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Naphtali is a hind let loose, Which yields lovely fawns.
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Joseph is a wild ass, A wild ass by a spring —Wild colts on a hillside. * Joseph is a wild ass, / A wild ass by a spring / —Wild colts on a hillside Others "Joseph is a fruitful bough, / A fruitful bough by a spring, / Its branches run over a wall."
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Archers bitterly assailed him; They shot at him and harried him.
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Yet his bow stayed taut, And his arms * his arms Heb. "the arms of his hands." were made firm By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob— There, the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel—
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The God of your father's [house], who helps you, And Shaddai who blesses you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that couches below, Blessings of the breast and womb.
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The blessings of your father Surpass the blessings of my ancestors, To the utmost bounds of the eternal hills. * The blessings of your father … hills Meaning of Heb. uncertain. May they rest on the head of Joseph, On the brow of the elect of his brothers.
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Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he consumes the foe, * foe Meaning of Heb. ‘ad uncertain; others "booty." And in the evening he divides the spoil."
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All these were the tribes of Israel, twelve in number, and this is what their father said to them as he bade them farewell, addressing to each a parting word appropriate to him.
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Then he instructed them, saying to them, "I am about to be gathered to my kin. Bury me with my ancestors * ancestors Heb. 'avothai ; trad. "fathers." See the Dictionary under "predecessors." in the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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the cave which is in the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site—
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there Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried; there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah—
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the field and the cave in it, bought from the Hittites."
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When Jacob finished his instructions to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and, breathing his last, he was gathered to his kin. * kin As in Gen. 17.14; 25.8, 17; 35.29; 49.29; Num. 20.24; 31.2; cf. Lev. 21.1–3. NJPS "people," a trad. yet inconsistent rendering. See the Dictionary under "predecessors."
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Joseph flung himself upon his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
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Then Joseph ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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It required forty days, for such is the full period of embalming. The Egyptians bewailed him seventy days;
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and when the wailing period was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's court, saying, "Do me this favor, and lay this appeal before Pharaoh:
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‘My father made me swear, saying, "I am about to die. Be sure to bury me in the grave which I made ready for myself in the land of Canaan." Now, therefore, let me go up and bury my father; then I shall return.'"
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And Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you promise on oath."
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So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the officials of Pharaoh, the senior members of his court, and all of Egypt's dignitaries,
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together with all of Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household; only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the region of Goshen.
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Chariots, too, and horsemen went up with him; it was a very large troop.
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When they came to Goren * Goren Or "the threshing floor of." ha-Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and solemn lamentation; and he observed a mourning period of seven days for his father.
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And when the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning at Goren ha-Atad, they said, "This is a solemn mourning on the part of the Egyptians." That is why it was named Abel-mizraim, * Abel-mizraim Interpreted as "the mourning of the Egyptians." which is beyond the Jordan.
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Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them.
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His sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham had bought for a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
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After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
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When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrong that we did him!"
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So they sent this message to Joseph, "Before his death your father left this instruction:
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So shall you say to Joseph, ‘Forgive, I urge you, the offense and guilt of your brothers who treated you so harshly.' Therefore, please forgive the offense of the servants of the God of your father's [house]." And Joseph was in tears as they spoke to him.
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His brothers went to him themselves, flung themselves before him, and said, "We are prepared to be your slaves."
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But Joseph said to them, "Have no fear! Am I a substitute for God?
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Besides, although you intended me harm, God intended it for good, so as to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.
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And so, fear not. I will sustain you and your dependents." * dependents NJPS "children," trad. "little ones." See the Dictionary under taph . Thus he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.
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So Joseph and his father's household remained in Egypt. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
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Joseph lived to see children of the third generation of Ephraim; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were likewise born upon Joseph's knees.
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At length, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. God will surely take notice of you and bring you up from this land to the land promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
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So Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "When God has taken notice of you, you shall carry up my bones from here."
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Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household:
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
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Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
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Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
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The total number of persons that were of Jacob's issue came to seventy, Joseph being already in Egypt.
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Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
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But the Israelites were fertile and prolific; they multiplied and increased very greatly, so that the land was filled with them.
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A new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
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And he said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are much too numerous for us.
