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Not only will I go down with you to Egypt; but I will also bring you back here again, after Yosef has closed your eyes."

The sons of Y'hudah: ‘Er, Onan, Shelah, Peretz and Zerach; but ‘Er and Onan died in the land of Kena‘an. The sons of Peretz were Hetzron and Hamul.

When that year was over, they approached Yosef again and said to him, "We won't hide from my lord that all our money is spent, and the herds of livestock belong to my lord. We have nothing left, as my lord can see, but our bodies and our land.

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be enslaved to Pharaoh. But also give us seed to plant, so that we can stay alive and not die, and so that the land won't become barren."

The children born to you after them will be yours, but for purposes of inheritance they are to be counted with their older brothers.

Isra'el said to Yosef, "I never expected to see even you again, but God has allowed me to see your children too!"

But Isra'el put out his right hand and laid it on the head of the younger one, Efrayim, and put his left hand on the head of M'nasheh — he intentionally crossed his hands, even though M'nasheh was the firstborn.

But his father refused and said, "I know that, my son, I know it. He too will become a people, and he too will be great; nevertheless his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will grow into many nations."

Isra'el then said to Yosef, "You see that I am dying, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.

(v) "Gad [troop]— a troop will troop on him, but he will troop on their heel.

but his bow remained taut; and his arms were made nimble by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya‘akov, from there, from the Shepherd, the Stone of Isra'el,

But Yosef said to them, "Don't be afraid! Am I in the place of God?

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.

Yosef said to his brothers, "I am dying. But God will surely remember you and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov."

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

But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and expanded, until the Egyptians came to dread the people of Isra'el

"When you attend the Hebrew women and see them giving birth," he said, "if it's a boy, kill him; but if it's a girl, let her live."

However, the midwives were God-fearing women, so they didn't do as the king of Egypt ordered but let the boys live.

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born, throw in the river; but let all the girls live."

When Pharaoh heard of it, he tried to have Moshe put to death. But Moshe fled from Pharaoh to live in the land of Midyan. One day, as he was sitting by a well,