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When they arrived at the threshing-floor in Atad, beyond the Yarden, they raised a loud and bitter lamentation, mourning for his father seven days.

they carried him into the land of Kena‘an and buried him in the cave in the field of Makhpelah, which Avraham had bought, along with the field, as a burial-place belonging to him, from ‘Efron the Hitti, by Mamre.

‘Say to Yosef, "I beg you now, please forgive your brothers' crime and wickedness in doing you harm."' So now, we beg of you, forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father." Yosef wept when they spoke to him;

So Yosef died at the age of 110, and they embalmed him and put him in a coffin in Egypt. Haftarah Vayechi: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 2:1–12 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Vayechi: Acts 7:9–16 (specifically vv. 15–16); Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:21–22; 1 Kefa (1 Peter) 1:3–9; 2:11–17 Hazak, hazak, v'nit'chazek! Be strong, be strong, and let us be strengthened!

Come, let's use wisdom in dealing with them. Otherwise, they'll continue to multiply; and in the event of war they might ally themselves with our enemies, fight against us and leave the land altogether."

So they put slavemasters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built for Pharaoh the storage cities of Pitom and Ra‘amses.

But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and expanded, until the Egyptians came to dread the people of Isra'el

making their lives bitter with hard labor — digging clay, making bricks, all kinds of field work; and in all this toil they were shown no mercy.

The midwives answered Pharaoh, "It's because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women — they go into labor and give birth before the midwife arrives."

They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds; more than that, he drew water for us and watered the sheep."

Sometime during those many years the king of Egypt died, but the people of Isra'el still groaned under the yoke of slavery, and they cried out, and their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

Moshe said to God, "Look, when I appear before the people of Isra'el and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you'; and they ask me, ‘What is his name?' what am I to tell them?"

They will heed what you say. Then you will come, you and the leaders of Isra'el, before the king of Egypt; and you will tell him, ‘ Adonai , the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now, please, let us go three days' journey into the desert; so that we can sacrifice to Adonai our God.'

Moshe replied, "But I'm certain they won't believe me, and they won't listen to what I say, because they'll say, ‘ Adonai did not appear to you.'"

"This is so that they will believe that Adonai , the God of their fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya‘akov, has appeared to you!"

But if they aren't persuaded even by both these signs and still won't listen to what you say, then take some water from the river, and pour it on the ground. The water you take from the river will turn into blood on the dry land."

(vi) Moshe left, returned to Yitro his father-in-law and said to him, "I beg you to let me go and return to my kinsmen in Egypt, to see if they are still alive." Yitro said to Moshe, "Go in peace."

The people believed; when they heard that Adonai had remembered the people of Isra'el and seen how they were oppressed, they bowed their heads and worshipped.

(vii) After that, Moshe and Aharon came and said to Pharaoh, "Here is what Adonai , the God of Isra'el, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they can celebrate a festival in the desert to honor me.'"

No straw is given to your servants, yet they keep telling us to make bricks. And now your servants are being flogged, but the fault lies with your own people."