Exodus 3:1-22 God Calls Moses from a Burning Bush

 

God Calls Moses from the Midst of a Burning Bush

Exodus 3:1-22            The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus

Moses was [tending] the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian & & led them to the back of the desert to Horeb & the mountain of God. The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. [Moses looked & although] the bush [was burning] with fire, the bush wasn't consumed [& burnt.]

Moses said, I will turn aside now & see this great sight & why the bush isn't burnt. When the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see, God called him from the midst of the bush &  said, Moses, Moses. [Moses] said, Here I am. God told him, [Don’t come close & take] off your shoes, for the place [where] you stand is holy ground.

[Additionally,] He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac & the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. The Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people [who] are in Egypt & I have heard their cry, [because] of their task masters, for I know their sorrows.

I [have] come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians & to bring them up from that land to a good, large land flowing with milk & honey, to the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites & the Jebusites.

The cry of the children of Israel [has] come to Me & I have seen [their] oppression [from the] Egyptians. Therefore, come now & I will send you to Pharaoh so you [may] bring forth My people, the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Moses [asked] God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh & I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? [The Lord God] said, I will certainly be with you & this will be a [sign] to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.

Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the children of Israel & say, The God of your [forefathers] has sent me to you; they shall say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I Am That I Am: and He said, You shall say [this] to the children of Israel, I AM [has] sent me to you.

[Also,] God said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your [forefathers,] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac & the God of Jacob [has] sent me to you. This is My name forever & this is My memorial to all generations.

Go & gather the elders of Israel together & say, The Lord God of your [forefathers,] the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob appeared to me saying, I have surely visited you & seen [what] is done to you in Egypt.

I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites & Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk & honey.

They will [listen] to your voice & you shall come, you & the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt & you shall say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has met with us & now, let us go, we [request of] you, 3 days journey into the wilderness, [so] that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

*I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even by a mighty hand. [So] I [the Lord God] will stretch out My hand & [strike] Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in [its] midst & after that, he will let you go. [Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I [don't] know the Lord & neither will I let Israel go.]

I will give the [Israelites] favor in the sight of the Egyptians & it shall come to pass, when you [leave] you shall not go [away empty handed.]

*But every woman shall borrow [from] her neighbor & those who [reside] in her house for [articles] of jewelry: silver, gold & clothing & you shall put them on your sons & daughters. So you shall [plunder] the Egyptians.

[Exodus 12:35-36 And the children [people] of Israel did according to the word of Moses & they borrowed [from] the Egyptians, jewels of silver & jewels of gold & [clothing.] And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent to them the things they [requested.] And they [plundered] the Egyptians.]

Exodus 2:1-25 Moses is Hidden in an Ark

 

Moses is Hidden in an Ark & Pharaoh’s Daughter Rescues Him

Exodus 2:1-25            The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus

A man of the house of Levi [married] a daughter of a [Levite] & [she] conceived & bore a [healthy, beautiful] son & hid him for 3 months. When she could no longer hide him, [his mother] took an ark of bulrushes & daubed it inside & out with slime & pitch [to keep it water tight.]

She put the child in it & laid it in the [reeds by the river’s edge.] His sister watched [from a distance] to [know] what would [happen] to him. The Pharaoh’s daughter came to [bathe] in the river & her maidens walked along the side of the river. When she saw the ark among the [reeds,] she sent her maid to [get] it.

When she opened it, she saw the child & the baby wept & she had compassion on him & said, This is one of the Hebrew’s children. Then [the baby’s] sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go & call you a nurse of the Hebrew women, [so] that she may nurse the child for you? She told [his sister,] Go [get one.]

The maid called the [child’s] mother. The Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Take this child away & nurse [him] for me & I will [pay] you your wages. The woman took the child & nursed [him] & the child grew until she brought him to the Pharaoh’s daughter & he became her son.

She named him Moses, Because I drew him out of the water. When Moses was grown, he went to [see] his brethren & [saw] their burdens. He [saw] an Egyptian [beating] a Hebrew, one of his brethren. [After looking both ways] & seeing no [one looking, Moses] killed the Egyptian & hid him in the sand.

When [Moses] went out the next day, 2 Hebrew men [were fighting] & [Moses] said, [Why are] you [striking your companion?] He said, Who made you a prince & a judge over us? [Do you] intend to kill me [like] you killed the Egyptian? Moses was [fearful] & said, Surely this thing is known.

