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"Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died suddenly, as we were traveling through the land of Kena‘an, while we were still some distance from Efrat; so I buried her there on the way to Efrat (also known as Beit-Lechem)."

the angel who has rescued me from all harm, bless these boys. May they remember who I am and what I stand for, and likewise my fathers Avraham and Yitz'chak, who they were and what they stood for. And may they grow into teeming multitudes on the earth."

Yosef said to his father, "Don't do it that way, my father; for this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head."

(iv) Then Ya‘akov called for his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the acharit-hayamim.

Let me not enter their council, let my honor not be connected with their people; for in their anger they killed men, and at their whim they maimed cattle.

Cursed be their anger, for it has been fierce; their fury, for it has been cruel. I will divide them in Ya‘akov and scatter them in Isra'el.

I wait for your deliverance, Adonai .

"Asher's food is rich — he will provide food fit for a king.

Forty days were spent at this, the normal amount of time for embalming. Then the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

‘My father had me swear an oath. He said, "I am going to die. You are to bury me in my grave, which I dug for myself in the land of Kena‘an." Therefore, I beg you, let me go up and bury my father; I will return.'"

When they arrived at the threshing-floor in Atad, beyond the Yarden, they raised a loud and bitter lamentation, mourning for his father seven days.

Realizing that their father was dead, Yosef's brothers said, "Yosef may hate us now and pay us back in full for all the suffering we caused him."

You meant to do me harm, but God meant it for good — so that it would come about as it is today, with many people's lives being saved.

(vii) So don't be afraid — I will provide for you and your little ones." In this way he comforted them, speaking kindly to them.

So Yosef died at the age of 110, and they embalmed him and put him in a coffin in Egypt. Haftarah Vayechi: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 2:1–12 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Vayechi: Acts 7:9–16 (specifically vv. 15–16); Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:21–22; 1 Kefa (1 Peter) 1:3–9; 2:11–17 Hazak, hazak, v'nit'chazek! Be strong, be strong, and let us be strengthened!

but said to his people, "Look, the descendants of Isra'el have become a people too numerous and powerful for us.

So they put slavemasters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built for Pharaoh the storage cities of Pitom and Ra‘amses.

When she conceived and had a son, upon seeing what a fine child he was, she hid him for three months.

At this point, his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Would you like me to go and find you one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"

Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will pay you for doing it." So the woman took the child and nursed it.