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"Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you;Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;Your father's sons shall bow down to you.

"Zebulun will dwell at the seashore;And he shall be a shore for ships,And his flank shall be toward Sidon.

For Your salvation I hope, O Yahweh.

"As for Gad, raiders shall raid him,But he will raid at their heels.

"As for Asher, his food shall be rich,And he will yield royal dainties.

in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial site.

Then the forty days to do this were fulfilled, because in this manner the days of embalming are fulfilled. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Then the days of weeping for him were past, and Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

‘My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." So now, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.'"

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and immense lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.

Now the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, and they said, "This is an immense mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore it was named Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them.

Indeed, his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for his possession as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, "Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they dealt evil against you."' So now, please forgive the transgression of the slaves of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

But Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in God's place?

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to do what has happened on this day, to keep many people alive.

So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones." And he comforted them and spoke to their heart.

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labors. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and let the boys live?"

Then the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can come to them."