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And they came as far as the threshing floor of thorns, which is on the other side of the Jordan. And they mourned there with a great and very heavy mourning. And he made a lamentation for his father seven days.

And those living in the land, the Canaanites, saw the wailing in the grain floor of thorns. And they said, This is a very great wailing to Egypt; for this reason its name was called The Meadow of Egypt, which is on the otherside of Jordan.

And Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead. And they said, What if Joseph should bear a grudge against us and repaying should repay us all the evil which we did to him?

And they sent a message to Joseph, saying,

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.

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

And Joseph died, a son of a hundred and ten years. And they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.

And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob; they each one came in with his house:

Come, let us deal craftily towards them, lest they multiply and it shall be that when war occurs they will also add to our enemies, and will fight against us and go up from the land.

And they put over them slavemasters in order to afflict them with their burdens. And he built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithon and Raamses.

And as much as they afflicted them, so much they multiplied and so much they spread. And they were afraid before the sons of Israel.

And they made their lives bitter by hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field; all their work which they made them do with harshness.

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 the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous. Before the midwives come to them they bear.

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

And they came to their father Reuel; and he said, Why have you hurried to come today?

And they said, An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew for us and watered the flock.

And it happened during these many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the slavery. And they cried, and their cry went up to God from the slavery.

And Moses said to God, Behold, I shall come to the sons of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they will say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them?

And they shall listen to your voice; and you shall come in, you and the elders of Israel to the king of Egypt. And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews has met us; and now, please let us go for a journey of three days into the wilderness, and let us sacrifice to Jehovah our God.