Israel

And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.

And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:

And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned.

And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:

And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.

And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?

Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:

Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you told him you had also another brother.

And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.

And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharao's commandment: and provisions for the way.

And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan, to their father Jacob.

And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.

They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,

And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph, my son, be yet living: I will go and see him before I die.

And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.

And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,

And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into Egypt with all his seed;