The Beginning (Genesis) 49

1 Heel-Grabber (Jacob) called his sons, and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what will befall you in the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Heel-Grabber (Jacob); and listen to God Prevails (Israel) your father.

3 Behold a Son (Reuben), you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

4 Unstable as water, you will not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch.

5 Heard (Simeon) and Joined To (Levi) are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

6 O my soul, come not their secret. Into their assembly, my honor, be not united. In their anger, they slew a man, and in their self will they hamstrung an ox.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Heel-Grabber (Jacob), and scatter them in God Prevails (Israel) .

8 Praised (Judah), you are he whom your brethren shall praise. Your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies. Your Father's children shall bow down before you.

9 Praised (Judah) is a lion's whelp. With the prey, my son, you climb high. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

10 The scepter shall not depart from Praised (Judah), nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Tranquility (Shiloh) come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.

12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

13 Exalted (Zebulun) shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be n haven for ships; and his border shall be to Hunter/Fisher (Zidon).

14 Recompense (Issachar) is a strong ass couching down between two burdens.

15 He saw that rest was good, and that the land was pleasant. He bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.

16 Judge (Dan) shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of God Prevails (Israel) .

17 Judge (Dan) shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

18 I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.

19 Troop (Gad), a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

20 Out of Happy (Asher) his bread will be fat, and he will yield royal dainties.

21 Wrestling (Naphtali) is a deer let loose: he gives good words.

22 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall.

23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

24 But his bow was strong, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Heel-Grabber (Jacob); (from there is the shepherd, the stone of God Prevails (Israel).

25 The God of your father will help you. The the Nurturer (El Shaddai), will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lie under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They will be on the head of Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

27 Son of the Right Hand (Benjamin) is a ravenous wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

28 These are the twelve tribes of God Prevails (Israel). And this is what their father spoke over them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

29 Then he charged them, saying, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Fawn-Like (Ephron) the Terror (Hittite),

30 In the cave in the field of Double Portion (Machpelah), which is before Strength (Mamre), in the land of Humbled One (Canaan), which Father of a Multitude (Abraham) bought with the field of Fawn-Like (Ephron) the Terror (Hittite) for a possession of a burying place.

31 There they buried Father of a Multitude (Abraham) and Noblewoman (Sarah) his wife; there they buried Laughter (Isaac) and Secured (Rebekah) his wife; and there I buried Weary (Leah).

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is there was from the children of Terror (Heth).

33 And when Heel-Grabber (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 to his people.

The Beginning (Genesis) 44

1 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money.” He did what Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) had directed.

3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.

4 When they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you rewarded my lord with evil for good?”

5 Why have you taken his cup with which he divines. You have done evil in so doing.”

  6And he overtook them, and he spoke to them the same words.
  7They protested, “Why would my lord say these words? God forbid that you servants would do this thing!

8 Look! We brought back the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, from of the land of Humbled One (Canaan). Why would we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold?

9 With whomsoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.”

10 And he said, “I hear your words, but he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and you shall be blameless.”

11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

12 He searched, beginning with the eldest, down to the youngest: and the cup was found in Son of the Right Hand's (Benjamin) sack.

13 Then they tore their clothes, and reloaded every man's ass, and returned to the city.

14 Praised (Judah) and his brothers came to Yehovah Will Add's (Joseph) house; for he was still there: and they fell before him on the ground.

15 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly divine?”

16 Praised (Judah) pleaded, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? or How shall we clear ourselves? God ('Elohiym) has found out the iniquity of your servants. We are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.”

17 And he said, “God forbid should I do so! The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go in peace to your father.”

18 Then Praised (Judah) came near him, and said, “Oh my lord, please let your servant,, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant. For you are even as the Great House (Pharaoh).

19 My lord asked his servants, saying, “Have you a father, or a brother?

20 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

21 You said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.

22 And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

23 You said to your servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, you shall see my face no more.

24 When we got to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

26 We said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

27 Your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:

28 The one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces. I haven't seen him since.

29 If you take him also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

30 Now therefore if I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life.

31 It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

32 For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I don't bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

33 Now therefore, please, let your servant be a bondman to my lord instead of the lad; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? Lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.”