should now have returned twice. ¹¹ And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts. ¹² And take double money in your hands, and the money that was returned in your sacks, carry back with you, lest perhaps it is a mistake. ¹³ And take your brother; and arise, go down to the man. ¹⁴ And my God give you favor in the sight of the man, and send away your other brother, and Benjamin, for I accordingly as I have been bereaved, am bereaved. ¹⁵ And the men having taken these presents, and the double money, took in their hands also Benjamin; and they rose up and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. ¹⁶ And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and kill beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon. ¹⁷ And the man did as Joseph said; and he brought the men into the house of Joseph. ¹⁸ And the men, when they perceived that they were brought into the house of Joseph, said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first; even in order to inform against us, and lay it to our charge; to take us for servants, and our asses. ¹⁹ And having approached the man who was over the house of Joseph, they spoke to him in the porch of the house, ²⁰ saying, We pray [you], Sir; we came down at first to buy food. ²¹ And it came to pass, when we came to unlade, and opened our sacks, [there was] also this money of each in his sack; we have now brought back our money by weight in our hands. ²² And we have brought other money with us to buy food; we know not who put the money into our sacks. ²³ And he said to them, [God deal] mercifully with you; be not afraid; your God, and the God of your fathers, has given you treasures in your sacks, and I have enough of your good money. And he brought Symeon out to them. ²⁴ And he brought water to wash their feet; and gave provender to their asses. ²⁵ And they prepared their gifts, until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that he was going to dine there. ²⁶ And Joseph entered into the house, and they brought him the gifts which they had in their hands, into the house; and they did him reverence with their face to the ground. ²⁷ And he asked them, How are you⌃? and he said to them, Is your father, the old man of whom you⌃ spoke, well? Does he yet live? ²⁸ And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God; —and they bowed, and did him reverence. ²⁹ And Joseph lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said, Is this your younger brother, whom you⌃ spoke of bringing to me? and he said, God have mercy on you, my son. ³⁰ And Joseph was troubled, for his bowels yearned over his brother, and he sought to weep; and he went into his chamber, and wept there. ³¹ And he washed his face and came out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. ³² And they set on [bread] for him alone, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians feasting with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians. ³³ And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his seniority, and the younger according to his youth; and the men looked with amazement every one at his brother. ³⁴ And they took their portions from him to themselves; but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as the portions of [the others]. And they drank and were filled with drink with him.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

¹³ And the Lord said to Abraam, Why is it that Sarrha has laughed in herself, saying, Shall I then indeed bear? but I am grown old.

⁵⁴ And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph said; and there was a famine in all the land; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ And all the land of Egypt was hungry; and the people cried to Pharao for bread. And Pharao said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph, and do whatever he shall tell you. ⁵⁶ And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians. ⁵⁷ And all countries came to Egypt to buy of Joseph, for the famine prevailed in all the earth.

⁵ And the sons of Israel came to buy with those that came, for the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

¹ [I saw] that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yes, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, [though] all are before their face. ² Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

¹⁰ Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

¹ And Jacob having seen that there was a sale [of corn] in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you⌃ indolent? ² Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down there, and buy for us a little food, that we may live, and not die.

⁴ If, then, you send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy you food;

²⁰ saying, We pray [you], Sir; we came down at first to buy food.

¹⁶ Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without the fear [of the Lord].

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, and folly before a fall.

¹⁶ She views a farm, and buys it: and with the fruit of her hands she plants and a possession.

¹⁵ herein shall you⌃ be manifested; by the health of Pharao, you⌃ shall not depart hence, unless your younger brother come here. ¹⁶ Send one of you, and take your brother; and go you⌃ to prison, till your words be clear, whether you⌃ speak the truth or not; but, if not, by the health of Pharao, verily you⌃ are spies. ¹⁷ And he put them in prison three days. ¹⁸ And he said to them on the third day, This do, and you⌃ shall live, for I fear God. ¹⁹ If you⌃ be peaceful, let one of your brethren be detained in prison; but go you⌃, and carry back the corn you⌃ have purchased. ²⁰ And bring your younger brother to me, and your words shall be believed; but, if not, you⌃ shall die. And they did so.

