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And God spoke to Israel in a night vision, saying, Jacob, Jacob; and he said, What is it?

And he says to him, I am the God of thy fathers; fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will make thee there a great nation.

And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me in Luza, in the land of Chanaan, and blessed me,

And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God gave me here; and Jacob said, Bring me them, that I may bless them.

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I have not been deprived of seeing thy face, and lo! God has showed me thy seed also.

And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraam and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;

And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel be blessed, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasse; and he set Ephraim before Manasse.

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers.

But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of thy father;

and my God helped thee, and he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,

Thus say ye to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done thee evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him.

And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am God’s.

Ye took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is to-day, and much people might be fed.

And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God sware to our fathers, Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob.

And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.

And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong.

And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families.

And in those days after a length of time, the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God.

And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob.