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But when Ya`akov heard that there was grain in Mitzrayim, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
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On the second time Yosef was made known to his brothers, and Yosef's race was revealed to Par`oh.
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Yosef sent, and summoned Ya`akov, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
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Ya`akov went down into Mitzrayim, and he died, himself and our fathers,
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and they were brought back to Shekhem, and laid in the tomb that Avraham bought for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor of Shekhem.
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"But as the time of the promise came close which God swore to Avraham, the people grew and multiplied in Mitzrayim,
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until there arose a different king, who didn't know Yosef.
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The same dealt slyly with our race, and mistreated our fathers, that they should throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.
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At that time Moshe was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.
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When he was thrown out, Par`oh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.
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Moshe was instructed in all the wisdom of the Mitzrim. He was mighty in his words and works.
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But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Yisra'el.
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Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Mitzrian.
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He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
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"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at shalom again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one to another?'
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But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Mitzrian yesterday?'
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Moshe fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midyan, where he became the father of two sons.
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"When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
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When Moshe saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov.' Moshe trembled, and dared not look.
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The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
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I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Mitzrayim, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Mitzrayim.'