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and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me."

Jacob said, "No, please; if I find favor with you, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God—since you have received me with such favor.

So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock; and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron. He came to Shechem,

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams."

They had the long robe with sleeves taken to their father, and they said, "This we have found; see now whether it is your son's robe or not."

Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, otherwise we will be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her."

she called out to the members of her household and said to them, "See, my husband has brought among us a Hebrew to insult us! He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice;

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

Joseph also remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them. He said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

But he said to them, "No, you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'

but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.'

we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother goes with us, will we go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father."

And now your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my own mouth that speaks to you.

Israel said, "Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die."

Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, and he could not see well. So Joseph brought them near him; and he kissed them and embraced them.

Israel said to Joseph, "I did not expect to see your face; and here God has let me see your children also."

"When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live."