So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.

Don’t worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

But Joseph answered them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.

He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.

When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force.

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ –

The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I have gained my honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

Miriam sang in response to them, “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.”