the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had
bought with the field to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hethite
before Mamre. And Ioseph returned to Egypt again and his brethren, and
all that went up with him to bury his father, as soon as he had buried
him. When Ioseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said:
Ioseph might fortune to hate us and reward us again all the evil which
we did unto him. They did therefore a commandment unto Ioseph saying:
thy father charged before his death saying: This wise say unto Ioseph,
forgive I pray thee the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for
they rewarded thee evil. Now therefore we pray thee, forgive the
trespass of the servants of thy father's God. And Ioseph wept when they
spake unto him. And his brethren came and fell before him and said:
behold we be thy servants. And Ioseph said unto them: fear not, for am
not I under God? Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good
to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive.
Fear not therefore, for I will care for you and for your children, and
he spake kindly unto them. Ioseph dwelt in Egypt and his father's house
also, and lived an hundred and ten years. And Ioseph saw Ephraim's
children, even unto the third generation. And unto Machir the son of
Manasse were children born, and sat on Ioseph's knees. And Ioseph 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 unto Abraham, Isaac and
Iacob. And Ioseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said: God
will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones
hence. And so Ioseph died, when he was an hundred and ten years old.
And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
The end of the first book of Moses.
The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus
Chapter .j.
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