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So Esau returned that day, on his way vnto Seir.

Aske mee neuer so much dowrie and gift, and I will giue according as yee shall say vnto mee: but giue me the damsell to wife.

So Iacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is Bethel) hee and all the people that were with him.

And he said to him, Goe, I pray thee, see whether it bee well with thy brethren, and well with the flockes, and bring me word againe: so hee sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

And he asked Pharaohs officers that were with him in the warde of his lords house, saying, wherefore looke ye so sadly to day?

And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke.

And it came to passe, as he interpreted to vs, so it was; mee he restored vnto mine office, and him he hanged.

And when they had eaten them vp, it could not bee knowen that they had eaten them, but they were still ill fauoured, as at the beginning: So I awoke.

And Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreete and wise, as thou art:

And all countreys came into Egypt to Ioseph, for to buy corne, because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

But bring your yongest brother vnto mee, so shall your wordes be verified, and yee shall not die: and they did so.

And bring your yongest brother vnto me: then shall I know that you are no spies, but that you are true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and ye shall traffique in the land.

And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

And their father Israel said vnto them, If it must bee so now, doe this: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carie downe the man a Present, a litle balme, and a litle honie, spices, and myrrhe, nuts, and almonds.

And hee tooke and sent measses vnto them from before him: but Beniamins measse was fiue times so much as any of theirs: and they drunke, and were merry with him.

Is not this it, in which my lord drinketh? and whereby indeed he diuineth? ye haue done euill in so doing.

And he said, God forbid that I should doe so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shal be my seruant; and as for you, get you vp in peace vnto your father.

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

And the children of Israel did so: and Ioseph gaue them wagons, according to the commandement of Pharaoh, and gaue them prouision for the way.

So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and hee said vnto them, See that yee fall not out by the way.