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lived — ויחי
Torah: Genesis 47:28—50:26 Haftarah:
1 Kings 2:1-12 Gospel: John 13: 1-19
TORAH Outline
Genesis 47:27 | The
Last Days of Jacob
Genesis 48:1 | Jacob
Blesses Joseph's Sons
Genesis 49:1 | Jacob's
Last Words to His Sons
Genesis 49:29 | Jacob's
Death and Burial
Genesis 50:15 | Joseph
Forgives His Brothers
Genesis 50:22 | Joseph's
Last Days and Death
(28)
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob's
life was one hundred and forty-seven years.
(29)
When the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said
to him, "Now if I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand
under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in
Egypt,
(30)
"but let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury
me in their burial place." And he said, "I will do as you have
said."
(31)
Then he said, "Swear to me." And he swore to him. So Israel bowed
himself on the head of the bed.
Chapter 48
(1) Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was
told, "Indeed your father is sick"; and he took with him his two
sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
(2) And Jacob was told, "Look, your son Joseph is
coming to you"; and Israel strengthened himself and sat up on the bed.
(3) Then Jacob said to Joseph: "God Almighty appeared
to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
(4) "and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful
and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this
land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'
(5) "And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who
were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine;
as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
(6) "Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be
yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
(7) "But as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died
beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was but a little
distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that
is, Bethlehem)."
(8) Then Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are
these?"
(9) And Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons,
whom God has given me in this place." And he said, "Please bring them
to me, and I will bless them."
(10) Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he
could not see. Then Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and
embraced them.
(11) And Israel said to Joseph, "I had not thought to
see your face; but in fact, God has also shown me your offspring!"
(12) So Joseph brought them from beside his knees, and he
bowed down with his face to the earth.
(13) And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand
toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's
right hand, and brought them near him.
(14) Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on
Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
(15) And he blessed Joseph, and said: "God, before whom
my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has fed me all my life long to
this day,
(16) The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the
lads; Let my name be named upon them, And the name of my fathers Abraham and
Isaac; And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
(17) Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand
on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father's hand
to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
(18) And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father,
for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
(19) But his father refused and said, "I know, my son,
I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly
his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become
a multitude of nations."
(20) So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you
Israel will bless, saying, 'May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!'
" And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
(21) Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying,
but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
(22) "Moreover I have given to you one portion above
your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my
bow."
Chapter 49
(1) And Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather
together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:
(2) "Gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob, And
listen to Israel your father.
(3) "Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the
beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity and the excellency of
power.
(4) Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went
up to your father's bed; Then you defiled it--He went up to my couch.
(5) "Simeon and Levi are brothers; Instruments of
cruelty are in their dwelling place.
(6) Let not my soul enter their council; Let not my honor be
united to their assembly; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their
self-will they hamstrung an ox.
(7) Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their
wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob And scatter them in Israel.
(8) "Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise;
Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's children shall
bow down before you.
(9) Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have
gone up. He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse
him?
(10) The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver
from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of
the people.
(11) Binding his donkey to the vine, And his donkey's colt
to the choice vine, He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the
blood of grapes.
(12) His eyes are darker than wine, And his teeth whiter
than milk.
(13) "Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea; He
shall become a haven for ships, And his border shall adjoin Sidon.
(14) "Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between
two burdens;
(15) He saw that rest was good, And that the land was
pleasant; He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden, And became a band of slaves.
(16) "Dan shall judge his people As one of the tribes
of Israel.
(17) Dan shall be a serpent by the way, A viper by the path,
That bites the horse's heels So that its rider shall fall backward.
(18) I have waited for your salvation, O LORD!
(19) "Gad, a troop shall tramp upon him, But he shall
triumph at last.
(20) "Bread from Asher shall be rich, And he shall
yield royal dainties.
(21) "Naphtali is a deer let loose; He uses beautiful
words.
(22) "Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a
well; His branches run over the wall.
