He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.

Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon.

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

But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

Let the priests also, who approach the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through against them.”

“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

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

“You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.