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18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and c.29.23. these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife; Joseph and Benjamin.

e Ac.7.13.

c.41.50.

20 And unto Joseph, in the land of Egypt,... were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which or, prince. 4 h Am.7.14. Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah i c.15.13. De.26.5. priest of On, bare unto him.

21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, 5 Ehi, and Rosh, 6 Muppim, and 7 Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Gezer, and Shillem.

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Ps. 105.23. Is.52.4.

Ahiram.

Nu.20.38. Nu.26.39. Shupham. 1 Ch.7.12. Shuppim. 1 Hupham.

Nu.26.39. 8 or, Shuham. Nu.26.42.

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30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

Lu.2.29,30.

& ver.6. Ex.1.11.

31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were 11 in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; 32 And the men are shepherds, for their 12 trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What " is your occupation?

Joseph's dealing in the famine. father's; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen: for every shepherd is an abomination" unto the Egyptians.

CHAP. XLVII.

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HEN Joseph came and told ' Pharaoh, and said, My father, and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

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4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come: for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

6 The land of Egypt is before thee: in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old 10 art thou?

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and P have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's houseaccording hold, with bread, according to their

to the little ones; or, as a little child

men of cattle.

families.

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13 And there was no bread in all the c.41.30,31. is nourished. land: for the famine was very sore, so that 12 they are the land of Egypt, and all the land of Canaan, fainted by reason of the famine 14 And Joseph gathered up all the mon ey that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

u c.47.3.

37.12.

34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade c.30.35. hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we and also our

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15 And when money failed in the land

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of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all B. C. 1705. the Epyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if c.50.25. money fail.

17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

He.11.22.

1 Ki.1.47. led.

He.11.21.

d Job 2.4. La.1.11.

19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land ec.28.13-19. will be servants unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not desolate.

35.6,&c.

20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the fa- c.17.8. mine prevailed over them; so the land became Pharaoh's.

21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

22 Only the land of the 2 priests bought 2 he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their lands.

Jacob blesseth Joseph's sons.

and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, "I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

30 But I will lie with my fathers; and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

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31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

CHAP. XLVIII.

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3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee, for an everlasting possession.

De.32.8. Am.9.14,15, 5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and gc.41.50 52. Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

or, princes. Jos.14.4.

23 Then Joseph said unto the people, i c.35.16-19. Behold, I have bought you this day, and your land, for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 And it shall come to pass, in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh; and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, ; c.33.5. and for food for your little ones.

k c.27.4. He.11.21. 3 heavy.

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our Fives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except m c.37.33,35. the land of the priests only, which be-4 or, princes. came not Pharaoh's.

4

1 Ezr.7.24.

45.26.

n Ep.3.20. o Ex.20.12.

P Ex.1.7.12

27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Le.19.32. Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

De.10.22.
Ne.9.23.

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28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt his life. seventeen years: so the 5 whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time I drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph,|

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6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and 1 shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.

8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons and said, Who are these?

9 Ard Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10 (Now the eyes of Israel were 3 dim for age, so that he could not see.) And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God n hath shewed me also thy seed.

12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

14 And Israel stretched out his right

Jacob's prophecy

GENESIS, XLIX.

B. C. 1689.

a Jos.21.3.

c.29.35.

hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head,
who was the younger, and his left hand
upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands
wittingly;
for Manasseh was the first-c ver. 19.
born.

15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long, unto this day,

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16 The angel which redeemed 'me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name; be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them 1 grow into a multitude ⚫ in the midst of the earth.

Ps.76.1.

d1 Ch.5.2.
Re.3.9.

e c.17.1.

24.40.
f Ps.103.4,5.
Nu.23.24.

Re.5.5.

h c.31.11.
Is.63.9.

i Ps.34.22.

Nu.24.17.

k Ps.60.7.
Is.33.22.

De.28.57.
as fishes do

increase. mIs.11.1.5. Eze.21.27.

Jno.12.32.

17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Eph-Nu.26.34,37. raim, it displeased him; and he held up his p Mat.21.2. father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger u brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude 2 of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim, and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

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Is.63.1-3.

ca.5.10-16

s Jos.19.10.

De.33.17.

concerning his sons. vide " them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's children shall bow down d before thee.

9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh m come; and unto him " shall the gathering of the people be:

11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt P unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, 7 and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships: and his border shall be unto Zidon. 14 Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

Nu.1.33,35. c.25.23. 2 fulness. Ju.13.2,&c.. 16 Dan shall judge his people, as one Ru.4.11,12. of the tribes of Israel.