The Pharaoh sought to [kill] Moses when he heard of this, but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh & dwelt in the land of the Midian & he sat down by a well . The priest of Midian had 7 daughters, [who] came & drew water & filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

[Then] the shepherds came & drove them away; but Moses stood up & helped them & watered their flock. When they got back to their father, Reuel, he said, How [did you finish] so early today?

They said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds & also drew enough water for us, & watered the flock. He asked his daughters, Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man?

Call him, that he may eat bread. Moses was content to [live] with the man & he gave his daughter, Zipporah, to Moses [as his wife.] She bore him a son & [Moses] named him Gershom: for I have been a stranger in a strange land.

[In time,] the king of Egypt died & the children of Israel [groaned] & cried out, [because] of their bondage. God heard their groaning & God remembered His covenant [contract] with Abraham, Isaac & Jacob & the Lord God looked upon the children of Israel & God had respect [for] them.

Exodus 1:1-22 Pharaoh Wants Midwives to Kill Hebrew Male Babies

Pharaoh Wants the Midwives to Kill the Hebrew Male Babies

Exodus 1:1-22            The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus

Now, these are the names of the children of Israel [a.k.a. Jacob who] came with Jacob & their households to Egypt: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad & Asher.

[All these 70] were the sons Jacob [fathered] & their families: for Joseph was in Egypt already. Joseph, his [brothers] & all that generation died. The children of Israel were fruitful & multiplied & increased abundantly & [grew] exceedingly mighty & the land was filled with them.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt [who] didn't know Joseph. He said to his people, Behold, people of the children of Israel are more & mightier than we [are.] Come let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply & when [a war breaks out] they join our enemies & fight against us, [so they can leave] the land.

Therefore they set task masters over the [Israelites] to afflict them with their burdens. They built treasure cities Pithom & Raamses for the Pharaoh. The more they afflicted the [Israelites,] the more they multiplied & grew.

The [Egyptians] were grieved because of the [Israelites] & made them serve with rigor & made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, brick & all [types] of service in the field, with rigor.

Then [Egypt's] king, [Pharaoh,] spoke to the Hebrew midwives: Shiphrah & Puah & told them, As a midwife, when you see the Hebrew women on the [birthing] stools & it is a son, you should kill him, but let the daughters live.

The midwives feared [respected the Lord] God & [didn’t do] what the king commanded [of] them, but saved the [male] children alive. The king of Egypt called for the midwives & said, Why have you done this thing & saved the [male] babies alive?

[They told the] Pharaoh, The Hebrew women are [more] lively [than] the Egyptian women & have [already given birth before they get] to them. Therefore the Lord God dealt well with the midwives & the [Israelites] multiplied & [grew] very mighty. It [happened,] because the midwives feared [respected] God, that He made them houses. The Pharaoh [commanded] all his people saying, Every [Hebrew] son [who] is born shall be cast into the river & every daughter shall [stay] alive.

Genesis 50:1-26 They Take Jacob to be Buried in Canaan

 

They Take Jacob/a.k.a. Israel to be Buried in Canaan

Genesis  50:1-26               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Joseph fell on his father’s [Jacob/a.k.a. Israel's] face & wept [over] him & kissed him & commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, [Jacob/Israel & they did so, which] took 40 days. And the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days.

When the days of mourning were past, Joseph [asked] the house of Pharaoh, If I have now found grace in your eyes, I pray [that] you speak, [so] Pharaoh [can hear,] saying, My father made me swear, saying, [Look,] when I die, I pray [that] you bury me  in my grave that I [dug] for me in the land of Canaan.

Therefore, let me go up now, I pray you & bury my father & I will come [back] again. And Pharaoh said, Go up & bury your father, as he made you swear. And Joseph went up to bury his father & with him went all of Pharaoh's servants & the elders of the land of Egypt.

[With] all the house of Joseph, his [brothers,] his father's [families.] Only their little ones & their flocks & herds, they left in the land of Goshen. With [Joseph, these also] went up: chariots & horsemen & it was a very [large] company.

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, [that] is beyond [the] Jordan [River] & they mourned there with a very [grievous] lamentation & he mourned for his father 7 days.

And when inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning [at the threshing] floor of Atad, they said, This is the grievous mourning [of] the Egyptians, & called the place Abel Mirzraim [Mourning of Egypt], which is beyond Jordan.

[Jacob/Israel’s] sons carried him into the land of Canaan & buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession [for] a burying place [from] Ephron, the Hittite, before Mamre.

