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And Joseph turneth back to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father.

And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, `Thy father commanded before his death, saying,

And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we [are] to thee for servants.'

And Joseph dwelleth in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph liveth a hundred and ten years,

And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'

And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt with Jacob; a man and his household have they come;

And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;

and he saith unto his people, `Lo, the people of the sons of Israel [is] more numerous and mighty than we;

and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

and his sister stationeth herself afar off, to know what is done to him.

And his sister saith unto the daughter of Pharaoh, `Do I go? when I have called for thee a suckling woman of the Hebrews, then she doth suckle the lad for thee;'

And the lad groweth, and she bringeth him in to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and she calleth his name Moses, and saith, `Because -- from the water I have drawn him.'

And it cometh to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goeth out unto his brethren, and looketh on their burdens, and seeth a man, an Egyptian, smiting a man, a Hebrew, [one] of his brethren,

and he saith unto his daughters, `And where [is] he? why [is] this? -- ye left the man! call for him, and he doth eat bread.'

And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he giveth Zipporah his daughter to Moses,

and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Gershom, for he said, `A sojourner I have been in a strange land.'

and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;

And Moses hath been feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he leadeth the flock behind the wilderness, and cometh in unto the mount of God, to Horeb;

He saith also, `I [am] the God of thy father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob;' and Moses hideth his face, for he is afraid to look towards God.

And Moses saith unto God, `Lo, I am coming unto the sons of Israel, and have said to them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they have said to me, What [is] His name? what do I say unto them?'