³³ And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Herein shall I know that you⌃ are peaceful; leave one brother here with me, and having taken the corn you⌃ have purchased for your family, depart. ³⁴ And bring to me your younger brother; then I shall know that you⌃ are not spies, but that you⌃ are men of peace: and I will restore you your brother, and you⌃ shall trade in the land.

⁵ but if you send not our brother with us, we will not go: for the man spoke to us, saying, You⌃ shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you.

²³ But you said to they servants, Except your younger brother come down with you, you⌃ shall not see my face again.

¹³ And David said, With a good will I will make with you a covenant: only I demand one condition of you, saying, You shall not see my face, unless you bring Melchol the daughter of Saul, when you come to see my face.

²⁴ And the king said, Let him return to his house, and not see my face. And Abessalom returned to his house, and saw not the king's face.

²⁸ And Abessalom remained in Jerusalem two full years, and he saw not the king's face.

³² And Abessalom said to Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come hither, and I will send you to the king, saying, Why did I come out of Gedsur? it would have been better for me to have remained there: and now, behold, I have not seen the face of the king; but if there is iniquity in me, then put me to death.

³⁸ But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and [suppose] it shall come to pass that he is afflicted by the way by which you⌃ go, then you⌃ shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades.

²⁶ And we said, We shall not be able to go down; but if our younger brother go down with us, we will go down; for we shall not be able to see the man's face, our younger brother not being with us.

¹² Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the good land, which the Lord your God gives to you.

¹³ And they said, We your servants are twelve brethren, in the land of Chanaan; and, behold, the youngest is with our father today, but the other one is not.

³ And Judas spoke to him, saying, The man, the lord of the country, positively testified to us, saying, You⌃ shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you.

²⁷ And he asked them, How are you⌃? and he said to them, Is your father, the old man of whom you⌃ spoke, well? Does he yet live?

² Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down there, and buy for us a little food, that we may live, and not die.

¹⁹ And do you charge them thus; that they should take for them waggons out of the land of Egypt, for your little ones, and for your wives; and take up your father, and come.

⁸ And all the household of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of his father, and his kindred; and they left behind the sheep and the oxen in the land of Gesem.

²¹ And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

³¹ And your little ones, who you⌃ said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which you⌃ rejected.

⁶ Let Ruben live, and not die; and let him be many in number.

⁴ If we should say, Let us go into the city, then [there is] famine in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, then we shall die. Now then come, and let us fall upon the camp of the Syrians: if they should take us alive, then we shall live; and if they should put us to death, then we shall [only] die.

¹³ And one of his servants answered and said, Let them now take five of the horses that were left, which were left here; behold, they are the number left to all the multitude of Israel; and we will send there and see.

²¹ And I proclaimed there a fast, at the river Aue, that [we] should humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our children, and for all our property.

¹⁷ Render a recompense to your servant: [so] shall I live, and keep your words.

⁵ For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of [his] brother man.

³⁹ That which was taken of beasts I brought not to you; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night.

³⁷ And Ruben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to you; give him into my hand, and I will bring him back to you.

³² For your servant has received the boy [in charge] from his father, saying, If I bring him not to you, and place him before you, I shall be guilty towards my father for ever. ³³ Now then I will remain a servant with you instead of the lad, a domestic of my lord; but let the lad go up with his brethren.

²¹ And it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son shall be offenders.

³ Who is this? let him join hands with me.

¹⁸ When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you have not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

²⁰ And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

⁶ But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them, that [soul] is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood [thereof] will I require at the watchman's hand.

⁸ When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die; [if] you speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

¹⁶ And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him.

¹³ And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried [with him], and sent out to Esau his brother, ¹⁴ two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams, ¹⁵ milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts. ¹⁶ And he gave them to his servants [each] drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove. ¹⁷ And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet you, and he ask you, saying, Whose are you? and whither would you go, and whose are these possessions advancing before you? ¹⁸ You shall say, Your servant Jacob's; he has sent gifts to my lord Esau, and behold! he is behind us. ¹⁹ And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall you⌃ speak to Esau when you⌃ find him; ²⁰ and you⌃ shall say, Behold your servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will behold his face, for perhaps he will accept me. ²¹ So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.

