with as much food as they can carry, and put every one's money in the mouth of his own fack; but in the fack's mouth of the 2 youngest put, along with his purchase-money, my filver cup." According as Jofeph commanded, he did. And as foon as the 3 morning was light, the men were difmiffed, with their affes. 4 They were not yet gone far from the city, when Jofeph faid to his fteward: "Arife, pursue the men; and when thou overtakest them, say to them: Why have ye returned evil for good? Why have ye ftolen my filver cup, the fame in which my lord 5 drinketh, and by which, indeed, he divineth? Ye have done evil in fo doing." 66 "He overtook them, and spoke to them thofe words. But 6 they faid to him: "Why fpeaketh my lord thefe words? Far 7 be it from thy fervants to act after that manner. Lo! the money, 8 which we found in the mouths of our facks, we brought again to thee from the land of Chanaan: how then fhould we fteal out of thy master's houfe either filver or gold? Let him of thy 9 fervants, with whom the cup fhall be found, die; and let us alfo be made the flaves of my lord." "Be it fo far," said he, cording to your own words. Let him, with whom the cup fhall be found, be my flave; but ye fhall be acquitted. Instant- 11 ly they let down to the ground their facks; and every one opened his own; when the feward beginning his fearch at the eldest, 12 and ending at the youngest, the cup was found in the fack of Benjamin. They then rent their garments; and, every one 13 having reloaden his afs, they returned to the city. ac- 10 When Judah and his brothers were come again into the 14 houfe of Jofeph (who was ftill there), they fell down before him on the ground. And Jofeph faid to them: "What deed is this 15 that ye have done? Know ye not that such a man as I can divine with certainty ?" Judah anfwered: "What fhall we fay 16. to my lord? what fhall we fpeak? or how fhall we clear ourfelves? God hath detected the iniquity of thy fervants. Lo! we are my lord's flaves; both we, and he alfo with whom the cup was found." "Far be it from me," faid Jofeph," to do 17 fo! He only, with whom the cup was found, fhall be my flave. As for you, go ye up in peace to your father." But Judah, 18 coming nearer to him, faid: "Oh! my lord! let thy fervant, I pray thee, fpeak a word in my lord's ears; and let not thine anger burn against thy fervant: for thou art even as Pharaoh!" My lord afked his fervants, faying: "Have ye a father, or a 19 brother." And we faid to my lord: "We have an aged fa- 20 ther, and a younger brother, the child of age; whofe brother is dead, and himself is the only remaining of his mother; and his father loveth him." And thou faidft to thy fervants: "Bring 21 him down to me, that I may fet mine eyes upon him." And 22 we faid to my lord: "The lad cannot leave his father; for his father, 23 father, were he to leave him, would die." But thou faidft to thy fervants: "Unless your youngest brother come down with 24 you, ye shall no more fee my face." Now when we went up 25 to thy fervant our father, we told him the words of my lord. 26 And when our father faid: "Go again, and buy for us a little food;" we faid: "We may not go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not fee 27 the man's face, unlefs our youngest brother be with us.' And thy fervant our father faid to us: " Ye know that my wife bare 28 to me but two. One went out from me; and I faid: He is 29 furely torn in pieces; and I have not feen him fince. If ye take this one alfo from me, and if he meet with an accident, on the way; my grey hairs in forrow ye will bring down to the grave.' 30 If therefore, when I come to thy fervant our father, the lad be 31 not with us; it will happen that, when he fetth not the lad, he will die; for his life is bound up in the lad's life. Thus fhall thy fervants bring down in forrow to the grave the grey hairs of 32 thy fervant our father. Now thy fervant became furety to his father, for the lad, faying: "If I bring him not again to thee, 33 then let me be obnoxious to my father, all my days." Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy fervant remain, a flave to my lord, instead of the lad; and let the lad go up with his brothers. 