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They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Mitzrim, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Mitzrim don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Mitzrim.

They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.

He sent portions to them from before him, but Binyamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Yosef said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, tell them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?

Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.

Yehudah and his brothers came to Yosef's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."

They went up out of Mitzrayim, and came into the land of Kana`an, to Ya`akov their father.

They told him, saying, "Yosef is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Mitzrayim." His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.

They took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Kana`an, and came into Mitzrayim - Ya`akov, and all his seed with him,

He sent Yehudah before him to Yosef, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

Then Yosef went in and told Par`oh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Kana`an; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

Par`oh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Par`oh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers."

Ya`akov said to Par`oh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

Yosef gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Mitzrayim, and in the land of Kana`an, for the grain which they bought: and Yosef brought the money into Par`oh's house.

They brought their cattle to Yosef, and Yosef gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.