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But Judah said to Jacob, "The governor of that country strongly warned us, ‘If you don't bring your brother back with you, you will not be allowed to see me.'

But if you refuse to send Benjamin, we will not go. The governor of that country warned us that we would not see him if we didn't bring Benjamin with us."

Then you said to us, ‘Bring that brother to me. I want to see him.'

But you said to us, ‘If you don't bring your youngest brother, you will not be allowed to see me again.'

We said to our father, ‘We cannot go without our youngest brother. Without our youngest brother, we will not be allowed to see the governor.'

I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I couldn't stand to see my father that sad."

"Now you can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that the one speaking to you is really Joseph.

Israel said, "Now I believe you. My son Joseph is still alive, and I will go and see him before I die."

Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to see Joseph in Goshen. When Jacob and his people came into the land of Goshen,

When Joseph arrived, someone told Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to see you." Jacob was weak, so he used all his strength and sat up on his bed.

He said to Joseph, "I thought I would never see you alive again, and now God has let me see you and also your children."

The baby's sister stood a short distance away to see what would happen to him.

Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, "Let me go back to my people in Egypt. I want to see if they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go! I wish you well."

and Aaron told them everything that the Lord had told Moses. Then Moses did the miracles for all the people to see,

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to the king of Egypt. I will use my great power against him, and he will let my people go. Because of my power, he will force them out of his country."

But Moses said, "It wouldn't be right to do that, because the Egyptians hate the sacrifices we offer to the Lord our God. If they see us offering sacrifices they hate, they will throw stones at us and kill us.

The king sent people to see what had happened to the animals of Israel, and they found that not one of them had died. But the king was still stubborn and did not let the people go.

They will cover the land so that no one will be able to see the ground. They will eat anything that was left from the hailstorm and the leaves from every tree growing in the field.

The king said to them, "The Lord will really have to be with you if ever I let you and all of your children leave Egypt. See, you are planning something evil!

No one could see anyone else, and no one could go anywhere for three days. But the Israelites had light where they lived.