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Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed themselves.

Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like manner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.

And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.

May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.

And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs.

And their children and wives they took captive.

And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:

And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,

He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name.

Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.

Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed:

And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,

And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered into Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben,

That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.

And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.

(50-22) And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were born on Joseph’s knees.

These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household: