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So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, - and they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.

So then Joseph died and all his brethren, and all that generation.

But the sons of Israel, were fruitful and swarmed and multiplied and waxed mighty, with exceeding vigour, - so that the land was filled with them.

So he said, unto his people, Lo! the people of the sons of Israel are too many and mighty for us!

Come on! let us shew ourselves wise with regard to them, lest they so multiply that it shall come to pass when war befalleth us, that they also, shall join themselves unto them who hate us, and shall make war upon us. and then go up out of the land.

So they set over them chiefs of tribute, to the end they might humiliate them with their burdens, - and they built store-cities for Pharaoh, even Pithom and Raamses.

But the more they were humiliating them, the more, were they multiplying, and, the more, were they breaking forth, so they were filled with alarm because of the sons of Israel.

So then God dealt well with the midwives, - and the people multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty.

And the woman conceived and bare a son, - and she saw him, that he was a goodly child, so she hid him three months.

So then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe by the river, and her, maidens, were walking by the side of the river, - when she saw the ark in the midst of the rushes, and sent her handmaid, and fetched it.

And she opened and beheld it - even the child, and lo! a boy weeping, - so she took pity on him, and said, Of the children of the Hebrews, is this.

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her - Go. So the maid went, and called the mother of the child.

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her - Take this child, and nurse it for me, and, I, will give thee thy wages. So the woman took the child, and nursed it.

So he turned this way and that, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

And he went out on the second day, and lo! two Hebrews, striving together, - so he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore shouldest thou smite thy fellow?

So Pharaoh heard this thing, and sought to slay Moses, - and Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian and sat down by the well.

Then came the shepherds, and drave them away, - so Moses rose up, and succoured them, and watered their flock,

Then came they in unto Reuel their father, - and he said, Wherefore have ye so early come in to-day?

so then, God looked upon the sons of Israel, - and God regarded.

Now, Moses, was shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law priest of Midian, - so he led forth the flock behind the desert, and came in unto the mountain of God to Horeb.