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So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you Israel will bless, saying, "May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!"' And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Dan shall be a serpent by the way, A viper by the path, That bites the horse's heels So that its rider shall fall backward.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them.

So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, "Before your father died he commanded, saying,

Hebrews 11:22">[xr] So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land."

So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.

So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?"

And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.

22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born [fn] you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.

And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the maiden went and called the child's mother.

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

And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, [fn] saying, "Because I drew him out of the water."

So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!"