Genesis 49:27

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil.”

Genesis 49:28

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

Genesis 49:29

He instructed 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,

Genesis 49:30

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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

Genesis 49:31

There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

Genesis 49:32

the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”

Genesis 49:33

When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 50:1

Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

Genesis 50:2

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50:3

Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

Genesis 50:4

When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

Genesis 50:5

My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”

Genesis 50:6

Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

Genesis 50:7

Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Genesis 50:8

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.

Genesis 50:9

There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

Genesis 50:10

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:11

When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50:12

His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

Genesis 50:13

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

Genesis 50:14

Joseph returned into Egypt–he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Genesis 50:15

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.”

Genesis 50:16

They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

Genesis 50:17

You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”‘ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Genesis 50:18

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

Genesis 50:19

Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50:20

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Genesis 50:21

Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Genesis 50:22

Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

Genesis 50:23

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Genesis 50:25

Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 1:1

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

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Exodus 1:2

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

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Exodus 1:3

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

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Exodus 1:4

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

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Exodus 1:5

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

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Exodus 1:6

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

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Exodus 1:7

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

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Exodus 1:9

He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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Exodus 1:10

Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

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Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

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Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

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Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

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Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

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Exodus 1:15

The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

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Exodus 1:16

and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

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Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

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Exodus 1:18

The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”

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Exodus 1:19

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

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Exodus 1:20

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

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Exodus 1:21

It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

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Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

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Exodus 2:1

A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

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Exodus 2:2

The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

Exodus 2:3

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Exodus 2:4

His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

Exodus 2:5

Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

Exodus 2:6

She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Exodus 2:7

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

Exodus 2:8

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The maiden went and called the child’s mother.

Exodus 2:9

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.

Exodus 2:10

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Exodus 2:11

It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

Exodus 2:12

He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2:13

He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”

Exodus 2:14

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

Exodus 2:15

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:16

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Exodus 2:17

The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Exodus 2:18

When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”

Exodus 2:19

They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”

Exodus 2:20

He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

Exodus 2:21

Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

Exodus 2:22

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2:23

It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 2:24

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 2:25

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

Exodus 3:2

The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus 3:3

Moses said, “I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”

Exodus 3:4

When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”

Exodus 3:5

He said, “Don’t come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

Exodus 3:6

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

Exodus 3:7

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 3:9

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Exodus 3:10

Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Exodus 3:11

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Exodus 3:12

He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Exodus 3:13

Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you;’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What should I tell them?”

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 3:15

God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

Exodus 3:16

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;

Exodus 3:17

and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”‘

Exodus 3:18

They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

Exodus 3:19

I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

Exodus 3:20

I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that he will let you go.