Torah
Bereshit45
Genesis · Chapter 45
Then Yoseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Yoseph made himself known unto his brethren.
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
And Yoseph said unto his brethren, I
am Yoseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
And Yoseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I
am Yoseph your brother, whom ye sold into Mitsrayim.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for Elohim did send me before you to preserve life.
For these two years
hath the famine
been in the land: and yet
there are five years, in the which
there shall
neither
be earing nor harvest.
And Elohim sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So now
it was not you
that sent me hither, but Elohim: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Yoseph, Elohim hath made me lord of all Mitsrayim: come down unto me, tarry not:
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And there will I nourish thee; for yet
there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that
it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Mitsrayim, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Yoseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
And Pharaoh said unto Yoseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Mitsrayim, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Mitsrayim for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Mitsrayim
is yours.
And the children of Yisra'el did so: and Yoseph gave them wagons, according to the mitsvah of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred
pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
And to his father he sent after this
manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Mitsrayim, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
And they went up out of Mitsrayim, and came into the land of Canaan unto Ya'aqov their father,
And told him, saying, Yoseph
is yet alive, and he
is
governor over all the land of Mitsrayim. And Ya'aqov’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.
And they told him all the words of Yoseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Yoseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ya'aqov their father revived:
And Yisra'el said,
It is enough; Yoseph my son
is
yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
Torah
Bereshit46
Genesis · Chapter 46
And Yisra'el took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the Elohim of his father Yitschaq.
And Elohim spake unto Yisra'el in the visions of the night, and said, Ya'aqov, Ya'aqov. And he said, Here
am I.
And he said, I
am Elohim, the Elohim of thy father: fear not to go down into Mitsrayim; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
I will go down with thee into Mitsrayim; and I will also surely bring thee up
again: and Yoseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
And Ya'aqov rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Yisra'el carried Ya'aqov their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Mitsrayim, Ya'aqov, and all his seed with him:
His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Mitsrayim.
And these
are the names of the children of Yisra'el, which came into Mitsrayim, Ya'aqov and his sons: Reuben, Ya'aqov’s firstborn.
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
These
be the sons of Le'ah, which she bare unto Ya'aqov in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters
were thirty and three.
And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
These
are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Le'ah his daughter, and these she bare unto Ya'aqov,
even sixteen souls.
The sons of Rachel Ya'aqov’s wife; Yoseph, and Benjamin.
And unto Yoseph in the land of Mitsrayim were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah kohen of On bare unto him.
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
These
are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Ya'aqov: all the souls
were fourteen.
And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
These
are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Ya'aqov: all the souls
were seven.
All the souls that came with Ya'aqov into Mitsrayim, which came out of his loins, besides Ya'aqov’s sons’ wives, all the souls
were threescore and six;
And the sons of Yoseph, which were born him in Mitsrayim,
were
two souls: all the souls of the house of Ya'aqov, which came into Mitsrayim,
were threescore and ten.
And he sent Judah before him unto Yoseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
And Yoseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra'el his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
And Yisra'el said unto Yoseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou
art yet alive.
And Yoseph 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;
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.
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What
is your occupation?
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.
Torah
Bereshit47
Genesis · Chapter 47
Then Yoseph 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.
And he took some of his brethren,
even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
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.
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.
And Pharaoh spake unto Yoseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
The land of Mitsrayim
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.
And Yoseph brought in Ya'aqov his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Ya'aqov blessed Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto Ya'aqov, How old
art thou?
And Ya'aqov 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.
And Ya'aqov blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
And Yoseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Mitsrayim, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
And Yoseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to
their families.
And
there was no bread in all the land; for the famine
was very sore, so that the land of Mitsrayim and
all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
And Yoseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Mitsrayim, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Yoseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
And when money failed in the land of Mitsrayim, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Yoseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
And Yoseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
And they brought their cattle unto Yoseph: and Yoseph 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.
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:
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.
And Yoseph bought all the land of Mitsrayim for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
one
end of the borders of Mitsrayim even to the
other end thereof.
Only the land of the kohanim bought he not; for the kohanim had a portion
assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Then Yoseph 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.
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.
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.
And Yoseph made it a torah over the land of Mitsrayim unto this day,
that Pharaoh should have the fifth
part; except the land of the kohanim only,
which became not Pharaoh’s.
And Yisra'el dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
And Ya'aqov lived in the land of Mitsrayim seventeen years: so the whole age of Ya'aqov was an hundred forty and seven years.
And the time drew nigh that Yisra'el must die: and he called his son Yoseph, 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 Mitsrayim:
But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Mitsrayim, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Yisra'el bowed himself upon the bed’s head.