After his father was buried, Joseph & his brothers & all [who] went up with him to bury his father, returned to Egypt. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, [Perhaps,] Joseph will hate us & [repay] us for all the evil, [that] we did to him.

[Exodus 37:28- Then Midianites merchantmen passed by there & they [pulled] Joseph out of the pit & sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for 20 pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.]

And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Before he died, your father commanded [us,] saying, You shall say [this] to Joseph, I pray [that] you forgive us now, the tresspasses of your brothers & their sin: for [what] the evil they did to you.

And now, we pray [that] you forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Also, his [brothers] fell down before him & said, [See we [are] your servants.

Joseph said to them, [Don’t be afraid:] for am I in the place of God? You [meant] evil against me, but God meant it [for] good, to bring it to pass, to save the [lives] of [many] people [from the severe famine,] as it is this day .

Now, [don’t be afraid], I will [provide food] for you & your little ones. [Joseph] comforted them & [spoke] kindly to them. Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he & his father’s [families] & [Joseph] lived [to be] 110 years [old.]

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the 3rd generation: also the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

Joseph said to his brethren, I [am going to] die & God will surely visit you & bring you out of this land unto the land which he [swore] to Abraham, Isaac & to Jacob.

[Then,] Joseph took an oath [from] the children of Israel [a.k.a. Jacob], saying, God will surely visit you & you shall carry up my bones from [here.]

[So,] Joseph died, [at] 110 years old & they embalmed him & he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Genesis 49:1-33 Jacob Tells Sons What Will Happen to Them

 

Jacob Tells His 12 Sons What Will Happen to Them in Their Last Days

Genesis  49:1-33               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Jacob [a.k.a. Israel,] called to his sons & said, Gather yourselves together, [so] I may tell you [what shall happen to] you, in [your] last days. Gather yourselves together, you sons of Jacob & [pay attention] to your father, Israel.

Reuben, my firstborn, the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity & power, but unstable as water you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed & you defiled it. He went up to my [bed.]

[Genesis 35:22 An it [happened,] when Israel [a.k.a. Jacob] dwelt in the land, that Reuben went I lay [intimately] with Bilhah, his father's [mistress] & Israel heard [of] it. Now, the sons of Jacob were 12.]

Simeon & Levi are [brothers] & [weapons] of cruelty are in their [homes.] [On,] my soul, [don't] you [be] assembled [with them] in their secret [plans.] [On] my honor, [don't] you [join in alliance] with them, because] they [killed] a man in their anger.

[Of] their [own] will, they [destroyed] a wall. Cursed [is] their anger, for it was fierce & their [fury] was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob & scatter them in Israel.

Judah, [only] you, shall your [brothers] praise. Your hand shall be [on] the neck of your enemies. Your father's children shall bow down before you. Judah, my son, is a lion’s [cub,] stooped & crouched down [like] an old lion from the prey & you have gone up. Who shall [stir] him up?

[Micah 5:8 And the [rest] of [Jacob/Israel] shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people, [like ] a lion among the [wild animals] of the forest, [like] a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he [goes] through [them,] he both [tramples] down & tears [them into] pieces & none can deliver.]

*The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver [to be born of his lineage,] until Shiloh [comes] & to him shall be the gathering of the people. [Revelation 5:5 And one of the elders said to me, [Don't] wee; [Look,] the Lion of the tribe of [Judah,] the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book & to [loosen] the 7 seals [of it.]

[Tieing] his foal to a vine & his [donkey's] colt to a choice vine & he washed his garments in wine & his clothes in the blood of grapes. His eyes are red with wine & his teeth white with milk.

Zebulun shall dwell [by] the [harbor] of the sea. He shall [become] a haven for ships & his border shall be to Zidon [a.k.a.Sidon].

Issachar is a strong [donkey crouching] down between 2 burdens. He saw that rest was good & the land was pleasant. [He] bowed his shoulder to bear [a burden] & became a servant [to work for money.]

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a [snake] by the [road] & a [viper] in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so [its] rider falls backward.

I have waited for Your Salvation, O Lord. [Isaiah 25:9 And it shall be said [on] that day, [Look,] this is our God. We have waited for Him. We will be glad & rejoice in His Salvation.]

A troop shall overcome Gad, but he shall [triumph] at last. [The sons of Reuben & the Gadites & 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh, 44,760 of valiant men, skillful in war & able to bear [shield] & sword & to shoot with a bow, went out to war.]

Out of Asher, his bread shall be [rich] & he shall yield to royal dainties. [Deuteronomy 33:24 And of Asher, he said, Let Asher be blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his [brothers] & let him dip his foot in oil.]

