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but his bow remained taut; and his arms were made nimble by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya‘akov, from there, from the Shepherd, the Stone of Isra'el,

The blessings of your father are more powerful than the blessings of my parents, extending to the farthest of the everlasting hills; they will be on the head of Yosef, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

All these are the twelve tribes of Isra'el, and this is how their father spoke to them and blessed them, giving each his own individual blessing.

there they buried Avraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Yitz'chak and his wife Rivkah, and there I buried Le'ah —

When Ya‘akov had finished charging his sons, he drew his legs up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

Yosef fell on his father's face, wept over him and kissed him.

Then Yosef ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Isra'el.

So Yosef went up to bury his father. With him went all Pharaoh's servants, the leaders of his household and the leaders of the land of Egypt,

along with the entire household of Yosef, his brothers and his father's household; only their little ones, their flocks and their cattle did they leave in the land of Goshen.

When they arrived at the threshing-floor in Atad, beyond the Yarden, they raised a loud and bitter lamentation, mourning for his father seven days.

His sons did to him as he had ordered them to do —

Then, after burying his father, Yosef returned to Egypt, he, his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

and his brothers too came, prostrated themselves before him and said, "Here, we are your slaves."

Yosef continued living in Egypt, he and his father's household. Yosef lived 110 years.

Yosef said to his brothers, "I am dying. But God will surely remember you and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov."

These are the names of the sons of Isra'el who came into Egypt with Ya‘akov; each man came with his household:

Yosef died, as did all his brothers and all that generation.

but said to his people, "Look, the descendants of Isra'el have become a people too numerous and powerful for us.

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born, throw in the river; but let all the girls live."

A man from the family of Levi took a woman also descended from Levi as his wife.