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So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.

Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.

Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and get you one of the Hebrew women to give him the breast?

Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand.

Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.