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And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household:

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

And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: 'Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.'

And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

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

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.'

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'

And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.'

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

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

Moreover He said: 'I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

And Moses said unto God: 'Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them: The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me: What is His name? what shall I say unto them?'

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail--and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand--

And the LORD said furthermore unto him: 'Put now thy hand into thy bosom.' And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.