The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. XLVIII.

1 Ioséph with his two sonnes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his sicke father. 3 Iaa∣kob rehearseth Gods promes. 5 He receiueth Iosephs, sonnes as his. 19 He preferreth the yonger. 21 He pro∣phecieth their returne to Canáan.

1 AGaine after this, one sayd to Ioséph, Lo, thy father is sicke: thē he toke with him hisa two sonnes, Manasséh and Ephráim.

2 Also one tolde Iaak ób, and said, Behold, thy sonne Ioséph is come to thee, & Israél toke hys strength vnto hym & sate vpon the bed

3 Then Iaak ób sayd vnto Ioséph, GOD” al∣myghtye appeared vnto me at * Luz in the land of Canáan, and blessed me.

4 And he said vnto me; Beholde, I will make thee fruteful, and wil multiplie thee, and will make a greate * nombre of people of thee, ād wil giue this land vnto thy sede after thee for anb euerlasting possession.

5 ¶ And no we thy two sonnes, Manasséh and Ephráim, whiche are borne vnto thee in the lande of Egypte, before I came to thee into Egypt, shalbe mine, as Reubén and Simeón are mine.

6 But thy lignage, whiche thou hast begotten after them, shalbe thyne: they shalbe called after the names of their brethren in their enheritance.

7 Now when I came from Padán, Rahél* dyed vpon myne hande in the land of Canáan, by the way when (there was) but halfe a dayes iourney of grounde to come to Ephráth: and I buryed her there in the waye to Ephráth: the same (is) Beth-léhem.

8 Then Israél behelde Iosephs sonnes ād said, Whose are these?

9 And Ioséph said vnto his father, They are my sonnes, whichec God hathe giuen me here, then he said, I praye thee, bring them to me, that I may blesse them:

10 [For the eyes of Israél were dim for age, so that he colde not (welse)] Then he caused them to come to hym, and he kyssed them and embraced them.

11 And Israél sayd vnto Ioséph, I had not tho∣ght to haue sene thy face: yetlo, God hathe shewed me also thy sede.

12 And Ioséph toke them away frō his knees, and did reuerence” downe to the ground.

13 Then toke Ioseph them bothe, Ephráim in his right hand toward Israels left hande, and Manasséh in hys left hande towarde Israels right hand, so he broght (them) vnto him.

14 But Israél stretched out his right hand, and laid it ond Ephraims head, whiche was the yonger, and his left hande vpon Manassehs head [directing his hands of purpose] for Ma nasséh (was) the elder.

15 ¶ * Also he blessed Ioséph and sayd, The God, before whome my fathers Abrahám and Izhák did walke, the GOD, whyche hathe fed me all my life long vnto this daye, (blesse thee.)

16 Thee Angell, whyche hathe deliuered me from all euill, blesse the children, and let myf name be named vppon them, and the name of my fathers Abrahám and Izhák, that they maye growe as fishe into a multitude in the middes of the earth.

17 But when Ioseph sawe that his father layd his right hand vpon the head of Ephráim, itg displeased him: and he stayed hys Fathers hande to remoue it from Ephraims head to Manassehs head.

18 And Ioséph said vnto his father, Not so my father, for this is the eldest: put thy right hand vpon his head.

19 But hys father refused, and sayd, I knowe well, my sonne, I knowe well: he shalbe also a people, and he shalbe great likewise: but his yonger brother shalbe greater thē he; ād

his sede shalbe ful of nations.

20 So he blessed them that daye, and sayd, In thee Israél shal blesse, ād say, God make thee ash Ephráim and as Manasséh, and he set E∣phráim before Manasséh.

21 Then Israél said vnto Ioséph, Behold, I dye, and God shalbe with you, and bryng you a∣gaine vnto the land ofi your fathers.

22 Moreouer, I haue giuen vnto thee one por∣cion aboue thy brethren, whichk I gate out of the hand of the Amorite by my sworde ād by my bowe.

Notes

• Chro. 29. 10.
• a

  Ioseph more estemeth that his children shulde be receiued into Iaakobs familie, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Was the Churche of God, then to enioye al the treasors of Egypt.
• ”

  Or, al 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Chap. 28. 13.
• Chap. 41. 50.
• Iosh. 13. 7.
• b

  VVhich is true in the carnall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vnto the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and in the spiri∣tual for euer.
• Chap. 35. 19.
• c

  The faithfull acknowledge all benefits to come of Gods fre mer∣cies.
• ”

  Ebr. his face to the grounde.
• d

  Gods 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is oft times 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to mans, & he preferreth that Whiche man 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Ebr. 11. 21.
• e

  Thys Angeil muste be vnder∣stand of Christ, as Chap. 31. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. and 32. 1.
• f

  Let them be ta∣ken as my chil∣dren.
• g

  Ioseph faileth in binding Gods grace to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of nature.
• h

  In whō Gods graces 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ma∣nifestly appeare.
• i

  VVhiche they had by fayth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• k

  By my 〈◊〉〈◊〉, whom God spa red for my sake.