Study Desk

Yet his bow remained steady,and his strong arms were made agileby the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

The blessings of your father excelthe blessings of my ancestorsand the bounty of the ancient hills.May they rest on the head of Joseph,on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

Benjamin is a wolf; he tears his prey.In the morning he devours the prey,and in the evening he divides the plunder.”

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

When Jacob had finished giving charges to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, took his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

Then Joseph, leaning over his father’s face, wept and kissed him.

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

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

along with all Joseph’s family, his brothers, and his father’s family. Only their dependents, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

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

After Joseph 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!”

Joseph and his father’s family remained in Egypt. Joseph lived 110 years.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

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

Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died.

He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.

Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you?”