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Blessings of grain and flowers, Blessings of ancient mountains, Delightful things from everlasting hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, On the brow of the one set apart from his brothers.

Then Jacob commanded his sons, "Now that I am going to join my people in death, bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

That is where they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; that is where they buried Isaac and his wife Rebecca; and that is where I buried Leah.

When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he lay back down and died.

Joseph threw himself on his father, crying and kissing his face.

Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body.

So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph.

His family, his brothers, and the rest of his father's family all went with him. Only their small children and their sheep, goats, and cattle stayed in the region of Goshen.

they carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre in the field which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.

After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him for the funeral.

Then his brothers themselves came and bowed down before him. "Here we are before you as your slaves," they said.

Joseph continued to live in Egypt with his father's family; he was a hundred and ten years old when he died.

He said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Then Joseph asked his people to make a vow. "Promise me," he said, "that when God leads you to that land, you will take my body with you."

So Joseph died in Egypt at the age of a hundred and ten. They embalmed his body and put it in a coffin.

The sons of Jacob who went to Egypt with him, each with his family, were

The total number of these people directly descended from Jacob was seventy. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.

In the course of time Joseph, his brothers, and all the rest of that generation died,

He said to his people, "These Israelites are so numerous and strong that they are a threat to us.

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: "Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live."