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Today's Bible Reading :: Genesis 48 - 50 (KJV)

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Genesis 48

Israel's Last Days

(Heb 11:21 )
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:2 - And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:3 - And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 everlasting possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:8 - And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:9 - And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:11 - And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:15 - And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:18 - And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19 - And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

Genesis 49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 last days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:2 - Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 - Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:5 - Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 bow down before thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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; who shall rouse him up?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:10 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:11 - 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12 - His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:14 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 - Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:18 - I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:19 - Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:20 - Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:21 - Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:22 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:23 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 stone of Israel:)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:27 - Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:28 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:32 - The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:33 - 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.

Genesis 50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:2 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:9 - And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - 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.

Burial at Machpelah

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:12 - And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:18 - And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:19 - And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:20 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

Death of Joseph

(Heb 11:22 )
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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