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) 48

1 And it came to pass after these things, that Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) was told, “Your father is sick.” He took his two sons, Causing to Forget (Manasseh) and Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim) with him.

2 When Heel-Grabber (Jacob) was told, “Your son Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) has come to see you.” God Prevails (Israel) strengthened himself, and sat up on the bed.

3 Heel-Grabber (Jacob) said, “Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), God the Nurturer (El Shaddai) appeared to me at Almond Tree (Luz) in the land of Humbled One (Canaan), and blessed me,

4 And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people; and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.

5 Now your two sons, Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim) and Causing to Forget (Manasseh), which were born to you in the land of Double Straights (Egypt) before I came to you in Double Straights (Egypt), are mine; as Behold a Son (Reuben) and Heard (Simeon), they shall be mine.

6 Your children, which you have after them, shall be yours, but shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

7 As for me, when I came from Field (Padan), Ewe (Rachel) died by me in the land of Humbled One (Canaan) on the way, a little way from Ash-Heap: Place of Fruitfulness (Ephrath). I buried her there in the way of Ash-Heap: Place of Fruitfulness (Ephrath). (The same is House of Bread (Bethlehem).)”

8 God Prevails (Israel) looked at Yehovah Will Add's (Joseph) sons, and said, “Who are these?”

9 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place.” And he said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”

10 Now the eyes of God Prevails (Israel) were dim for age, so that he could not see. Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) brought them near him. He kissed them, and embraced them.

11 Then God Prevails (Israel) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “I did not think I would see your face again: and here God ('Elohiym) has shown me your seed as well!”

12 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

13 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) took them both, Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim) in his right hand toward God Prevail's (Israel) left hand, and Causing to Forget (Manasseh) in his left hand toward God Prevails (Israel) 's right hand, and brought them near him.

14 God Prevails (Israel) stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim)'s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Causing to Forget (Manasseh)'s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Causing to Forget (Manasseh) was the firstborn.

15 Then he blessed Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), saying, “God ('Elohiym), before whom my fathers Father of a Multitude (Abraham) and Laughter (Isaac) did walk, the God ('Elohiym) which fed me all my life long to this day,

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 Father of a Multitude (Abraham) and Laughter (Isaac); and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

17 When Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim), it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful's (Ephraim) head to Causing to Forget's (Manasseh) head.

18 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) said to his father, “Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand upon his head.”

19 But his father refused, saying, “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.

20 And he blessed them that day, saying, “In you shall God Prevails (Israel) bless, saying, God ('Elohiym) make you as Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim) and as Causing to Forget (Manasseh).” And he set Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim) before Causing to Forget (Manasseh).

21 Then God Prevails (Israel) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “I am dying. But, God ('Elohiym) will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

22 I have given to you one portion above your brethren, which I took out of the hand of the The Talkers, Sayers (Amorite) with my sword and with my bow.”

The Beginning (Genesis) 42

1 Now when Heel-Grabber (Jacob) saw that there was corn in Double Straights (Egypt), Heel-Grabber (Jacob) said to his sons, “Why are you standing around just looking at each other?”

2 He said, “I have heard that there is corn in Double Straights (Egypt). Go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.”

3 So Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)'s ten brothers went down to buy corn in Double Straights (Egypt).

4 But Heel-Grabber (Jacob) would not send Son of the Right Hand (Benjamin), Yehovah Will Add's (Joseph) brother, with his brethren; for he said, “Lest mischief befall him.”

5 So the sons of God Prevails (Israel) went to buy grain along with others: for the famine was also in the land of Humbled One (Canaan).

6 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) was the governor over the land. It was he that sold to all the people of the land: and Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)'s brothers came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

7 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) saw his brothers, and he knew them, but didn't tell them, and spoke roughly to them. He said to them, “Where are you from?” They answered, “From the land of Humbled One (Canaan). We have come to buy food.”

8 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) knew his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

9 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, “You are spies. You have come to see the weakness of the land.”

10 They answered him, “No, my lord, Your servants came only to buy food.

11 We are all one man's sons; we are truthful men, your servants are not spies.”

12 He insisted, “No, you have come to see the weakness of the land.”

13 And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Humbled One (Canaan). The youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.”

14 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) accused them to them, “It is as I spoke to you, you are spies.

15 This is how you will be tested: By the life of the Great House (Pharaoh) you will not leave here, unless your youngest brother come here.

16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother. The rest of you will be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there is any truth in you: or else by the life of the Great House (Pharaoh) You are surely spies.”

17 And he put them all together in the prison for three days.

18 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) said to them on the third day, “This do, and live; for I fear God:

19 If you are honest, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go take corn for the famine to your houses:

20 But bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified, and you will not die.” And they did so.

21 They said one to another, “We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.”

22 Behold a Son (Reuben) answered them, saying, “Didn't I tell you, Do not sin against the child. But you wouldn't hear it? Therefore, blood is required.”

23 But they didn't know that Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) understood them because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

24 He turned himself from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and talked with them, and took Simeon from them, and bound him before their eyes.

25 Then Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way. This is what did he to them.

26 And they loaded their asses with the corn, and departed from there.

27 As one of them opened his sack to give his ass food when they stopped for the night, he saw his money., It was in his sack's mouth.

28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored. It is in my sack!” And their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, “What is this that God has done to us?”

29 They went back to Heel-Grabber (Jacob) their father in the land of Humbled One (Canaan), and told him all that happened to them; saying,

30 “The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

31 We said to him, We are honest men. We are not spies.

32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with our father in the land of Humbled One (Canaan).

33 And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, This is how I will know you are honest: Leave one of your brothers with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone.

34 And bring your youngest brother to me. Then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. Then I will deliver you your brother, and you will be able to trade in the land.”

35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

36 Heel-Grabber (Jacob) their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children. Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Son of the Right Hand (Benjamin) away. All these things are against me.”

37 Behold a Son (Reuben) spoke to his father, saying, “Slay my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again.”

38 But he replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother is dead, and he alone is left. If mischief befalls him on the way, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”