The Childrens Book -History events 4030BC-1440BC
Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and he said to the ruler of his house:
"Take these men home, kill some meat, and make it ready, for these men will dine with me at noon."
The servant did as Joseph told him, and took the brothers to Joseph's house.
The men were afraid when they were brought...
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Then Joseph gave orders to the steward of his house, saying:
"Fill the men's sacks with food as much as they can carry and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his grain money."
The steward did everything...
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Then Judah came closer to him and said:
"Oh, my lord, I beg of you, let your servant speak a word in my lord's ear,
and do not let your anger burn against your servant,
even though you are as powerful as Pharaoh.
"My lord asked his servants: 'Have you a father or a brother?'
And we said to...
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Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all of them that stood around him.
He cried: "Let everyone leave me !"
So the Egyptians departed, and Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
But he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and Pharaoh's household heard.
Joseph said to his brothers:...
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NEWS of the event was heard in Pharaoh's house.
"Joseph's brothers have come."
This pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants were pleased.
Pharaoh said to Joseph:"Say to your brothers:
'Load your beasts, and go, hurry up to the land of Canaan.
Get your father and your households and come...
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JACOB then left for Beer-sheba with everything he owned,
and offered sacrificees to the God of his father Isaac.
God spoke to him at night in a dream saying:Jacob,Jacob."
"Here I am," said Jacob.
God said:"I am the God of your father.
Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I...
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JOSEPH placed his father and his brothers in the best of the land,
in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
Joseph provided his father, his brothers and all his father's household with bread,
according to the size of the families.
Now the famine was everywhere very...
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When the year was ended, they came to him the second year, saying to him:
"We will not hide from my lord that, since our money is gone and my lord has our herds of cattle, there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, except our bodies and our land.
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and...
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Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years, until he became a very old man.
And when he was about to die, he called his son Joseph and said:
"If I have found grace in your sight, deal kindly and truly with me.
Do not bury me in Egypt, I pray you. Let me lie with my...
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Thereafter, Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house.
He lived to see Ephraim's and Manasseh's children and grandchildren.
And when he was one hundred and ten years old, Joseph said to his brothers:
"God will surely visit you after my death, and bring you out of this land,
into the...
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