Jacob's Family Settles in Goshen

47 So Joseph ^(A)went in and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in ^(B)the land of Goshen.” ² And from among his brothers he took five men and ^(C)presented them to Pharaoh. ³ Pharaoh said to his brothers, ^(D)“What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, ^(E)“Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.” ⁴ They said to Pharaoh, ^(F)“We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell ^(G)in the land of Goshen.” ⁵ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. ⁶ The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers ^(H)in the best of the land. ^(I)Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any ^(J)able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

⁷ Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, ^(K)and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ⁸ And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my ^(L)sojourning are 130 years. ^(M)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and ^(N)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their ^(O)sojourning.” ¹⁰ And Jacob ^(P)blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. ¹¹ Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of ^(Q)Rameses, ^(R)as Pharaoh had commanded. ¹² And Joseph ^(S)provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

Joseph and the Famine

¹³ Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. ^14 (T)And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. ¹⁵ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. ^(U)Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.” ¹⁶ And Joseph answered, “Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.” ¹⁷ So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. ¹⁸ And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. ¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? ^(V)Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's. ²¹ As for the people, he made servants of them^[a] from one end of Egypt to the other. ^22 (W)Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

²³ Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. ²⁴ And at the harvests you shall give a ^(X)fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.” ²⁵ And they said, “You have saved our lives; ^(Y)may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.” ²⁶ So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; ^(Z)the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.

²⁷ Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, ^(AA)in the land of Goshen. ^(AB)And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. ²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. ^(AC)So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.

²⁹ And ^(AD)when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now ^(AE)I have found favor in your sight, ^(AF)put your hand under my thigh and ^(AG)promise to deal kindly and truly with me. ^(AH)Do not bury me in Egypt, ³⁰ but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and ^(AI)bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.” ³¹ And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then ^(AJ)Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.^[b]

Warning Against Idolatry

10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,^[a] that our fathers were all under ^(A)the cloud, and all ^(B)passed through the sea, ² and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ³ and ^(C)all ate the same ^(D)spiritual food, ⁴ and ^(E)all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. ⁵ Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for ^(F)they were overthrown^[b] in the wilderness.

⁶ Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as ^(G)they did. ^7 (H)Do not be idolaters ^(I)as some of them were; as it is written, ^(J)“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” ^8 (K)We must not indulge in sexual immorality ^(L)as some of them did, and ^(M)twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. ⁹ We must not put Christ^[c] to the test, ^(N)as some of them did and ^(O)were destroyed by serpents, ¹⁰ nor grumble, ^(P)as some of them did and ^(Q)were destroyed by ^(R)the Destroyer. ¹¹ Now these things happened to them as an example, but ^(S)they were written down for our instruction, ^(T)on whom the end of the ages has come. ¹² Therefore ^(U)let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. ¹³ No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. ^(V)God is faithful, and ^(W)he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

¹⁴ Therefore, my beloved, ^(X)flee from idolatry. ¹⁵ I speak ^(Y)as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. ^16 (Z)The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? ^(AA)The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Because there is one bread, we who are many are ^(AB)one body, for we all partake of the one bread. ¹⁸ Consider ^(AC)the people of Israel:^{[d] (AD)}are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? ¹⁹ What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that ^(AE)an idol is anything? ²⁰ No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice ^(AF)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. ^21 (AG)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and ^(AH)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and ^(AI)the table of demons. ^22 (AJ)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? ^(AK)Are we stronger than he?

Do All to the Glory of God

^23 (AL)“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. ^24 (AM)Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. ^25 (AN)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. ²⁶ For ^(AO)“the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” ²⁷ If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, ^(AP)eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. ²⁸ But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— ²⁹ I do not mean ^(AQ)your conscience, but his. For ^(AR)why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? ³⁰ If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that ^(AS)for which I give thanks?

