22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees. 24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
† 1:1: The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
‡ 1:29: “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
† 2:4: When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).
‡ 2:12: or, aromatic resin
§ 2:18: or, suitable for, or appropriate for.
† 3:24: cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.
† 4:1: or, lay with, or, had relations with
‡ 4:1: or, became pregnant
† 5:2: “Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.
† 6:4: or, giants
‡ 6:15: A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
† 7:20: A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
† 11:2: LXX reads “from the east”.
† 12:7: or, seed
‡ 12:8: LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.
† 15:2: The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.
† 16:14: Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.
† 17:19: Isaac means “he laughs”.
† 18:6: 1 seah is about 7 litres or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks
† 19:22: Zoar means “little”.
† 21:3: Isaac means “He laughs”.
‡ 21:31: Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven”.
§ 21:33: LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.
† 22:14: or, the LORD Jireh, or, the LORD Seeing
† 23:15: A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds.
† 24:22: A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
† 25:30: “Edom” means “red”.
† 26:19: Or, living. Or, fresh.
‡ 26:20: “Esek” means “contention”.
§ 26:21: “Sitnah” means “hostility”.
† 26:22: “Rehoboth” means “broad places”.
‡ 26:33: Shibah means “oath” or “seven”.
§ 26:33: Beersheba means “well of the oath” or “well of the seven”
† 30:24: Joseph means “may he add”.
† 31:19: teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
‡ 31:47: “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic.
§ 31:47: “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.
† 32:2: “Mahanaim” means “two camps”.
‡ 32:30: Peniel means “face of God”.
† 33:17: succoth means shelters or booths.
‡ 33:20: El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty”.
† 34:17: Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”
† 35:18: “Benoni” means “son of my trouble”.
‡ 35:18: “Benjamin” means “son of my right hand”.
† 37:35: Sheol is the place of the dead.
† 38:29: Perez means “breaking out”.
‡ 38:30: Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness”.
† 41:51: “Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget”.
‡ 41:52: “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful”.
† 42:38: Sheol is the place of the dead.
† 44:29: Sheol is the place of the dead.
‡ 44:31: Sheol is the place of the dead.
Exodus
The Second Book of Moses, Commonly Called Exodus
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1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. 9 He said to his people, “Behold,† the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel. 13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” 17 But the midwives feared God,‡ and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. 21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
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1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. 4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. 5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket amongst the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
The young woman went and called the child’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.”
The woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,† and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
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