These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 45
Tanakh 28 verses
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Then could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried: ‘Cause every man to go out from me.’ And there stood no man with him, while made himself known unto his brethren.
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And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
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And said unto his brethren: ‘I am ; doth my father yet live?’ And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.
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And said unto his brethren: ‘Come near to me, I pray you.’ And they came near. And he said: ‘I am your brother, whom ye sold into .
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- 5 And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for did send me before you to preserve life.
- 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
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And sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to you alive for a great deliverance.
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So now it was not you that sent me hither, but ; and He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of .
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Hasten ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him: Thus saith thy son : hath made me lord of all ; come down unto me, tarry not.
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And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast;
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and there will I sustain thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.
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And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother , that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
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And ye shall tell my father of all my in , and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall hasten and bring down my father hither.’
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And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and wept upon his neck.
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- 15 And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his brethren talked with him.
- 16 And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying: ‘Joseph’s brethren are come’; and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
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And Pharaoh said unto : ‘Say unto thy brethren: This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of ;
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and take your father and your households, and come unto me; and I will give you the good of the land of , and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
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Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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- 20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good things of all the land of are yours.’
- 21 And the sons of did so; and gave them wagons, according to the of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
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To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to he gave three hundred shekels of silver, and five changes of raiment.
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And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of , and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way.
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- 24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed; and he said unto them: ‘See that ye fall not out by the way.’
- 25 And they went up out of , and came into the land of unto their father.
- 26 And they told him, saying: ‘ is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of .’ And his fainted, for he believed them not.
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And they told him all the words of , which he had said unto them; and when he saw the wagons which had sent to carry him, the of their father revived.
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And said: ‘It is enough; my son is yet alive; I will go and see him before I die.’
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