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Joseph said to the people, You can see for yourselves now that Pharao is lord of your lives and lands; you shall have seed-corn to sow your fields with, (Genesis 47, 23)
And when he saw the day of his death approaching, he sent for his son Joseph; Do me this favour, he said, put thy hand under my thigh, and swear, in love and loyalty, that thou wilt not bury me here in Egypt. (Genesis 47, 29)
I would sleep where my fathers sleep; take me far away from this land and bury me in the burial-place of my kindred. I will do thy bidding, answered Joseph; (Genesis 47, 30)
Soon after this, Joseph was told that his father had fallen sick, and took his two sons, Ephraim and Manasses, to visit him. (Genesis 48, 1)
When the old man heard that Joseph had come to see him, he found strength to sit up in bed, (Genesis 48, 2)
Then he saw Joseph’s two sons there, and asked, Who are these? (Genesis 48, 8)
And Joseph took them from his father’s embrace, and bowed low, (Genesis 48, 12)
And this is the blessing which Jacob gave to Joseph’s sons; May that God, in whose presence my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, once lived and moved, that God who has guided me like a shepherd from my youth till now, (Genesis 48, 15)
Joseph took it amiss when he saw his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and would have raised it up from Ephraim’s to put it on Manasses’ instead; (Genesis 48, 17)
He said, too, to Joseph, I must die, but God be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers. (Genesis 48, 21)
Joseph grows upward, upward still, fair to view; see how the maidens pass to and fro on the city walls!✻ (Genesis 49, 22)
but his bow rests in the strength that does not fail him; the power of the God who rules in Jacob gives free play to hand and arm. From Joseph one shall arise, who will be the shepherd and the corner-stone of Israel. (Genesis 49, 24)
