Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave these instructions before he died:

Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.

Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come home so early today?”

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her.

You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have sexual intercourse with her. She is your aunt.

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.

And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.