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CHAPTER 45:
Joseph Receives Jacob.
The Land Of Egypt Is
Acquired For Pharaoh.
Jacob’s Death And Burial
(45:1-16; cf. Gen. 46:28 ff., 47:11 ff.)
1 And Israel went into the
country of Egypt, into the
land of Goshen, on the new
moon of the fourth month, in
the second year of the third
week of the forty-fifth jubilee.
2 And Joseph went to meet
his father Jacob, to the land
of Goshen, and he fell on his
father’s neck and wept. 3 And
Israel said unto Joseph: “Now
let me die since I have seen
thee, and now may the Yahuah
Elohim of Israel be blessed,
the Elohim of Abraham and
the Elohim of Isaac who hath
not withheld His mercy and
His grace from His servant
Jacob. 4 It is enough for me
†MT (Gn.
46:30) “that that I have seen thy face whilst
thou art.”
†I am† yet alive; yea, true
is the vision which I saw at
Bethel. Blessed be the Yahuah
my Elohim for ever and ever,
and blessed be His name.”
5 And Joseph and his brothers
ate bread before their father
and drank wine, and Jacob
rejoiced with exceeding great
joy because he saw Joseph
eating with his brothers and
drinking before him, and he
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blessed the Creator of all
things who had preserved him,
and had preserved for him his
Cf. Gn. 47:11
twelve sons. 6 And Joseph had
given to his father and to his
brothers as a gift the right of
dwelling in the land of Goshen
and in Rameses and all the
region round about, which
he ruled over before Pharaoh.
And Israel and his sons dwelt
in the land of Goshen, the
best part of the land of Egypt;
and Israel was one hundred
and thirty years old when
he came into Egypt, 7 And
Joseph nourished his father
(Gn.
and his brethren and also MT
47:12)
their possessions with bread as “`according
to their
much as sufficed them for the families.”
seven years of the famine. 8
And the land of Egypt suffered
by reason of the famine, and
Joseph acquired all the land of
Egypt for Pharaoh in return
for food, and he got possession
of the people and their cattle
and everything for Pharaoh.
9 And the years of the famine
were accomplished, and
Joseph gave to the people in
the land seed and food that
they might sow (the land) in
the eighth year, for the river
had overflowed all the land
of Egypt. 10 For in the seven
years of the famine it had not
overflowed and had irrigated
only a few places on the
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