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Gen 48:1 And after these events it came to be that it was said to Yosĕph,
“See, your father is sick.” And he took with him his two sons, Menashsheh
and Ephrayim.
Gen 48:2 And Ya‛aqoḇ was told, “See, your son Yosĕph is coming to you.”
And Yisra’ĕl strengthened himself and sat up on the bed.
Gen 48:3 And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Yosĕph, “Ĕl Shaddai appeared to me at Luz
in the land of Kena‛an and blessed me,
Gen 48:4 and said to me, ‘See, I am making you bear fruit and shall increase
you and make of you an assembly of peoples, and give this land to your seed
after you as an everlasting possession.’
Gen 48:5 “And now, your two sons, Ephrayim and Menashsheh, who were
born to you in the land of Mitsrayim before I came to you in Mitsrayim, are
mine – as Re’uḇĕn and Shim‛on, they are mine.
Gen 48:6 “Your offspring whom you shall bring forth after them are yours,
and let them be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Gen 48:7 “And I, when I came from Paddan, Raḥĕl died beside me in the
land of Kena‛an on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to
Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is Bĕyth Leḥem.”
Gen 48:8 And Yisra’ĕl saw Yosĕph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”
Gen 48:9 And Yosĕph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom Elohim
has given me in this place.” And he said, “Please bring them to me, and let
me bless them.”
Gen 48:10 And the eyes of Yisra’ĕl were dim with age, and he was unable
to see. And he drew them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Gen 48:11 And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “I had not thought to see your face.
But see, Elohim has also shown me your seed!”
Gen 48:12 So Yosĕph brought them from between his knees, and he bowed
down with his face to the earth.
Gen 48:13 And Yosĕph took them both, Ephrayim with his right hand toward
Yisra’ĕl’s left hand, and Menashsheh with his left hand toward Yisra’ĕl’s
right hand, and brought them near him.
Gen 48:14 And Yisra’ĕl stretched out his right hand and laid it on
Ephrayim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh’s
head, consciously directing his hands, for Menashsheh was the first-born.
Gen 48:15 And he blessed Yosĕph, and said, “The Elohim before whom my
fathers Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq walked, the Elohim who has fed me all my life
long to this day,
Gen 48:16 the Messenger who has redeemed me from all evil – bless the
youths! And let my name be called upon them, and the name of my fathers
Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq. And let them increase to a multitude in the midst of the
earth.”
Gen 48:17 And when Yosĕph saw that his father laid his right hand on the
head of Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s
hand to remove it from the head of Ephrayim to the head of Menashsheh.
Gen 48:18 And Yosĕph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is
the first-born, put your right hand on his head.”
Gen 48:19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also
becomes a people, and he also is great. And yet, his younger brother is
greater than he, and his seed is to become the completeness of the nations.”
Gen 48:20 And he blessed them on that day, saying, “In you Yisra’ĕl shall
bless, saying, ‘Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!’ ” Thus he
put Ephrayim before Menashsheh.
Gen 48:21 And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “See, I am dying, but Elohim shall
be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Gen 48:22 “And I, I have given to you one portion above your brothers,
which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

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Gen 49:1 And Ya‛aqoḇ called his sons and said, “Gather together, so that I
declare to you what is to befall you in the last days:
Gen 49:2 “Gather together and hear, you sons of Ya‛aqoḇ, and listen to
Yisra’ĕl your father.
Gen 49:3 “Re’uḇĕn, you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of
my strength, the excellency of exaltation and the excellency of power.
Gen 49:4 “Boiling like water, you do not excel, because you went up to your
father’s bed, then you defiled it – he went up to my couch.
Gen 49:5 “Shim‛on and Lĕwi are brothers, their weapons are implements of
violence.
Gen 49:6 “Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united
to their assembly; because they slew a man in their displeasure, and they
lamed an ox in pleasure.
Gen 49:7 “Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it
is cruel! I divide them in Ya‛aqoḇ and scatter them in Yisra’ĕl.
Gen 49:8 “You, Yehuḏah, your brothers praise you; your hand is on the neck
of your enemies; your father’s children bow down before you.
Gen 49:9 “Yehuḏah is a lion’s cub; from the prey you have gone up, my son!
He bowed down, he crouched like a lion. And like a lion, who does rouse
him?
Gen 49:10 “The sceptre shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver
from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of
peoples.
Gen 49:11 “Binding his donkey to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the
choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of
grapes.
Gen 49:12 “His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
Gen 49:13 “Zeḇulun dwells at the seashore, he is for a haven for ships, and
his border is unto Tsiḏon.
Gen 49:14 “Yissasḵar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens,
Gen 49:15 and he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was
pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a subject
to slave labour.
Gen 49:16 “Dan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl.
Gen 49:17 “Dan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the
horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward.
Gen 49:18 “I have waited for your deliverance, O יהוה !
Gen 49:19 “Gaḏ, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel.
Gen 49:20 “Bread from Ashĕr is rich, and he gives delicacies of a
sovereign.
Gen 49:21 “Naphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance.
Gen 49:22 “Yosĕph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a
fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall.
Gen 49:23 “And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated
him.
Gen 49:24 “But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands
were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya‛aqoḇ – from there is
the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ĕl –
Gen 49:25 from the Ĕl of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty
who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep
that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Gen 49:26 “The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my
ancestors, up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on the head of
Yosĕph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his
brothers.
Gen 49:27 “Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at
night he divides the spoil.”
Gen 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra’ĕl, and this is what their
father spoke to them. And he blessed them, he blessed each one according to
his own blessing.
Gen 49:29 And he commanded them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered
to my people, bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of
Ephron the Ḥittite,
Gen 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Maḵpĕlah, which is before
Mamrĕ in the land of Kena‛an, which Aḇraham bought with the field of
Ephron the Ḥittite as a possession for a burial site.
Gen 49:31 There they buried Aḇraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried
Yitsḥaq and Riḇqah his wife, and there I buried Lĕ’ah –
Gen 49:32 the field purchased, and the cave which is in it, from the sons of
Ḥĕth.”
Gen 49:33 And when Ya‛aqoḇ ended commanding his sons, he drew his feet
up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

