Torah
Bereshit50
Genesis · Chapter 50
And Yoseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
And Yoseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Yisra'el.
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
And when the days of his mourning were past, Yoseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
And Yoseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Mitsrayim,
And all the house of Yoseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which
is beyond Yarden, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This
is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which
is
beyond Yarden.
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Avraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
And Yoseph returned into Mitsrayim, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
And when Yoseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Yoseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
And they sent a messenger unto Yoseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
So shall ye say unto Yoseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the Elohim of thy father. And Yoseph wept when they spake unto him.
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we
be thy servants.
And Yoseph said unto them, Fear not: for
am I in the place of Elohim?
But as for you, ye thought evil against me;
but Elohim meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as
it is this day, to save much people alive.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
And Yoseph dwelt in Mitsrayim, he, and his father’s house: and Yoseph lived an hundred and ten years.
And Yoseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third
generation:
the children also of Machir the son Manasseh were brought up upon Yoseph’s knees.
And Yoseph said unto his brethren, I die: and Elohim will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Avraham, to Yitschaq, and to Ya'aqov.
And Yoseph took an oath of the children of Yisra'el, saying, Elohim will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
So Yoseph died,
being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Mitsrayim.
Torah
Shemot1
Exodus · Chapter 1
Now these
are the names of the children of Yisra'el, which came into Mitsrayim; every man and his household came with Ya'aqov.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Ya'aqov were seventy souls: for Yoseph was in Mitsrayim
already.
And Yoseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
And the children of Yisra'el were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Now there arose up a new king over Mitsrayim, which knew not Yoseph.
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Yisra'el
are more and mightier than we:
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and
so get them up out of the land.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Yisra'el.
And the Egyptians made the children of Yisra'el to serve with rigour:
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve,
was with rigour.
And the king of Mitsrayim spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one
was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see
them upon the stools; if it
be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it
be a daughter, then she shall live.
But the midwives feared Elohim, and did not as the king of Mitsrayim commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
And the king of Mitsrayim called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women
are
not as the Egyptian women; for they
are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Therefore Elohim dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared Elohim, that he made them houses.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Torah
Shemot2
Exodus · Chapter 2
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took
to wife
a daughter of Levi.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he
was a goodly
child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid
it in the flags by the river’s brink.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash
herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
And when she had opened
it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This
is one
of the Hebrews’ children.
Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give
thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Mosheh: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
And it came to pass in those days, when Mosheh was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that
there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Mosheh feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Mosheh. But Mosheh fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
Now the kohen of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew
water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Mosheh stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How
is it that
ye are come so soon to day?
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew
water enough for us, and watered the flock.
And he said unto his daughters, And where
is he? why
is it
that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
And Mosheh was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Mosheh Zipporah his daughter.
And she bare
him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Mitsrayim died: and the children of Yisra'el sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto Elohim by reason of the bondage.
And Elohim heard their groaning, and Elohim remembered his b'rit with Avraham, with Yitschaq, and with Ya'aqov.
And Elohim looked upon the children of Yisra'el, and Elohim had respect unto
them.