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pageNum bold to speake vnto him. And it was heard of, and very famously reported abrode in the kings courte: The brethren of Ioseph are come: and Pharao was glad, and al his familie.And he spake to Ioseph that he should command his brethren, saying: Loading your beasts goe into the Land of Chanaan, and take thence your father and kinne, and come to me: and I wil geue you al the good things of Ægypt, that you may eate the marow of the land. Geue commandment also that they take waynes out of the land of Ægypt, for the carage of their litle ones and wyues: and say: Take vp your father, and make hast to come with al spede. Neither doe you leaue any thing of your houshould stuffe: for al the riches of Ægypt, shal be yours. And the sonnes of Israel did as it was commanded them. To whom Ioseph gaue waynes according to Pharaos commandment: and victuals for the way.He bad also to be brought vp for euery one two robes: but to Beniamin he gaue three hundred peeces of siluer with fiue robes of the best: sending to his father as much money and rayment, adding besides them he asses that should carie of al the riches of Ægypt, and as many shee asses, carying wheat for the iourney and bread. Ioseph. he dismissed his brethren, and when they were departing he said to them: "Be not angrie in the way. Who going vp out of Ægypt, came into the land of Chanaan to their father Iacob. And they told him saying: Ioseph thy sonne is liuing: and he ruleth in al the Land of Ægypt. Which when Iacob heard, awaking as it were out of a heauie sleepe, notwithstanding did not beleeue them.They on the contrarie side reported the whole order of the thing. And when he sawe the waynes and al things that he had sent, his spirit reuiued, and he said: It sufficeth me if Ioseph my sonne be liuing yet: I wil goe, and see him before I dye.

ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XLII.

24. Be not angriein the way.) Trauelers in iourney are eafily prouoked to anger and brawling, especially if they auoid not probable occasions. Therefore Ioseph admonisheth his brothers to beware therof, left in talking of him, and how they had sold him to strangers, some of them might acccuse others, and excuse themselves, and so fal into new offences. S. Chris. ho. 64. in Gen. Rh