34 For how can I, the lad being not with me, go up to my father; left I fee the evil that must come on my father?" I 3 'Jofeph could not now refrain himself, before all who stood by him. So he cried: "Make every one go out." There stood no one by Jofeph, when he made himself known to his bro2 thers. So loudly he now wept, that the Egyptians and the household of Pharaoh heard him. And Jofeph faid to his brothers: "I am Jofeph! Is my father yet alive?" But his brothers were fo much troubled at his prefence, that they could not answer 4 him. Again Jofeph faid to his brothers: "Come near to me, I pray you." And when they were come near, he faid: “I am 5 your brother Jofeph, whom ye fold into Egypt. But be not now grieved nor angry with yourfelves, that ye fold me hither: for 6 God fent me before you for your prefervation. For thefe two years paf, there hath been a famine in the land; and yet for five 7 years to come there will be neither plowing nor mowing. So God fent me before you to keep you a remnant on earth, and to pre8 ferve your lives, by a great deliverance. Not ye, then, fent me hither; but God: who hath made me a father to Pharaoh; the lord of all his houfe; and ruler of all the land of Egypt. Hafte ye, and go up to my father, and fay to him: Thus 12ith zo thy fon Jofeph: God hath made me the lord of all Egypt: come down to ree; delay not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goßen (that thou mayeli be near to me), thou and thy children, and thy docks and thy herds, and all that belongeth to 9 6 thee. thee. There will I fupport thee (for there are yet to be five f years of famine), left thou and thy household, and all that belong to thee, be reduced to poverty.' For, lo! (faid Jofeph) 12 your own eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin fee, that it is my mouth which speaketh to you. Ye fhall therefore relate 13 to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all that ye have seen; and hafte ye, and bring my father down hither." He then fell 14 upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, and wept: while Benjamin wept alfo, upon his neck. He next kiffed all his brothers, 15 and wept on them: after which his brothers talked with him.' That fame day the Lord fpoke to Mofes, faying: Go up to 48 that Abarite mountain, mount Nebo (which is in the land of 49 Moab, over against Jericho), and view the land of Chanaan, which I give for a poffeflion to the children of Ifrael: and die 50 thou on the mountain, whither thou goeft up, and be united to thy people; as thy brother Aaron died on mount Hor, and was united to his people: because, at the waters of Meriba-kadesh, 51 in the wilderness of Zin, ye offended me in the prefence of the people, for that ye did not fanctify me amidst the children of Ifrael. So thou fhalt only fee the land over against you; but fhalt 52 not go into the land, which I give to the children of Ifrael.” Now this is the benediction, with which Mofes, the man of God, bleffed the children of Ifrael, before his death, the chiefs of the people, of the tribes of Ifrael, being affembled. "O Lord! (faid he) who cameft from Sinai; dawnest upon 2 them from Seir; fhoneft on them from the mountains of Pharan! and from whofe right hand came ftreams of water for them, from the copious fprings of Kadeth! O loving Father of the 3 people! all thy hallowed ones are in thine hands; at thy feet they fall down, to receive thy behefts: the law which thou haft enjoined to us, as the inheritance of the people of Jacob: for, Thou art king in Ifrael." Then of Reuben he said: 4 5 6 "Let Reuben live and not die, although his men be but few in number." 'Of Judah he faid: “Hear, O Lord! the voice of Judah, and bring him back fafe to his people: may his own hand be fufficient to defend himfelf; and be thou his aid against his enemies." 'Of Levi he said: 8 Let thy Thumim and Urim remain with thy Pious One; whom thou provedst at Massa; whom thou ftrovedst with at the 9 waters of Meriba! who faid of his father and mother: 'I heed them not:' who regarded not his own brothers: who acknowledged not his own fons: but obferved thy commands, and kept thy covenant. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and If- 10 rael rael thy law they fhall place incenfe before thee, and lay ho11 locaufts upon thine altar.-Blefs, O Lord! their valour, and fa¬ vour their enterprifes: fmite, through the loins, those who rife up against them, and hate them; fo that they may rife no 12 13 more." 