¹⁰ And Jacob said, If I have found grace in your sight, receive the gifts through my hands; therefore have I seen your face, as if any one should see the face of God, and you shall be well-pleased with me.

²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread; and having lifted up their eyes they [*]saw, and behold, Ismaelitish travellers came from Galaad, and their camels were heavily loaded with spices, and resin, and myrrh; and they went to bring them to Egypt.

¹⁴ And my God give you favor in the sight of the man, and send away your other brother, and Benjamin, for I accordingly as I have been bereaved, am bereaved.

²⁴ and I said to you, You⌃ shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, [even] a land flowing with milk and honey: I [am] the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people.

¹⁴ and of the fruits of the changes of the sun in season, and of the produce of the months,

⁷ And Saul said to his young man that was with him, Behold, then, we will go; but what shall we bring the man of God? for the loaves are spent out of our vessels, and we have nothing more with us that belongs to us to bring to the man of God.

²⁷ And now accept this token of goodwill, which your servant has brought to my lord, and you shall give it to the servants that wait on my lord.

²¹ And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.

¹⁵ Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the [country] beyond [the river], and of the princess of the land.

²⁵ And they brought every one their gifts, vessels of gold, and raiment, and stacte, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

¹⁹ Make a covenant between me and you, and between my father and your father: behold! I have sent forth to you gold and silver [for] gifts: come, break your league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may go up from me.

⁸ And the king said to Azael, Take in your hand a present, and go to meet the man of God, and enquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recover of this my disease?

⁸ And Achaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king's house, and sent gifts to the king.

¹² At that time Marodach Baladan, son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Ezekias, because he had heard that Ezekias was sick.

¹⁶ Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast you⌃ for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day: and I also and my maidens will fast; and then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.

²⁹ I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.

¹⁰ Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them.

¹¹ I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember your wonders from the beginning.

¹⁸ A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, [as he] also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.

¹⁶ A man's gift enlarges him, and seats him among princes.

⁶ Many court the favor of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to [another] man.

¹⁴ A secret gift calms anger: but he that forbears to give stirs up strong wrath.

¹⁰ How beautiful are your breasts, my sister, my spouse! how much more beautiful are your breasts than wine, and the smell of your garments than all spices!

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

¹⁴ Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.

²² And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?

¹⁵ The sons of the Rhodians were your merchants; from the islands they multiplied your merchandise, [even] elephants' teeth: and to them that came in you did return your prices,

¹⁷ Juda and the children of Israel, these were your merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to your trading [population].

²⁵ And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with corn, and to return their money to each into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and it was so done to them.

³⁵ And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man's bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.

¹ And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless.

¹⁴ And Abraam called the name of that place, The Lord has seen; that they might say today, In the mount the Lord was seen.

³ And may my God bless you, and increase you, and multiply you, and you shall become gatherings of nations.

¹¹ Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest haply he should come and strike me, and the mother upon the children. ¹² But you said, I will do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude. ¹³ And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried [with him], and sent out to Esau his brother, ¹⁴ two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams, ¹⁵ milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts. ¹⁶ And he gave them to his servants [each] drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove. ¹⁷ And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet you, and he ask you, saying, Whose are you? and whither would you go, and whose are these possessions advancing before you? ¹⁸ You shall say, Your servant Jacob's; he has sent gifts to my lord Esau, and behold! he is behind us. ¹⁹ And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall you⌃ speak to Esau when you⌃ find him; ²⁰ and you⌃ shall say, Behold your servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will behold his face, for perhaps he will accept me. ²¹ So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp. ²² And he rose up in that night, and took his two wives and his two servant-maids, and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of Jaboch. ²³ And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions. ²⁴ And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning. ²⁵ And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob's thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him. ²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him, What is your name? and he answered, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have prevailed with God, and shall be mighty with men.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am your God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of you, and kings shall come out of your loins.

