Genesis 50
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2Then So those men worked on Jacob’s body to get it ready, then they put special oils and perfumes on his body, so that it will not rot away. Then they wrapped his body in long bits of cloth, and they put it in a special coffin. Some Egypt people put special oils on Jacob’s body and wrapped it in long bits of cloth src="Bing mummification.jpg" size="col" copy="N/A (AI)" ref="50:2"
3It The Egypt people cried for Jacob for 70 days.
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12-13 Then Joseph and his brothers took their father’s coffin to the place in Canaan country that their father told them about. They put his coffin in the cave there, just like he told them to. Jacob’s family owned that cave and the land around it. You see, a
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17He Joseph’s brothers also said this in their message, “ Please let go of all those bad things that we did, and don’t do payback to us. We respect God, just like our father did.” Joseph listened to that message from his brothers, and he started to cry.
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21So In that way, Joseph talked in a friendly way to his brothers, and he helped them feel happy again. 1 Joseph got old and died
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26Then (We have not yet translated the books called Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. Some of the stories in those books tell us these things. – Jacob’s family lived in Egypt for about 400 years, and became the nation called Israel. The families that came from his 12 sons became the 12 tribes in the Israel nation. – Then God got an Israel man, called Moses, to take the Israel nation out of Egypt, into desert country, and God gave Moses his law for those people. – After that, God gave them the country called Canaan. Today we call that country Israel. Sometimes we call the Israel people the Jewish people, or just the Jews.)