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Then the maidservants came near, they and their children, and bowed down.

And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down.

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flock will die.

Please let my lord go on ahead before his servant. I will lead on slowly at a pace which the livestock that go before me, and the children, are able to endure, until I come to my lord in Seir."

And he bought the parcel of land, where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

These were the children of Anah: Dishon and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.

Now these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel:

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.

And we said to my lord, "We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'

You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your children, your children's children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.

Now these were the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob's firstborn.

"Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's children shall bow down before you.

Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph's knees.

Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt; each man and his household came with Jacob:

But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we;

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.

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

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.