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Let us deal shrewdly with them, so that they may not increase; otherwise in the event of war they may join our enemies in fighting against us and rise from the ground." * rise from the ground Meaning perhaps from their wretched condition, cf. Hos. 2.2; or "gain ascendancy over the country." Others "get them up out of the land."
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So they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor; and they built garrison cities * garrison cities Others "store cities." for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
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But the more they were oppressed, the more they increased and spread out, so that the [Egyptians] came to dread the Israelites.
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The Egyptians ruthlessly imposed upon the Israelites
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the various labors that they made them perform. Ruthlessly * the various labors that they made them perform. Ruthlessly Brought up from the end of the verse for clarity. they made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field.
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The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
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saying, "When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the birthstool: birthstool More precisely, the brick or stone supports used by Egyptian women during childbirth. if it is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live."
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The midwives, fearing God, did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
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So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, letting the boys live?"
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The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women: they are vigorous. Before the midwife can come to them, they have given birth."
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And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and increased greatly.
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And [God] established households * households Meaning of Heb. batim uncertain. for the midwives, because they feared God.
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Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "Every boy that is born you shall throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."
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A certain member * member NJPS "man." See the Dictionary under 'ish . of the house of Levi went and took [into his household as his wife] a woman of Levi.
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The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw how beautiful he was, she hid him for three months.
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When she could hide him no longer, she got a wicker basket for him and caulked it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child into it and placed it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
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And his sister stationed herself at a distance, to learn what would befall him.
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The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the Nile, while her maidens walked along the Nile. She spied the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to fetch it.
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When she opened it, she saw that it was a child, a boy crying. She took pity on it and said, "This must be a Hebrew child."
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Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get you a Hebrew nurse to suckle the child for you?"
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And Pharaoh's daughter answered, "Yes." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed it.
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When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, who made him her son. She named him Moses, * Moses Heb. Mosheh from Egyptian for "born of"; here associated with mashah "draw out." explaining, "I drew him out of the water."
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Some time after that, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his kinsfolk and witnessed their labors. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.
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He turned this way and that and, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
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When he went out the next day, he found two Hebrews fighting; so he said to the offender, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
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He retorted, "Who made you chief and ruler over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was frightened, and thought: Then the matter is known!
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When Pharaoh learned of the matter, he sought to kill Moses; but Moses fled from Pharaoh. He arrived * arrived Lit. "sat" or "settled." in the land of Midian, and sat down beside a well.
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock;
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but shepherds came and drove them off. Moses rose to their defense, and he watered their flock.
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When they returned to their father Reuel, he said, "How is it that you have come back so soon today?"
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They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds; he even drew water for us and watered the flock."
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He said to his daughters, "Where is he then? Why did you leave the man? Ask him in to break bread."
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Moses consented to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah as wife.
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She bore a son whom he named Gershom, * Gershom Associated with ger sham , "a stranger there." for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land."
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A long time after that, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites were groaning under the bondage and cried out; and their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God.
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God heard their moaning, and God remembered the covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
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God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them.
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Now Moses, tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, drove the flock into the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
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A messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a blazing fire out of a bush. He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.
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Moses said, "I must turn aside to look at this marvelous sight; why doesn't the bush burn up?"
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When יהוה saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush: "Moses! Moses!" He answered, "Here I am."
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And [God] said, "Do not come closer! Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground!"
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and continued, "I am the God of your father's [house]—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
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And יהוה continued, "I have marked well the plight of My people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry because of their taskmasters; yes, I am mindful of their sufferings.
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I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the region of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me; moreover, I have seen how the Egyptians oppress them.
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Come, therefore, I will send you to Pharaoh, and you shall free My people, the Israelites, from Egypt."
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But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and free the Israelites from Egypt?"
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And [God] said, "I will be with you; that shall be your sign that it was I who sent you. And when you have freed the people from Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain."
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Moses said to God, "When I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers' [house] has sent me to you,' and they ask me, ‘What is [God's] name?' what shall I say to them?"
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And God said to Moses, "Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh," * Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh Meaning of Heb. uncertain; variously translated: "I Am That I Am"; "I Am Who I Am"; "I Will Be What I Will Be"; etc. continuing, "Thus shall you say to the Israelites, ‘Ehyeh * Ehyeh Others "I Am" or "I Will Be." sent me to you.'"
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