you? Ye have done Evil in acting thus. When he overtook them, he spoke to them these fame Words: And they anfwered him, Wherefore doth my Lord fay fo? Your Servants abominate Actions of this Nature. Have we not brought back to you, from the Land of Canaan, the Money which we found in the Mouths of our Sacks? How then should we fteal Silver or Gold from my Lord's House. Let him die, with whomfoever of your Servants it is found; and we shall become my Lord's Slaves. He answered, According as ye have faid, He with whom it is found, fhall be my Servant; but ye fhall be free from Punishment. Each Man

quickly placed his Sack upon the Ground, and opened it; fo he searched, beginning with the Eldeft, and ceafing with the Youngeft. But when the Cup was found in Benjamin's Sack, they rent their Cloaths, loaded their Affes, and returned to the City. So Judah and his Brothers came to Jofeph's Houfe, where he as yet was, and fell before him upon the Ground. And Jofeph faid to them, What an Action is this which ye have done; don't ye know that fuch a Man as I can trying try? Then Judah faid, What fhall we fay to my Lord? What shall we fpeak? Or how can we propose to be acquitted? The i.e. Cunningly try Men.

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Gods

Gods have found out the Iniquity of your Servants. Behold, we are my Lord's Servants, both we, and he with whom the Cup was found. But he anfwered, Far be it from me fo to do. The Man with whom the Cup was found fhall be my Servant; but do ye return in Peace to your Father.

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פ פ פ

The Tenth Lesson.

HEN Judah came nigh to him, and faid, My Lord, let your Servant, I entreat you, fpeak a little with my Lord, but let not your Anger be heated against your Servant; for one fuch as you, is as Pharaoh. My Lord thus afk'd his Servants, Have ye not a Father, or Brother? And we said to my Lord, We have a Father, who in his old Age had a Child, yet a little one; his own Brother is dead, fo he is all that is left of his Mother, and dearly beloved by his Father. Then you faid to your Servants, Bring him down to me, that I may fee him. To which we gave my Lord this Anfwer, The young Man cannot leave his Father, for his Father will die when he leaves him. You then alfo faid to your Servants, Unless your

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youngest

youngest Brother comes down with you, ye

fball fee me no more.

Thereafter when we

came to your Servant our Father, we told him what my Lord faid.

He faid to us,

down.

But we
If our

Return and buy a little Food: anfwered, We cannot go

youngest Brother is with us, we will go down; for we cannot see the Man's Face, if our youngest Brother is not with us. Then your Servant my Father faid to us, Ye know that my Wife bare me two: The One went out from me, and I faid, He is torn torn, and faw him no more: So if ye take this alfo from me, and Mischief happen to him, ye fhall bring down my gray Hairs to the Grave with Sorrow. Now therefore when I come to your Servant my Father, and the Youth is not with us, and he fees that he is not with us, he fhall die, because his Life is preferved by the young Man's Life. Thus your Servant fhall bring down the gray Hairs of your Servant our Father to the Grave with Sorrow; for your Servant is Surety for the Youth to my Father upon these Terms If I bring him not to you, I shall be thereafter guilty. Wherefore, I beg of you, that your Servant may remain a Slave to my Lord inftead of the Youth, and that he may go up with his Brothers: For how fhall I go up to my. Father, if the Boy

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Boy is not with me; least in that Cafe I fee the Evil that fhall befal my Father.

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CHA P. XLV.

HEN Jofeph could not fupport himself in Prefence of those who ftood by him; and he called out, Let every Man go out from me. So no Man was by while fofeph made himself known to his Brothers. As he cried aloud, the Egyptians and Pharaoh's Houfe heard. He faid to his Brothers, I am Jofeph. Is my Father yet alive? But they could not anfwer him, because they were confounded at his Prefence. Then Jofeph faid to them, Come nigh me, I entreat you: So they came nigh; and he faid, I am Jofeph your Brother, whom ye fold into Egypt. Now therefore be not forry nor angry with yourselves, that ye fold me thither; for the Gods fent me before you to preferve Life. For these two Years there has been Famine in the Land; and for five Years yet there fhall be neither Plowing nor Harveft: So the Gods fent me before

you

to preserve a Remainder for you upon the Earth, and to fave your Lives; a great

Deliverance

Deliverance being thus to be made.

So

now ye have not fent me hither, but the Gods, who have made me a Father to Pharaoh, Lord of all his Family, and Governour of the whole Land of Egypt. Make hafte, go up to my Father, and fay to him, Thus your Son Jofeph fays, The Gods have appointed me Lord of all Egypt;, come down to me, ftay not: For you fhall dwell in the Land of Egypt, and be near. me, you, and your Children, and your Children's Children, your Flocks, and your. Herds, and all you have: I will nourish you there (for there are yet five Years of Famine) left you, and all your Family, and all you have, perish. For behold, your Eyes and the Eyes of my Brother Benjamin fee whofe Mouth it is that speaks with you. Do alfo inform my Father of all my Honour in Egypt, and of all that ye have feen; make hafte, and bring my Father down hither. Then he fell upon his Brother Benjamin's Neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his Neck. He alfo faluted all his Brethren, and wept upon them; after which they converfed with him. When the Report was heard in Pharaoh's Family, that Jofeph's Brothers were come, both Pharaoh and his Servants were glad to hear it. So Pharaoh faid to Jofeph, Say to your Brothers, thus do ye; Load your Affes, and go get ye into the U 2 Land