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He saw that his resting place was goodand that the land was pleasant,so he leaned his shoulder to bear a loadand became a forced laborer.

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father in keeping with your oath.”

So Jacob’s sons did for him what he had commanded them.

So they sent this message to Joseph, “Before he died your father gave a command:

So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”

But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.

“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.

When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come back so quickly today?”

“So where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”

So Moses thought, “I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up?”

So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them,

therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”