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C. S. Lewis Bible: New Revised Standard Version
48 After this Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” he[159] summoned his strength and sat up in bed. 3And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty [160] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me, 4and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers; I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for a perpetual holding.’ 5Therefore your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are now mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are. 6As for the offspring born to you after them, they shall be yours. They shall be recorded under the names of their brothers with regard to their inheritance. 7For when I came from Paddan, Rachel, alas, died in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
8 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?” 9Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.” 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, and he could not see well. So Joseph brought them near him; and he kissed them and embraced them. 11Israel said to Joseph, “I did not expect to see your face; and here God has let me see your children also.” 12Then Joseph removed them from his father’s knees,[161] and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them near him. 14But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15He blessed Joseph, and said,
“The God before whom my ancestors Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
16 the angel who has redeemed me from all harm, bless the boys;
and in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac;
and let them grow into a multitude on the earth.”
17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father! Since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.” 19But his father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.” 20So he blessed them that day, saying,
“By you [162] Israel will invoke blessings, saying,
‘God make you [162] like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’”
So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. 21Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your ancestors. 22I now give to you one portion [163] more than to your brothers, the portion[163] that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”
49 Then Jacob called his sons, and said: “Gather around, that I may tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob;
listen to Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn,
my might and the first fruits of my vigor,
excelling in rank and excelling in power.
4 Unstable as water, you shall no longer excel
because you went up onto your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—you [164] went up onto my couch!
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers;
weapons of violence are their swords.
6 May I never come into their council;
may I not be joined to their company—
for in their anger they killed men,
and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,
and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you;
your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
your father’s sons shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp;
from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion,
like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;[165]
and the obedience of the peoples is his.
11 Binding his foal to the vine
and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
he washes his garments in wine
and his robe in the blood of grapes;
12 his eyes are darker than wine,
and his teeth whiter than milk.
13 Zebulun shall settle at the shore of the sea;
he shall be a haven for ships,
and his border shall be at Sidon.
14 Issachar is a strong donkey,
lying down between the sheepfolds;
15 he saw that a resting place was good,
and that the land was pleasant;
so he bowed his shoulder to the burden,
and became a slave at forced labor.
16 Dan shall judge his people
as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a snake by the roadside,
a viper along the path,
that bites the horse’s heels
so that its rider falls backward.
18 I wait for your salvation, O LORD.
19 Gad shall be raided by raiders,
but he shall raid at their heels.
20 Asher’s [166] food shall be rich,
and he shall provide royal delicacies.
21 Naphtali is a doe let loose
that bears lovely fawns. [167]
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough,
a fruitful bough by a spring;
his branches run over the wall. [168]
23 The archers fiercely attacked him;
they shot at him and pressed him hard.
24 Yet his bow remained taut,
and his arms [169] were made agile
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
PILGRIM STATUS
About death, I go through different moods, but the times when I can desire it are never, I think, those when this world seems harshest. On the contrary, it is just when there seems to be most of Heaven already here that I come nearest to longing for the patria. It is the bright frontispiece [which] whets one to read the story itself. All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasises our pilgrim status: always reminds, beckons, awakes desire. Our best havings are wantings.
—from a letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB, November 5, 1954
For reflection
25 by the God of your father, who will help you,
by the Almighty [170] who will bless you
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 The blessings of your father
are stronger than the blessings of the eternal mountains,
the bounties [171] of the everlasting hills;
may they be on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,
in the morning devouring the prey,
and at evening dividing the spoil.”
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with a suitable blessing.
29 Then he charged them, saying to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors—in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30in the cave in the field at Machpelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan, in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. 31There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried; there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah— 32the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.” 33When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
50 Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 2Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel; 3they spent forty days in doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh, “If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows: 5My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return.” 6Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. 9Both chariots and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company. 10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days. 11When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; [172] it is beyond the Jordan. 12Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them. 13They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite. 14After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
15 Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?” 16So they approached [173] Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this instruction before he died, 17“Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you.’ Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18Then his brothers also wept,[174] fell down before him, and said, “We are here as your slaves.” 19But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God? 20Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today. 21So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.
22 So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s household; and Joseph lived one hundred ten years. 23Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph’s knees.
