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Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.

When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.

Then Joseph fell upon his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.

And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him-the elders of Pharaoh's household and all the elders of the land of Egypt-

along with all of Joseph's household, and his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

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

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, "We are your slaves!"

Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

Now Joseph and his father's household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

"Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: "Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live."