Bible (King James): Book 1 Genesis Part 12 from administrator's blog

01:049:001 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.

01:049:002 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and

           hearken unto Israel your father.

01:049:003 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of

           my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of

           power:

01:049:004 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.

01:049:005 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in

           their habitations.

01:049:006 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.

01:049:007 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.

01:049:008 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.

01:049:009 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?

01:049:010 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.

01:049:011 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:

01:049:012 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with

           milk.

01:049:013 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.

01:049:014 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

01:049:015 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.

01:049:016 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

01:049:017 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.

01:049:018 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

01:049:019 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the

           last.

01:049:020 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal

           dainties.

01:049:021 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

01:049:022 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;

           whose branches run over the wall:

01:049:023 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and

           hated him:

01:049:024 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:)

01:049:025 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:

01:049:026 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.

01:049:027 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour

           the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

01:049:028 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.

01:049:029 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,

01:049:030 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.

01:049:031 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they

           buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

01:049:032 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was

           from the children of Heth.

01:049:033 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.

01:050:001 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and

           kissed him.

01:050:002 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his

           father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

01:050:003 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.

01:050:004 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,

01:050:005 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.

01:050:006 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he

           made thee swear.

01:050:007 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,

01:050:008 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.

01:050:009 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it

           was a very great company.

01:050:010 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.

01:050:011 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

           Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

01:050:012 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

01:050:013 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.

01:050:014 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.

01:050:015 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.

01:050:016 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did

           command before he died, saying,

01:050:017 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.

01:050:018 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and

           they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

01:050:019 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of

           God?

01:050:020 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.

01:050:021 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little

           ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

01:050:022 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and

           Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

01:050:023 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.

01:050:024 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.

01:050:025 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.

01:050:026 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they

           embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.