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Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.
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But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.
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So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
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They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
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The children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
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Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”
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Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.
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You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.
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“You are also directed to tell them, ‘Do this: Take some carts from Egypt for your children and your wives, and get your father and come.
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Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel’s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
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These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
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Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.
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But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”
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Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.
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Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.”
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besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
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So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
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and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.
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that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.”
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Pharaoh said, “The Lord be with you—if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.
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Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”
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And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
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The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
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But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
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You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