²¹ And the Lord was with Joseph, and poured down mercy upon him; and he gave him favor in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison.

²⁴ And Joseph turned away from them, and wept; and again he came to them, and spoke to them; and he took Symeon from them, and bound him before their eyes.

³⁶ And their father Jacob said to them, You⌃ have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Symeon is not, and will you⌃ take Benjamin? all these things have come upon me.

²⁷ Blessed [be] the Lord God of our fathers, who has put it thus into the heart of the king, to glorify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

¹¹ [Turn] not [away], I pray you, O Lord, but let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who desire to fear your name: and prosper, I pray you, your servant this day, and cause him to find mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's cupbearer.

⁵ My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day. ⁷ For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

⁷ In the day of my trouble I cried to you: for you did hear me.

⁵ Him that privily speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from [me]: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, —with him I have not eaten.

¹ The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, who reigned in Israel;

¹ As a rush of water, so is the king's heart in God's hand: he turns it wherever he may desire to point out.

¹³ Rejoice, you⌃ heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break forth [with] joy; for the Lard has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his people.

² And Abram said, Master [and] Lord, what will you give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus [is mine heir.]

⁸ And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraam made a great feast the day that his son Isaac was weaned.

² And Abraam said to his servant the elder of his house, who had rule over all his possessions, Put your hand under my thigh, ³ and I will adjure you by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Chananites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them. ⁴ But you shall go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and you shall take from thence a wife for my son Isaac. ⁵ And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back your son to the land whence you came forth, if haply the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land? ⁶ And Abraam said to him, Take heed to yourself that you carry not my son back there. ⁷ The Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land whence I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to you and to your seed, he shall send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife to my son from thence. ⁸ And if the woman should not be willing to come with you into this land, you shall be clear from my oath, only carry not my son there again. ⁹ And the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraam, and swore to him concerning this matter. ¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels of his master's camels, and [he took] of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.

³⁰ And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

⁵⁴ And he offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren, and they ate and drank, and slept in the mountain.

⁴ And Joseph found grace in the presence of his lord, and was well-pleasing to him; and he set him over his house, and all that he had he gave into the hand of Joseph. ⁵ And it came to pass after that he was set over his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was on all his possessions in the house, and in his field.

¹⁹ And having approached the man who was over the house of Joseph, they spoke to him in the porch of the house,

¹ And Joseph charged the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put the money of each in the mouth of his sack.

⁴ And when they had gone out of the city, [and] were not far off, then Joseph said to his steward, Arise, and pursue after the men; and you shall overtake them, and say to them, Why have you⌃ returned evil for good?

¹¹ And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my beasts that I have slain for my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are?

² She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine in a bowl, and prepared her table.

²¹ And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he implored us, and we listened not to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us.

²⁸ And he said to his brethren, My money has been restored to me, and behold this is in my sack. And their heart was wonder-struck, and they were troubled, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us?

¹⁴ and attach to her reproachful words, and bring against her an evil name, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her I found not her tokens of virginity:

¹⁷ and now he has hated her, and attaches reproachful words to her, saying, I have not found tokens of virginity with your daughter; and these [are] the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall unfold the garment before the elders of the city.

²² And Manoe said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

⁴ And his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought to be revenged on the Philistines: and at that time the Philistines lorded it over Israel.

²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

¹⁴ And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.

⁵ He shall return evil to mine enemies; utterly destroy them in your truth.

¹⁶ The day is your, and the night is your; you have prepared the sun and the moon.

² And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.

³ And the ten brethren of Joseph went down to buy corn out of Egypt.

¹⁰ But they said, Nay, Sir, we your servants are come to buy food;

²⁷ And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack.

⁷ And they said, The man closely questioned us about our family also, saying, Does your father yet live, and have you⌃ a brother? and we answered him according to this question: did we know that he would say to us, Bring your brother?

