01:050:020 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it
unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people
alive.
01:050:021 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your
little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
01:050:022 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
01:050:023 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation:
the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon
Joseph's knees.
01:050:024 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will
surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he
sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
01:050:025 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.
01:050:026 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Book 02 Exodus
02:001:001 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which
came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
02:001:002 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
02:001:003 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
02:001:004 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
02:001:005 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
02:001:006 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
generation.
02:001:007 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land
was filled with them.
02:001:008 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
Joseph.
02:001:009 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
02:001:010 Come on, let us deal wisely with 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.
02:001:011 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom
and Raamses.
02:001:012 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied
and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
02:001:013 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with
rigour:
02:001:014 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in
morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all
their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
02:001:015 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:
02:001:016 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.
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