“For your servant guaranteed for the lad, to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned to my father for all time’.” Genesis 44:32)
“When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognised them, but he acted like a stranger toward them” Genesis 42:7
“After a time, his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, ‘Lie with me’. But he refused” Genesis 39:7-8
Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have remain yours” Genesis 33:9
“Every moving thing that lives shall be yours to eat… You must not, however, eat flesh with its life-blood in it” Genesis 9.3-4
“And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died” Genesis 5:27
“It is better to go to a house of mourning than a house of feasting” Ecclesiastes 7:2
“Moses came, together with Hosea, son of Nun, and recited all the words of this poem in the hearing of the people” Deuteronomy 33:44
“Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel” Deuteronomy 31:1
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