And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times.

Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

Simeon and Levi are brothers deceit and force are their secret designs.

A curse on their passion for it was bitter and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

Judah is a young lion like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion by whom will his sleep be broken?

Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes:

The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships the edge of his land will be by Zidon.

And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.

Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight.

Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.

He was troubled by the archers they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:

Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.

And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.

For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?

So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.

Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.

And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

And after he had sent the people away, he went up into the mountain by himself for prayer: and when evening was come, he was there by himself.

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

But straight away Jesus said to them, Take heart it is I, have no fear.

And he said, Come. And Peter got out of the boat, and walking on the water, went to Jesus.

And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?

And those who were in the boat gave him worship, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.

And when the men of that place had news of him, they sent into all the country round about, and took to him all who were ill,