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And your children whom you father after them shall be yours. By the name of their brothers they shall be called, with respect to their inheritance.

Then Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons whom God has given me here." And he said, "Please bring them to me that I may bless them."

Let not my person be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle.

The archers fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows at him and were hostile to him.

The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers.

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah—

with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which was beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days.

And when the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, saw the mourning ceremony at the threshing floor of Atad they said, "This is a severe mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hold a grudge against us and pay us back dearly for all the evil that we did to him."

"Thus you must say to Joseph, ‘O, please now forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.' So now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

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

And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his family:

Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, lest they become many, and when war happens, they also will join our enemies and will fight against us and go up from the land."

And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their forced labor, and they built storage cities for Pharaoh—Pithom and Rameses.

And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and the Egyptians were afraid because of the presence of the Israelites.

And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field—with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.

But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live.

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth."

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