“Come together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the end of days” Genesis 49:1
“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
'Three times in the year, every one of your men shall be seen before the Lord, your God, in the place that He will choose: on the Festival of Matzot and on the Festival of Shavuot and on the Festival of Succot, and he shall not be seen before the Lord empty-handed' Deuteronomy 16:16
“You shall observe this as an institution for all time, for you and for your descendants. And when you enter the land that the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite” Exodus 12:24-25
“Anything that touches these [offerings by fire] shall become holy” Leviticus 6:11
“For you shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire” Leviticus 2:11
“The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to the Lord; every man and woman” Exodus 35:2
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