'Of Benjamin he faid: "May the Beloved of the Lord reft in fecurity: may the Supreme continually protect him, and dwell between his fhoulders." Of Jofeph he faid: Bleffed by the Lord be his land, with the precious dew of 14 the heavens, and the springs of the low-lying deep; with the pre15 cious productions of the fun, and the precious productions of 16 the moons; with the precious things of the primeval mountains, and the precious things of the everlafting hills; and with the precious things of the all-fertile earth: and may the favour of Him, who abode among the briars, reft on the head of Jofeph; 17 on the crown of the Diftinguished among his brethren!-The beauty of a young bull fhall be his beauty; and his horns fhall be the horns of a rhinoceros! with these he shall push together the hoftile peoples to the extremities of the land! Such the ten thoufands of Ephraim, fuch the thousands of Manaffeh!” 18 Of Zebulon, and of Ifachar, he faid: "Rejoice, Zebulon! in thy commerce; and Iffachar! in thy 19 tents. They fhall call the people to the holy mountain, and shall there facrifice facrifices of equity: for they fhall fuck affluence from the feas, and from treafures hidden in the fand." 20 'Of Gad he said: "Bleffed be he who enlargeth Gad.-Like a lionefs he coucheth; and maketh a prey of both head and shoulder. Therefore, 21 he feeth the first portion allotted to himself; and with joy receiveth, from the Law-giver, a protected refidence.-Yet he fhall go over at the head of the people, to execute the justice of the Lord, and his decrees in favour of Ifrael." 22 23 24 'Of Dan he faid: "Dan is a lion's whelp; fuch as leapeth from Bafhan." "Naphthali, replete with favour, and fatiated with the bleffings of the Lord, fhall poffefs the fea-coaft, and the fouth." 'Of Asher he said: "Afher, bleffed in his children, fhall be alfo dear to his bre25 thren. In oil he fhall dip his feet: of iron and brafs fhall be his bars and his wealth fhall be equal to his days." 26 "There is none like the God of Ifrael; who, in your aid, 27 rideth on the heavens; and, in his majefty, on the fubtile air : humbling the gods of antiquity, and fubduing the strong of prior times. From before you he will expel your enemics; and will fay Deftroy them utterly!-Thus fhall Ifrael dwell, 21 alone, in fecurity; the pofterity of Jacob in a land of corn and wine: for dew their heavens fhall diftil. Happy thou, O Ifrael! who like you? O people faved by 29 the Lord! the fhield of your fuccour, and the fword of your glory!-To you your enemies fhall be fubjected, and on their high places ye fhall trample." I 2 Then Mofes went up, from the plains of Moab, unto the top of mount Nebo, called Phifga, over against Jericho. And the Lord fhewed him the whole land; from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates, and to the farther fea: namely, all the land from Gilead to Dan; all the land of Naphthali; all the Land of Ephraim and Manaffeh; all the land of Judah, and the 3 fouth, and the plain of the vale of Jericho (the city of palmtrees) as far as Zoar. And the Lord faid to him: "That is 4 the land, of which to your forefathers, Abraham, Ifaac and Jacob I fwore, faying: To your feed I will give it :' with thine eyes I have made thee fee it, but over into it thou shalt not go." - 5 6 So Mofes, the fervant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord: and was buried in a valicy in the land of Moab, over against Beth-pheor: but, unto this day, no man knoweth aught of his fepulchre.-Mofes was an hundred and twenty years old, when he died yet 7 his eye was not dim, nor his vigour gone. The children of 8 Ifrael mourned for Mofes, thirty days, in the plains of Moab; where they remained until the days of mourning for Mofes were completed. And as Jofhuah, the fon of Nun (on whom Mo- 9 fes had laid his hands), was full of the fpirit of wisdom, the children of Ifrael now obeyed him; as the Lord had given in 10 charge to Mofes.-But there has not fince arifen, in Ifracl, fuch 11 a prophet as Mofes; whom the Lord knew, face to face; in regard to all the fignal prodigies, which the Lord fent him to work in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh, and all his fer- 12 vants, and all his land; and the mighty and tremendous deeds which he did in the fight of all Iiraci.' We trust the importance of the fubject will be a fuffieient plea for the length to which this article is extended. The importance of the undertaking is great, the learning, fagacity, and liberality of Dr. Geddes we cannot fufficiently admire; and we fincerely with him health, with every requifite to the full completion of his hopes. The |