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Gen 50:1 And Yosĕph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and
kissed him.
Gen 50:2 And Yosĕph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father. So the physicians embalmed Yisra’ĕl.
Gen 50:3 And forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the
days of embalming. And the Mitsrites wept for him seventy days.
Gen 50:4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Yosĕph spoke to
the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If, now, I have found favour in your eyes,
please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
Gen 50:5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “See, I am dying, bury me in
my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Kena‛an.” And now, please let
me go up and bury my father, and return.’ ”
Gen 50:6 And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you
swear.”
Gen 50:7 And Yosĕph went up to bury his father. And with him went up all
the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land
of Mitsrayim,
Gen 50:8 and all the house of Yosĕph, and his brothers, and his father’s
house. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the
land of Goshen.
Gen 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it
was a very great company.
Gen 50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Ataḏ, which is beyond the
Yardĕn, and they lamented there with a great and very heavy lamentation.
And he observed seven days of mourning for his father.
Gen 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Kena‛anites, saw the
mourning at the threshing-floor of Ataḏ, they said, “This is a grievous
mourning for the Mitsrites.” That is why its name was called Aḇĕl
Mitsrayim, which is beyond the Yardĕn.
Gen 50:12 And his sons did to him as he had commanded them,
Gen 50:13 for his sons brought him to the land of Kena‛an, and buried him in
the cave of the field of Maḵpĕlah, before Mamrĕ, which Aḇraham bought
with the field from Ephron the Ḥittite as property for a burial site.
Gen 50:14 And after he had buried his father, Yosĕph returned to Mitsrayim,
he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
Gen 50:15 And when Yosĕph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they
said, “What if Yosĕph hates us, and pays us back all the evil which we did to
him?”
Gen 50:16 And they sent word to Yosĕph, saying, “Before your father died
he commanded, saying,
Gen 50:17 ‘This is what you are to say to Yosĕph, “I beg you, please forgive
the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.” ’
And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the Elohim of
your father.” And Yosĕph wept when they spoke to him.
Gen 50:18 And his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and
they said, “See, we are your servants.”
Gen 50:19 And Yosĕph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of
Elohim?
Gen 50:20 “And you, you intended evil against me, but Elohim intended it
for good, in order to do it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive.
Gen 50:21 “And now, do not fear, I provide for you and your little ones.” So
he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Gen 50:22 And Yosĕph dwelt in Mitsrayim, he and his father’s household.
And Yosĕph lived one hundred and ten years.
Gen 50:23 And Yosĕph saw Ephrayim’s children to the third generation. The
children of Maḵir, son of Menashsheh, were also brought up on Yosĕph’s
knees.
Gen 50:24 And Yosĕph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but Elohim shall
certainly visit you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He
swore to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ.”
Gen 50:25 And Yosĕph made the children of Yisra’ĕl swear, saying,
“Elohim shall certainly visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from
here.”
Gen 50:26 And Yosĕph died, being one hundred and ten years old. And they
embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Mitsrayim.

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Exod 1:1 And these are the names of the children of Yisra’ĕl who came to
Mitsrayim with Ya‛aqoḇ, each one with his household:
Exod 1:2 Re’uḇĕn, Shim‛on, Lĕwi, and Yehuḏah;
Exod 1:3 Yissasḵar, Zeḇulun, and Binyamin;
Exod 1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gaḏ and Ashĕr.
Exod 1:5 And all those who were descendants of Ya‛aqoḇ were seventy
beings, as Yosĕph was already in Mitsrayim.
Exod 1:6 And Yosĕph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exod 1:7 And the children of Yisra’ĕl bore fruit and increased very much,
multiplied and became very strong, and the land was filled with them.
Exod 1:8 Then a new sovereign arose over Mitsrayim, who did not know
Yosĕph,
Exod 1:9 and he said to his people, “See, the people of the children of
Yisra’ĕl are more and stronger than we,
Exod 1:10 come, let us act wisely towards them, lest they increase, and it
shall be when fighting befalls us, that they shall join our enemies and fight
against us, and shall go up out of the land.”
Exod 1:11 So they set slave-masters over them to afflict them with their
burdens, and they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Ra‛amses.
Exod 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they increased and
grew, and they were in dread of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Exod 1:13 And the Mitsrites made the children of Yisra’ĕl serve with
harshness,
Exod 1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and
in brick, and in all kinds of work in the field, all their work which they made
them do was with harshness.
Exod 1:15 Then the sovereign of Mitsrayim spoke to the Heḇrew midwives,
of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Pu‛ah,
Exod 1:16 and he said, “When you deliver the Heḇrew women, and see them
on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death, but if it is a
daughter, then she shall live.”
Exod 1:17 But the midwives feared Elohim, and did not do as the sovereign
of Mitsrayim commanded them, and kept the male children alive.
Exod 1:18 So the sovereign of Mitsrayim called for the midwives and said
to them, “Why have you done this, and kept the male children alive?”
Exod 1:19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Heḇrew women
are not like the Mitsrite women. For they are lively and give birth before the
midwives come to them.”
Exod 1:20 So Elohim was good to the midwives, and the people increased
and became very numerous.
Exod 1:21 And it came to be, because the midwives feared Elohim, that He
provided households for them.
Exod 1:22 And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Throw every
son who is born into the river, and keep alive every daughter.”