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all the house of Yosef, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

for his sons carried him into the land of Kana`an, and buried him in the cave of the field of Makhpelah, which Avraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from `Efron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Yosef returned into Mitzrayim - he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

Yosef lived in Mitzrayim, he, and his father's house. Yosef lived one hundred ten years.

Yosef said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov."

Now these are the names of the sons of Yisra'el, who came into Mitzrayim (every man and his household came with Ya`akov):

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

He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Yisra'el are more and mightier than we.

Par`oh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

Then his sister said to Par`oh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

It happened in those days, when Moshe had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw a Mitzrian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

Moshe was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moshe Tzipporah, his daughter.

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Avraham, with Yitzchak, and with Ya`akov.

Now Moshe was keeping the flock of Yitro, his father-in-law, the Kohen of Midyan, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horev.