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The Cave of Treasures 51

1 min 1 verses Translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge, 1927, public domain. Chapters follow Budge's section headings; verse numbers are this archive's own divisions, and his notes are omitted.
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Jacob in Egypt

Jacob and all his descendants journeyed down into Egypt to join Joseph, where Jacob then lived for seventeen years.

A1🔗nd Jacob and all his descendants went down into Egypt to Joseph, and he lived in Egypt seventeen years; and Jacob died, being one hundred and forty years old, and Joseph was fifty-six years old when his father died, in the twelfth year of Kahath. And the wise physicians of Pharaoh embalmed him, and Joseph took him up [to Canaan] and buried him with Abraham and Isaac his father.

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Jacob and all his descendants journeyed down into Egypt to join Joseph, where Jacob then lived for seventeen years.

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Jacob died at the age of one hundred and forty years while dwelling in Egypt with his son Joseph.

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Joseph was fifty-six years old at the time of his father Jacob's death in the twelfth year of Kahath.

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The wise physicians of Pharaoh embalmed Jacob following his death at one hundred and forty years of age.

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Joseph took the embalmed body of Jacob up to Canaan and buried him with Abraham and Isaac.

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