Quotes About Family

along with all of Josephís household, and his brothers, and his fatherís household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

So Jacobís sons did as he had charged them.

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

When Josephís brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Before he died, your father commanded,

ëThis is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.í So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

Now Joseph and his fatherís household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.

He saw Ephraimís sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Josephís knees.

So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.

Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,

And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

Then his sister said to Pharaohís daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

“Go ahead,” Pharaohís daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boyís mother.