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Heart of David Study Bible GENESIS

here.” He fell on his brother Benyamin’s neck, and wept, and Benyamin wept on his neck.
He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Yoseph’s brothers have
come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. Pharaoh said to Yoseph, “Tell your
brothers, ‘Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Kayinan. Take your
father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of
Mitsrayim, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ Now you are commanded: do this. Take
wagons out of the land of Mitsrayim for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring
your father, and come. Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good
of all of the land of Mitsrayim is yours.”
The sons of Yisrael did so. Yoseph gave them wagons, according to the
commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. He gave each one of
them changes of clothing, but to Benyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five
changes of clothing. He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good
things of Mitsrayim, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for
his father by the way. 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 Mitsrayim, and came into the land of Kayinan, to Ya`aqob their
father. They told him, saying, “Yoseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of
Mitsrayim.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them. They told him all the words of
Yoseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Yoseph had sent to
carry him, the spirit of Ya`aqob, their father, revived. Yisrael said, “It is enough. Yoseph
my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Yisrael traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices
to the Elohim of his father, Yitshak. Elohim spoke to Yisrael in the visions of the night,
and said, “Ya`aqob, Ya`aqob!”
He said, “Here I am.”
He said, “I am Elohim, the Elohim of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into
Mitsrayim, for there I will make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into
Mitsrayim. I will also surely bring you up again and Yoseph will close your eyes.”
Ya`aqob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Yisrael carried Ya`aqob, their
father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry
him. They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of
Kayinan, and came into Mitsrayim - Ya`aqob, and all his seed with him, his sons, and his
sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his seed
with him into Mitsrayim.

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