Septuagint Complete Greek and English Edition

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  Chapter 48

  [1] And it came to pass after these things, that it was reported to Joseph, Behold, thy father is ill; and, having taken his two sons, Manasse and Ephraim, he came to Jacob. [2] And it was reported to Jacob, saying, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh to thee; and Israel having strengthened himself, sat upon the bed. [3] And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me in Luza, in the land of Chanaan, and blessed me, [4] and said to me, Behold, I will increase thee, and multiply thee, and will make of thee multitudes of nations; and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee, for an everlasting possession. [5] Now then thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasse, as Ruben and Symeon they shall be mine. [6] And the children which thou shalt beget hereafter, shall be in the name of their brethren; they shall be named after their inheritances. [7] And as for me, when I came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, Rachel, thy mother, died in the land of Chanaan, as I drew night to the horse-course of Chabratha of the land of Chanaan, so as to come to Ephratha; and I buried her in the road of the course; this is Bethlehem.

  [8] And when Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he said, Who are these to thee? [9] And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God gave me here; and Jacob said, Bring me them, that I may bless them. [10] Now the eyes of Israel were dim through age, and he could not see; and he brought them near to him, and he kissed them, and embraced them. [11] And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I have not been deprived of seeing thy face, and lo! God has showed me thy seed also. [12] And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and they did reverence to him, with their face to the ground. [13] And Joseph took his two sons, both Ephraim in his right hand, but on the left of Israel, and Manasse on his left hand, but on the right of Israel, and brought them near to him. [14] But Israel having stretched out his right hand, laid it on the head of Ephraim, and he was the younger; and his left hand on the head of Manasse, guiding his hands crosswise.

  [15] And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraam and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day; [16] the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraam and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth. [17] And Joseph having seen that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim — it seemed grievous to him; and Joseph took hold of the hand of his father, to remove it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasse. [18] And Joseph said to his father, Not so, father; for this is the first-born; lay thy right-hand upon his head. [19] And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. [20] And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel be blessed, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasse; and he set Ephraim before Manasse. [21] And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers. [22] And I give to thee Sicima, a select portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and bow.

  Chapter 49

  [1] And Jacob called his sons, and said to them, [2] Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear me, sons of Jacob; hear Israel, hear your father. [3] Ruben, thou art my first-born, thou my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, hard and self-willed. [4] Thou wast insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for thou wentest up to the bed of thy father; then thou defiledst the couch, whereupon thou wentest up. [5] Symeon and Levi, brethren, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off. [6] Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not mine inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their wrath they slew men, and in their passion they houghed a bull. [7] Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, and their anger, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. [8] Juda, thy brethren have praised thee, and thy hands shall be on the back of thine enemies; thy father’s sons shall do thee reverence. [9] Juda is a lion’s whelp: from the tender plant, my son, thou art gone up, having couched thou liest as a lion, and as a whelp; who shall stir him up? [10] A ruler shall not fail from Juda, nor a prince from his loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations. [11] Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his ass to the branch of it, he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape. [12] His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. [13] Zabulon shall dwell on the coast, and he shall be by a haven of ships, and shall extend to Sidon. [14] Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances. [15] And having seen the resting place that it was good, and the land that it was fertile, he subjected his shoulder to labour, and became a husbandman. [16] Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel. [17] And let Dan be a serpent in the way, besetting the path, biting the heel of the horse (and the rider shall fall backward), [18] waiting for the salvation of the Lord. [19] Gad, a plundering troop shall plunder him; but he shall plunder him, pursuing him closely. [20] Aser, his bread shall be fat; and he shall yield dainties to princes. [21] Nephthalim is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit. [22] Joseph is a son increased; my dearly loved son is increased; my youngest son, turn to me. [23] Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached him, and the archers pressed hard upon him. [24] But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of thy father; [25] and my God helped thee, and he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb, [26] the blessings of thy father and thy mother — it has prevailed above the blessing of the lasting mountains, and beyond the blessings of the everlasting hills; they shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the head of the brothers of whom he took the lead. [27] Benjamin, as a ravening wolf, shall eat still in the morning, and at evening he gives food. [28] All these are the twelve sons of Jacob; and their father spoke these words to them, and he blessed them; he blessed each of them according to his blessing. [29] And he said to them, I am added to my people; ye shall bury me with my fathers in the cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Chettite, [30] in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, the cave which Abraam bought of Ephron the Chettite, for a possession of a sepulchre. [31] There they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife; there they buried Isaac, and Rebecca his wife; there they buried Lea; [32] in the portion of the field, and of the cave that was in it, purchased of the sons of Chet. [33] And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.

