Sefer HaYoveliym — Maṣḥafa Kufale — Chapter 46

And it came to pass that after Ya’aqov died the children of Yis’rael multiplied in the land of Mitsrayim, and they became a great nation,

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and they were of one accord in heart, so that brother loved brother and every man helped his brother, and they increased abundantly and multiplied exceedingly,

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ten weeks of years, all the days of the life of Yoseph.

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And there was no Satan nor any evil all the days of the life of Yoseph which he lived after his father Ya’aqov,

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for all the Mitsriym honoured the children of Yis’rael all the days of the life of Yoseph.

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And Yoseph died being a hundred and ten years old;

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Seventeen years he lived in the land of Kena’an, and ten years he was a servant, and three years in prison, and eighty years he was under the king, ruling all the land of Mitsrayim.

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And he died and all his brethren and all that generation.

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And he commanded the children of Yis’rael before he died that they should carry his bones with them when they went forth from the land of Mitsrayim.

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And he made them swear regarding his bones, for he knew that the Mitsriym would not again bring forth and bury him in the land of Kena’an,

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for Mâkamârôn, king of Kena’an, while dwelling in the land of Assyria, fought in the valley with the king of Mitsrayim and slew him there, and pursued after the Mitsriym to the gates of ’Êrmôn.

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But he was not able to enter, for another, a new king, had become king of Mitsrayim, and he was stronger than he,

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and he returned to the land of Kena’an, and the gates of Mitsrayim were closed, and none went out and none came into Mitsrayim.

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And Yoseph died in the forty-sixth jubilee, in the sixth week, in the second year, and they buried him in the land of Mitsrayim, and his brethren died after him.

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And the king of Mitsrayim went forth to war with the king of Kena’an in the forty-seventh jubilee, in the second week in the second year,

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and the children of Yis’rael brought forth all the bones of the children of Ya’aqov save the bones of Yoseph, and they buried them in the field in the double cave in the mountain.

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And the most (of them) returned to Mitsrayim, but a few of them remained in the mountains of Hebron, and Amram your father remained with them.

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And the king of Kena’an was victorious over the king of Mitsrayim, and he closed the gates of Mitsrayim.

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And he devised an evil device against the children of Yis’rael of afflicting them;

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and he said to the people of Mitsrayim: "Behold the people of the children of Yis’rael have increased and multiplied more than we.

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Come and let us deal wisely with them before they become too many, and let us afflict them with slavery before war come upon us and before they too fight against us;

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else they will join themselves to our enemies and get them up out of our land, for their hearts and faces are towards the land of Kena’an."

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And he set over them taskmasters to afflict them with slavery; and they built strong cities for Par’oh, Pithom and Raamses,

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and they built all the walls and all the fortifications which had fallen in the cities of Mitsrayim. And they made them serve with rigour,

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and the more they dealt evilly with them, the more they increased and multiplied. And the people of Mitsrayim abominated the children of Yis’rael.

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