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And all the household of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of his father, and his kindred; and they left behind the sheep and the oxen in the land of Gesem.

And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

And thus his sons did to him.

So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre.

And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and those that had gone up with him to bury his father.

And they came to Joseph, and said, Thy father adjured us before his death, saying,

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all the family of his father; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God sware to our fathers, Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob.

And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

And he said to his nation, Behold, the race of the children of Israel is a great multitude, and is stronger than we:

And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

And his sister was watching from a distance, to learn what would happen to him.

And his sister said to the daughter of Pharao, Wilt thou that I call to thee a nurse of the Hebrews, and shall she suckle the child for thee?

And when the boy was grown, she brought him to the daughter of Pharao, and he became her son; and she called his name, Moses, saying, I took him out of the water.

And it came to pass in that length of time, that Moses having grown, went out to his brethren the sons of Israel: and having noticed their distress, he sees an Egyptian smiting a certain Hebrew of his brethren the children of Israel.

And he said to his daughters, And where is he? and why have ye left the man? call him therefore, that he may eat bread.

And Moses was established with the man, and he gave Sepphora his daughter to Moses to wife.

And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gersam, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.