  Chapter 50

  [1] And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept on him, and kissed him. [2] And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers embalmed Israel. [3] And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days. [4] And when the days of mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the princes of Pharao, saying, If I have found favour in your sight, speak concerning me in the ears of Pharao, saying, [5] My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulchre which I dug for myself in the land of Chanaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again. [6] And Pharao said to Joseph, Go up, bury thy father, as he constrained thee to swear. [7] So Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharao went up with him, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. [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. [9] And there
went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great company. [10] And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. [11] And the inhabitants of the land of Chanaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan. [12] And thus his sons did to him. [13] So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre. [14] And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and those that had gone up with him to bury his father.

  [15] And when the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, Let us take heed, lest at any time Joseph remember evil against us, and recompense to us all the evils which we have done against him. [16] And they came to Joseph, and said, Thy father adjured us before his death, saying, [17] Thus say ye to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done thee evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him. [18] And they came to him and said, We, these persons, are thy servants. [19] And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am God’s. [20] Ye took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is to-day, and much people might be fed. [21] And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. [22] And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all the family of his father; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. [23] And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir the son of Manasse were borne on the sides of Joseph. [24] And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God sware to our fathers, Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob. [25] And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you. [26] And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.

  Exodus

  Chapter 1

  [1] These are the names of the sons of Israel that came into Egypt together with Jacob their father; they came in each with their whole family. [2] Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas, [3] Issachar, Zabulon, Benjamin, [4] Dan and Nephthalim, Gad and Aser. [5] But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls born of Jacob were seventy-five. [6] And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. [7] And the children of Israel increased and multiplied, and became numerous and grew exceedingly strong, and the land multiplied them. [8] And there arose up another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. [9] And he said to his nation, Behold, the race of the children of Israel is a great multitude, and is stronger than we: [10] come then, let us deal craftily with them, lest at any time they be increased, and whensoever war shall happen to us, these also shall be added to our enemies, and having prevailed against us in war, they will depart out of the land. [11] And he set over them task-masters, who should afflict them in their works; and they built strong cities for Pharao, both Pitho, and Ramesses, and On, which is Heliopolis. [12] But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong; and the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel. [13] And the Egyptians tyrannised over the children of Israel by force. [14] And they embittered their life by hard labours, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence. [15] And the king of the Egyptians spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews; the name of the one was, Sepphora; and the name of the second, Phua. [16] And he said, When ye do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it. [17] But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive. [18] And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that ye have done this thing, and saved the male children alive? [19] And the midwives said to Pharao, The Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt, for they are delivered before the midwives go in to them. So they bore children. [20] And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong. [21] And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families. [22] And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

  Chapter 2

  [1] And there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi, who took to wife one of the daughters of Levi. [2] And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months. [3] And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river. [4] And his sister was watching from a distance, to learn what would happen to him.

  [5] And the daughter of Pharao came down to the river to bathe; and her maids walked by the river’s side, and having seen the ark in the ooze, she sent her maid, and took it up. [6] And having opened it, she sees the babe weeping in the ark: and the daughter of Pharao had compassion on it, and said, This is one of the Hebrew’s children. [7] And his sister said to the daughter of Pharao, Wilt thou that I call to thee a nurse of the Hebrews, and shall she suckle the child for thee? [8] And the daughter of Pharao said, Go: and the young woman went, and called the mother of the child. [9] And the daughter of Pharao said to her, Take care of this child, and suckled it for me, and I will give thee the wages; and the woman took the child, and suckled it. [10] And when the boy was grown, she brought him to the daughter of Pharao, and he became her son; and she called his name, Moses, saying, I took him out of the water.

