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Genesis
46
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¶And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba,
and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God
spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob,
Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3 And he said, I am God, the God
of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there
make of thee a great nation: 4 I will go down with thee into Egypt;
and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put
his hand upon thine eyes.
5 ¶And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried
Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their
cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan,
and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 7 His sons,
and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters,
and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. 8 And these are
the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob
and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9 And the sons of Reuben;
Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 10 And the sons of Simeon;
Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the
son of a Canaanitish woman. 11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari. 12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah,
and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 And the sons of
Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 And the sons
of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These be the sons of
Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter
Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and
three. 16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon,
Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and
Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons
of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah,
whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob,
even sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph,
and Benjamin. 20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest
of On bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and
Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and
Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born
to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out
of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore
and six; 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt,
were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came
into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
28 ¶And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face
unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph
made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to
Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph,
Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet
alive. 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's
house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren,
and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come
unto me; 32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been
to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have. 33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh
shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? 34 That
ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our
youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may
dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination
unto the Egyptians.
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Genesis
47
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1 ¶Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have,
are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the
land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men,
and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren,
What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants
are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover
unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants
have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the
land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell
in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 6 The land of Egypt
is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren
to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest
any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh:
and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of
my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have
the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto
the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before
Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave
them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land,
in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph
nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household,
with bread, according to their families.
13 ¶And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very
sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted
by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money
that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan,
for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into
Pharaoh's house. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt,
and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and
said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for
the money faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will
give you for your cattle, if money fail. 17 And they brought their
cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses,
and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the
asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that
year. 18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second
year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that
our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there
is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our
lands: 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and
our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will
be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and
not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all
the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man
his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became
Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had
a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which
Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. 23 Then
Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day
and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall
sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that
ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall
be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them
of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they
said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight
of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 26 And Joseph made
it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should
have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which
became not Pharaoh's.
27 ¶And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;
and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the
whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 29 And
the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph,
and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put,
I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly
with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 30 But I will lie with
my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in
their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.
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Psalms
50
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1 ¶ The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken,
and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour
before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 4
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that
he may judge his people. 5 Gather my saints together unto me; those
that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens
shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
7 ¶Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee
for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually
before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats
out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and
the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the
mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were
hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness
thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of
goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the
most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver
thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 ¶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to
evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest
against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest
that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove
thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now consider this,
ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none
to deliver. 23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that
ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
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Romans
3
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1 ¶What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them
were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe?
shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God
forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome
when thou art judged. 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness
of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?
(I speak as a man) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the
world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie
unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not
rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that
we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is
just. 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for
we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all
under sin; 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not
one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have
used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed
blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way
of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before
their eyes.
19 ¶Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith
to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by
the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law
and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith
of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there
is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to
be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance
of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that
he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man
is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the
God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the
Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we
then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish
the law.
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Romans
4
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1 ¶What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining
to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works,
he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the
scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for
righteousness. 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned
of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth
on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto
whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
9 ¶Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon
the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham
for righteousness. 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision,
or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness
of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might
be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised;
that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 12 And the father
of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but
who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham,
which he had being yet uncircumcised. 13 For the promise, that he
should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed,
through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For
if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the
promise made of none effect: 15 Because the law worketh wrath: for
where no law is, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of
faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be
sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but
to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father
of us all,
17 ¶(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead,
and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who
against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of
many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed
be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body
now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the
deadness of Sara's womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was
able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for
righteousness.
23 ¶Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe
on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered
for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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