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3 arrow-snake.

z c.50.24.
Jos.23.14.
y Ps.40.1.

Is.25.9;
26.8.

22 Moreover, I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took z Jos.17.14. out of the hand of the Amorite with my a1 Ch.5.18. sword and with my bow.

CHAP. XLIX.

A ND Jacob called unto his sons, and b De.33.1,&c.

said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days."

c Nu.24.14.
De.4.30.
4 daughters.

Je.23.20.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, I.2.2. ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellen-i cy of power.

4 Unstable as water, 5 thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it; 6 he went up to my couch.

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De.5.21.

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5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; 7 in-m c.29.33,34. struments of cruelty are in their habitations.

6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will di

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swords are weapons of c.34.25-29. Pr.1.15,16. or, houghed

violence.

• Ps.26.9.

"ozen.

P Ep.1.3.

9 Hab.3.6.
r Is.66.5.

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25 Even by the God of thy father, 'who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb:

26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors, unto P the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his breth

ren.

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Jacob's death and funeral.

GENESIS, L.

Death of Joseph.

in B. C. 1688. |ing for his father seven days.

27 Benjamin shall ravin " as a wolf; the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.c

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their fathers spake unto them, and blessed them; every one c according to his blessing he blessed them.

29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite:

30. In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

a Ju.20.21,25. b De.34.8. 1 Sa.31.13. 2 Sa.1.17. Job 2.13. Ac.8.2.

Eze.39.8-10

1 i.e. the mourning of the Egyptians. Ro: 12.6,&c.

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fc.47.39.

2 Sa.19.37. g c.23.3,&c.

c.23.16.

i c.27.41. Le.26.36.

Pr.28.1.

32 The purchase of the field and of the Job 15.21. cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

33 And when Jacob had made an end of 2 charged. commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, Job 14.10. and was gathered unto his people.

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CHAP. L.

ND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to " embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourn-3 cd for him " threescore and ten days.

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4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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5 My father made me swear," saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 7 And Joseph 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 Egypt,

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8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourn

k ver.29.

l Pr.23.13. Mat.6.12.14.

18.25.
Lu.17.3,4.

Ep.4.32.
Col.3.13.
Ja.5.16.

m ver.26.

2 Ch.16.14.
Mat.26.12.
Mar.14.8.

16.1.
Jno.12.7.

wept.

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11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the ca:e of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had. buried his father.

15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

16 And they 2 sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

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20 But as for you, ye thought against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake 4 kindly unto them.

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's "children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were 5 brought up upon Joseph's knees.

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, το and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt

The Second Book of MOSES, called EXODUS.

CHAP. I.

TOW these are the names of the chil

Non these are 1, which came into

Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

B. C. 1705. lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

aa Ge.46.8. b Pr.11.18. Ec.8.12. Is.3.10. He.6.10.

c 1 Sa.2.35. 2 Sa.7.11.

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 1 Ki.2.21 5 And all the souls that came out of the Ps.127.1. 1 thigh. loins of Jacob were seventy d souls: for a De.10.22. Joseph was in Egypt already.

6 And Joseph died, and all his bre-Ge.50.26. thren, and all that generation.

7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

h

c.6.20. Ge.46.3. Ps 103.24.

De.26.5.

h Ec.2 19.. Ac.7.18.

He.11.23.

9 And he said unto his people, Behold, Ac.7.20. the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

Pr.1.11

21.30. Ac.23.12. 1 Co.3.19. Ja.3.15.

10 Come on, let us deal wisely with Ps.83.3,4. them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

11 Therefore they did set over them task-masters, to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom and 'Raamses. 122 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

k c.3.7.

Ge.15.13.
De.26.6.
Ps.81.6.
I Ge.47.11.

and as they
afficted
them, so they
multiplied,

m Ps.193.43.

6.9. Nu.20.15. Ru.1.20. Ac.7.19,34.

14 And they made their lives" bitter n c.2.33. with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they Na.3.14. made them serve, was with rigour.P

15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives; of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;

16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

17 But the midwives feared" God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?

19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are

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p Le.25.43. Is.58.6. Je.50.33. Ps.27.10.

3 that is, drawn cut.

r Ne.5.15. Pr. 16.6. Da.3.18.

6.13. Ac.5.29. s c.1.11.

Ac.7.23,24,

He.11.21-26.

t Jos.2 4. 2 Sa.17.19.

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20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

CHAP. II.

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4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion m on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: 3 and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren

12 And he looked this way and that way, and, when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went cut the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said unto him

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