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He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" Jacob answered, "These are the children God has graciously given your servant."

Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.

Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.

But Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir."

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

And Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die-neither we, nor you, nor our children.

You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me-you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.

You are also directed to tell them: 'Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.

Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.

At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children."

Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.

"I never expected to see your face again," Israel said to Joseph, "but now God has let me see your children as well."

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 she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew children."

and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD."

When your children ask you, 'What does this service mean to you?'

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.