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Genesis 49

    ²Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel your father:

    ³Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow: excelling in gifts, greater in command.

    ⁴Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not: because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.

    ⁵Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.

    ⁶Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: "be- cause in their fury they slew a man, and in their selfwill they undermined a wall.

    ⁷Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel: I Will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

    ⁸Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hands shall be on the necks of thy enemies: the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.

    ⁹Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?

    ¹⁰The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

    ¹¹11Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, 0 my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.

    ¹²His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

    ¹³Zabulon shall dwell on the sea shore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.

    ¹⁴Issachar shall be a strong ass lying down between the borders.

    ¹⁶He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

    ¹⁶Dan shall judge his people like an- other tribe in Israel.

    ¹⁷Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels that his rider may fall backward.

    ¹⁸I will look for thy salvation, 0 Lord.

    ¹⁹Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.

    ²⁰Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.

    ²¹Nephtali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.

    ²²Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold; the daughters run to and fro upon the wall.

    ²³But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.

    ²⁴His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

    ²⁶The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth be- neath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

    ²⁶The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come; may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

    ²⁷Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.

    ²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one, with their proper blessings.

    ²⁹And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people : bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,

    ³⁰Over against Mambre in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought to- gather with the field of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in.

    ³¹There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.

    ³²And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people."

Genesis 50

    ²And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.

    ³And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mounted for him seventy days.

    ⁴And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:

    ⁵For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.

    ⁶And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

    ⁷So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

    ⁸And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

    ⁹He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was it great company.

    ¹⁰And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

    ¹¹And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And there- fore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.

    ¹²So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

    ¹³And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the held for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite over against Mambre.

    ¹⁴And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.

    ¹⁵Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another : Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.

    ¹⁶And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,

    ¹⁷That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practiced against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

    ¹⁸And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants.

    ¹⁹And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?

    ²⁰You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

    ²¹Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.

    ²²And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Ma-nasses were born on Joseph's knees.

    ²³After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    ²⁴And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, Carry my bones with you out of this place:

    ²⁵And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

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³¹Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.

    ³²Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.

    ³³Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

    ³⁴All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

    ³⁵That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

    ³⁶Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.

    ³⁷Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man.

    ³⁸And the field, is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle, are the children of the wicked one.

    ³⁹And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.

    ⁴⁰Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.

    ⁴¹The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.

    ⁴²And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    ⁴³Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

    ⁴⁴The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

    ⁴⁵Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls.

    ⁴⁶Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.

    ⁴⁷Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes.

    ⁴⁸Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.

    ⁴⁹So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.

    ⁵⁰And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    ⁵¹Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.

    ⁵²He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

    ⁵³And it came to pass: when Jesus had finished these parables, he passed from thence.

    ⁵⁴And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this wisdom and miracles?

    ⁵⁵Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:

    ⁵⁶And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence therefore hath he all these things?

    ⁵⁷And they were scandalized in his regard. But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

    ⁵⁸And he wrought not many miracles there, because of their unbelief.