Naphtali is a hind [of a gazelle, swift when] let loose. He uses [agreeable] words.

Joseph is a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall & the archers grieved him [bitterly] & shot at him & hated him. But his bow [remained] in strength & his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From [there] is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel).

[John 10:10-11 The thief [only] comes to steal & to kill & to destroy. I [have] come, [so] that they might have life & that they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep.]

Even by the God of your [forefathers,] Who shall help you & by the Almighty Who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above & blessings of the deep that lies [below] & blessings of the breasts & the womb.

[Genesis 35:11 And God said to [Jacob/Israel] I am God Almighty. Be fruitful & multiply. A nation & a [group] of nations shall be [from] you. ANd kings shall come [from] your loins.]

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my [ancestors,] to the [furthest boundaries] of the everlasting hill. They shall be the crown upon the head of [Joseph] who was [separated] from his [brothers].

Benjamin shall [be as ravenous] as a wolf & he shall devour the prey in the morning & divide the [plunder] at night.

All of these are the 12 tribes of Israel & this is [what] their father [spoke] to them & blessed them. Everyone according to his blessing, he blessed them.

[Jacob/Israel] charged & said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my [forefathers] in the cave that is in the field of Epphron, the Hittite.

[Bury me] in the cave from the children of Heth in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a [burial] place.

There they buried Abraham & Sarah, his wife, and Isaac & Rebekah, his wife & I buried Leah, [my wife] there.The purchase of the field & the cave that is there was [made with] the children of Heth.

And when [Jacob/Israel] finished commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, [died] & was gathered to his people.

Genesis 48:1-22 Jacob Blessed Joseph’s 2 Sons

 

Jacob Blessed Joseph’s 2 Sons

Genesis  48:1-22                 The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

And it [happened,] after these things, when [someone] told Joseph, [Look,] your father is sick & [Joseph] took his 2 sons, Manasseh & Ephraim [to see him.]  When [someone] told [Jacob/a.k.a. Israel,] your son, Joseph, [is coming] to you, Israel strengthened himself & sat upon the bed.

[Jacob/Israel] told Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me [in] Luz in the land of Canaan & blessed me. And [God] said to me, [Look,] I will make [you] fruitful & multiply [you] & I will make of [you] a multitude of people & give this land to [your descendants] as an everlasting possession.

Now [your] 2 sons, Ephraim & Manasseh, which were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you in Egypt, are mine, [just like] Reuben & Simeon, they shall be mine.

[Jacob/Israel said,] [And your offspring [that] you father] after them shall be yours & shall be called after the name of their brethren, in their inheritance. As for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan [on] the way, when [it wasn't far from] Ephrath.

And I buried her there [on] the way to Ephrath, [which] is Bethlehem. [Jacob/Israel saw] Joseph's sons & [asked,] Whose sons are these? And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place.

[Jacob/Israel] said, I pray [that] you bring them to me & I will bless them. [Joseph] brought them [close, since Jacob/Israel’s] eyes were dim, [because of his age & he couldn't see.

He kissed & embraced them & Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to [ever] see [your] face [again] & [look,] God has also shown me your [offspring.] Joseph brought [his sons] from [beside] his knees & [Joseph] bowed his face to the [ground.]

And Joseph took them both Ephraim in his right hand & [guided him] toward Israel's left hand. And Manasseh in [Joseph's] left hand & [guided him] toward Israel's right hand & brought them [close] to [Jacob/Israel.]

And Israel stretched out his right hand & laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger & his left hand [was] on the head of Manasseh, guiding his hands [knowingly;] for Manasseh was the 1st born.

[Jacob/Israel] blessed Joseph & said, God, before Whom my [forefathers:] Abraham & Issac did [follow,] the God, [Who] fed me all my life long [until] this day, The Angel, [Who] redeemed me from all evil.

Bless the lads & let my name be named on them & the name of my [forefathers:] Abraham & Isaac. And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him.

And [Joseph lifted] up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head, to Manasseh's head. And his father refused & said, I know it, my son. I know it. He shall also become a people & he shall also be great. But truly his younger brother shall be greater than he & his [descendants] shall become a multitude of nations.

And [Jacob/Israel] blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, [May] God make you [like] Ephraim & [like] Manasseh. And [Jacob/Israel put] Ephraim before Manasseh.

