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

And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

So they sent word to Joseph saying, "Your father commanded us before his death, saying,

Then his brothers went also and fell before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."

So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his family:

And Joseph died and all of his brothers and all of that generation.

And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the Israelites are greater and more numerous than us.

And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you will throw into the Nile, and every daughter you will let live."

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

And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, "Shall I go and call for you a woman from the Hebrews who is nursing so that she will nurse the boy for you?"

And the boy grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, "Because I drew him out from the water."

And then in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their forced labor, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, one of his brothers.

And he said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him so that he can eat some food."

And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.

And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, "I am an alien in a foreign land."

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

And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west of the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face because he was afraid of looking at God.