24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” 25So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.” 26And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
[1] Or when God began to create or In the beginning God created
[2] Or while the spirit of God or while a mighty wind
[3] Heb adam
[4] Syr: Heb and over all the earth
[5] Heb him
[6] Heb YHWH, as in other places where “LORD” is spelled with capital letters (see also Ex 3.14–15 with notes)
[7] Or formed a man (Heb adam) of dust from the ground (Heb adamah)
[8] Or for Adam
[9] Heb ishshah
[10] Heb ish
[11] Or gods
[12] Or to Adam
[13] InHeb Eve resembles the word for living
[14] Or for Adam
[15] Theverb in Heb resembles the word for Cain
[16] SamGk Syr Compare Vg: MT lacks Let us go out to the field
[17] GkSyr Vg: Heb Therefore
[18] That is Wandering
[19] Theverb in Heb resembles the word for Seth
[20] Heb adam
[21] Heb him
[22] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[23] Or window
[24] Gk: Heb adds every animal of the earth
[25] Heb yapht, a play on Japheth
[26] Heb Mss Sam Gk See 1 Chr 1.7: MT Dodanim
[27] Compare verses 20, 31. Heb lacks These are the descendants of Japheth
[28] Cn: Heb Casluhim, from which the Philistines come, and Caphtorim
[29] That is Division
[30] Or migrated eastward
[31] Heb balal, meaning to confuse
[32] Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
[33] Or terebinth
[34] Heb seed
[35] Heb seed
[36] Or terebinths
[37] Heb Salt Sea
[38] Or terebinths
[39] Heb El Elyon
[40] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[41] Heb he
[42] Heb he
[43] That is God hears
[44] Perhaps God of seeing or God who sees
[45] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[46] That is the Well of the Living One who sees me
[47] Heb Abram
[48] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
[49] That is exalted ancestor
[50] Here taken to mean ancestor of a multitude
[51] Heb seed
[52] That is he laughs
[53] Heb him
[54] Or terebinths
[55] Heb seahs
[56] Or and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him
[57] Heb known
[58] Another ancient tradition reads while the LORD remained standing before Abraham
[59] Gk Syr Vg: Heb he
[60] That is Little
[61] Gk Vg: Heb lacks with her son Isaac
[62] That is Well of seven or Well of the oath
[63] Heb He
[64] Or the LORD, El Olam
[65] Or to slaughter
[66] Or will see; Heb traditionally transliterated Jehovah Jireh
[67] Or he shall be seen
[68] Syr Tg: Heb from coming to
[69] Meaning of Heb word is uncertain
[70] Heb he fell
[71] Or down in opposition to
[72] Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
[73] That is He takes by the heel or He supplants
[74] That is Red
[75] Heb today
[76] Heb him
[77] That is Contention
[78] That is Enmity
[79] That is Broad places or Room
[80] A word resembling the word for oath
[81] That is Well of the oath or Well of seven
[82] Cn: Heb of all
[83] That is He supplants or He takes by the heel
[84] Or See, of
[85] Or and of
[86] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[87] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
[88] Or stairway or ramp
[89] Or stood above it
[90] Or shall bless themselves
[91] That is House of God
[92] Heb He
[93] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[94] Heb him
[95] That is See, a son
[96] Heb shama
[97] Heb lawah
[98] Heb hodah
[99] That is He judged
[100] Heb niphtal
[101] That is Fortune
[102] That is Happy
[103] Heb sakar
[104] Heb zabal
[105] That is He adds
[106] Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
[107] Heb the river
[108] Heb them
[109] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[110] In Aramaic The heap of witness
[111] In Hebrew The heap of witness
[112] Compare Sam: MT lacks the pillar
[113] That is Watchpost
[114] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[115] Ch 32.1 in Heb
[116] Here taken to mean Two camps
[117] Heb he
[118] That is The one who strives with God or God strives
[119] Or with divine and human beings
[120] That is The face of God
[121] That is Booths
[122] Heb one hundred qesitah
[123] That is God, the God of Israel
[124] Heb he
[125] That is God of Bethel
[126] That is Oak of weeping
[127] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
[128] That is Son of my sorrow
[129] That is Son of the right hand or Son of the South
[130] SamGk Syr: Heb daughter
[131] Gk Syr: Heb daughter
[132] Or chiefs
[133] Or chiefs
[134] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[135] Or chief by chief
[136] Traditional rendering (compare Gk): a coat of many colors; meaning of Heb uncertain
[137] See note on 37.3
[138] Gk:Heb He
[139] Heb when Judah was comforted
[140] That is A breach
[141] That is Brightness; perhaps alluding to the crimson thread
[142] Heb he
[143] Gk Syr Vg: Heb lacks I fell asleep a second time
[144] Abrek, apparently an Egyptian word similar in sound to the Hebrew word meaning to kneel
[145] Sam Gk: MT the seven years that were
[146] That is Making to forget
[147] From a Hebrew word meaning to be fruitful
[148] Gk Vg Compare Syr: Heb opened all that was in (or, among) them
[149] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
[150] Heb the man
[151] GkCompare Vg: Heb lacks Why have you stolen my silver cup?
[152] Or be agitated
[153] Heb the God
[154] Or Saul
[155] Compare Sam Gk Num 26.24; 1 Chr 7.1: MT Iob
[156] Gk: Heb Hushim
[157] Heb He
[158] Sam Gk Compare Vg: MT He removed them to the cities
[159] Heb Israel
[160] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
[161] Heb from his knees
[162] you here is singular in Heb
[163] Or mountain slope (Heb shekem, a play on the name of the town and district of Shechem)
[164] Gk Syr Tg: Heb he
[165] Or until Shiloh comes or until he comes to Shiloh or (with Syr) until he comes to whom it belongs
[166] Gk Vg Syr: Heb From Asher
[167] Or that gives beautiful words
[168] Meaning of Heb uncertain
[169] Heb the arms of his hands
[170] Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
[171] Cn Compare Gk: Heb of my progenitors to the boundaries
[172] That is mourning (or meadow) of Egypt
[173] Gk Syr: Heb they commanded
[174] Cn: Heb also came
EXODUS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt. 6Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and that whole generation. 7But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
8 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. 10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. 12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, 14and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