²⁷ And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack. ²⁸ And he said to his brethren, My money has been restored to me, and behold this is in my sack. And their heart was wonder-struck, and they were troubled, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us? ²⁹ And they came to their father, Jacob, into the land of Chanaan, and reported to him all that had happened to them, saying, ³⁰ The man, the lord of the land, spoke harsh words to us, and put us in prison as spies of the land. ³¹ And we said to him, We are men of peace, we are not spies. ³² We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with his father today in the land of Chanaan. ³³ And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Herein shall I know that you⌃ are peaceful; leave one brother here with me, and having taken the corn you⌃ have purchased for your family, depart. ³⁴ And bring to me your younger brother; then I shall know that you⌃ are not spies, but that you⌃ are men of peace: and I will restore you your brother, and you⌃ shall trade in the land. ³⁵ And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man's bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.

¹² And take double money in your hands, and the money that was returned in your sacks, carry back with you, lest perhaps it is a mistake.

¹⁵ And the men having taken these presents, and the double money, took in their hands also Benjamin; and they rose up and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

²³ And the Lord said to him, Peace be to you, fear not, you shall not die.

²⁰ And the old man said, Peace [be] to you; only be every lack of your upon me, only do you by no means lodge in the street.

⁶ And thus shall you⌃ say, May you and your house seasonably prosper, and all your be in prosperity.

¹⁸ And the Spirit came upon Amasai, a captain of the thirty, and he said, Go, David, son of Jesse, you and your people, peace, peace be to you, and peace to your helpers, for your God has helped you. And David received them, and made them captains of the forces.

¹⁷ Then the king sent to Reum the chancellor, and Sampsa the scribe, and the rest of their fellow-servants who lived in Samaria, and the rest beyond the river, [saying, ]Peace; and he says,

⁴ Let water now be brought, and let them wash your feet, and do you⌃ refresh [yourselves] under the tree.

² Behold! [my] lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning you⌃ shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street.

³² And the man entered into the house, and unloaded the camels, and gave the camels straw and provender, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were with him.

¹¹ And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts.

¹⁶ And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and kill beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon.

²⁹ And let nations serve you, and princes bow down to you, and be you lord of your brother, and the sons of your father shall do you reverence; accursed is he that curses you, and blessed is he that blesses you.

⁷ I thought you⌃ were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and my sheaf stood up and was erected, and your sheaves turned round, and did obeisance to my sheaf. ⁸ And his brethren said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you indeed be lord over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words. ⁹ And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence. ¹⁰ And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which you have dreamed? shall indeed both I and your mother and your brethren come and bow before you to the earth?

¹⁹ And each said to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes. ²⁰ Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.

⁶ And Joseph was ruler of the land; he sold to all the people of the land. And the brethren of Joseph, having come, did reverence to him, [bowing] with the face to the ground.

²⁸ And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God; —and they bowed, and did him reverence.

⁹ They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

¹⁴ And Israel said to him, Go and see if your brethren and the sheep are well, and bring me word; and he sent him out of the valley of Chebron, and he came to Sychem.

¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharao and said, Without God an answer of safety shall not be given to Pharao.

¹¹ we are all sons of one man; we are peaceful, your servants are not spies.

⁷ And Moses went forth to meet his father-in-law, and did him reverence, and kissed him, and they embraced each other, and he brought them into the tent.

¹⁵ And they turned aside there, and went into the house of the young man, the Levite, [even] into the house of Michaias, and asked him how he was.

²² [And David deposited his burden in the hand of a keeper, and ran to the line, and went and asked his brethren how they Were. ]

⁵ And David sent ten young men, and he said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in my name how he is.

¹⁰ And he sent Aduram his son to king David to ask how he was, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Adraazar, and struck him; for Thoa was the enemy of Adraazar.

⁷ I thought you⌃ were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and my sheaf stood up and was erected, and your sheaves turned round, and did obeisance to my sheaf.

²⁶ And Joseph entered into the house, and they brought him the gifts which they had in their hands, into the house; and they did him reverence with their face to the ground.

