Quotes About History

The son of Dan: Hushim.

The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacobís family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Josephís brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”

The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”

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

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,

Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaohís daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.

These were the heads of their fathersí houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.

The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

And Amram married his fatherís sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.