³¹ So, whether you eat or drink, or ^(AT)whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ^32 (AU)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to ^(AV)the church of God, ³³ just as ^(AW)I try to please everyone in everything I do, ^(AX)not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

11 ^(AY)Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Head Coverings

² Now I commend you ^(AZ)because you remember me in everything and ^(BA)maintain the traditions ^(BB)even as I delivered them to you. ³ But I want you to understand that ^(BC)the head of every man is Christ, ^(BD)the head of a wife^[e] is her husband,^[f] and ^(BE)the head of Christ is God. ⁴ Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, ⁵ but every wife^[g] who prays or ^(BF)prophesies ^(BG)with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same ^(BH)as if her head were shaven. ⁶ For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. ⁷ For a man ought not to cover his head, since ^(BI)he is the image and glory of God, but ^(BJ)woman is the glory of man. ⁸ For ^(BK)man was not made from woman, but woman from man. ⁹ Neither was man created for woman, but ^(BL)woman for man. ¹⁰ That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.^{[h] 11} Nevertheless, ^(BM)in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; ¹² for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And ^(BN)all things are from God. ¹³ Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered? ¹⁴ Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, ¹⁵ but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering. ^16 (BO)If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do ^(BP)the churches of God.

The Lord's Supper

¹⁷ But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. ¹⁸ For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, ^(BQ)I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,^{[i] 19} for ^(BR)there must be factions among you in order ^(BS)that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. ²⁰ When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. ²¹ For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, ^(BT)another gets drunk. ²² What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise ^(BU)the church of God and ^(BV)humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.

²³ For ^(BW)I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that ^(BX)the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, ²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for^[j] you. Do this in remembrance of me.”^{[k] 25} In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death ^(BY)until he comes.

^27 (BZ)Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord ^(CA)in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning ^(CB)the body and blood of the Lord. ^28 (CC)Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. ³⁰ That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some ^(CD)have died.^{[l] 31 (CE)}But if we judged^[m] ourselves truly, we would not be judged. ³² But when we are judged by the Lord, ^(CF)we are disciplined^[n] so that we may not be ^(CG)condemned along with the world.

³³ So then, my brothers,^[o] when you come together to eat, wait for^[p] one another— ^34 (CH)if anyone is hungry, ^(CI)let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things ^(CJ)I will give directions ^(CK)when I come.

Spiritual Gifts

12 Now ^(CL)concerning^[q] spiritual gifts,^[r] brothers,^[s] I do not want you to be uninformed. ² You know that ^(CM)when you were pagans ^(CN)you were led astray to ^(CO)mute idols, however you were led. ³ Therefore I want you to understand that ^(CP)no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is ^(CQ)accursed!” and ^(CR)no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

⁴ Now ^(CS)there are varieties of gifts, but ^(CT)the same Spirit; ⁵ and ^(CU)there are varieties of service, but ^(CV)the same Lord; ⁶ and there are varieties of activities, but it is ^(CW)the same God who empowers them all in everyone. ^7 (CX)To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. ⁸ For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of ^(CY)wisdom, and to another the utterance of ^(CZ)knowledge according to the same Spirit, ⁹ to another ^(DA)faith by the same Spirit, to another ^(DB)gifts of healing by the one Spirit, ¹⁰ to another ^(DC)the working of miracles, to another ^(DD)prophecy, to another ^(DE)the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another ^(DF)various kinds of tongues, to another ^(DG)the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, ^(DH)who apportions to each one individually ^(DI)as he wills.

One Body with Many Members

¹² For just as ^(DJ)the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, ^(DK)so it is with Christ. ¹³ For ^(DL)in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—^(DM)Jews or Greeks, slaves^[t] or free—and ^(DN)all were made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? ¹⁸ But as it is, ^(DO)God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, ^(DP)as he chose. ¹⁹ If all were a single member, where would the body be? ²⁰ As it is, there are many parts,^[u] yet one body.

²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” ²² On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³ and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, ²⁴ which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, ²⁵ that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. ²⁶ If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, ^(DQ)all rejoice together.

²⁷ Now ^(DR)you are the body of Christ and individually ^(DS)members of it. ²⁸ And ^(DT)God has appointed in the church first ^(DU)apostles, second ^(DV)prophets, third teachers, then ^(DW)miracles, then ^(DX)gifts of healing, ^(DY)helping, ^(DZ)administrating, and ^(EA)various kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? ³⁰ Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ But ^(EB)earnestly desire the higher gifts.

And I will show you a still more excellent way.