¹⁹Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed:

²⁰And leave nothing of your household stuff; for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours.

²¹And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharao’s commandment: and provisions for the way.

²²He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, with five robes of the best:

²³Sending to his father as much money and raiment; adding besides, ten he asses, to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.

²⁴So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.

²⁵And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan, to their father Jacob.

²⁶And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.

²⁷They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,

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