“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
“And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for 17 years, making the days of Jacob, the years of his life, 147 years” Genesis 47:28
“How can I go to my father and the child not be with me?” Genesis 44:34
“And these are the names of the children Israel, who came into Egypt” Genesis 46:8
“At 17 years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers, as a youth with the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah… And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was a mature son” Genesis 37:2
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