(23) The archers have bitterly grieved him, Shot at him and
hated him.
(24) But his bow remained in strength, And the arms of his
hands were made strong By the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is
the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
(25) By the God of your father who will help you, And by the
Almighty who will bless you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the
deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
(26) The blessings of your father Have excelled the
blessings of my ancestors, Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.
They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him who was
separate from his brothers.
(27) "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he
shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil."
(28) All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is
what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one
according to his own blessing.
(29) Then he charged them and said to them: "I am to be
gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field
of Ephron the Hittite,
(30) "in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah,
which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the
field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place.
(31) "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife,
there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.
(32) "The field and the cave that is there were
purchased from the sons of Heth."
(33) And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he
drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his
people.
Chapter 50
(1) Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over
him, and kissed him.
(2) And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to
embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
(3) Forty days were required for him, for such are the days
required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy
days.
(4) Now when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph
spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in
your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
(5) 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am
dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you
shall bury me." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and
I will come back.' "
(6) And Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as
he made you swear."
(7) So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went
up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of
the land of Egypt,
(8) as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and
his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they
left in the land of Goshen.
(9) And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen,
and it was a very great gathering.
(10) Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is
beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn
lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
(11) And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,
saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a
deep mourning of the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel
Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
(12) So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them.
(13) For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried
him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought
with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place. (14) And
after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers
and all who went up with him to bury his father.
(15) When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead,
they said, "Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all
the evil which we did to him."
(16) So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, "Before
your father died he commanded, saying,
(17) 'Thus you shall say to Joseph: "I beg you, please
forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to
you." ' Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of
your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
(18) Then his brothers also went and fell down before his
face, and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." (19) Joseph said
to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
(20) "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but
God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save
many people alive.
(21) "Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide
for you and your little ones." And he comforted them and spoke kindly to
them.
(22) So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's
household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
(23) Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation.
The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph's
knees.
(24) And Joseph said to his brethren, "I am dying; but
God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which
He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
(25) Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel,
saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from
here."
(26) So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old;
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Haftarah: 1 Kings 2:1-12
(1) Now the days of David drew near that he should die, and
he charged Solomon his son, saying:
(2) "I go the way of all the earth; be strong,
therefore, and prove yourself a man.
(3) "And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to walk
in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His
testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all
that you do and wherever you turn;
(4) "that the LORD may fulfill His word which He spoke
concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me
in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,' He said, 'you shall not
lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
(5) "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of
Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies of
Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed.
And he shed the blood of war in peacetime, and put the blood of war on his belt
that was around his waist, and on his sandals that were on his feet.
(6) "Therefore do according to your wisdom, and do not
let his gray hair go down to the grave in peace.
(7) "But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the
Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for so they came
to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
(8) "And see, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera,
a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when
I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to
him by the LORD, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'
(9) "Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you
are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray hair
down to the grave with blood."
(10) So David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the
City of David.
(11) The period that David reigned over Israel was forty
years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years.
(12) Then Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and
his kingdom was firmly established.
Gospel: John 13: 1-19
(1) Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew
that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father,
having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
(2) And supper being ended, the devil having already put it
into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,
(3) Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into
His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,
(4) rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a
towel and girded Himself.
(5) After that, He poured water into a basin and began to
wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was
girded.
(6) Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him,
"Lord, are You washing my feet?"
(7) Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing
you do not understand now, but you will know after this."
(8) Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my
feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part
with Me."
(9) Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head!"
(10) Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to
wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of
you."
(11) For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said,
"You are not all clean."
(12) So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments,
and sat down again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
(13) "You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well,
for so I am.
(14) "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed
your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
(15) "For I have given you an example, that you should
do as I have done to you.
(16) "Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not
greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
(17) "If you know these things, blessed are you if you
do them.
(18) "I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom
I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with
Me has lifted up his heel against Me.'
(19) "Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does
come to pass, you may believe that I am He.
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