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Dan shall be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider falls backward.

Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.' Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return."

So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

So they approached Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this instruction before he died,

So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones." In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.

So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's household; and Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, "When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here."

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

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

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?"

So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes." So the girl went and called the child's mother.

Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed it.

When they returned to their father Reuel, he said, "How is it that you have come back so soon today?"

So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."

They will listen to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord , the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; let us now go a three days' journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.'

So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will perform in it; after that he will let you go.

each woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman living in the neighbor's house for jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians."

And he said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw the staff on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses drew back from it.