  [11] And it came to pass in that length of time, that Moses having grown, went out to his brethren the sons of Israel: and having noticed their distress, he sees an Egyptian smiting a certain Hebrew of his brethren the children of Israel. [12] And having looked round this way and that way, he sees no one; and he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. [13] And having gone out the second day he sees two Hebrew men fighting; and he says to the injurer, Wherefore smitest thou thy neighbour? [14] And he said, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? wilt thou slay me as thou yesterday slewest the Egyptian? Then Moses was alarmed, and said, If it be thus, this matter has become known. [15] And Pharao heard this matter, and sought to slay Moses; and Moses departed from the presence of Pharao, and dwelt in the land of Madiam; and having come into the land of Madiam, he sat on the well. [16] And the priest of Madiam had seven daughters, feeding the flock of their father Jothor; and they came and drew water until they filled their pitchers, to water the flock of their father Jothor. [17] And the shepherds came, and were driving them away; and Moses rose up and rescued them, and drew water for them, and watered their sheep. [18] And they came to Raguel their father; and he said to them, Why have ye come so quickly to-day? [19] And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds, and drew water for us and watered our sheep. [20] And he said to his daughters, And where is he? and why have ye left the man? call him therefore, that he may eat bread. [21] And Moses was established with the man, and he gave Sepphora his daughter to Moses to wife. [22] And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gersam, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land. [23] And in those days after a length of time, the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God. [24] And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob. [25] And God looked upon the children of Israel, and was made known to them.

  Chapter 3

  [1] And Moses was feeding the flock of Jothor his father-in-law, the priest of Madiam; and he brough
t the sheep nigh to the wilderness, and came to the mount of Choreb. [2] And an angel of the Lord appeared to him in flaming fire out of the bush, and he sees that the bush burns with fire, — but the bush was not consumed. [3] And Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight, why the bush is not consumed. [4] And when the Lord saw that he drew nigh to see, the Lord called him out of the bush, saying, Moses, Moses; and he said, What is it? [5] And he said, Draw not nigh hither: loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. [6] And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraam, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and Moses turned away his face, for he was afraid to gaze at God. [7] And the Lord said to Moses, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their task-masters; for I know their affliction. [8] And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites. [9] And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me, and I have seen the affliction with which the Egyptians afflict them. [10] And now come, I will send thee to Pharao king of Egypt, and thou shalt bring out my people the children of Israel from the land of Egypt.

  [11] And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharao king of Egypt, and that I should bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt? [12] And God spoke to Moses, saying, I will be with thee, and this shall be the sign to thee that I shall send thee forth, — when thou bringest out my people out of Egypt, then ye shall serve God in this mountain. [13] And Moses said to God, Behold, I shall go forth to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of our fathers has sent me to you; and they will ask me, What is his name? What shall I say to them? [14] And God spoke to Moses, saying, I am THE BEING; and he said, Thus shall ye say to the children of Israel, THE BEING has sent me to you. [15] And God said again to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, The Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and my memorial to generations of generations. [16] Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt. [17] And he said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Chananites and the Chettites, and Amorites and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey. [18] And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou and the elders of Israel shall go in to Pharao king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us; we will go then a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to our God. [19] But I know that Pharao king of Egypt will not let you go, save with a mighty hand; [20] and I will stretch out my hand, and smite the Egyptians with all my wonders, which I shall work among them, and after that he will send you forth. [21] And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and whenever ye shall escape, ye shall not depart empty. [22] But every woman shall ask of her neighbour and fellow lodger, articles of gold and silver, and apparel; and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters, — and spoil ye the Egyptians.