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Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them.

Indeed, his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for his possession as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your slaves."

Now Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father's household, and Joseph lived 110 years.

And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household:

Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we.

And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive."

And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

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

Now it happened in those days, that Moses had grown up. And he went out to his brothers and looked on their hard labors. And he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

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

And Moses was willing to settle down with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

He said also, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am about to come to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' And they will say to me, ‘What is His name?' What shall I say to them?"

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail"—so he stretched out his hand and took hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand—