¹ Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen.

² Five men also the last of his brethren, he presented before the king:

³ And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: Re thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.

⁴ We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for the flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen.

⁵ The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.

⁶ The land of Egypt is before thee: make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.

⁷ After this Joseph brought in his to the king, and presented him before him: and he blessed him.

⁸ And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life?

⁹ He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

¹⁰ And blessing the king, he went out.

¹¹ But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded.

¹² And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.

¹³ For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had op- pressed the land: more especially of Egypt and Chanaan.

¹⁴ Out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which they bought, and brought it into the king's treasure.

¹⁵ And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now net money.

¹⁶ And he answered them: Bring your cattle, and for them I will give you food, if you have no money.

¹⁷ And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, end asses and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.

¹⁸ And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands.

¹⁹ Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thins, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his possessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it into Pharao's hands:

²¹ And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

²² Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the king: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions.

²³ Then Joseph said to the people : Be- hold as you see, both you and your lands belong to Pharao: take seed and sow the fields,

²⁴ That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king: the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.

²⁵ And they answered: Our life is in thy hand: only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.

²⁶ From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the fifth part is paid to the king, and it is become as a law, except the land of the priests, which was free from this covenant.

²⁷ So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and possessed it: and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.

²⁸ And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.

²⁹ And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt:

³⁰ But I will sleep with my fathers, end thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.

³¹ And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel adored God, turning to the bed's head.

¹ THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?

² Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

³ All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.

⁴ Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.

⁵ For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain.

⁶ And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.

⁷ And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horseman shall place themselves in the gate.

⁸ And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.

⁹ And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,

¹⁰ And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.

¹¹ And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.

¹² And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

¹³ And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

¹⁴ And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou shalt say to him:

¹⁶ What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.

¹⁷ Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.

¹⁸ He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.

¹⁹ And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry.

²⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,

²¹ And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.

²² And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

²³ And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.

²⁴ And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.

²⁵ In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.