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"I wait for your deliverance, Lord .

"Asher's land will produce rich food. He will provide food fit for a king.

at Machpelah east of Mamre in the land of Canaan. Abraham bought this cave and field from Ephron for a burial ground.

It took forty days, the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

When they came to the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan, they mourned loudly for a long time, and Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.

they carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre in the field which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.

After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him for the funeral.

After the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said, "What if Joseph still hates us and plans to pay us back for all the harm we did to him?"

So the Egyptians put slave drivers over them to crush their spirits with hard labor. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses to serve as supply centers for the king.

So the king sent for the midwives and asked them, "Why are you doing this? Why are you letting the boys live?"

and she bore him a son. When she saw what a fine baby he was, she hid him for three months.

The princess opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.

Then his sister asked her, "Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you?"

The princess told the woman, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So she took the baby and nursed him.

When the king heard about what had happened, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses fled and went to live in the land of Midian. One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father's sheep and goats.

But some shepherds drove Jethro's daughters away. Then Moses went to their rescue and watered their animals for them.

"An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds," they answered, "and he even drew water for us and watered our animals."

Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God,

He saw the slavery of the Israelites and was concerned for them.

Every Israelite woman will go to her Egyptian neighbors and to any Egyptian woman living in her house and will ask for clothing and for gold and silver jewelry. The Israelites will put these things on their sons and daughters and carry away the wealth of the Egyptians."