² And it came to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came from the camp, from the people of Saul, and his garments were tore, and earth [was] upon his head: and it came to pass when he went in to David, that he fell upon the earth, and did obeisance to him.

⁴ So the woman of Thecoe went in to the king and fell upon her face to the earth, and did him obeisance, and said, Help, O king, help.

¹⁶ And Bersabee bowed, and did obeisance to the king; and the king said, What is your request?

¹⁷ And it came to pass after the death of Jodae, [that] the princes of Juda went in, and did obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.

²² And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and he opened her womb. ²³ And she conceived, and bore Jacob a son; and Rachel said, God has taken away my reproach. ²⁴ And she called his name Joseph, saying, Let God add to me another son.

¹⁷ And it came to pass in her hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Be of good courage, for you shall also have this son. ¹⁸ And it came to pass in her giving up the ghost (for she was dying), that she called his name, The son of my pain; but his father called his name Benjamin.

⁸ Now then you⌃ did not send me hither, but God; and he has made me as a father of Pharao, and lord of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.

²⁵ the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and have mercy upon you;

¹⁹ And Joshua said to Achar, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession; and tell me what you have done, and hide it not from me.

¹¹ And now be not lacking [to your duty], for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him to minister, and to be ministers and burners of incense to him.

¹ (68) For the end, a Psalm of a Song by David. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; and let them that hate him flee from before him.

⁴ To the upright light has sprung up in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous.

⁴ The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens.

¹ (134) A Song of Degrees. Behold now, bless you⌃ the Lord, all the servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. ² Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord.

¹⁹ For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: and [whereas] Jerusalem has wept bitterly, [saying], Pity me; he shall pity you: when he perceived the voice of your cry, he listened to you.

² Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in you: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.

⁹ And now entreat the face of your God, and make supplication to him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? says the Lord Almighty.

² And he uttered his voice with weeping; and all the Egyptians heard, and it was reported to the house of Pharao.

¹⁴ And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept on him; and Benjamin wept on his neck. ¹⁵ And he kissed all his brethren, and wept on them; and after these things his brethren spoke to him.

²⁹ And Joseph having made ready his chariots, went up to meet Israel his father, at the city of Heroes; and having appeared to him, fell on his neck, and wept with abundant weeping.

²⁶ And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray you, [my] lord, give her the child, and in nowise kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide [it].

²⁰ Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.

⁸ How shall I deal with you, Ephraim? [how] shall I protect you, Israel? what shall I do with you? I will make you as Adama, and as Seboim; my heart is turned at once, my repentance is powerfully excited.

¹ And Joseph could not refrain himself when all were standing by him, but said, Dismiss all from me; and no one stood near Joseph, when he made himself known to his brethren.

¹⁴ I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear: I have endured like a travailing [woman]: I will [now] amaze and wither at once.

¹⁶ The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly [to vengeance].

³⁴ You⌃ shall say, We your servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that you⌃ may dwell in the land of Gesem of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

²⁶ And Moses said, It can’t be so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians; for if we sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before them, we shall be stoned.

²² And he gave to them all two sets of raiment apiece; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of gold, and five changes of raiment.

⁵ And to Anna he gave a prime portion, because she had no child, only Helkana loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord [had] closed her womb.

²² And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them to the inn, and set them there a place among the chief of those that were called, about seventy men. ²³ And Samuel said to the cook, Give me the portion which I gave you, which I told you to set by you. ²⁴ Now the cook [had] boiled the shoulder, and he set it before Saul; and Samuel said to Saul, Behold that which is left: set before you, an eat; for it is set you for a testimony in preference to the others; take [of it]: and Saul ate with Samuel on that day.

⁸ And David said to Urias, Go to your house, and wash your feet: and Urias departed from the house of the king, and a portion [of meat] from the king followed him.

⁶ Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:

⁷ Go, eat your bread with mirth, and drink your wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted your works.

¹⁹ Men prepare bread for laughter, and wine and oil that the living should rejoice: but to money all things will humbly yield obedience.

¹ Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yes, brethren, drink abundantly.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.