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And now you did not send me here, but God. And He has placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for a lord in all his house, and a ruler in all the land of Egypt.

Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, So says your son Joseph, God has placed me as a lord to all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.

And Israel and all which were to him departed, and he came to Beer-sheba. And he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And God said to Israel in visions of the night, and He spoke, Jacob! Jacob! And he answered, Behold me.

And He said, I am God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me in Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given to me here. And he said, Now bring them to me and I will bless them.

And Israel said to Joseph, I did not think to see your face, and, behold, God also causes me to see your seed.

And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born until today;

And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.

And Israel said to Joseph, See, I am dying; and God will be with you, and will return you to the land of your fathers.

From the God of your father, may He help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and womb.

Your father commanded before his death, saying, So you shall say to Joseph, Please lift up now the rebellion of your brothers, and their sin; for they did evil to you. And now please lift up the rebellion of the servants of the God of yourfather. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

And Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God?

And you, you intended evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to make it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying, and God visiting will visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, God visiting will visit you, and you will bring up my bones from here.

And the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt said to them. And they kept the male children alive.

And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became exceedingly strong.

And it was, because the midwives feared God, He made houses for them.