And Israel said to Joseph, [Look, I'm about] to die: but God shall be with you & bring you again to the land of your [forefathers.] [Also, I have given to you 1 portion [more than] your [brothers, [that] I took out of the hand of the Amorite, with my sword & with my bow.

Genesis 47:1-31 Joseph Bought Their Lands When Their Money Ran Out

 

Joseph Bought Their Lands When Their Money Ran Out

Genesis  47:1-31               The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Then, Joseph came to Pharaoh & [said,] I brought my father, [brothers] & their families & [livestock] & all they have out of Canaan & they are in the land of Goshen. He took 5 of his [brothers] & presented them to Pharaoh.

And Pharaoh [asked his brothers,] What is your occupation? And they said, Your servants & our [father] are shepherds. [Also,] they said to Pharaoh, We have come to [stay] in the land, since we have no pasture for our flocks in the land of Canaan, because of the [severe] famine.

Therefore, we now pray that you, let your servants [live] in the land of Goshen. And Pharaoh [told] Joseph, Your father & your [brothers] have come to you. The land of Egypt is [in front of] you. Make your father & [brothers] to [live] in the best of the land. Let them [live] in Goshen.

And if you know any [competent] men among them, then, [put them in charge] over my [livestock]. Joseph brought his father, [Jacob/a.k.a. Israel] before Pharaoh & [Jacob/Israel] blessed Pharaoh.

Pharaoh [asked,] How old are you? [Jacob/Israel told] Pharaoh, The days of the years of my [wandering] are 130 years, few & evil have the years of my life been. And [I] haven't attained to the [amount] of years of the [wandering of my forefathers.]

And Jaco blessed Pharaoh & went out [from] Pharaoh. Joseph [settled] his father & his [brothers] and gave them a possession in Egypt, in the best of the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Joseph [provided all this family] with bread according to [the number] in their families. There was no bread in all the land, because of the [severe] famine, so the lands of: Egypt & Canaan [became weak because of it].

Joseph gathered up all the money found in the lands of: Egypt & Canaan for the [grain] they bought & brought the money to Pharaoh’s house. When the money [was gone] in the lands of: Egypt & Canaan, the Egyptians came to Joseph & said, Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence?

And when the money [was gone] in the land of Egypt & Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph & said, Give us bread. For why should we die in your presence? For the money [is gone.]

And Joseph said, [If] the money [is gone] give your [livestock to Pharaoh] & I will give you [grain] for you [livestock.] They brought their [livestock ] to Joseph & [he] gave them bread in exchange] for their horses, flocks, cattle, herds, & [donkeys.]

[Joseph] fed them with bread, for all their [livestock] that year. When that year ended, [the people] came to Joseph the 2nd year & said, We won’t hide from you, that our money is spent. And you, my lord, [already have] our[ livestock.]

There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies & our [land.] [Why should] we die before [your] eyes, both [us] & our land? Buy us & our land for bread & we & our land will be [the] servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, [so] that we may live & not die, [so] that the land may not be desolate.

Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, [because] every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was [severe]. So, the land became Pharaoh’s. [Joseph moved] them into cities from one end of the border to the other end of Egypt.

Only [Joseph] did not buy the land of the priests & the [priests] ate their [rations] assigned to them [from] Pharaoh. [They] ate their portion that Pharaoh  gave to them, so they [did not sell] their lands. Joseph [told] the people, [See,] I have bought you & [your] land this day for Pharaoh, this day.

[Look,] here is seed for you & you shall sow the land. Then, Joseph [told them,] It shall [happen at harvest time,] you shall give 1/5 to Pharaoh & 4/5 shall be their own, for seed for the field & for your food, your households & your little ones.

They said, You have saved our lives, let us find grace in the sight of my lord & we will be Pharaoh’s servants. Joseph made it a law over all of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have 1/5 part, except for the priests [who] did not become Pharaoh’s.

Israel [a.k.a. Jacob] dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen & they had possessions there & grew & multiplied exceedingly. [Jacob/Israel] lived in the land of Egypt [for] 17 years & [lived to be] 147 years old.

[Before he died, Jacob/Israel] called his son, Joseph, to him & said, If I have now found grace in your sight, I pray, [that you] put your hand under my thigh & deal kindly with me. I pray [that] you [don’t] bury me in Egypt, but I [want you] to carry me out of Egypt & bury me in the burying place, so I lie with my [forefathers]. And [Joseph] said, I will do as you have said. [Jacob/Israel] said, Swear to me [you will do this] & [Joseph did]. And [Jacob/Israel] bowed himself upon the [head of the bed].